9-letter words containing n, i, t, r, o, c
- neutronic — (physics) Involving neutrons.
- nictheroy — Niterói.
- noncredit — (of academic courses) carrying or conferring no official academic credit in a particular program or toward a particular degree or diploma.
- nondirect — Not direct.
- nonerotic — Not erotic.
- nonmetric — not metric
- nonracist — One who is not a racist.
- nonrhotic — denoting or speaking a dialect of English in which preconsonantal rs are not pronounced
- nontragic — not tragic
- nootropic — (medicine) Any substance purported to increase cognitive abilities.
- northwich — a town in NW England, in Cheshire: salt and chemical industries. Pop: 39 568 (2001)
- nostratic — designating or of a proposed language superfamily that includes the Indo-European, Afroasiatic, Dravidian, Uralic, and Altaic families
- octonarii — lines with eight feet
- on credit — with payment to be made at a future date
- optronics — Optoelectronics.
- outcrying — Present participle of outcry.
- pantropic — (especially of viruses) attracted to or affecting many types of body tissues.
- paratonic — (of a plant movement) occurring in response to an external stimulus
- preaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- princeton — a borough in central New Jersey: battle 1777.
- proaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- procident — relating to a prolapse
- prolactin — an anterior pituitary polypeptide hormone that stimulates lactation by the mammary glands at parturition in mammals, the activity of the crop in birds, and in some mammalian species the production of progesterone by the corpus luteum.
- proteinic — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- raciation — the evolutionary development of races
- recaption — the taking back without violence of one's property or a member of one's family or household unlawfully in the possession or custody of another.
- recaution — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- reception — the act of receiving or the state of being received.
- recondite — dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter: a recondite treatise.
- reconvict — to convict (someone) again
- recosting — the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything: the high cost of a good meal.
- redaction — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- reduction — the act of reducing or the state of being reduced.
- refection — refreshment, especially with food or drink.
- rejection — the act or process of rejecting.
- reliction — the process by which water recedes over time, changing the waterline and leaving land permanently exposed
- resection — Surveying. a technique of ascertaining the location of a point by taking bearings from the point on two other points of known location.
- rhapontic — a type of rhubarb
- rocinante — Rosinante.
- ructation — an eructation or belch
- satyricon — a satirical novel, interspersed with verse, written in the 1st century a.d. by Petronius, extant in fragments.
- sclerotin — an insoluble protein that serves to stiffen the chitin of the cuticle of arthropods.
- secretion — (in a cell or gland) the act or process of separating, elaborating, and releasing a substance that fulfills some function within the organism or undergoes excretion.
- sonicator — a device for treatment with ultrasound
- sticheron — a liturgical hymn sung in the Orthodox Church
- stratonic — of or relating to an army
- striction — the act of constricting.
- suctorian — a suctorial animal.
- tanorexic — obsessed with maintaining a permanent deep tan, esp through use of tanning machines
- threnodic — a poem, speech, or song of lamentation, especially for the dead; dirge; funeral song.