9-letter words containing i, r, t
- brutalize — If an unpleasant experience brutalizes someone, it makes them cruel or violent.
- brutelike — beastlike, brutish
- brythonic — the S group of Celtic languages, consisting of Welsh, Cornish, and Breton
- bucuresti — Bucharest
- buprestid — any beetle of the mainly tropical family Buprestidae, the adults of which are brilliantly coloured and the larvae of which bore into and cause damage to trees, roots, etc
- buteshire — (until 1975) a county of SW Scotland, consisting of islands in the Firth of Clyde and Kilbrannan Sound: formerly part of Strathclyde region (1975–96), now part of Argyll and Bute council area
- butterine — an artificial butter made partly from milk
- buttering — the fatty portion of milk, separating as a soft whitish or yellowish solid when milk or cream is agitated or churned.
- by rights — If something is not the case but you think that it should be, you can say that by rights it should be the case.
- c rations — tinned food formerly issued in packs to US soldiers
- cabinetry — cabinets collectively
- cabriolet — A cabriolet is a type of car with two doors and a convertible top.
- cactiform — resembling a cactus
- cafeteria — A cafeteria is a restaurant where you choose your food from a counter and take it to your table after paying for it. Cafeterias are usually found in public buildings such as hospitals and stores.
- cafetiere — A cafetière is a type of coffee pot that has a disk with small holes in it attached to the lid. You push the lid down to separate the liquid from the ground coffee when it is ready to drink.
- caliatour — a tropical dyewood, possibly red sandalwood
- calibrate — If you calibrate an instrument or tool, you mark or adjust it so that you can use it to measure something accurately.
- campshirt — a loose, short-sleeved shirt or blouse with an open collar
- camstairy — perverse or unruly
- 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
- capacitor — A capacitor is a device for accumulating electric charge.
- capitular — of or associated with a cathedral chapter
- captainry — captainship
- captopril — an ACE inhibitor used to treat high blood pressure and congestive heart failure
- capturing — Present participle of capture.
- car thief — a person who steals automobiles
- caratinga — a city in E Brazil.
- carbonite — An explosive manufactured from a variety of materials, including nitroglycerine, wood meal and nitrates.
- careerist — Careerist people are ambitious and think that their career is more important than anything else.
- 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)
- cariosity — (medicine) caries.
- carmelite — a member of an order of mendicant friars founded about 1154; White Friar
- 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.
- cartelism — the practice of forming cartels
- cartelist — a member of a cartel, or a supporter of cartelism
- cartelize — to form or be formed into a cartel
- cartesian — of or relating to the works of René Descartes