9-letter words containing o, r, i, s
- cirrhosis — Cirrhosis or cirrhosis of the liver is a disease which destroys a person's liver and which can kill them. It is often caused by drinking too much alcohol.
- cistronic — cistron-related
- cloisters — Plural form of cloister.
- cloistral — of, like, or characteristic of a cloister
- clothiers — Plural form of clothier.
- codifiers — Plural form of codifier.
- coercions — Plural form of coercion.
- coheiress — a female coheir
- coiffures — Plural form of coiffure.
- 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.
- cokuloris — a palette with irregular holes, placed between lighting and camera to prevent glare
- coliforms — Plural form of coliform.
- colliders — Plural form of collider.
- coloniser — (British) alternative spelling of colonizer.
- colorings — Plural form of coloring.
- colorists — Plural form of colorist.
- colorizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of colorize.
- colostric — of or relating to the colostrum
- colourise — (UK) Alternative form of colorize (to add colour to).
- colourism — discrimination in which people are judged on the basis of their skin colour
- colourist — A colourist is someone such as an artist or a fashion designer who uses colours in an interesting and original way.
- commissar — an official of the Communist Party responsible for political education, esp in a military unit
- compilers — Plural form of compiler.
- compliers — a person, group, etc., that complies.
- comprisal — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- comprised — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- comprises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of comprise.
- compromis — a formal document, executed in common by nations submitting a dispute to arbitration, that defines the matter at issue, the rules of procedure and the powers of the arbitral tribunal, and the principles for determining the award.
- confiseur — a confectioner
- congeries — a collection of objects or ideas; mass; heap
- connivers — to cooperate secretly; conspire (often followed by with): They connived to take over the business.
- conscribe — to conscript
- conscript — A conscript is a person who has been made to join the armed forces of a country.
- considers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of consider.
- consigner — a person or company that consigns goods, merchandise, etc.
- consignor — a person, enterprise, etc, that consigns goods
- consortia — a combination of financial institutions, capitalists, etc., for carrying into effect some financial operation requiring large resources of capital.
- conspired — Make secret plans jointly to commit an unlawful or harmful act.
- conspirer — to agree together, especially secretly, to do something wrong, evil, or illegal: They conspired to kill the king.
- conspires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conspire.
- constrain — To constrain someone or something means to limit their development or force them to behave in a particular way.
- constrict — If a part of your body, especially your throat, is constricted or if it constricts, something causes it to become narrower.
- contrails — Plural form of contrail.
- contrives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contrive.
- cookeries — Plural form of cookery.
- copperish — resembling copper
- corbusier — (Charles Édouard Jeanneret) 1887–1965, Swiss architect in France.
- coreopsis — any plant of the genus Coreopsis, of America and tropical Africa, cultivated for their yellow, brown, or yellow-and-red daisy-like flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
- corkiness — the state of being corky