9-letter words containing m, a, c, r, o
- colombard — a white grape grown in France, California, and Australia, used for making wine
- colourman — a person who deals in paints
- columbary — a dovecote
- combaters — Plural form of combater.
- commander — A commander is an officer in charge of a military operation or organization.
- commissar — an official of the Communist Party responsible for political education, esp in a military unit
- commorant — resident
- communard — a member of a commune
- compacter — Comparative form of compact.
- compactor — a machine that compacts something, esp rubbish
- compadres — Plural form of compadre.
- compander — a system for improving the signal-to-noise ratio of a signal at a transmitter or recorder by first compressing the volume range of the signal and then restoring it to its original amplitude level at the receiving or reproducing apparatus
- companera — (in the southwestern U.S.) a female companion; friend.
- companero — (in the southwestern U.S.) a male companion or partner.
- comparing — Present participle of compare.
- comprador — (formerly in China and some other Asian countries) a native agent of a foreign enterprise
- comprisal — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- comradely — If you do something in a comradely way, you are being pleasant and friendly to other people.
- comradery — camaraderie or comradeship
- con amore — (to be performed) lovingly
- conformal — (of a transformation) preserving the angles of the depicted surface
- connemara — a barren coastal region of W Republic of Ireland, in Co Galway: consists of quartzite mountains, peat bogs, and many lakes; noted for its breed of pony originating from the hilly regions
- contranym — A word that has two opposing meanings, such as 'cleave' (“come together” or “split apart”).
- copraemia — a type of poisoning caused by faecal matter entering the bloodstream as a result of chronic constipation
- copraemic — of or relating to copraemia
- coremaker — a person who makes cores for foundry molds.
- cormorant — A cormorant is a type of dark-coloured bird with a long neck. Cormorants usually live near the sea and eat fish.
- corn meal — meal made from maize
- cornerman — the first baseman
- cosmocrat — a ruler of the world
- cosmorama — a lifelike display, using mirrors and lenses, which shows reflections of various views of parts of the world
- cothamore — a frieze fabric, often used in the manufacture of overcoats.
- coumarone — a colorless liquid, C8H6O, derived from coal tar and combined with indene to produce synthetic resins used in paints, adhesives, etc.
- cramdowns — Plural form of cramdown.
- cramponee — (heraldry) Having a cramp or square piece at the end; said of a cross.
- cream off — To cream off part of a group of people means to take them away and treat them in a special way, because they are better than the others.
- creamwove — (of wove paper) cream-coloured and even-surfaced
- cremation — to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite.
- crematory — A crematory is the same as a crematorium.
- cremocarp — any fruit consisting of two united carpels which hang from a supporting axis
- crewwoman — A female crewmember.
- crocosmia — any plant of the cormous S. African genus Crocosmia, including the plant known to gardeners as montbretia: family Iridaceae
- crossbeam — A crossbeam is a long, thick bar of wood, metal, or concrete that is placed between two walls or other structures, especially in order to support the roof of a building.
- crotalism — a type of poisoning caused by ingestion of plants of the genus Crotalaria
- crow pram — concurrent read, owner write PRAM.
- cryptogam — (in former plant classification schemes) any organism that does not produce seeds, including algae, fungi, mosses, and ferns
- customary — Customary is used to describe things that people usually do in a particular society or in particular circumstances.
- cyclorama — a large picture, such as a battle scene, on the interior wall of a cylindrical room, designed to appear in natural perspective to a spectator in the centre
- cymograph — an instrument for tracing the outline of an architectural moulding
- cystogram — A diagnostic image produced by cystography.