9-letter words containing i, n, t, r
- buttering — the fatty portion of milk, separating as a soft whitish or yellowish solid when milk or cream is agitated or churned.
- c rations — tinned food formerly issued in packs to US soldiers
- cabinetry — cabinets collectively
- canefruit — a fruit, such as the raspberry, which grows on woody-stemmed plants
- canisters — Plural form of canister.
- cannister — Misspelling of canister.
- cantabria — a province and autonomous community in N Spain
- cantering — an easy gallop.
- cantharid — any beetle of the family Cantharidae, having a soft elongated body; though found frequenting flowers, they are carnivorous
- cantharis — Spanish fly (sense 1)
- cantorial — of or relating to a precentor
- captainry — captainship
- capturing — Present participle of capture.
- caratinga — a city in E Brazil.
- carbonite — An explosive manufactured from a variety of materials, including nitroglycerine, wood meal and nitrates.
- carinated — Zoology, Botany. formed with a carina; keellike.
- carinthia — a state of S Austria: an independent duchy from 976 to 1276; mainly mountainous, with many lakes and resorts. Capital: Klagenfurt. Pop: 559 440 (2003 est). Area: 9533 sq km (3681 sq miles)
- carnality — pertaining to or characterized by the flesh or the body, its passions and appetites; sensual: carnal pleasures.
- carnation — A carnation is a plant with white, pink, or red flowers.
- carnitine — a white betaine, C7H15NO3, found in the liver and required for transporting fatty acids from the cytosol into the mitochondria
- carnosity — an abnormal fleshy protrusion growing on any part of the body
- 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
- carpeting — You use carpeting to refer to a carpet, or to the type of material that is used to make carpets.
- cartesian — of or relating to the works of René Descartes
- carthamin — (organic compound) A red colouring matter obtained from the safflower, Carthamus tinctorius.
- cast iron — Cast iron is iron which contains a small amount of carbon. It is hard and cannot be bent so it has to be made into objects by casting.
- cast-iron — made of cast iron.
- castering — a person or thing that casts.
- cat-train — a train of sleds, cabooses, etc, pulled by a caterpillar tractor, used chiefly in the north during winter to transport freight
- catherine — Saint. died 307 ad, legendary Christian martyr of Alexandria, who was tortured on a spiked wheel and beheaded
- cautioner — A person who cautions.
- cautionry — the position or function of a surety, a person who protects and takes responsibility for another person
- cavorting — to prance or caper about.
- ceintures — cincture (defs 1, 2).
- centauric — characterized by an integration of mind and body for consciousness above the ego-self
- centenier — a senior police officer of the Honorary Police of Jersey, elected for a period of three years by public vote
- centering — a temporary frame to support an arch or vault during construction
- centigram — one hundredth of a gram
- centralia — a city in central Illinois.
- centrical — pertaining to or situated at the center; central.
- centriole — either of two rodlike bodies in most animal cells that form the poles of the spindle during mitosis
- centrists — Plural form of centrist.
- centroids — Plural form of centroid.
- centumvir — one of a body of judges responsible for presiding over civil court cases
- centurial — of or relating to a Roman century
- centuried — existing for an indefinite number of centuries.
- centuries — Plural form of century.
- centurion — A centurion was an officer in the Roman army.
- centurium — A rejected name for fermium.
- certainly — You use certainly to emphasize what you are saying when you are making a statement.