9-letter words containing r, a, c, e, n
- cranberry — Cranberries are red berries with a sour taste. They are often used to make a sauce or jelly that you eat with meat.
- crane fly — any dipterous fly of the family Tipulidae, having long legs, slender wings, and a narrow body
- craniates — Plural form of craniate.
- crankcase — the metal housing that encloses the crankshaft, connecting rods, etc, in an internal-combustion engine, reciprocating pump, etc
- crankiest — Superlative form of cranky.
- crankness — (of a vessel) the liability to capsize
- cranreuch — a hoarfrost
- crapulent — given to or resulting from intemperance
- crassness — The state of being crass.
- cratering — the process in which many craters are formed on a surface, as on a moon
- cravening — Present participle of craven.
- craziness — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- creations — The action or process of bringing something into existence.
- credenzas — Plural form of credenza.
- cremating — Present participle of cremate.
- cremation — to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite.
- crenation — any of the rounded teeth or the notches between them on a crenate structure
- crenature — a rounded projection, as on the margin of a leaf, etc.
- crenelate — to furnish with battlements or crenels, or with squared notches
- crenulate — having a margin very finely notched with rounded projections, as certain leaves
- crepitant — to make a crackling sound; crackle.
- crewwoman — A female crewmember.
- criminate — to charge with a crime; accuse
- croquante — a crisp cake or pastry
- crotaline — of or relating to rattlesnakes (Crotalinae)
- cumbrance — a burden, obstacle, or hindrance
- curandera — (in Hispanic America) a female healer or shaman
- curandero — a male healer or shaman in Hispanic-America
- curtained — A curtained window, door, or other opening has a curtain hanging across it.
- cyanurate — a salt or ester derived from cyanide
- cybernate — to control (a manufacturing process) with a servomechanism or (of a process) to be controlled by a servomechanism
- cybernaut — a person who is an expert in or uses the internet a lot
- cyberwand — (hardware, virtual reality) A virtual reality controller. The CyberWand costs $99, or $765 with optional Polhemus sensor. It is basically the handle of a flight control system without the base. The controller's four buttons and 2-D hat sensor track six degrees of movement.
- cyrenaica — a region and former province (1951–63) of E Libya: largely desert; settled by the Greeks in about 630 bc; ruled successively by the Egyptians, Romans, Arabs, Turks, and Italians. Area: 855 370 sq km (330 258 sq miles)
- cytherean — of or relating to Cytherea.
- dancegoer — a person who attends dances or dance performances.
- dancewear — clothing, as leotards and tutus, designed for dancing or dance practice.
- daycentre — a building used for daycare or other welfare services
- decameron — a collection of a hundred tales by Boccaccio (published 1353), presented as stories told by a group of Florentines to while away ten days during a plague
- decanters — Plural form of decanter.
- decennary — decade (sense 2)
- decentral — Not central; decentralized.
- declarant — a person who makes a declaration
- declaring — Present participle of declare.
- dicentras — Plural form of dicentra.
- doncaster — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- drawbench — a bench having apparatus for cold-drawing wires, tubes, etc.
- dry-clean — to clean (garments, draperies, rugs, etc.) with a liquid other than water, as benzine or gasoline.
- ear canal — auditory passage
- ear candy — Slang. pleasant, melodic pop music.