6-letter words containing c, r, o, i
- dromic — of, relating to, or resembling a racetrack
- erotic — Of, relating to, or tending to arouse sexual desire or excitement.
- fictor — An artist who models or forms statues and reliefs in any malleable material.
- formic — of or relating to ants.
- frisco — San Francisco.
- frolic — merry play; merriment; gaiety; fun.
- heroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- hormic — activity directed toward a goal; purposive effort.
- incorp — incorporated
- ionarc — Indian Ocean National Association for Regional Cooperation
- ironic — using words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning; containing or exemplifying irony: an ironic novel; an ironic remark.
- lictor — (in ancient Rome) one of a body of attendants on chief magistrates, who preceded them carrying the fasces and whose duties included executing the sentences of criminals.
- locris — either of two districts in the central part of ancient Greece.
- lorica — Zoology. a hard protective case or sheath, as the protective coverings secreted by certain protists.
- micro- — prefix
- micron — Micron Electronics, Inc.
- micros — Plural form of micro.
- morice — (obsolete) A morris dance.
- nordic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a Germanic people of northern European origin, exemplified by the Scandinavians.
- norice — Obsolete form of nurse.
- octroi — (formerly especially in France and Italy) a local tax levied on certain articles, such as foodstuffs, on their entry into a city.
- oniric — Alternative form of oneiric.
- orcein — a red dye, the principal coloring matter of cudbear and orchil, obtained by oxidizing an ammoniacal solution of orcinol.
- orchi- — orchido- (sense 1)
- orchid — any terrestrial or epiphytic plant of the family Orchidaceae, of temperate and tropical regions, having usually showy flowers. Compare orchid family.
- orchil — a violet coloring matter obtained from certain lichens, chiefly species of Roccella.
- orchis — any orchid.
- orcish — (fantasy) Of or relating to orcs (monstrous humanoid creatures).
- orgiac — relating to an orgy
- orlich — Francisco J [frahn-sees-kaw] /frɑnˈsis kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1906–69, Costa Rican engineer and statesman: president 1962–66.
- orphic — of or relating to Orpheus.
- picaro — a rogue or vagabond.
- picro- — bitter
- pictor — a faint constellation in the S hemisphere lying between Dorado and Carina
- psoric — a cure for psora
- racino — a combined racetrack and casino
- recoil — to draw back; start or shrink back, as in alarm, horror, or disgust.
- recoin — a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
- rhodic — of or containing rhodium, especially in the tetravalent state.
- rhotic — of or relating to a dialect of English in which the r is pronounced at the end of a syllable or before a consonant: Midwestern American English is rhotic, while Southern British English is not.
- riccio — David [Italian dah-veed] /Italian ˈdɑ vid/ (Show IPA), Rizzio.
- romaic — demotic (def 5).
- roscid — dewy
- scoria — Metallurgy. the refuse, dross, or slag left after melting or smelting metal; scum.
- sorbic — a European tree, Sorbus domestica.
- tercio — a regiment of Spanish or Italian infantry
- thoric — a grayish-white, lustrous, somewhat ductile and malleable, radioactive metallic element present in monazite: used as a source of nuclear energy, as a coating on sun-lamp and vacuum-tube filament coatings, and in alloys. Symbol: Th; atomic weight: 232.038; atomic number: 90; specific gravity: 11.7.
- tricot — a warp-knit fabric of various natural or synthetic fibers, as wool, silk, or nylon, having fine vertical ribs on the face and horizontal ribs on the back, used especially for making garments.
- tropic — Geography. either of two corresponding parallels of latitude on the terrestrial globe, one (tropic of Cancer) about 23½° N, and the other (tropic of Capricorn) about 23½° S of the equator, being the boundaries of the Torrid Zone. the tropics, the regions lying between and near these parallels of latitude; the Torrid Zone and neighboring regions.
- urico- — uric acid