9-letter words containing r, e, a, m
- castoreum — the oil secreted from the beaver which is used as bait by trappers
- cauchemar — a nightmare
- cauterism — the application of burning, searing, or cautery
- cellarman — a person in charge of a cellar where wine or beer is stored
- cellarmen — Plural form of cellarman.
- centigram — one hundredth of a gram
- ceramides — Plural form of ceramide.
- ceramists — Plural form of ceramist.
- cerastium — any of a genus of plants belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae
- ceromancy — divination by interpreting the significance of shapes formed when melted wax is dropped into water
- chambered — having a chamber inside it in which the body of an important person was laid to rest
- chamberer — someone who attends to a bed chamber; chambermaid or chamberlain
- chamberys — a city in and the capital of Savoie, in SE France.
- chamfered — a cut that is made in wood or some other material, usually at a 45° angle to the adjacent principal faces. Compare bevel.
- champerty — (formerly) an illegal bargain between a party to litigation and an outsider whereby the latter agrees to pay for the action and thereby share in any proceeds recovered
- charmante — Silk fabric with a crepe back.
- charmeuse — a lightweight fabric with a satin-like finish
- charmless — If you say that something or someone is charmless, you mean that they are unattractive or uninteresting.
- charwomen — Plural form of charwoman.
- checkmark — a tick
- chemtrail — A contrail consisting of chemicals or biological agents deliberately sprayed at high altitudes, according to certain conspiracy theories.
- cherimoya — a deciduous shrub or small tree, native to the Andean highlands, which produces an oval fruit with cream-coloured flesh
- chermoula — a marinade used in N African cookery
- chimaeras — Plural form of chimaera.
- chimaeric — (of a molecule) having two genetically different components
- chipmaker — a manufacturer of electronic chips.
- chromagen — (biochemistry) Any compound, such as heme, that forms a biological pigment when attached to a protein.
- chromakey — (in colour television) a special effect in which a coloured background can be eliminated and a different background substituted
- chromates — Plural form of chromate.
- cimmerian — very dark; gloomy
- cineramic — relating to a cinematic process producing widescreen images
- clambered — an act or instance of clambering.
- clamberer — A person who clambers.
- clamoured — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clamourer — One who clamours.
- claremont — a town in SW California.
- claremore — a town in NE Oklahoma.
- 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.
- clergyman — A clergyman is a male member of the clergy.
- coalminer — One who mines for coal.
- coenamour — to enamour jointly
- cofferdam — a watertight structure, usually of sheet piling, that encloses an area under water, pumped dry to enable construction work to be carried out. Below a certain depth a caisson is required
- combaters — Plural form of combater.
- commander — A commander is an officer in charge of a military operation or organization.
- compacter — Comparative form of compact.
- compadres — Plural form of compadre.
- compander — a system for improving the signal-to-noise ratio of a signal at a transmitter or recorder by first compressing the volume range of the signal and then restoring it to its original amplitude level at the receiving or reproducing apparatus
- companera — (in the southwestern U.S.) a female companion; friend.
- companero — (in the southwestern U.S.) a male companion or partner.