9-letter words containing m, o, r, c
- cordiform — heart-shaped
- cordotomy — a sugrical method of pain relief in which nerves in the spinal cord are cut
- core dump — a copy of main memory that is printed, displayed, or recorded on an output medium.
- coremaker — a person who makes cores for foundry molds.
- cormidium — a collection of polyps in a siphonophore
- 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
- corn smut — an ascomycetous parasitic fungus, Ustilago zeae, that causes gall-like deformations on maize grain
- cornemuse — a type of French bagpipes
- cornerman — the first baseman
- cornermen — Plural form of cornerman.
- corniform — shaped like a horn
- corymbose — characterized by or growing in corymbs; corymblike.
- 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
- cosmotron — a large synchrotron which was used for accelerating protons to high energies (of the order of 1 GeV)
- costumers — a person who makes, sells, or rents costumes, as for theatrical productions.
- costumery — multiple costumes considered collectively
- costumier — A costumier is a person or company that makes or supplies costumes.
- 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.
- courtroom — A courtroom is a room in which a legal court meets.
- coxcombry — conceited arrogance or foppishness
- 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.
- criminous — criminal
- crimsoned — Simple past tense and past participle of crimson.
- crocosmia — any plant of the cormous S. African genus Crocosmia, including the plant known to gardeners as montbretia: family Iridaceae
- cromlechs — Plural form of cromlech.
- cromulent — (humorous) Fine, acceptable or normal; excellent, realistic, legitimate or authentic.
- crop milk — a liquid secreted in the crop of certain adult pigeons and fed to their newly hatched young.
- 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
- crotonism — poisoning by ingestion of croton oil, characterized by burning of the mouth, severe diarrhea, and colic, with possible death from respiratory or circulatory failure.
- crow pram — concurrent read, owner write PRAM.
- cruciform — A cruciform building or object is shaped like a cross.
- crumhorns — Plural form of crumhorn.
- cryometer — a thermometer for measuring low temperatures
- cryometry — The measurement of very low temperatures.
- cryptogam — (in former plant classification schemes) any organism that does not produce seeds, including algae, fungi, mosses, and ferns
- cryptonym — a code name or secret name
- cteniform — resembling a comb
- cuneiform — wedge-shaped
- currycomb — a square comb consisting of rows of small teeth, used for grooming horses