9-letter words containing n, a, r, c
- candy bar — A candy bar is a long, thin, sweet food, usually covered in chocolate.
- candygram — a message accompanied by sweets
- cane reed — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- canebrake — a thicket of canes
- canebreak — Alternative spelling of canebrake.
- canefruit — a fruit, such as the raspberry, which grows on woody-stemmed plants
- canephora — Caryatid that supports a basket on her head.
- canicular — of or relating to the star Sirius or its rising
- canisters — Plural form of canister.
- cankering — a gangrenous or ulcerous sore, especially in the mouth.
- cankerous — having cankers
- cannelure — a groove or fluting, esp one around the cylindrical part of a bullet
- canneries — Plural form of cannery.
- cannister — Misspelling of canister.
- cannoneer — (formerly) a soldier who served and fired a cannon; artilleryman
- cannonier — Alternative form of cannoneer.
- canonizer — a person who canonizes
- canonries — Plural form of canonry.
- canrobert — François Certain [frahn-swa ser-tan] /frɑ̃ˈswa sɛrˈtɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1809–95, French marshal.
- cantabria — a province and autonomous community in N Spain
- cantering — an easy gallop.
- cantharid — any beetle of the family Cantharidae, having a soft elongated body; though found frequenting flowers, they are carnivorous
- cantharis — Spanish fly (sense 1)
- cantharus — a large two-handled pottery cup
- cantorial — of or relating to a precentor
- canvasser — to solicit votes, subscriptions, opinions, or the like from.
- canyoneer — a person who explores canyons
- caparison — a decorated covering for a horse or other animal, esp (formerly) for a warhorse
- cape horn — a rocky headland on an island at the extreme S tip of South America, belonging to Chile. It is notorious for gales and heavy seas; until the building of the Panama Canal it lay on the only sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific
- capernaum — a ruined town in N Israel, on the NW shore of the Sea of Galilee: closely associated with Jesus Christ during his ministry
- capricorn — Capricorn is one of the twelve signs of the zodiac. Its symbol is a goat. People who are born approximately between the 22nd of December and the 19th of January come under this sign.
- captainry — captainship
- capturing — Present participle of capture.
- car phone — A car phone is a mobile phone, especially one which is designed to be used in a car.
- carabiner — in mountain climbing, an oval metal ring with a snap link used to fasten a rope to the piton
- caragheen — Alternative form of carrageen.
- carangids — Plural form of carangid.
- carangoid — resembling a fish of the family Carangidae; carangid.
- caratinga — a city in E Brazil.
- caravaner — One who travels in a caravan (convoy or procession).
- carbamino — relating to the compound produced when carbon dioxide reacts with an amino group
- carbanion — a negatively charged organic ion in which most of the negative charge is localized on a carbon atom
- carbenium — (organic chemistry, informal) Any carbocation.
- carbineer — (formerly) a soldier equipped with a carbine
- carbon 12 — the isotopic carbon atom that comprises 99 percent of naturally occurring carbon, and that since 1961 has been used as the standard for atomic weight by representing a unit of 12.00000.
- carbon 13 — the stable isotope of carbon having an atomic mass number 13, used as a tracer.
- carbon 14 — radiocarbon (def 1).
- carbonade — a stew of beef and onions cooked in beer
- carbonado — a piece of meat, fish, etc, scored and grilled
- carbonara — a sauce, containing cream, bacon, cheese and egg, that is usually served with pasta