9-letter words containing i, r, t
- 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
- cinctured — Simple past tense and past participle of cincture.
- cinctures — Plural form of cincture.
- cinerator — an incinerator.
- circinate — (of part of a plant, such as a young fern) coiled so that the tip is at the centre
- circuital — an act or instance of going or moving around.
- circuited — Simple past tense and past participle of circuit.
- circuiter — a person who travels a circuit.
- circuitry — Circuitry is a system of electric circuits.
- circulant — (mathematics) A circulant matrix.
- circulate — If a piece of writing circulates or is circulated, copies of it are passed round among a group of people.
- cirrhotic — a disease of the liver characterized by increase of connective tissue and alteration in gross and microscopic makeup.
- cisternae — Plural form of cisterna.
- cistronic — cistron-related
- cithaeron — a mountain range in SE Greece: sacred to Dionysus, in Greek mythology. to 4623 feet (1409 meters).
- citharist — a player of the cithara
- citigrade — relating to (fast-moving) wolf spiders
- citizenry — The people living in a country, state, or city can be referred to as the citizenry.
- city room — the room in which local news is handled for a newspaper, a radio or television station, or for another journalistic agency.
- city-born — born in a city.
- city-bred — reared in a city.
- claretian — a member of the “Congregation of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary,” founded in Spain in 1849, and devoted chiefly to missionary work.
- clarinets — Plural form of clarinet.
- clarities — clearness or lucidity as to perception or understanding; freedom from indistinctness or ambiguity.
- claritude — (obsolete) clarity; splendour.
- cleithral — (of Greek temples) covered with a roof
- clericate — a clerical post
- clericity — the condition of being a clergyman
- climatory — Having to do with climate.
- clitellar — relating to the clitellum of earthworms
- cloisters — Plural form of cloister.
- cloistral — of, like, or characteristic of a cloister
- clothiers — Plural form of clothier.
- co-editor — a person who cooperates or collaborates as editor with another.
- co-writer — to coauthor.
- coaration — Cooperative ploughing.
- cogitator — to think hard; ponder; meditate: to cogitate about a problem.
- cohabiter — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- coheritor — a coheir
- coinherit — To inherit together with other or others; to be one of the inheritors.
- cointreau — a colourless liqueur with orange flavouring
- colicroot — either of two North American liliaceous plants, Aletris farinosa or A. aurea, having tubular white or yellow flowers and a bitter root formerly used to relieve colic
- colorists — Plural form of colorist.
- colostric — of or relating to the colostrum
- colourist — A colourist is someone such as an artist or a fashion designer who uses colours in an interesting and original way.
- comfiture — (obsolete) A confection, especially of preserved fruit.
- comintern — short for Communist International: an international Communist organization founded by Lenin in Moscow in 1919 and dissolved in 1943; it degenerated under Stalin into an instrument of Soviet politics