9-letter words containing o, r, c, a, s
- coverages — Plural form of coverage.
- coveralls — Coveralls are a single piece of clothing that combines pants and a jacket. You wear coveralls over your clothes in order to protect them while you are working.
- cow shark — any large primitive shark, esp Hexanchus griseum, of the family Hexanchidae of warm and temperate waters
- cowardise — Obsolete spelling of cowardice.
- cparaops5 — (language) A parallel version of OPS5 written at CMU, in C and compiling to C. CParaOps5 is available for Unix, Mach, Encore Multimaxen, and Sequent.
- crackpots — Plural form of crackpot.
- cramdowns — Plural form of cramdown.
- crapshoot — If you describe something as a crapshoot, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
- crapulous — characterized by intemperance, esp. in drinking; debauched
- crash out — If someone crashes out somewhere, they fall asleep where they are because they are very tired or drunk.
- crash-hot — extremely impressive
- craterous — of, relating to, or resembling a crater
- crayonist — (dated) An artist who uses crayons.
- creations — The action or process of bringing something into existence.
- cristobal — seaport in Panama, at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal: part of the city of Colón
- crocosmia — any plant of the cormous S. African genus Crocosmia, including the plant known to gardeners as montbretia: family Iridaceae
- croissant — Croissants are small, sweet bread rolls in the shape of a crescent that are eaten for breakfast.
- cross sea — a sea with a choppy surface produced by the intersection of waves from different storms.
- crossable — able to be crossed
- crossband — (in furniture) a layer of wood beneath, and with its grain at right angles to, the veneer
- crossbars — Plural form of crossbar.
- crossbeam — A crossbeam is a long, thick bar of wood, metal, or concrete that is placed between two walls or other structures, especially in order to support the roof of a building.
- crossfall — the camber of a road
- crosshair — either of the two fine mutually perpendicular lines or wires that cross in the focal plane of a theodolite, gunsight, or other optical instrument and are used to define the line of sight
- crosshead — a subsection or paragraph heading printed within the body of the text
- crossjack — a square sail on a ship's mizzenmast
- crossrail — a horizontal slat forming part of the back of a chair.
- crossroad — a road that crosses another road
- crosstabs — Simple language for statistical analysis of tabular data. "User's Manual for the CROSSTABS System", Cambridge Computer Assoc (Feb 1977).
- crosstalk — unwanted signals in one channel of a communications system as a result of a transfer of energy from one or more other channels
- crosswalk — A crosswalk is a place where pedestrians can cross a street and where drivers must stop to let them cross.
- crossways — crosswise.
- crotalism — a type of poisoning caused by ingestion of plants of the genus Crotalaria
- croustade — a hollowed pastry case or piece of cooked bread, potato, etc, in which food is served
- crown saw — a hollow cylinder with cutting teeth forming a rotary saw for trepanning
- crusadoes — Plural form of crusado.
- cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.
- cryostats — Plural form of cryostat.
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- curassows — Plural form of curassow.
- cursorial — adapted for running
- customary — Customary is used to describe things that people usually do in a particular society or in particular circumstances.
- cystocarp — a reproductive body in red algae, developed after fertilization and consisting of filaments bearing carpospores
- cystogram — A diagnostic image produced by cystography.
- cytosmear — (cytology) A sample of cells, in the form of a smear on a microscope slide, that has been stained ready for diagnostic examination.
- decorates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decorate.
- democrats — Plural form of democrat.
- diasporic — of or relating to a (or the) Diaspora
- dictators — Plural form of dictator.
- disaccord — to be out of accord; disagree.