9-letter words containing e, t, c
- chieftain — A chieftain is the leader of a tribe.
- chilliest — Superlative form of chilly.
- chiltepin — a variety of chilli pepper, Capsicum annuum, growing wild in Mexico and the south-western United States
- chin rest — a device fixed to the top of a violin or viola to provide a firm rest for the player's chin.
- china tea — China tea is tea made from large dark-green or reddish-brown tea leaves. It is usually drunk without milk or sugar.
- chipotles — Plural form of chipotle.
- chiropter — an animal of the order Chiroptera; a bat
- chitinase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyzes chitin.
- chittered — Simple past tense and past participle of chitter.
- chlorates — Plural form of chlorate.
- chlorites — Plural form of chlorite.
- chocolate — Chocolate is a sweet hard food made from cocoa beans. It is usually brown in colour and is eaten as a sweet.
- cholecyst — the gallbladder
- cholelith — a stone formed in the gall bladder by the accumulation of bile constituents
- choluteca — a city in S Honduras.
- chondrite — a stony meteorite consisting mainly of silicate minerals in the form of chondrules
- 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.
- choreatic — any of several diseases of the nervous system characterized by jerky, involuntary movements, chiefly of the face and extremities.
- choreutic — of or belonging to a chorus.
- chorister — A chorister is a singer in a church choir.
- christens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of christen.
- christine — a feminine name: dim. Chris, Chrissie, Tina; var. Christina, Christy
- chromates — Plural form of chromate.
- chubbiest — Superlative form of chubby.
- chuntered — Simple past tense and past participle of chunter.
- ci-devant — (esp of an office-holder) former; recent
- 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.
- ciguatera — food poisoning caused by a ciguatoxin in seafood
- ciliolate — covered with minute hairs, as some plants
- cinctured — Simple past tense and past participle of cincture.
- cinctures — Plural form of cincture.
- cineastes — Plural form of cineaste.
- cinematic — Cinematic means relating to films made for the cinema.
- cinerator — an incinerator.
- cingulate — Anatomy, Zoology. a belt, zone, or girdlelike part.
- cinnamate — (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of cinnamic acid.
- circinate — (of part of a plant, such as a young fern) coiled so that the tip is at the centre
- 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.
- 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
- citizenly — Pertaining to citizens.
- citizenry — The people living in a country, state, or city can be referred to as the citizenry.
- city code — (in Britain) short for City Code on Takeovers and Mergers: a code laid down in 1968 (later modified) to control takeover bids and mergers