9-letter words containing n, o, t
- cotillion — a French formation dance of the 18th century
- cottaging — Cottaging is homosexual activity between men in public toilets.
- cottering — Present participle of cotter.
- cotton on — If you cotton on to something, you understand it or realize it, especially without people telling you about it.
- cotton to — If you cotton to someone or something, you start to like them.
- cottonade — a coarse fabric of cotton or mixed fibres, used for work clothes, etc
- cottoning — Present participle of cotton.
- cotunnite — a soft, white to yellowish mineral, lead chloride, PbCl 2 , that forms as an alteration product of galena.
- cotyledon — a simple embryonic leaf in seed-bearing plants, which, in some species, forms the first green leaf after germination
- count for — to check over (the separate units or groups of a collection) one by one to determine the total number; add up; enumerate: He counted his tickets and found he had ten.
- count off — to separate into equal divisions by counting
- count out — If you count out a sum of money, you count the notes or coins as you put them in a pile one by one.
- countable — capable of being counted
- countably — in a countable manner
- countback — a system of deciding the winner of a tied competition by comparing earlier points or scores
- countdown — A countdown is the counting aloud of numbers in reverse order before something happens, especially before a spacecraft is launched.
- countered — in the wrong way; contrary to the right course; in the reverse or opposite direction.
- countless — Countless means very many.
- countline — (in the confectionery trade) a chocolate-based bar
- countries — a state or nation: What European countries have you visited?
- countrify — to make countrified.
- countryfy — Alternative spelling of countrify.
- countship — the rank or position of a count.
- courantes — Plural form of courante.
- courtesan — In former times, a courtesan was a woman who had sexual relationships with rich and powerful men for money.
- courtezan — Alternative spelling of courtesan.
- courtling — a fawning or sycophantic member of a royal court
- covariant — a variant that changes leaving interrelations with another variant (or variants) unchanged
- covenants — Plural form of covenant.
- coventure — An international coproduction set up in the absence of any official treaty between the countries.
- covington — a city in N Kentucky, on the Ohio River.
- cowritten — to coauthor.
- 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.
- 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
- creodonts — Plural form of creodont.
- cretinoid — a person suffering from cretinism.
- cretinous — If you describe someone as cretinous, you think they are very stupid.
- crinosity — Hairiness.
- criterion — A criterion is a factor on which you judge or decide something.
- croissant — Croissants are small, sweet bread rolls in the shape of a crescent that are eaten for breakfast.
- cromulent — (humorous) Fine, acceptable or normal; excellent, realistic, legitimate or authentic.
- croquante — a crisp cake or pastry
- crosstown — A crosstown bus or route is one that crosses the main roads or transportation lines of a town or city.
- crotaline — of or relating to rattlesnakes (Crotalinae)
- crotonbug — species of cockroach
- 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.
- crown rot — a disease of plants, characterized by the rotting of the stem at ground level, caused by any of several fungi.