9-letter words containing r, c, o, l
- claviform — clavate
- clay road — an unsealed and unmetalled road in a rural area
- claymores — Plural form of claymore.
- cleanroom — A room or environment that is controlled in such a way as to minimize airborne particulate matter, typically for the purpose of fabricating sensitive electronic or other devices.
- clear off — If you tell someone to clear off, you are telling them rather rudely to go away.
- clear out — If you tell someone to clear out of a place or to clear out, you are telling them rather rudely to leave the place.
- clearcole — a type of size containing whiting
- cleopatra — a yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx cleopatra, the male of which has its wings flushed with orange
- climatory — Having to do with climate.
- clipboard — A clipboard is a board with a clip at the top. It is used to hold together pieces of paper that you need to carry around, and provides a firm base for writing.
- cloakroom — In a public building, the cloakroom is the place where people can leave their coats, umbrellas, and so on.
- clobbered — to paint over existing decoration on (a ceramic piece).
- clobberer — One who, or that which, clobbers.
- clockwork — A clockwork toy or device has machinery inside it which makes it move or operate when it is wound up with a key.
- cloisters — Plural form of cloister.
- cloistral — of, like, or characteristic of a cloister
- close-run — If you describe something such as a race or contest as a close-run thing, you mean that it was only won by a very small amount.
- clothiers — Plural form of clothier.
- clothyard — (historical) An old unit of measure for cloth, 36 or 37 inches.
- clottered — Simple past tense and past participle of clotter.
- cloud ear — tree ear
- cloudware — software that runs and is accessed on remote Internet servers rather than on local servers or personal computers; web-based applications and services.
- clouterly — clumsy
- club root — a disease of plants of the cabbage family, caused by a slime mold (Plasmodiophora brassicae) and characterized by swellings of the roots
- clubrooms — Plural form of clubroom.
- co-relate — to correlate.
- coal fire — a mass of burning coal used esp in a hearth to heat a room
- coalescer — A coalescer is a vessel or stage which causes small drops of a liquid to come together and form a stream or form elements with a larger volume.
- coalminer — One who mines for coal.
- cockerell — Sir Christopher Sydney. 1910–99, British engineer, who invented the hovercraft
- cockerels — Plural form of cockerel.
- cocklebur — any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium, having spiny burs: family Asteraceae (composites)
- coculture — to culture together
- coercible — to compel by force, intimidation, or authority, especially without regard for individual desire or volition: They coerced him into signing the document.
- coercibly — in a coercible way
- coeternal — existing together eternally
- cokuloris — a palette with irregular holes, placed between lighting and camera to prevent glare
- colaborer — One who labors with another; an associate in labor.
- colanders — Plural form of colander.
- colcothar — a finely powdered form of ferric oxide produced by heating ferric sulphate and used as a pigment and as jewellers' rouge
- cold brew — the process of steeping coffee grounds or tea leaves in room-temperature or cold water for many hours, producing a concentrate to which more water may be added.
- cold room — a room that is used to chill or freeze foodstuffs
- cold sore — Cold sores are small sore spots that sometimes appear on or near someone's lips and nose when they have a cold.
- cold work — the craft of shaping metal without heat
- cold-brew — (of a drink such as tea or coffee) prepared by steeping in cold water
- cold-draw — to draw (wire, tubing, etc.) without preheating the metal.
- cold-roll — to roll (metal) at a temperature below that at which recrystallization occurs.
- cold-work — to work (metal) at a temperature below that at which recrystallization occurs.
- coldwater — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- coleopter — an aircraft that has an annular wing with the fuselage and engine on the centre line