9-letter words containing l, o, e, r
- cleopatra — a yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx cleopatra, the male of which has its wings flushed with orange
- clobbered — to paint over existing decoration on (a ceramic piece).
- clobberer — One who, or that which, clobbers.
- cloisters — Plural form of cloister.
- close-run — If you describe something such as a race or contest as a close-run thing, you mean that it was only won by a very small amount.
- clothiers — Plural form of clothier.
- clottered — Simple past tense and past participle of clotter.
- cloud ear — tree ear
- cloudware — software that runs and is accessed on remote Internet servers rather than on local servers or personal computers; web-based applications and services.
- clouterly — clumsy
- co-relate — to correlate.
- coal fire — a mass of burning coal used esp in a hearth to heat a room
- coalescer — A coalescer is a vessel or stage which causes small drops of a liquid to come together and form a stream or form elements with a larger volume.
- coalminer — One who mines for coal.
- cockerell — Sir Christopher Sydney. 1910–99, British engineer, who invented the hovercraft
- cockerels — Plural form of cockerel.
- cocklebur — any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium, having spiny burs: family Asteraceae (composites)
- coculture — to culture together
- coercible — to compel by force, intimidation, or authority, especially without regard for individual desire or volition: They coerced him into signing the document.
- coercibly — in a coercible way
- coeternal — existing together eternally
- colaborer — One who labors with another; an associate in labor.
- colanders — Plural form of colander.
- cold brew — the process of steeping coffee grounds or tea leaves in room-temperature or cold water for many hours, producing a concentrate to which more water may be added.
- cold sore — Cold sores are small sore spots that sometimes appear on or near someone's lips and nose when they have a cold.
- cold-brew — (of a drink such as tea or coffee) prepared by steeping in cold water
- coldwater — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- coleopter — an aircraft that has an annular wing with the fuselage and engine on the centre line
- coleraine — a town in N Northern Ireland, in Coleraine district, Co Antrim, on the River Bann; light industries; university (1965). Pop: 24 089 (2001)
- coleridge — Samuel Taylor. 1772–1834, English Romantic poet and critic, noted for poems such as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), Kubla Khan (1816), and Christabel (1816), and for his critical work Biographia Literaria (1817)
- collecter — One who or that which collects.
- collector — A collector is a person who collects things of a particular type as a hobby.
- colliders — Plural form of collider.
- collinear — lying on the same straight line
- coloniser — (British) alternative spelling of colonizer.
- colonizer — to establish a colony in; settle: England colonized Australia.
- color-key — color-code.
- colorable — capable of being colored
- colorized — A colorized film is an old black and white film which has had colour added to it using a special technique.
- colorizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of colorize.
- colorless — Something that is colorless has no color at all.
- colourise — (UK) Alternative form of colorize (to add colour to).
- colourize — to add colour electronically to (an old black-and-white film)
- colubrine — of or resembling a snake
- compeller — to force or drive, especially to a course of action: His disregard of the rules compels us to dismiss him.
- compilers — Plural form of compiler.
- completer — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- compliers — a person, group, etc., that complies.
- comradely — If you do something in a comradely way, you are being pleasant and friendly to other people.
- concealer — to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight: He concealed the gun under his coat.