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9-letter words containing l, o, n, r

  • blue roan — a horse having a black coat sprinkled with white hairs
  • boilerman — a man who looks after boilers
  • boulanger — Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1837–91, French general and minister of war (1886–87). Accused of attempting a coup d'état, he fled to Belgium, where he committed suicide
  • bran loaf — a rectangular cake whose ingredients include bran and dried fruit
  • brazelton — Brazelton behavioral scale: a test widely used to evaluate infants' responses to environmental stimuli.
  • broadline — a company that deals in high volume at the cheaper end of a product line
  • bromelain — an enzyme derived from pineapple, used as an anti-inflammatory agent in homeopathy and as a meat tenderizer in the food industry
  • bronchial — Bronchial means affecting or concerned with the bronchial tubes.
  • brookline — suburb of Boston, in E Mass.: pop. 57,000
  • brown ale — a rich ale made with brown or dark malt
  • brown owl — nocturnal bird of prey
  • cantorial — of or relating to a precentor
  • carillons — Plural form of carillon.
  • carnaroli — a variety of short-grain rice used for risotto
  • carolling — a song, especially of joy.
  • cartonful — As much as a carton will hold.
  • cauldrons — Plural form of cauldron.
  • censorial — an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.
  • centriole — either of two rodlike bodies in most animal cells that form the poles of the spindle during mitosis
  • charleton — a male given name.
  • chernobyl — a town in N Ukraine; site of a nuclear power station accident in 1986
  • chevronel — a narrow chevron, one-half the usual breadth or less.
  • chloracne — a disfiguring skin disease that results from contact with or ingestion or inhalation of certain chlorinated aromatic hydrocarbons
  • chloranil — a yellow, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 6 Cl 4 O 2 , used chiefly as a fungicide and as an intermediate in the manufacture of dyes.
  • chlordane — a white insoluble toxic solid existing in several isomeric forms and usually used, as an insecticide, in the form of a brown impure liquid. Formula: C10H6Cl8
  • cholerine — (pathology) Minor diarrhea that happens during outbreaks of cholera.
  • chondrule — one of the small spherical masses of mainly silicate minerals present in chondrites
  • chortling — to chuckle gleefully.
  • chronical — relating to or controlled by time
  • chronicle — To chronicle a series of events means to write about them or show them in broadcasts in the order in which they happened.
  • claiborne — a male given name.
  • clamoring — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
  • clangours — Plural form of clangour.
  • claremont — a town in SW California.
  • clarendon — a style of boldface roman type
  • clavicorn — any beetle of the group Clavicornia, including the ladybirds, characterized by club-shaped antennae
  • cleanroom — A room or environment that is controlled in such a way as to minimize airborne particulate matter, typically for the purpose of fabricating sensitive electronic or other devices.
  • 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.
  • coalminer — One who mines for coal.
  • coeternal — existing together eternally
  • colanders — Plural form of colander.
  • coleraine — a town in N Northern Ireland, in Coleraine district, Co Antrim, on the River Bann; light industries; university (1965). Pop: 24 089 (2001)
  • collaring — Present participle of collar.
  • collinear — lying on the same straight line
  • coloniser — (British) alternative spelling of colonizer.
  • colonizer — to establish a colony in; settle: England colonized Australia.
  • coloradan — of Colorado
  • colorants — Plural form of colorant.
  • colorings — Plural form of coloring.
  • colour in — If you colour in a drawing, you give it different colours using crayons or paints.
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