9-letter words containing n, e, o, r
- carotenes — Plural form of carotene.
- carronade — an obsolete naval gun of short barrel and large bore
- cartonage — the material from which many Egyptian mummy masks and coffins were made, consisting of linen or papyrus held together with glue
- cartonero — A person in Latin America who collects discarded waste, such as cardboard, to reuse or resell.
- cartooney — Misspelling of cartoony.
- cautioner — A person who cautions.
- cavernous — A cavernous room or building is very large inside, and so it reminds you of a cave.
- censorial — an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.
- censorian — relating to the official supervision of public behaviour and morals
- censoring — any person who supervises the manners or morality of others.
- centriole — either of two rodlike bodies in most animal cells that form the poles of the spindle during mitosis
- centroids — Plural form of centroid.
- centurion — A centurion was an officer in the Roman army.
- ceromancy — divination by interpreting the significance of shapes formed when melted wax is dropped into water
- certosina — a technique of inlaying light-colored material, as bone, ivory, metal, or pale wood, in elaborate designs on a dark ground.
- chaeronea — an ancient Greek town in W Boeotia: site of the victory of Philip of Macedon over the Athenians and Thebans (338 bc) and of Sulla over Mithridates (86 bc)
- chaperone — A chaperone is someone who accompanies another person somewhere in order to make sure that they do not come to any harm.
- chaperons — Plural form of chaperon.
- charleton — a male given name.
- charwomen — Plural form of charwoman.
- cherenkov — Pavel Alekseyevich (ˈpavɪl alɪkˈsjejɪvitʃ). 1904–90, Soviet physicist: noted for work on the effects produced by high-energy particles: shared Nobel prize for physics 1958
- chernenko — Konstantin (Ustinovich) (kənstanˈtin). 1911–85, Soviet statesman; general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (1984–85)
- chernigov — a city in N central Ukraine, on the River Desna: tyres, pianos, consumer goods. Pop: 308 000 (2005 est)
- chernobyl — a town in N Ukraine; site of a nuclear power station accident in 1986
- chernozem — a black soil, rich in humus and carbonates, in cool or temperate semiarid regions, as the grasslands of Russia
- chevronel — a narrow chevron, one-half the usual breadth or less.
- chloracne — a disfiguring skin disease that results from contact with or ingestion or inhalation of certain chlorinated aromatic hydrocarbons
- chlordane — a white insoluble toxic solid existing in several isomeric forms and usually used, as an insecticide, in the form of a brown impure liquid. Formula: C10H6Cl8
- cholerine — (pathology) Minor diarrhea that happens during outbreaks of cholera.
- chondrite — a stony meteorite consisting mainly of silicate minerals in the form of chondrules
- chondrule — one of the small spherical masses of mainly silicate minerals present in chondrites
- chromagen — (biochemistry) Any compound, such as heme, that forms a biological pigment when attached to a protein.
- chromogen — a compound that forms coloured compounds on oxidation
- chronaxie — the minimum time required for excitation of a nerve or muscle when the stimulus is double the minimum (threshold) necessary to elicit a basic response
- chronicle — To chronicle a series of events means to write about them or show them in broadcasts in the order in which they happened.
- cinderous — a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
- cinerator — an incinerator.
- cinereous — of a greyish colour
- cithaeron — a mountain range in SE Greece: sacred to Dionysus, in Greek mythology. to 4623 feet (1409 meters).
- claiborne — a male given name.
- claremont — a town in SW California.
- clarendon — a style of boldface roman type
- cleanroom — A room or environment that is controlled in such a way as to minimize airborne particulate matter, typically for the purpose of fabricating sensitive electronic or other devices.
- close-run — If you describe something such as a race or contest as a close-run thing, you mean that it was only won by a very small amount.
- co-parent — a divorced or separated parent who shares equally with the other parent in the custody and care of a child.
- co-winner — one of two or more joint winners.
- coalminer — One who mines for coal.
- coarsened — Simple past tense and past participle of coarsen.
- cockering — Present participle of cocker.
- cocoonery — a place where silkworms feed and make cocoons