9-letter words containing n, a, o, c
- corn laws — the laws introduced in Britain in 1804 to protect domestic farmers against foreign competition by the imposition of a heavy duty on foreign corn: repealed in 1846
- corn meal — meal made from maize
- cornballs — Plural form of cornball.
- cornbraid — to braid (hair) in close parallel rows, creating a hairstyle known as a corn row
- cornbrash — a type of limestone which produces good soil for growing corn
- cornbread — Cornbread is bread made from ground maize or corn. It is popular in the United States.
- corncrake — a common Eurasian rail, Crex crex, of fields and meadows, with a buff speckled plumage and reddish wings
- cornelian — carnelian
- cornerman — the first baseman
- cornflake — Cornflakes are small flat pieces of maize that are eaten with milk as a breakfast cereal. They are popular in Britain and the United States.
- cornicula — plural form of singular corniculum: small horn
- corniglia — a group of five coastal villages (Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore) on the Ligurian Sea in NW Italy, near La Spezia.
- cornopean — a cornet
- cornstalk — a stalk or stem of corn
- coronachs — Plural form of coronach.
- coronally — in a coronal manner
- coronated — having or wearing a crown, coronet, or the like.
- corposant — Saint Elmo's fire
- corrading — Present participle of corrade.
- corraling — Present participle of corral.
- corrasion — erosion of a rock surface by rock fragments transported over it by water, wind, or ice
- corsicana — a city in E Texas.
- coruscant — giving off flashes of light
- cosecants — Plural form of cosecant.
- cosmonaut — A cosmonaut is an astronaut from the former Soviet Union.
- costanoan — a family of eight languages, now extinct, spoken by American Indian peoples of coastal California: part of the Penutian stock.
- cot-quean — Archaic. a man who busies himself with traditionally women's household duties.
- cotangent — (of an angle) a trigonometric function that in a right-angled triangle is the ratio of the length of the adjacent side to that of the opposite side; the reciprocal of tangent
- cothurnal — relating to the cothurnus or to tragedy
- cottaging — Cottaging is homosexual activity between men in public toilets.
- cottonade — a coarse fabric of cotton or mixed fibres, used for work clothes, etc
- coumarone — a colorless liquid, C8H6O, derived from coal tar and combined with indene to produce synthetic resins used in paints, adhesives, etc.
- countable — capable of being counted
- countably — in a countable manner
- countback — a system of deciding the winner of a tied competition by comparing earlier points or scores
- couraging — Present participle of courage.
- courantes — Plural form of courante.
- courtesan — In former times, a courtesan was a woman who had sexual relationships with rich and powerful men for money.
- courtezan — Alternative spelling of courtesan.
- cousinage — a kinship or relationship
- covalence — the number of pairs of electrons that an atom can share with its neighboring atoms
- covalency — the formation and nature of covalent bonds
- covariant — a variant that changes leaving interrelations with another variant (or variants) unchanged
- covenants — Plural form of covenant.
- cowabunga — Used to express delight or satisfaction.
- coxswains — Plural form of coxswain.
- cozenages — Plural form of cozenage.
- crackdown — A crackdown is strong official action that is taken to punish people who break laws.
- craigavon — a district in central Northern Ireland, in Co Armagh. Pop: 57 685 (2001). Area: 279 sq km (108 sq miles)
- cramdowns — Plural form of cramdown.