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9-letter words containing o, c

  • callaloos — Plural form of callaloo.
  • callboard — a notice board listing opportunities for performers
  • calliopes — Plural form of calliope.
  • callosity — hardheartedness
  • calloused — A foot or hand that is calloused is covered in calluses.
  • callouses — made hard; hardened.
  • callously — made hard; hardened.
  • callowest — Superlative form of callow.
  • calm down — If you calm down, or if someone calms you down, you become less angry, upset, or excited.
  • calor gas — Calor gas is gas in liquid form which is sold in special containers so that people can use it in places which are not connected to the gas supply, such as tents or caravans.
  • calorific — The calorific value of something, or its calorific content, is the number of calories it contains.
  • calotypes — Plural form of calotype.
  • camarillo — a city in SW California.
  • cambiform — resembling a cambium
  • cambodian — of or relating to Cambodia or its inhabitants
  • camcorder — A camcorder is a portable video camera which records both pictures and sound.
  • camel toe — the visual effect created when a woman's trousers cling too tightly to the crotch, emphasizing the shape of the pudenda
  • camel-toe — the outline of a vulva as sometimes seen when a woman is wearing tight pants.
  • cameroons — former region in W Africa consisting of two trust territories, French Cameroons (in 1960 forming the republic of Cameroon ) and British Cameroons (in 1961 divided between Cameroon and Nigeria)
  • camisoles — Plural form of camisole.
  • camouflet — a type of bomb that is used during a siege to collapse an enemy's tunnel
  • camp oven — a metal pot or box with a heavy lid, used for baking over an open fire
  • campagnol — (archaic) A mouse (Arvicala agrestis) that often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds.
  • campeador — a champion
  • campesino — a Latin American rural peasant
  • campodean — a campodeid.
  • campodeid — any of various primitive and wingless insects of the genus Campodea
  • camporees — Plural form of camporee.
  • campstool — a lightweight folding stool
  • canalboat — a long narrow boat used on canals, esp for carrying freight
  • canaletto — original name Giovanni Antonio Canale. 1697–1768, Italian painter and etcher, noted particularly for his highly detailed paintings of cities, esp Venice, which are marked by strong contrasts of light and shade
  • cancelbot — a computer program that deletes unwanted mailings to internet usergroups
  • cancerous — Cancerous cells or growths are cells or growths that are the result of cancer.
  • candomble — any of a number of similar religious cults in Brazil that combine elements of Roman Catholicism with elements of West African, esp Yoruba, and South American Indian religions
  • cane toad — a large toad, Rhinella marina, native to Central and South America but introduced into many countries to control insects and other pests of sugar-cane plantations
  • canephora — Caryatid that supports a basket on her head.
  • cankerous — having cankers
  • cannonade — A cannonade is an intense continuous attack of gunfire.
  • cannoneer — (formerly) a soldier who served and fired a cannon; artilleryman
  • cannonier — Alternative form of cannoneer.
  • cannoning — Present participle of cannon.
  • cannotingcannot but, have no alternative but to: We cannot but choose otherwise.
  • canoeable — (of a river, etc) able to be navigated in a canoe
  • canoeists — Plural form of canoeist.
  • canon law — Canon law is the law of the Christian church. It has authority only for that church and its members.
  • canonchet — (Nanuntenoo) died 1676, Narragansett leader: executed by colonists.
  • canonical — If something has canonical status, it is accepted as having all the qualities that a thing of its kind should have.
  • canonicus — c1565–1647, Narragansett leader: yielded Rhode Island to Roger Williams 1636.
  • canonised — Ecclesiastical. to place in the canon of saints.
  • canonized — Made part of the canon, made official.
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