9-letter words containing r, e, t, i, c
- cigarette — Cigarettes are small tubes of paper containing tobacco which people smoke.
- ciguatera — food poisoning caused by a ciguatoxin in seafood
- cinctured — Simple past tense and past participle of cincture.
- cinctures — Plural form of cincture.
- cinerator — an incinerator.
- circinate — (of part of a plant, such as a young fern) coiled so that the tip is at the centre
- circuited — Simple past tense and past participle of circuit.
- circuiter — a person who travels a circuit.
- circulate — If a piece of writing circulates or is circulated, copies of it are passed round among a group of people.
- cisternae — Plural form of cisterna.
- cithaeron — a mountain range in SE Greece: sacred to Dionysus, in Greek mythology. to 4623 feet (1409 meters).
- citigrade — relating to (fast-moving) wolf spiders
- citizenry — The people living in a country, state, or city can be referred to as the citizenry.
- city-bred — reared in a city.
- claretian — a member of the “Congregation of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary,” founded in Spain in 1849, and devoted chiefly to missionary work.
- clarinets — Plural form of clarinet.
- clarities — clearness or lucidity as to perception or understanding; freedom from indistinctness or ambiguity.
- claritude — (obsolete) clarity; splendour.
- cleithral — (of Greek temples) covered with a roof
- clericate — a clerical post
- clericity — the condition of being a clergyman
- clitellar — relating to the clitellum of earthworms
- cloisters — Plural form of cloister.
- clothiers — Plural form of clothier.
- co-editor — a person who cooperates or collaborates as editor with another.
- co-writer — to coauthor.
- cohabiter — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- coheritor — a coheir
- coinherit — To inherit together with other or others; to be one of the inheritors.
- cointreau — a colourless liqueur with orange flavouring
- comfiture — (obsolete) A confection, especially of preserved fruit.
- comintern — short for Communist International: an international Communist organization founded by Lenin in Moscow in 1919 and dissolved in 1943; it degenerated under Stalin into an instrument of Soviet politics
- committer — A person who commits a crime; perpetrator.
- compotier — a dish for holding compote
- confiteor — a prayer consisting of a general confession of sinfulness and an entreaty for forgiveness
- confiture — a confection, preserve of fruit, etc
- container — A container is something such as a box or bottle that is used to hold or store things in.
- continuer — One who, or that which, continues.
- contrived — If you say that something someone says or does is contrived, you think it is false and deliberate, rather than natural and not planned.
- contriver — to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author contrived a clever plot.
- contrives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contrive.
- cooperite — a mineral, sulfide and arsenide of platinum, occurring in igneous rocks in the form of steel-gray crystals.
- coprolite — any of various rounded stony nodules thought to be the fossilized faeces of Palaeozic-Cenozoic vertebrates
- copywrite — (rare) To write the copy (or text) of an advertisement; to have a job as a copywriter.
- corallite — the skeleton of a coral polyp
- core city — central city.
- corneitis — an inflammation of the cornea
- cornetist — a person who plays the cornet
- coroutine — (programming) A piece of code that performs a task, and that can be passed new input and return output more than once.
- corrigent — (in a medicine) an ingredient that negates a side effect of another ingredient