9-letter words containing r, o, m
- checkroom — a place at a railway station, airport, etc, where luggage may be left for a small charge with an attendant for safekeeping
- cheliform — shaped like a chela; pincer-like
- chemisorb — to take up (a substance) by chemisorption
- 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
- chernozem — a black soil, rich in humus and carbonates, in cool or temperate semiarid regions, as the grasslands of Russia
- chirimoya — cherimoya.
- chironomy — the craft or artistry of moving the hands by following a standard or formula in relation to theatrical, oratory, or musical performance
- chondroma — a benign cartilaginous growth or neoplasm
- chop mark — a notch or other mark made in a coin to indicate verification of its authenticity, especially by a banker or merchant in the Far East during the 18th or 19th centuries.
- choriambs — Plural form of choriamb.
- 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.
- chromatic — In music, chromatic means related to the scale that consists only of semitones.
- chromatid — either of the two strands into which a chromosome divides during mitosis. They separate to form daughter chromosomes at anaphase
- chromatin — the part of the nucleus that consists of DNA and proteins, forms the chromosomes, and stains with basic dyes
- chromato- — indicating colour or coloured
- chromidia — chromatins in cell cytoplasm
- chromogen — a compound that forms coloured compounds on oxidation
- chrononym — (semiotics) A term for a specific period of time, such as
- cirriform — cirrus-like
- city room — the room in which local news is handled for a newspaper, a radio or television station, or for another journalistic agency.
- cladogram — a treelike diagram illustrating the development of a clade
- clamoring — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clamorous — If you describe people or their voices as clamorous, you mean they are talking loudly or shouting.
- 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.
- classroom — A classroom is a room in a school where lessons take place.
- claviform — clavate
- 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.
- climatory — Having to do with climate.
- cloakroom — In a public building, the cloakroom is the place where people can leave their coats, umbrellas, and so on.
- clubrooms — Plural form of clubroom.
- co durham — County Durham
- co-member — a fellow member of a particular group or organization
- coalminer — One who mines for coal.
- cobriform — cobra-like
- 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
- cold room — a room that is used to chill or freeze foodstuffs
- coliforms — Plural form of coliform.
- collyrium — any medicated preparation for the eyes; eyewash
- colombard — a white grape grown in France, California, and Australia, used for making wine
- colostrum — the thin milky secretion from the nipples that precedes and follows true lactation. It consists largely of serum and white blood cells
- colourism — discrimination in which people are judged on the basis of their skin colour
- colourman — a person who deals in paints