9-letter words containing e, c, r, i
- chronicle — To chronicle a series of events means to write about them or show them in broadcasts in the order in which they happened.
- cicatrice — Physiology. new tissue that forms over a wound and later contracts into a scar.
- cicatrise — (transitive) To heal a wound through scarring (by causing a scar or cicatrix to form).
- cicatrize — (of a wound or defect in tissue) to close or be closed by scar formation; heal
- cigarette — Cigarettes are small tubes of paper containing tobacco which people smoke.
- cigarlike — resembling a cigar
- ciguatera — food poisoning caused by a ciguatoxin in seafood
- cimmerian — very dark; gloomy
- cinctured — Simple past tense and past participle of cincture.
- cinctures — Plural form of cincture.
- cindering — Present participle of cinder.
- cinderous — a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
- cineramic — relating to a cinematic process producing widescreen images
- cineraria — a plant, Senecio cruentus, of the Canary Islands, widely cultivated for its blue, purple, red, or variegated daisy-like flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
- cinerator — an incinerator.
- cinereous — of a greyish colour
- ciphering — calculating
- circinate — (of part of a plant, such as a young fern) coiled so that the tip is at the centre
- circle-in — a closed plane curve consisting of all points at a given distance from a point within it called the center. Equation: x 2 + y 2 = r 2 .
- circuited — Simple past tense and past participle of circuit.
- circuiter — a person who travels a circuit.
- circulate — If a piece of writing circulates or is circulated, copies of it are passed round among a group of people.
- circumfer — (obsolete, transitive) To bear or carry around.
- cirenaica — Cyrenaica
- cirripede — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, including the barnacles, the adults of which are sessile or parasitic
- cirripeds — Plural form of cirriped.
- cisgender — of or relating to a person whose gender identity corresponds to their assigned birth gender
- cisternae — Plural form of cisterna.
- cithaeron — a mountain range in SE Greece: sacred to Dionysus, in Greek mythology. to 4623 feet (1409 meters).
- citigrade — relating to (fast-moving) wolf spiders
- citizenry — The people living in a country, state, or city can be referred to as the citizenry.
- city-bred — reared in a city.
- civiliser — Alternative form of civilizer.
- civilizer — to bring out of a savage, uneducated, or rude state; make civil; elevate in social and private life; enlighten; refine: Rome civilized the barbarians.
- claiborne — a male given name.
- claretian — a member of the “Congregation of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary,” founded in Spain in 1849, and devoted chiefly to missionary work.
- clarified — Clarified butter has been made clear by being heated.
- clarifier — A clarifier is a vessel or stage in which remaining suspended solids are separated from a liquid to leave a clear overflow.
- clarifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clarify.
- clarinets — Plural form of clarinet.
- clarities — clearness or lucidity as to perception or understanding; freedom from indistinctness or ambiguity.
- claritude — (obsolete) clarity; splendour.
- clavering — Present participle of claver.
- cleanlier — Comparative form of cleanly.
- clear ice — glaze ice, especially on aircraft.
- clearings — Plural form of clearing.
- clearskin — Cleanskin.
- clearwing — any moth of the family Sesiidae (or Aegeriidae), characterized by the absence of scales from the greater part of the wings. They are day-flying and some, such as the hornet clearwing (Sesia apiformis), resemble wasps and other hymenopterans
- cleithral — (of Greek temples) covered with a roof
- clergical — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to the clergy; clerical; learned.