9-letter words containing o, i, r, e, a
- categoric — Categoric means the same as categorical.
- cautioner — A person who cautions.
- censorial — an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.
- censorian — relating to the official supervision of public behaviour and morals
- ceropegia — any of various, usually climbing or trailing, plants of the genus Ceropegia, native to the Old World tropics and often cultivated as houseplants.
- certosina — a technique of inlaying light-colored material, as bone, ivory, metal, or pale wood, in elaborate designs on a dark ground.
- charleroi — a town in SW Belgium, in Hainaut province: centre of an industrial region. Pop: 200 608 (2004 est)
- cherimoya — a deciduous shrub or small tree, native to the Andean highlands, which produces an oval fruit with cream-coloured flesh
- choleraic — relating to, like, or developing from cholera
- choreatic — any of several diseases of the nervous system characterized by jerky, involuntary movements, chiefly of the face and extremities.
- chronaxie — the minimum time required for excitation of a nerve or muscle when the stimulus is double the minimum (threshold) necessary to elicit a basic response
- cinerator — an incinerator.
- cithaeron — a mountain range in SE Greece: sacred to Dionysus, in Greek mythology. to 4623 feet (1409 meters).
- claiborne — a male given name.
- coal fire — a mass of burning coal used esp in a hearth to heat a room
- coalminer — One who mines for coal.
- cohabiter — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- cointreau — a colourless liqueur with orange flavouring
- coleraine — a town in N Northern Ireland, in Coleraine district, Co Antrim, on the River Bann; light industries; university (1965). Pop: 24 089 (2001)
- collinear — lying on the same straight line
- container — A container is something such as a box or bottle that is used to hold or store things in.
- copraemia — a type of poisoning caused by faecal matter entering the bloodstream as a result of chronic constipation
- copraemic — of or relating to copraemia
- coralline — of, relating to, or resembling coral
- corallite — the skeleton of a coral polyp
- coriander — Coriander is a plant with seeds that are used as a spice and leaves that are used as a herb.
- cornelian — carnelian
- corrasive — Obsolete form of corrosive.
- corticate — (of plants, seeds, etc) having a bark, husk, or rind
- covariate — a statistical variable that changes in a predictable way and can be used to predict the outcome of a study
- cowardice — Cowardice is cowardly behaviour.
- cowardise — Obsolete spelling of cowardice.
- 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
- crorepati — (in India) a person whose assets are worth at least one crore or 10 million rupees
- crotaline — of or relating to rattlesnakes (Crotalinae)
- damourite — (mineral) A kind of muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
- debonaire — charming and sophisticated
- decimator — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- dedicator — to set apart and consecrate to a deity or to a sacred purpose: The ancient Greeks dedicated many shrines to Aphrodite.
- deiparous — giving birth to a god
- delacroix — (Ferdinand Victor) Eugène (øʒɛn). 1798–1863, French romantic painter whose use of colour and free composition influenced impressionism. His paintings of historical and contemporary scenes include The Massacre at Chios (1824)
- dermatoid — resembling skin
- deviatory — Tending to deviate.
- diarrhoea — If someone has diarrhoea, a lot of liquid faeces comes out of their body because they are ill.
- diaspores — Plural form of diaspore.
- dioptrate — (of a compound eye) divided by a transverse line
- disenamor — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- dollarize — to replace a country's currency with the US dollar