9-letter words containing c, r, o, s
- atrocious — If you describe something as atrocious, you are emphasizing that its quality is very bad.
- auriscope — a medical instrument for examining the external ear
- auriscopy — (medicine) Examination of the ear using an auriscope.
- autocrats — Plural form of autocrat.
- autocross — a form of motor sport in which cars race over a half-mile circuit of rough grass
- bachelors — Plural form of bachelor.
- backcross — to mate (a hybrid of the first generation) with one of its parents
- backdrops — Plural form of backdrop.
- backroads — Plural form of backroad.
- backrooms — Plural form of backroom.
- backshore — the area of a beach above the usual high tide mark
- backstory — the events which take place before, and which help to bring about, the events portrayed in a film
- backsword — a person who uses the backsword
- backwords — Plural form of backword.
- barachois — (in the Atlantic Provinces of Canada) a shallow lagoon formed by a sand bar
- baroscope — any instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure, esp a manometer with one side open to the atmosphere
- barouches — Plural form of barouche.
- bedcovers — Plural form of bedcover.
- bishopric — A bishopric is the area for which a bishop is responsible, or the rank or office of being a bishop.
- borescope — a long narrow optical device used to inspect the interior of a tight space
- boschvark — a bush pig of S Africa
- box score — In baseball and basketball, a box score is a printed table of statistics showing how each player performed in a game.
- boxercise — a system of sustained exercises combining boxing movements with aerobic activities
- broachers — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- broadcast — A broadcast is a programme, performance, or speech on the radio or on television.
- broccolis — a form of a cultivated cruciferous plant, Brassica oleracea botrytis, whose leafy stalks and clusters of usually green buds are eaten as a vegetable.
- c rations — tinned food formerly issued in packs to US soldiers
- calor gas — Calor gas is gas in liquid form which is sold in special containers so that people can use it in places which are not connected to the gas supply, such as tents or caravans.
- cameroons — former region in W Africa consisting of two trust territories, French Cameroons (in 1960 forming the republic of Cameroon ) and British Cameroons (in 1961 divided between Cameroon and Nigeria)
- camporees — Plural form of camporee.
- cancerous — Cancerous cells or growths are cells or growths that are the result of cancer.
- cankerous — having cankers
- canonries — Plural form of canonry.
- caparison — a decorated covering for a horse or other animal, esp (formerly) for a warhorse
- caprioles — Plural form of capriole.
- capsomere — any of the protein units that together form the capsid of a virus
- caracoles — Plural form of caracole.
- carbolise — phenolate (def 2).
- carbonise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of carbonize.
- carbonous — of, containing, or derived from carbon.
- carcajous — Plural form of carcajou.
- cardamoms — Plural form of cardamom.
- cardstock — paper stock stiff enough for the printing of business cards and similar uses.
- carillons — Plural form of carillon.
- cariosity — (medicine) caries.
- carnosaur — any of various large carnivorous bipedal dinosaurs of the group Carnosauria, including the allosaurs
- carnosity — an abnormal fleshy protrusion growing on any part of the body
- carollers — a song, especially of joy.
- carotenes — Plural form of carotene.
- carothers — Wallace Hume1896-1937; U.S. chemist