9-letter words containing n, s
- civilians — Plural form of civilian.
- civilness — of, relating to, or consisting of citizens: civil life; civil society.
- claimants — Plural form of claimant.
- claimsman — an insurance adjuster, especially one dealing with casualty-insurance claims; claims adjuster.
- clangours — Plural form of clangour.
- clappings — Plural form of clapping.
- clarences — Plural form of clarence.
- clarinets — Plural form of clarinet.
- claystone — a compact very fine-grained rock consisting of consolidated clay particles
- cleanness — free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress.
- cleansers — Plural form of cleanser.
- cleansing — serving or intended to cleanse
- cleanskin — an unbranded animal
- cleanthes — ?300–?232 bc, Greek philosopher: succeeded Zeno as head of the Stoic school
- clearings — Plural form of clearing.
- clearness — free from darkness, obscurity, or cloudiness; light: a clear day.
- clearskin — Cleanskin.
- clianthus — any Australian or New Zealand plant of the leguminous genus Clianthus, with ornamental clusters of slender scarlet flowers
- clinchers — Plural form of clincher.
- clingfish — any small marine teleost fish of the family Gobiesocidae, having a flattened elongated body with a sucking disc beneath the head for clinging to rocks, etc
- clinoaxis — in a monoclinic crystal, the lateral axis which forms an oblique angle with the vertical axis
- clinostat — an apparatus for studying tropisms in plants, usually a rotating disc to which the plant is attached so that it receives an equal stimulus on all sides
- clippings — A small piece trimmed from something.
- cloisonne — a design made by filling in with coloured enamel an outline of flattened wire put on edge
- 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.
- closedown — a termination or suspension of operations; shutdown: a temporary closedown of a factory.
- closeness — to put (something) in a position to obstruct an entrance, opening, etc.; shut.
- closeting — Present participle of closet.
- clothings — Plural form of clothing.
- clownfish — any of several brightly coloured striped fish of the subfamily Amphiprioninae of the Pacific and Indian Oceans
- clubhands — Plural form of clubhand.
- cnidocils — Plural form of cnidocil.
- cnidocyst — a nematocyst.
- coalmines — Plural form of coalmine.
- coarsened — Simple past tense and past participle of coarsen.
- coastland — the land fringing a coast
- coastline — A country's coastline is the outline of its coast.
- coatstand — a frame or pole equipped with hooks or arms for hanging up coats, etc
- cocainise — Alt form cocainize.
- cocainism — addiction to cocaine
- cocainist — a cocaine addict
- cockiness — conceited self-assurance
- cockswain — coxswain
- cocoanuts — Plural form of cocoanut.
- cocounsel — to counsel jointly
- codenames — Plural form of codename.
- coenesque — reminiscent of the work US film-makers Joel and Ethan Coen (born 1954 and 1957 respectively), featuring bizarre and involved plots, use of irony and black humour, and allusions to film classics
- coenosarc — a system of protoplasmic branches connecting the polyps of colonial organisms such as corals
- coenzymes — Plural form of coenzyme.
- coercions — Plural form of coercion.