9-letter words containing e, n, c
- car phone — A car phone is a mobile phone, especially one which is designed to be used in a car.
- carabiner — in mountain climbing, an oval metal ring with a snap link used to fasten a rope to the piton
- caragheen — Alternative form of carrageen.
- caravaner — One who travels in a caravan (convoy or procession).
- carbenium — (organic chemistry, informal) Any carbocation.
- carbineer — (formerly) a soldier equipped with a carbine
- carbonade — a stew of beef and onions cooked in beer
- carbonate — Carbonate is used in the names of some substances that are formed from carbonic acid, which is a compound of carbon dioxide and water.
- carbonise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of carbonize.
- carbonite — An explosive manufactured from a variety of materials, including nitroglycerine, wood meal and nitrates.
- carbonize — to turn or be turned into carbon as a result of heating, fossilization, chemical treatment, etc
- carborane — any of the crystalline compounds obtained by the substitution of carbon for boron in borane.
- carbuncle — A carbuncle is a large swelling under the skin.
- carbunkle — Misspelling of carbuncle.
- cardamine — bittercress
- cardphone — a public telephone operated by the insertion of a phonecard instead of coins
- care plan — a plan for the medical care of a particular patient or the welfare of a child in care
- careenage — (nautical) a beach with a steep, sandy shoreline on which a ship may be careened.
- careening — Present participle of careen.
- careering — an occupation or profession, especially one requiring special training, followed as one's lifework: He sought a career as a lawyer.
- carefront — To caringly confront an individual; To approach someone in love and respect and correct them in an honoring manner.
- caressing — an act or gesture expressing affection, as an embrace or kiss, especially a light stroking or touching.
- caretaken — looked after
- caribbean — The Caribbean is the sea which is between the West Indies, Central America and the north coast of South America.
- carinated — Zoology, Botany. formed with a carina; keellike.
- carnalise — sensualise
- carnalize — to sensualise
- carneades — 214?–129? b.c, Greek philosopher.
- carnelian — a red or reddish-yellow translucent variety of chalcedony, used as a gemstone
- carnified — Simple past tense and past participle of carnify.
- carnifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of carnify.
- carnitine — a white betaine, C7H15NO3, found in the liver and required for transporting fatty acids from the cytosol into the mitochondria
- carnivore — A carnivore is an animal that eats meat.
- carnotite — a radioactive yellow mineral consisting of hydrated uranium potassium vanadate: occurs in sedimentary rocks and is a source of uranium, radium, and vanadium. Formula: K2(UO2)2(VO4)2.3H2O
- carotenes — Plural form of carotene.
- carpenter — A carpenter is a person whose job is making and repairing wooden things.
- carpentry — Carpentry is the activity of making and repairing wooden things.
- carpeting — You use carpeting to refer to a carpet, or to the type of material that is used to make carpets.
- carrageen — an edible red seaweed, Chondrus crispus, of North America and N Europe
- carrigeen — Alternative form of carrageen.
- carronade — an obsolete naval gun of short barrel and large bore
- carstensz — Mount Djaja Peak
- cartagena — a port in NW Colombia, on the Caribbean: centre for the Inquisition and the slave trade in the 16th century; chief oil port of Colombia. Pop: 1 002 000 (2005 est)
- cartesian — of or relating to the works of René Descartes
- cartonage — the material from which many Egyptian mummy masks and coffins were made, consisting of linen or papyrus held together with glue
- cartonero — A person in Latin America who collects discarded waste, such as cardboard, to reuse or resell.
- cartooney — Misspelling of cartoony.
- caruncles — Plural form of caruncle.
- caseation — the formation of cheese from casein during the coagulation of milk
- casebound — bound in hard covers.