9-letter words containing r, c, n
- longicorn — having long antennae.
- lubricant — a substance, as oil or grease, for lessening friction, especially in the working parts of a mechanism.
- luciferin — a pigment occurring in luminescent organisms, as fireflies, that emits light when undergoing oxidation.
- lunchroom — a room, as in a school, where light meals or snacks can be bought or where food brought from home may be eaten.
- lynchburg — a city in central Virginia.
- macaronic — composed of or characterized by Latin words mixed with vernacular words or non-Latin words given Latin endings.
- macaroons — Plural form of macaroon.
- macbinary — (file format) An eight-bit wide representation of the data and resource forks of an Macintosh file and of relevant Finder information. MacBinary files are recognised as "special" by several MacIntosh terminal emulators. These emulators, using Kermit or XMODEM or any other file transfer protocol, can separate the incoming file into forks and appropriately modify the Desktop to display icons, types, creation dates, and the like.
- maccaroni — macaroni.
- machinery — an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
- mackinder — Sir Halford John. 1861–1947, British geographer noted esp for his work in political geography. His writings include Democratic Ideas and Reality (1919)
- maclaurin — Colin, 1698–1746, Scottish mathematician.
- macrobian — Having an exceptionally long life span.
- macrodont — the condition of having abnormally large teeth.
- mainbrace — a brace leading to a main yard.
- man crush — an intense but non-sexual admiration felt by one man for another
- manchuria — a historic region in NE China: ancestral home of the Manchu. About 413,000 sq. mi. (1,070,000 sq. km).
- manicured — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- manicures — Plural form of manicure.
- manticore — a legendary monster with a man's head, horns, a lion's body, and the tail of a dragon or, sometimes, a scorpion.
- manurance — the cultivation or occupation of land
- maracanda — ancient name of Samarkand.
- marchland — borderland.
- marchpane — marzipan.
- mascarons — grotesque face used as decoration
- mccartney — (Sir) (James) Paul, born 1942, English singer, songwriter, and bass guitarist for the Beatles.
- mcpartlin — Antony. born 1975, British television presenter, who appears with Declan Donnelly as Ant and Dec
- mcpherson — Aimee Semple [sem-puh l] /ˈsɛm pəl/ (Show IPA), 1890–1944, U.S. evangelist, born in Canada.
- mediciner — a physician
- melanuric — relating to melanuria
- mepacrine — The drug quinacrine.
- mercaptan — any of a class of sulfur-containing compounds having the type formula RSH, in which R represents a radical, and having an extremely offensive, garlicky odor.
- mercenary — working or acting merely for money or other reward; venal.
- merchants — a person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader.
- meroclone — (biology) A colony-forming stem cell that has a lower growth potential than a holoclone because it is a mixture of stem cells and differentiated cells.
- merocrine — (of the secretion of glands) characterized by formation of the product without undergoing disintegration
- meronymic — Relating to a meronym or meronyms.
- mesocrany — the state of having a medium breadth of skull
- metarchon — a nontoxic substance, such as a chemical to mask pheromones, that reduces the persistence of a pest
- metrician — a metrist.
- microbian — (biology) Of, relating to, or caused by, microbes; microbial.
- microdont — abnormally small teeth.
- microinch — a unit of length equal to one millionth of an inch. Symbol: μin.
- microloan — a very small, short-term loan at low interest, especially to a start-up company or self-employed person.
- micromini — microminiature.
- micronise — (British) To reduce in size often to micrometer scale.
- micronism — A theoretical microorganism living in the ice or under the surface of Jupiter's ice moon Europa.
- micronize — Break (a substance) into very fine particles.
- micronuts — Plural form of micronut.
- microthin — extremely or, sometimes, microscopically thin: a microthin layer of aluminum.