9-letter words containing n, o, c, m
- consumeth — Archaic third-person singular form of consume.
- consuming — A consuming passion or interest is more important to you than anything else.
- contagium — the specific virus or other direct cause of any infectious disease
- contemned — to treat or regard with disdain, scorn, or contempt.
- contemner — One who contemns, who displays contempt towards another.
- contemnor — to treat or regard with disdain, scorn, or contempt.
- contemper — to temper (something) by mixing with something of a different nature
- contempts — Plural form of contempt.
- continuum — A continuum is a set of things on a scale, which have a particular characteristic to different degrees.
- contranym — A word that has two opposing meanings, such as 'cleave' (“come together” or “split apart”).
- contronym — A word with two opposite meanings, e.g., sanction (which can mean both ‘a penalty for disobeying a law’ and ‘official permission or approval for an action’).
- contumacy — obstinate and wilful rebelliousness or resistance to authority; insubordination; disobedience
- contumely — scornful or insulting language or behaviour
- conundrum — A conundrum is a problem or puzzle which is difficult or impossible to solve.
- coolamons — Plural form of coolamon.
- copayment — a fee paid by a subscriber to a service for the use of additional services not covered by the subscription
- cormorant — A cormorant is a type of dark-coloured bird with a long neck. Cormorants usually live near the sea and eat fish.
- corn meal — meal made from maize
- corn smut — an ascomycetous parasitic fungus, Ustilago zeae, that causes gall-like deformations on maize grain
- cornemuse — a type of French bagpipes
- cornerman — the first baseman
- cornermen — Plural form of cornerman.
- corniform — shaped like a horn
- cosmogeny — (dated) cosmogony.
- cosmogony — the study of the origin and development of the universe or of a particular system in the universe, such as the solar system
- cosmoline — a substance obtained from petroleum that is similar to petrolatum and is applied to machinery, esp vehicles or weapons, in order to prevent rust
- cosmonaut — A cosmonaut is an astronaut from the former Soviet Union.
- cosmotron — a large synchrotron which was used for accelerating protons to high energies (of the order of 1 GeV)
- costuming — a style of dress, including accessories and hairdos, especially that peculiar to a nation, region, group, or historical period.
- coumarone — a colorless liquid, C8H6O, derived from coal tar and combined with indene to produce synthetic resins used in paints, adhesives, etc.
- cramdowns — Plural form of cramdown.
- cramponee — (heraldry) Having a cramp or square piece at the end; said of a cross.
- cremation — to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite.
- crewwoman — A female crewmember.
- criminous — criminal
- crimsoned — Simple past tense and past participle of crimson.
- cromulent — (humorous) Fine, acceptable or normal; excellent, realistic, legitimate or authentic.
- crotonism — poisoning by ingestion of croton oil, characterized by burning of the mouth, severe diarrhea, and colic, with possible death from respiratory or circulatory failure.
- crumhorns — Plural form of crumhorn.
- cryptonym — a code name or secret name
- cteniform — resembling a comb
- cuneiform — wedge-shaped
- cymophane — a yellow or green opalescent variety of chrysoberyl
- cynomolgi — plural form of singular cynomolgus: type of monkey
- cyphonism — An ancient form of punishment involving a sort of wooden pillory by which the victim's neck was bent or weighed downward.
- 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.
- 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
- delmonico — club steak.
- demoniacs — Plural form of demoniac.
- demonical — inspired as if by a demon, indwelling spirit, or genius.