9-letter words containing r, c, n
- greenback — a U.S. legal-tender note, printed in green on the back since the Civil War, originally issued against the credit of the country and not against gold or silver on deposit.
- greenwich — a borough in SE London, England: located on the prime meridian from which geographic longitude is measured; formerly the site of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
- grievance — a wrong considered as grounds for complaint, or something believed to cause distress: Inequitable taxation is the chief grievance.
- grimacing — a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
- grocerant — A grocery store that sells prepared meals, either for eating on site or taking home.
- grouching — Present participle of grouch.
- gun crime — offences involving firearms
- gynarchic — relating to gynarchy or rule by women
- gynocracy — gynarchy.
- gyrfalcon — a large falcon, Falco rusticolus, of arctic and subarctic regions, having white, gray, or blackish color phases: now greatly reduced in number.
- gyromancy — a method of prediction or prophecy in which a person moves round and round in a circle and the place at which they fall to the ground is said to be highly significant
- hachuring — Present participle of hachure.
- handcarry — to carry or deliver by hand, as for security reasons: The ambassador hand-carried a message from the president.
- handcarts — Plural form of handcart.
- handcraft — handicraft.
- hard neck — audacity; nerve
- harmonica — Also called mouth organ. a musical wind instrument consisting of a small rectangular case containing a set of metal reeds connected to a row of holes, over which the player places the mouth and exhales and inhales to produce the tones.
- harmonics — Music. overtone (def 1).
- hectoring — Classical Mythology. the eldest son of Priam and husband of Andromache: the greatest Trojan hero in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles.
- hendricks — a male given name, form of Henry.
- henrician — of or having to do with the reign, policies, etc. of any king named Henry, esp. Henry VIII of England
- herceptin — a monoclonal antibody that inhibits the protein that can fuel tumour growth, used in the treatment of breast cancer
- herculean — requiring the great strength of a Hercules; very hard to perform: Digging the tunnel was a herculean task.
- hercynian — denoting a period of mountain building in Europe in the late Palaeozoic
- hercynite — a black oxide mineral, FeAl 2 O 4 , of the spinel group.
- heritance — inheritance.
- hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
- hircinous — (rare) Of, or pertaining to goats; hircine.
- holandric — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic).
- holocrine — (of a gland) releasing a secretion that is a product of disintegrating cells.
- honorific — Also, honorifical. doing or conferring honor.
- hornwrack — a yellowish bryozoan or sea mat sometimes found on beaches after a storm
- huascaran — a mountain in W Peru, in the Andes. 22,205 feet (6768 meters).
- hurricane — a violent, tropical, cyclonic storm of the western North Atlantic, having wind speeds of or in excess of 72 miles per hour (32 m/sec). Compare tropical cyclone, typhoon.
- hurricano — (obsolete) A waterspout; a hurricane.
- hypericin — an antidepressant and antiviral compound derived from Saint John's wort
- hyrcanian — an ancient province of the Persian empire, SE of the Caspian Sea.
- ice apron — a structure built in a river upstream from a bridge pier or the like for protection against drifting ice.
- ice front — the forward section or seaward edge of an ice shelf.
- icelander — a large island in the N Atlantic between Greenland and Scandinavia. 39,698 sq. mi. (102,820 sq. km).
- ignorance — the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information, etc.
- in accord — agreeing
- in camera — a judge's private office.
- in charge — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- in chorus — Music. a group of persons singing in unison. (in an opera, oratorio, etc.) such a group singing choral parts in connection with soloists or individual singers. a piece of music for singing in unison. a part of a song that recurs at intervals, usually following each verse; refrain.
- in clover — any of various plants of the genus Trifolium, of the legume family, having trifoliolate leaves and dense flower heads, many species of which, as T. pratense, are cultivated as forage plants.
- in colour — If a film or television programme is in colour, it has been made so that you see the picture in all its colours, and not just in black, white, or grey.
- in escrow — a contract, deed, bond, or other written agreement deposited with a third person, by whom it is to be delivered to the grantee or promisee on the fulfillment of some condition.
- in secret — done, made, or conducted without the knowledge of others: secret negotiations.
- inarching — to graft by uniting a growing branch to a stock without separating the branch from its parent stock.