9-letter words containing e, t, o, c
- chiropter — an animal of the order Chiroptera; a bat
- 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.
- chromates — Plural form of chromate.
- ciliolate — covered with minute hairs, as some plants
- cinerator — an incinerator.
- cithaeron — a mountain range in SE Greece: sacred to Dionysus, in Greek mythology. to 4623 feet (1409 meters).
- 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
- claremont — a town in SW California.
- claystone — a compact very fine-grained rock consisting of consolidated clay particles
- clean out — If you clean out something such as a cupboard, room, or container, you take everything out of it and clean the inside of it thoroughly.
- clear out — If you tell someone to clear out of a place or to clear out, you are telling them rather rudely to leave the place.
- cleopatra — a yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx cleopatra, the male of which has its wings flushed with orange
- clodpated — stupid
- cloisters — Plural form of cloister.
- clonotype — (taxonomy) A herbarium specimen made from plants vegetatively propagated from (and thus clones of) the same plant from which a type specimen was made.
- close out — to terminate (a client's or other account) on which the margin is inadequate or exhausted, usually by sale of securities to realize cash
- close-set — (esp of the eyes) positioned close together
- closeouts — Plural form of closeout.
- closetful — a quantity that may be contained in a closet
- closeting — Present participle of closet.
- clothiers — Plural form of clothier.
- clottered — Simple past tense and past participle of clotter.
- cloudiest — Superlative form of cloudy.
- clouterly — clumsy
- co-editor — a person who cooperates or collaborates as editor with another.
- co-parent — a divorced or separated parent who shares equally with the other parent in the custody and care of a child.
- co-relate — to correlate.
- co-tenant — a joint tenant.
- co-writer — to coauthor.
- coadapted — adapted to one another
- coadunate — united; joined together
- coagulate — When a liquid coagulates, it becomes very thick.
- coarctate — (of a pupa) enclosed in a hard barrel-shaped case (puparium), as in the housefly
- coastline — A country's coastline is the outline of its coast.
- coastwise — along the coast
- coat tree — clothes tree.
- coatdress — a coatlike dress having a buttoned front and, usually, lapels and long sleeves
- cobaltite — a rare silvery-white mineral consisting of cobalt arsenic sulphide in cubic crystalline form: a major ore of cobalt, used in ceramics. Formula: CoAsS
- coccolite — a variety of pyroxene