9-letter words containing i, s, r
- courtiers — a person who is often in attendance at the court of a king or other royal personage.
- courtship — Courtship is the activity of courting or the time during which a man and a woman are courting.
- courtside — the area closest to the court
- coverings — Plural form of covering.
- coverslip — a very thin piece of glass placed over a specimen on a glass slide that is to be examined under a microscope
- cowardise — Obsolete spelling of cowardice.
- crabbiest — Superlative form of crabby.
- crabstick — a stick, cane, or cudgel made of crab-apple wood
- craftiest — Superlative form of crafty.
- craggiest — Superlative form of craggy.
- crampfish — a ray of the order Torpediniformes with electric organs on either side of its head
- craniates — Plural form of craniate.
- crankiest — Superlative form of cranky.
- crankpins — Plural form of crankpin.
- crappiest — Superlative form of crappy.
- crayonist — (dated) An artist who uses crayons.
- craziness — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- creamiest — Superlative form of creamy.
- creations — The action or process of bringing something into existence.
- creatives — Plural form of creative.
- creditors — Plural form of creditor.
- creepiest — Superlative form of creepy.
- crepiness — the quality of being crepe-like in texture, esp in skin
- crestings — Plural form of cresting.
- cretinise — make (someone) a cretin
- cretinism — a condition arising from a deficiency of thyroid hormone, present from birth, characterized by dwarfism and learning difficulties
- cretinous — If you describe someone as cretinous, you think they are very stupid.
- cricetids — Plural form of cricetid.
- crimeless — free from crime; innocent
- criminals — Plural form of criminal.
- criminous — criminal
- crimsoned — Simple past tense and past participle of crimson.
- crinosity — Hairiness.
- cripplers — Plural form of crippler.
- crispated — Crispate.
- crisphead — a variety of lettuce with a dense cabbage-like head and mild crunchy leaves
- crispness — (especially of food) hard but easily breakable; brittle: crisp toast.
- cristobal — seaport in Panama, at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal: part of the city of Colón
- cristophe — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), ("Henri I"I) 1767–1820, Haitian revolutionary general, born in Grenada: king 1811–20.
- criterias — (nonstandard, proscribed) Plural form of criteria.
- criticals — Plural form of critical.
- criticise — criticize
- criticism — the analysis or evaluation of a work of art, literature, etc
- critiques — Plural form of critique.
- crocosmia — any plant of the cormous S. African genus Crocosmia, including the plant known to gardeners as montbretia: family Iridaceae
- croisette — a projection at a corner of a door or window architrave.
- croissant — Croissants are small, sweet bread rolls in the shape of a crescent that are eaten for breakfast.
- crossbill — any of various widely distributed finches of the genus Loxia, such as L. curvirostra, that occur in coniferous woods and have a bill with crossed mandible tips for feeding on conifer seeds
- crossbite — a dental condition in which the lower teeth are in front of the upper teeth
- crossfire — Crossfire is gunfire, for example in a battle, that comes from two or more different directions and passes through the same area.