9-letter words containing m, o, r
- 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
- curvesome — (dated) curvy.
- curviform — having a curved shape
- customary — Customary is used to describe things that people usually do in a particular society or in particular circumstances.
- customers — A person or organization that buys goods or services from a store or business.
- 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
- cymbiform — having the shape of a boat
- cymograph — an instrument for tracing the outline of an architectural moulding
- cystiform — resembling a cyst
- cystogram — A diagnostic image produced by cystography.
- cytometer — a glass slide used to count and measure cells
- cytometry — the counting of blood cells using a cytometer
- cytosmear — (cytology) A sample of cells, in the form of a smear on a microscope slide, that has been stained ready for diagnostic examination.
- damnatory — threatening or occasioning condemnation
- damourite — (mineral) A kind of muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
- dampproof — resistant to dampness or the effects of dampness.
- darkrooms — Plural form of darkroom.
- dartmouth — a port in SW England, in S Devon: Royal Naval College (1905). Pop: 5512 (2001)
- date from — If something dates from a particular time, it started or was made at that time.
- de moivre — Abraham [a-bra-am] /a braˈam/ (Show IPA), 1667–1754, French mathematician in England.
- de morgan — Augustus, 1806–71, English mathematician and logician.
- decameron — a collection of a hundred tales by Boccaccio (published 1353), presented as stories told by a group of Florentines to while away ten days during a plague
- decimator — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- deforming — Present participle of deform.