9-letter words containing o, n, e, s
- caseation — the formation of cheese from casein during the coagulation of milk
- casebound — bound in hard covers.
- cassonade — raw or unrefined sugar
- castellón — seaport in E Spain, on the Mediterranean: pop. 133,000
- cavernous — A cavernous room or building is very large inside, and so it reminds you of a cave.
- cavessons — Plural form of cavesson.
- ceanothus — any shrub of the North American rhamnaceous genus Ceanothus: grown for their ornamental, often blue, flower clusters
- cenobites — Plural form of cenobite.
- cenotaphs — Plural form of cenotaph.
- 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
- censoring — any person who supervises the manners or morality of others.
- centesimo — a former monetary unit of Italy, San Marino, and the Vatican City worth one hundredth of a lira
- centroids — Plural form of centroid.
- cents-off — of or relating to a marketing device, as a coupon, that entitles a buyer to a specified amount off the regular price.
- certosina — a technique of inlaying light-colored material, as bone, ivory, metal, or pale wood, in elaborate designs on a dark ground.
- cessation — The cessation of something is the stopping of it.
- ceylonese — of or relating to Ceylon or its inhabitants
- chaconnes — Plural form of chaconne.
- chaperons — Plural form of chaperon.
- cheongsam — a straight dress, usually of silk or cotton, with a stand-up collar and a slit in one side of the skirt, worn by Chinese women
- chi meson — a meson with a mass 6687 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.5 X 10 -20 seconds.
- cinderous — a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
- cinereous — of a greyish colour
- claystone — a compact very fine-grained rock consisting of consolidated clay particles
- 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.
- coalmines — Plural form of coalmine.
- coarsened — Simple past tense and past participle of coarsen.
- coastline — A country's coastline is the outline of its coast.
- cocainise — Alt form cocainize.
- cockiness — conceited self-assurance
- 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.
- cogenesis — The genesis of two entities at the same time.
- cognetics — The engineering of objects to make them accommodate critical human thought process.
- cognomens — Plural form of cognomen.
- coincides — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coincide.
- coinsurer — A coinsurer is a person or company whose policy covers the same risk as that of another person or company, and shares the loss.
- coinsures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coinsure.
- colanders — Plural form of colander.
- collagens — Plural form of collagen.
- collinses — Plural form of collins.