9-letter words containing o, r, a, l, c
- roll call — the calling of a list of names, as of soldiers or students, for checking attendance.
- roubiliac — Louis-François (lwifrɑ̃swa). ?1695–1762, French sculptor: lived chiefly in England: his sculptures include the statue of Handel in Vauxhall Gardens (1737)
- rounceval — a variety of large pea
- sarcology — the branch of anatomy dealing with the soft or fleshy body parts.
- scalework — an ornamentation technique used to depict scales on fish or other creatures
- scalloper — a person or thing that scallops.
- scalogram — an attitude scale in which a positive answer to an item implies agreement with items appearing lower on the scale.
- scholarch — the head of a school.
- scholarly — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
- sclerosal — Pathology. a hardening or induration of a tissue or part, or an increase of connective tissue or the like at the expense of more active tissue.
- sclerotal — a bony area or plate found in the sclerotic (the eyeball covering) of some animals
- sectorial — of or relating to a sector.
- slavocrat — (in the US before the Civil War) a slaveholder, or an advocate of slavery
- stercoral — stercoraceous
- subocular — below or under the eye
- sucralose — a white, crystalline powder, C 12 H 19 Cl 3 O 8 , produced synthetically from sucrose, about 600 times as sweet as sucrose but having no calories.
- suctorial — adapted for sucking or suction, as an organ; functioning as a sucker for imbibing or adhering.
- tectorial — a rooflike structure.
- tolerance — a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, beliefs, practices, racial or ethnic origins, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.
- torchable — able to be torched or set alight
- toxocaral — of or relating to a toxocara
- tracheole — any of the smallest branches of an insect trachea.
- traycloth — a small cloth or piece of table linen used to cover or fit into a tray used for carrying
- triclosan — a drug used to treat skin infections
- trifocals — glasses with trifocal lenses
- trochlear — Anatomy. of, relating to, or connected with a trochlea.
- truckload — the amount that a truck can carry.
- tubicolar — living in a self-constructed tube
- ultracold — extremely cold
- ultracool — extremely sophisticated or stylish
- uncordial — unfriendly
- uniocular — monocular.
- urceolate — shaped like a pitcher; swelling out like the body of a pitcher and contracted at the orifice, as a corolla.
- varifocal — having a focus that can vary
- vectorial — Mathematics. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, represented by an arrow the direction of which indicates the direction of the quantity and the length of which is proportional to the magnitude. Compare scalar (def 4). such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities obey the parallelogram law of addition. such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities are to transform in a particular way under changes of the coordinate system. any generalization of the above quantities.
- virilocal — Anthropology. living with or located near the husband's father's group; patrilocal.
- vocabular — a vocabulary
- vocal fry — a voice quality characterized by a low pitch and raspy sound and produced by a slow fluttering of the vocal cords: There's too much vocal fry in her speaking voice.
- wall rock — the rock forming the walls of a vein.
- war cloud — something that threatens war; a harbinger of conflict.
- warlockry — witchcraft
- wolframic — tungstic.
- workplace — a person's place of employment.
- world car — an automobile designed to be built with standard parts manufactured in various countries and sold, with few changes, throughout the world.
- zircalloy — an alloy of zirconium containing small amounts of tin, chromium, and nickel. It is used in pressurized-water reactors