9-letter words containing o, r, a, t, i, c
- narcotine — An alkaloid found in opium; noscapine.
- narcotise — Alternative spelling of narcotize.
- narcotism — habitual use of narcotics.
- narcotist — One who is addicted to a narcotic drug.
- narcotize — to subject to or treat with a narcotic; stupefy.
- nonracist — One who is not a racist.
- nontragic — not tragic
- nostratic — designating or of a proposed language superfamily that includes the Indo-European, Afroasiatic, Dravidian, Uralic, and Altaic families
- octonarii — lines with eight feet
- ocularist — a person who makes artificial eyes
- operatics — Exaggerated or overly emotional behaviour; histrionics.
- orgiastic — of, relating to, or having the nature of an orgy.
- ostracise — to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
- ostracism — exclusion, by general consent, from social acceptance, privileges, friendship, etc.
- ostracize — to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
- pantropic — (especially of viruses) attracted to or affecting many types of body tissues.
- paratonic — (of a plant movement) occurring in response to an external stimulus
- parotitic — of or relating to parotitis.
- patriotic — of, like, suitable for, or characteristic of a patriot.
- pictogram — pictograph.
- pictorial — pertaining to, expressed in, or of the nature of a picture.
- piscatory — of or relating to fishermen or fishing: a piscatory treaty.
- placitory — of or relating to pleas made to support a claim or a defence
- preaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- preatomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.
- precoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- privocrat — (esp in neo-conservative thought) a person who is not in favour of relinquishing individual freedoms in order to give the state more powers to combat terrorism
- proaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- proactive — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- procacity — insolence
- prolactin — an anterior pituitary polypeptide hormone that stimulates lactation by the mammary glands at parturition in mammals, the activity of the crop in birds, and in some mammalian species the production of progesterone by the corpus luteum.
- prostatic — Also, prostatic [pro-stat-ik] /prɒˈstæt ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to the prostate gland.
- psoriatic — a common chronic, inflammatory skin disease characterized by scaly patches.
- race riot — a riot resulting from animosity or tensions between racial or ethnic groups.
- race-riot — a riot resulting from animosity or tensions between racial or ethnic groups.
- raciation — the evolutionary development of races
- radiocast — a radiobroadcast.
- recaption — the taking back without violence of one's property or a member of one's family or household unlawfully in the possession or custody of another.
- recaution — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- redaction — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- rhapontic — a type of rhubarb
- rhotacism — Historical Linguistics. a change of a speech sound, especially (s), to (r), as in the change from Old Latin lases to Latin lares.
- rhotacize — to change (a sound) to an (r); subject to rhotacism.
- rocinante — Rosinante.
- ructation — an eructation or belch
- sarcoptic — related to or caused by itch-mites that cause mange in animals
- satyricon — a satirical novel, interspersed with verse, written in the 1st century a.d. by Petronius, extant in fragments.
- sectorial — of or relating to a sector.
- sonicator — a device for treatment with ultrasound
- stratonic — of or relating to an army