9-letter words containing n, a, o, c
- cramponee — (heraldry) Having a cramp or square piece at the end; said of a cross.
- cranbrook — a city in SE British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- crank out — If you say that a company or person cranks out a quantity of similar things, you mean they produce them quickly, in the same way, and are usually implying that the things are not original or are of poor quality.
- crayoning — Draw with a crayon or crayons.
- crayonist — (dated) An artist who uses crayons.
- creations — The action or process of bringing something into existence.
- cremation — to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite.
- crenation — any of the rounded teeth or the notches between them on a crenate structure
- crewwoman — A female crewmember.
- crinoidal — (zoology) Relating to, consisting of, or containing crinoids.
- croissant — Croissants are small, sweet bread rolls in the shape of a crescent that are eaten for breakfast.
- croquante — a crisp cake or pastry
- crossband — (in furniture) a layer of wood beneath, and with its grain at right angles to, the veneer
- crotaline — of or relating to rattlesnakes (Crotalinae)
- crown cap — an airtight metal seal crimped on the top of most bottled beers, ciders, mineral waters, etc
- crown law — criminal law
- crown saw — a hollow cylinder with cutting teeth forming a rotary saw for trepanning
- crownland — a large administrative division of the former empire of Austria-Hungary
- cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.
- cunctator — (Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus"Cunctator") 275–203 b.c, Roman statesman and general: defeated Hannibal's army by harassment without risking a pitched battle.
- curandero — a male healer or shaman in Hispanic-America
- currajong — kurrajong
- currawong — any Australian crowlike songbird of the genus Strepera, having black, grey, and white plumage: family Cracticidae
- curtation — the discrepancy between the curtate distance and the true distance of a planet from the sun
- curvation — the action of curving or bending
- custodian — The custodian of an official building, a companies' assets, or something else valuable is the person who is officially in charge of it.
- cut along — to hurry off
- cutaneous — of, relating to, or affecting the skin
- cyanotype — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, that produces a blue line on a white background.
- cyclopean — of, relating to, or resembling the Cyclops
- cyclopian — having only one eye
- cymophane — a yellow or green opalescent variety of chrysoberyl
- cytopenia — a condition characterized by a deficiency of a type of blood cells
- damoclean — a flatterer who, having extolled the happiness of Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, was seated at a banquet with a sword suspended over his head by a single hair to show him the perilous nature of that happiness.
- dancegoer — a person who attends dances or dance performances.
- daybeacon — an unlighted navigational beacon used as a daymark.
- daycation — a day trip to a resort, hotel, etc that does not involve staying the night
- deaconess — (in the early church and in some modern Churches) a female member of the laity with duties similar to those of a deacon
- decagonal — Shaped like a decagon.
- 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
- decanoate — (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of decanoic acid.
- decathlon — The decathlon is a competition in which athletes compete in 10 different sporting events.
- demoniacs — Plural form of demoniac.
- demonical — inspired as if by a demon, indwelling spirit, or genius.
- deucalion — the son of Prometheus and, with his wife Pyrrha, the only survivor on earth of a flood sent by Zeus (Deucalion's flood). Together, they were allowed to repopulate the world by throwing stones over their shoulders, which became men and women
- diachrony — a change over time, esp in languages
- diachylon — a type of adhesive plaster, formerly made of various plant juices, but later containing lead oxide and glycerin
- diaconate — the office, sacramental status, or period of office of a deacon
- dianoetic — of or relating to thought, esp to discursive reasoning rather than intuition
- diaphonic — Of or pertaining to diaphony.