9-letter words containing c, r, o, t
- consultor — a counselor or advisor
- contactor — a type of switch for repeatedly opening and closing an electric circuit. Its operation can be mechanical, electromagnetic, or pneumatic
- contadora — Contadora Group.
- container — A container is something such as a box or bottle that is used to hold or store things in.
- contemner — One who contemns, who displays contempt towards another.
- contemnor — to treat or regard with disdain, scorn, or contempt.
- contemper — to temper (something) by mixing with something of a different nature
- contender — A contender is someone who takes part in a competition.
- contester — a race, conflict, or other competition between rivals, as for a prize.
- continuer — One who, or that which, continues.
- contorted — twisted out of shape
- contoured — A contoured surface has curves and slopes on it, rather than being flat.
- contracts — Plural form of contract.
- contrails — Plural form of contrail.
- contralto — A contralto is a woman with a low singing voice.
- contranym — A word that has two opposing meanings, such as 'cleave' (“come together” or “split apart”).
- contrasts — to compare in order to show unlikeness or differences; note the opposite natures, purposes, etc., of: Contrast the political rights of Romans and Greeks.
- contrasty — (of a photograph or subject) having sharp gradations in tone, esp between light and dark areas
- contrived — If you say that something someone says or does is contrived, you think it is false and deliberate, rather than natural and not planned.
- contriver — to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author contrived a clever plot.
- contrives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contrive.
- control-c — (character) (Or ETX, End of Text) The ASCII character with code 3. Control-C is the interrupt character used in the command-line interface of many operating systems, including Unix and MS-DOS to force a running program to stop and return control to the user.
- control-g — bell
- control-o — (character) ASCII character 15 (SI). The character used on some operating systems to abort output but allow the program to keep on running. The name "SI" comes from its use on some terminals to "shift in" an alternative character set. "SO" is Control-N. Compare control-S.
- control-q — (character) (Or XON, DC1, Device Control 1) The character with ASCII code 17, used in software handshaking to resume output after a previous control-S.
- control-s — (character) (Or XOFF, DC3, Device Control 3) The character with ASCII code 19, used in software handshaking to temporarily suspend output until a control-Q is received.
- controled — Misspelling of controlled.
- controlee — (informal, UK) A person who is the subject of a control order.
- contronym — A word with two opposite meanings, e.g., sanction (which can mean both ‘a penalty for disobeying a law’ and ‘official permission or approval for an action’).
- convector — a space-heating device from which heat is transferred to the surrounding air by convection
- converted — (of a building) having been changed from a different use
- converter — A converter is a device that changes something into a different form.
- convertor — converter
- cooperate — If you cooperate with someone, you work with them or help them for a particular purpose. You can also say that two people cooperate.
- cooperite — a mineral, sulfide and arsenide of platinum, occurring in igneous rocks in the form of steel-gray crystals.
- coopworth — a New Zealand and Australian breed of sheep derived from the Romney Marsh
- copartner — a partner or associate, esp an equal partner in business
- copatriot — a fellow patriot
- coportion — (obsolete, nonce) equal share.
- copresent — to present jointly
- coproduct — a joint product
- coprolite — any of various rounded stony nodules thought to be the fossilized faeces of Palaeozic-Cenozoic vertebrates
- coprolith — a hard stony mass of dried faeces in the intestine that is caused by chronic constipation
- copyright — If someone has copyright on a piece of writing or music, it is illegal to reproduce or perform it without their permission.
- copytaker — (esp in a newspaper office) a person employed to type reports as journalists dictate them over the telephone
- copywrite — (rare) To write the copy (or text) of an advertisement; to have a job as a copywriter.
- corallite — the skeleton of a coral polyp
- coralroot — any N temperate leafless orchid of the genus Corallorhiza, with small yellow-green or purple flowers and branched roots resembling coral
- coralwort — any of various leafless orchids of the genus Corallorhiza
- cord foot — a quantity of wood 4 feet high, 4 feet wide, and 1 foot long (1.2 m × 1.2 m × 0.3 meters), or 16 cu. ft. (0.5 cu. m).