9-letter words containing e, c, o, s
- ceratodus — any of various extinct lungfish constituting the genus Ceratodus, common in Cretaceous and Triassic times
- certosina — a technique of inlaying light-colored material, as bone, ivory, metal, or pale wood, in elaborate designs on a dark ground.
- cespitose — growing in dense, matlike clumps without creeping stems, as moss, grass, etc.
- cespitous — Turfy; resembling turf.
- cessation — The cessation of something is the stopping of it.
- cesspools — Plural form of cesspool.
- cetaceous — Relating to whales or more generally to any marine mammal of the order Cetacea.
- cetshwayo — ?1826–84, king of the Zulus (1873–79): defeated the British at Isandhlwana (1879) but was overwhelmed by them at Ulundi (1879); captured, he stated his case in London, and was reinstated as ruler of part of Zululand (1883)
- ceylonese — of or relating to Ceylon or its inhabitants
- chaconnes — Plural form of chaconne.
- chamosite — a mineral of the chlorite group, hydrous aluminum silicate of iron, occurring in gray or black crystals in oolitic iron ore.
- chaperons — Plural form of chaperon.
- chargeous — (obsolete) burdensome.
- charoseth — haroseth.
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
- chassepot — a breech-loading bolt-action rifle formerly used by the French Army
- checkouts — Plural form of checkout.
- cheilosis — Inflammation of one or both of the corners of the mouth.
- chelators — Plural form of chelator.
- chemisorb — to take up (a substance) by chemisorption
- chemostat — an apparatus for growing bacterial cultures at a constant rate by controlling the supply of nutrient medium
- cheongsam — a straight dress, usually of silk or cotton, with a stand-up collar and a slit in one side of the skirt, worn by Chinese women
- cherokees — a member of an important tribe of North American Indians whose first known center was in the southern Alleghenies and who presently live in North Carolina and Oklahoma.
- chi meson — a meson with a mass 6687 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.5 X 10 -20 seconds.
- chipotles — Plural form of chipotle.
- chlorates — Plural form of chlorate.
- chlorides — Plural form of chloride.
- chlorites — Plural form of chlorite.
- chokeslam — A wrestling move in which someone is picked up by their neck and is driven into the mat.
- cholecyst — the gallbladder
- choosable — to select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference: She chose Sunday for her departure.
- choose up — to decide on the opposing players, as for an impromptu ballgame
- chop suey — Chop suey is a Chinese-style dish that consists of meat and vegetables that have been stewed together.
- chophouse — a restaurant specializing in steaks, grills, chops, etc
- chopsteak — chopped steak.
- chordates — belonging or pertaining to the phylum Chordata, comprising the true vertebrates and those animals having a notochord, as the lancelets and tunicates.
- chordless — Lacking chords.
- chordwise — in the direction of an aerofoil chord
- chorister — A chorister is a singer in a church choir.
- chorussed — Simple past tense and past participle of chorus.
- chromates — Plural form of chromate.
- chudskoye — Lakelake on the Estonian-Russian border: with its S extension, Lake Pskov, c. 1,400 sq mi (3,626 sq km)
- cinderous — a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
- cinereous — of a greyish colour
- claymores — Plural form of claymore.
- claystone — a compact very fine-grained rock consisting of consolidated clay particles
- cleobulus — flourished 560 b.c, Greek sage and lyric poet, a native and tyrant of Lindus, Rhodes.
- clockwise — When something is moving clockwise, it is moving in a circle in the same direction as the hands on a clock.
- cloisonne — a design made by filling in with coloured enamel an outline of flattened wire put on edge
- cloisters — Plural form of cloister.