9-letter words containing e, n, o
- courantes — Plural form of courante.
- courtesan — In former times, a courtesan was a woman who had sexual relationships with rich and powerful men for money.
- courtezan — Alternative spelling of courtesan.
- cousinage — a kinship or relationship
- covalence — the number of pairs of electrons that an atom can share with its neighboring atoms
- covalency — the formation and nature of covalent bonds
- covenants — Plural form of covenant.
- coventure — An international coproduction set up in the absence of any official treaty between the countries.
- coverings — Plural form of covering.
- cowperson — (politically correct, rare) a cowhand of any gender.
- cowritten — to coauthor.
- cozenages — Plural form of cozenage.
- cramponee — (heraldry) Having a cramp or square piece at the end; said of a cross.
- creations — The action or process of bringing something into existence.
- cremation — to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite.
- crenation — any of the rounded teeth or the notches between them on a crenate structure
- creodonts — Plural form of creodont.
- crepoline — a light silk or silk and wool material used in dressmaking
- crescendo — A crescendo is a noise that gets louder and louder. Some people also use crescendo to refer to the point when a noise is at its loudest.
- cretinoid — a person suffering from cretinism.
- cretinous — If you describe someone as cretinous, you think they are very stupid.
- crewwoman — A female crewmember.
- crimsoned — Simple past tense and past participle of crimson.
- crinoline — A crinoline was a round frame which women wore under their skirts in the 19th century.
- criterion — A criterion is a factor on which you judge or decide something.
- crokinole — a board game popular in Canada in which players flick wooden discs
- cromulent — (humorous) Fine, acceptable or normal; excellent, realistic, legitimate or authentic.
- cronelike — Like a crone; old and withered.
- crookneck — any of several varieties of squash with a curved neck
- croquante — a crisp cake or pastry
- crossline — a line crossing another line or connecting two separated points: The main lines are linked at intervals by crosslines.
- crossness — the quality or state of being cross or angry; irritability; snappishness.
- crotaline — of or relating to rattlesnakes (Crotalinae)
- crownless — Without a crown.
- cryogenic — of or relating to the production or use of very low temperatures: cryogenic storage.
- cteniform — resembling a comb
- ctesiphon — an ancient city on the River Tigris about 100 km (60 miles) above Babylon. First mentioned in 221 bc, it was destroyed in the 7th and 8th centuries ad
- cuneiform — wedge-shaped
- cunjevois — Plural form of cunjevoi.
- cupertino — a town in W California.
- cupferron — a salt ammonium compound (N-nitrosophenylhydroxylamine) used as a reagent in metal ion complexation
- curandero — a male healer or shaman in Hispanic-America
- curbstone — A curbstone is one of the stones that form a curb.
- cushioned — provided with cushions
- cushionet — a small cushion
- cut stone — a stone or stonework dressed to a relatively fine finish with tools other than hammers.
- cutaneous — of, relating to, or affecting the skin
- cyanotype — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, that produces a blue line on a white background.
- cyberporn — any pornography accessible online or on the internet
- cyclonite — a white crystalline insoluble explosive prepared by the action of nitric acid on hexamethylenetetramine; cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine: used in bombs and shells. Formula: C3H6N6O6