9-letter words containing r, o, d
- chardzhou — a city in E Turkmenistan, on the Amu Darya.
- chipboard — Chipboard is a hard material made out of very small pieces of wood which have been pressed together. It is often used for making doors and furniture.
- chiropody — Chiropody is the professional treatment and care of people's feet.
- chlordane — a white insoluble toxic solid existing in several isomeric forms and usually used, as an insecticide, in the form of a brown impure liquid. Formula: C10H6Cl8
- chlorides — Plural form of chloride.
- chondrify — to become or convert into cartilage
- chondrite — a stony meteorite consisting mainly of silicate minerals in the form of chondrules
- chondroid — cartilaginous or similar to cartilage
- chondroma — a benign cartilaginous growth or neoplasm
- chondrule — one of the small spherical masses of mainly silicate minerals present in chondrites
- choppered — Simple past tense and past participle of chopper.
- chordates — belonging or pertaining to the phylum Chordata, comprising the true vertebrates and those animals having a notochord, as the lancelets and tunicates.
- chordless — Lacking chords.
- chordwise — in the direction of an aerofoil chord
- choroidal — relating to the choroid
- chorussed — Simple past tense and past participle of chorus.
- chowkidar — (in India) a watchman or gatekeeper.
- chromatid — either of the two strands into which a chromosome divides during mitosis. They separate to form daughter chromosomes at anaphase
- chromidia — chromatins in cell cytoplasm
- cinderous — a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
- cladogram — a treelike diagram illustrating the development of a clade
- clamoured — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clapboard — A clapboard building has walls which are covered with long narrow pieces of wood, usually painted white.
- clarendon — a style of boldface roman type
- clay road — an unsealed and unmetalled road in a rural area
- 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.
- clobbered — to paint over existing decoration on (a ceramic piece).
- 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.
- co durham — County Durham
- co-driver — one of two drivers who take turns to drive a car, esp in a rally
- co-editor — a person who cooperates or collaborates as editor with another.
- coadjutor — a bishop appointed as assistant to a diocesan bishop
- coarsened — Simple past tense and past participle of coarsen.
- coastward — towards the coast
- coat card — face card.
- coatdress — a coatlike dress having a buttoned front and, usually, lapels and long sleeves
- cocreated — Simple past tense and past participle of cocreate.
- code word — A code word is a word or phrase that has a special meaning, different from its normal meaning, for the people who have agreed to use it in this way.
- codeshare — (aviation) Agreement whereby an airline buys space on another airline and markets the extra space as its own. Often used to increase a route network without the costs of running a full service.
- codewords — Plural form of codeword.
- codifiers — Plural form of codifier.
- 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
- cofounder — a joint founder
- coiffured — Coiffured means the same as coiffed.
- colanders — Plural form of colander.
- 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