9-letter words containing r, c, n
- cupferron — a salt ammonium compound (N-nitrosophenylhydroxylamine) used as a reagent in metal ion complexation
- curandera — (in Hispanic America) a female healer or shaman
- curandero — a male healer or shaman in Hispanic-America
- curbstone — A curbstone is one of the stones that form a curb.
- curetting — to scrape with a curette.
- curliness — The state of being curly.
- currajong — kurrajong
- currawong — any Australian crowlike songbird of the genus Strepera, having black, grey, and white plumage: family Cracticidae
- currently — at the presenttime; now: She is currently working as a lab technician.
- currijong — kurrajong.
- curtained — A curtained window, door, or other opening has a curtain hanging across it.
- curtation — the discrepancy between the curtate distance and the true distance of a planet from the sun
- curtsying — Present participle of curtsey.
- curvation — the action of curving or bending
- curveting — Present participle of curvet.
- curviness — The state or condition of being curvy.
- 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
- cyberporn — any pornography accessible online or on the internet
- cyberpunk — Cyberpunk is a type of science fiction.
- 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.
- cyberzine — (computing) A magazine published on the Internet.
- cybrarian — a person responsible for archives and information available on the internet
- cyclotron — a type of particle accelerator in which the particles spiral inside two D-shaped hollow metal electrodes placed facing each other under the effect of a strong vertical magnetic field, gaining energy by a high-frequency voltage applied between these electrodes
- cylinders — Plural form of cylinder.
- cylindric — Of or relating to cylinders; shaped like a cylinder.
- cynosures — Plural form of cynosure.
- cyprinoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Cyprinoidea, a large suborder of teleost fishes including the cyprinids, characins, electric eels, and loaches
- 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.
- deceleron — (on a fixed-wing aircraft) a type of aileron that enables the aircraft to have a degree of control when it goes into a roll
- decennary — decade (sense 2)
- decenters — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decenter.
- decentral — Not central; decentralized.
- decentred — to put out of center.
- decerning — Present participle of decern.
- dechunker — chunker
- declarant — a person who makes a declaration
- declaring — Present participle of declare.
- decliners — Plural form of decliner.
- decontrol — When governments decontrol an activity, they remove controls from it so that companies or organizations have more freedom.
- deconvert — An apostate.
- decreeing — Present participle of decree.
- decrement — the act of decreasing; diminution