7-letter words containing r, i, c
- corelli — Arcangelo (arˈkandʒelo). 1653–1713, Italian violinist and composer of sonatas and concerti grossi
- coremia — the fruiting bodies of certain fungi, consisting of a loosely bound bundle of conidiophores.
- corinne — a feminine name
- corinth — a port in S Greece, in the NE Peloponnese: the modern town is near the site of the ancient city, the largest and richest of the city-states after Athens. Pop (municipality): 36 991 (2001)
- corival — Alternative form of corrival.
- corixid — any heteropterous water bug of the vegetarian family Corixidae, typified by Corixa punctata, common in sluggish waters. The forelegs have become modified and are used in stridulation, as by the water singer (Micronecta poweri)
- corizza — Italian name of Korçë.
- corking — excellent
- corliss — George Henry, 1817–88, U.S. engineer and inventor.
- cormoid — similar to a corm
- cornice — A cornice is a strip of plaster, wood, or stone which goes along the top of a wall or building.
- cornier — pertaining to or affected with corns of the feet.
- cornify — (of soft tissue) to become converted into horn or hard tissue
- cornily — in a corny manner
- corning — Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
- cornish — Cornish means belonging or relating to the English county of Cornwall.
- cornist — a person who plays the horn
- coronis — a symbol placed over a contracted syllable
- corrida — a public program in which a series of bullfights, usually six, are held
- corrido — a Mexican ballad or folksong about struggle against oppression and injustice.
- corries — Plural form of corrie.
- corsair — a pirate
- corsica — an island in the Mediterranean, west of N Italy: forms, with 43 islets, a region of France; mountainous; settled by Greeks in about 560 bc; sold by Genoa to France in 1768. Capital: Ajaccio. Pop: 265 999 (2003 est). Area: 8682 sq km (3367 sq miles)
- corsive — a corrosive drug
- cortile — (in Italy) a roofless internal courtyard
- cortina — the weblike part of certain mushrooms, which hangs from the edge of the pileus and consists of silky fibrils
- corvids — Plural form of corvid.
- corvina — a marine food fish, Menticirrhus undulatus, found in Pacific waters off Mexico and California
- corvine — of, relating to, or resembling a crow
- coterie — A coterie of a particular kind is a small group of people who are close friends or have a common interest, and who do not want other people to join them.
- cottier — (in Ireland) a peasant farming a smallholding under cottier tenure (the holding of not more than half an acre at a rent of not more than five pounds a year)
- couloir — a deep gully on a mountain side, esp in the French Alps
- courier — A courier is a person who is paid to take letters and parcels direct from one place to another.
- cowbird — any of various American orioles of the genera Molothrus, Tangavius, etc, esp M. ater (common or brown-headed cowbird). They have a dark plumage and short bill
- cowgirl — a female cowboy
- cowries — Plural form of cowrie.
- cowrite — to write (something) in collaboration with another writer
- crabbit — bad-tempered
- crackie — a small noisy dog.
- craigie — Sir William A(lexander). 1867–1957, Scottish lexicographer; joint editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (1901–33), and of A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles (1938–44)
- craiova — a city in SW Romania, on the Jiul River. Pop: 285 000 (2005 est)
- cranial — Cranial means relating to your cranium.
- craning — any large wading bird of the family Gruidae, characterized by long legs, bill, and neck and an elevated hind toe.
- cranio- — indicating the cranium or cranial
- cranium — Your cranium is the round part of your skull that contains your brain.
- craping — to cover, clothe, or drape with crepe.
- crappie — either of two North American freshwater percoid food and game fishes, Pomoxis nigromaculatus (black crappie) or P. annularis (white crappie): family Centrarchidae (sunfishes, etc)
- crating — a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
- craving — an intense desire or longing
- crazier — mentally deranged; demented; insane.