9-letter words containing r, c, n
- cautioner — A person who cautions.
- cautionry — the position or function of a surety, a person who protects and takes responsibility for another person
- cavernous — A cavernous room or building is very large inside, and so it reminds you of a cave.
- cavorting — to prance or caper about.
- cd burner — A CD burner is the same as a CD writer.
- cediranib — A potent inhibitor of VEGF receptor tyrosine kinases, under development as a possible anticancer drug.
- ceintures — cincture (defs 1, 2).
- celebrant — A celebrant is a person who performs or takes part in a religious ceremony.
- cellaring — Present participle of cellar.
- cellarman — a person in charge of a cellar where wine or beer is stored
- cellarmen — Plural form of cellarman.
- censorial — an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.
- censorian — relating to the official supervision of public behaviour and morals
- censoring — any person who supervises the manners or morality of others.
- censuring — strong or vehement expression of disapproval: The newspapers were unanimous in their censure of the tax proposal.
- centaurea — any of a genus (Centaurea) of annual and perennial plants of the composite family, having egg-shaped flower heads, including the star thistles and the bachelor's buttons
- centauric — characterized by an integration of mind and body for consciousness above the ego-self
- centaurus — a conspicuous extensive constellation in the S hemisphere, close to the Southern Cross, that contains two first magnitude stars, Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri, and the globular cluster Omega Centauri
- centenary — The centenary of an event such as someone's birth is the 100th anniversary of that event.
- centenier — a senior police officer of the Honorary Police of Jersey, elected for a period of three years by public vote
- centering — a temporary frame to support an arch or vault during construction
- centigram — one hundredth of a gram
- centralia — a city in central Illinois.
- centrally — of or forming the center: the central hut in the village.
- centrical — pertaining to or situated at the center; central.
- centriole — either of two rodlike bodies in most animal cells that form the poles of the spindle during mitosis
- centrists — Plural form of centrist.
- centroids — Plural form of centroid.
- centumvir — one of a body of judges responsible for presiding over civil court cases
- centurial — of or relating to a Roman century
- centuried — existing for an indefinite number of centuries.
- centuries — Plural form of century.
- centurion — A centurion was an officer in the Roman army.
- centurium — A rejected name for fermium.
- cerements — Plural form of cerement.
- ceromancy — divination by interpreting the significance of shapes formed when melted wax is dropped into water
- certainly — You use certainly to emphasize what you are saying when you are making a statement.
- certainty — Certainty is the state of being definite or of having no doubts at all about something.
- certosina — a technique of inlaying light-colored material, as bone, ivory, metal, or pale wood, in elaborate designs on a dark ground.
- cervantes — Miguel de (miˈɣɛl ðe), full surname Cervantes Saavedra. 1547–1616, Spanish dramatist, poet, and prose writer, most famous for Don Quixote (1605), which satirizes the chivalric romances and greatly influenced the development of the novel
- cesareans — Plural form of cesarean.
- cfa franc — a monetary unit used by several countries in West Africa, including Benin, Ivory Coast, Niger, Senegal, Togo, and Burkina Faso.
- chaeronea — an ancient Greek town in W Boeotia: site of the victory of Philip of Macedon over the Athenians and Thebans (338 bc) and of Sulla over Mithridates (86 bc)
- chagrined — If you are chagrined by something, it disappoints, upsets, or annoys you, perhaps because of your own failure.
- chainwork — any work linked or looped in the manner of or resembling a chain or chains
- chamfrons — Plural form of chamfron.
- chanceler — Obsolete form of chancellor.
- chancroid — a soft venereal ulcer, esp of the male genitals, caused by infection with the bacillus Haemophilus ducreyi
- chancrous — (medicine) Of the nature of a chancre; affected by chancre.
- chandlers — Plural form of chandler.