9-letter words containing s, c, o, n
- certosina — a technique of inlaying light-colored material, as bone, ivory, metal, or pale wood, in elaborate designs on a dark ground.
- cessation — The cessation of something is the stopping of it.
- ceylonese — of or relating to Ceylon or its inhabitants
- chaconnes — Plural form of chaconne.
- chamfrons — Plural form of chamfron.
- champions — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of champion.
- chancrous — (medicine) Of the nature of a chancre; affected by chancre.
- chaperons — Plural form of chaperon.
- charangos — Plural form of charango.
- cheongsam — a straight dress, usually of silk or cotton, with a stand-up collar and a slit in one side of the skirt, worn by Chinese women
- chi meson — a meson with a mass 6687 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.5 X 10 -20 seconds.
- chitinous — a nitrogen-containing polysaccharide, related chemically to cellulose, that forms a semitransparent horny substance and is a principal constituent of the exoskeleton, or outer covering, of insects, crustaceans, and arachnids.
- chomskyan — of or relating to Noam Chomsky or his linguistic theories, especially to transformational-generative grammar.
- chorusing — Present participle of chorus.
- cinchonas — Plural form of cinchona.
- cinderous — a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
- cinereous — of a greyish colour
- cinnamons — Plural form of cinnamon.
- cis woman — an adult who was born female and whose gender identity is female.
- cistronic — cistron-related
- citations — Plural form of citation.
- clangours — Plural form of clangour.
- claystone — a compact very fine-grained rock consisting of consolidated clay particles
- clinoaxis — in a monoclinic crystal, the lateral axis which forms an oblique angle with the vertical axis
- clinostat — an apparatus for studying tropisms in plants, usually a rotating disc to which the plant is attached so that it receives an equal stimulus on all sides
- cloisonne — a design made by filling in with coloured enamel an outline of flattened wire put on edge
- close-run — If you describe something such as a race or contest as a close-run thing, you mean that it was only won by a very small amount.
- closedown — a termination or suspension of operations; shutdown: a temporary closedown of a factory.
- closeness — to put (something) in a position to obstruct an entrance, opening, etc.; shut.
- closeting — Present participle of closet.
- clothings — Plural form of clothing.
- clownfish — any of several brightly coloured striped fish of the subfamily Amphiprioninae of the Pacific and Indian Oceans
- cnidocils — Plural form of cnidocil.
- cnidocyst — a nematocyst.
- coalmines — Plural form of coalmine.
- coarsened — Simple past tense and past participle of coarsen.
- coastland — the land fringing a coast
- coastline — A country's coastline is the outline of its coast.
- coatstand — a frame or pole equipped with hooks or arms for hanging up coats, etc
- cocainise — Alt form cocainize.
- cocainism — addiction to cocaine
- cocainist — a cocaine addict
- cockiness — conceited self-assurance
- cockswain — coxswain
- cocoanuts — Plural form of cocoanut.
- cocounsel — to counsel jointly
- codenames — Plural form of codename.
- coenesque — reminiscent of the work US film-makers Joel and Ethan Coen (born 1954 and 1957 respectively), featuring bizarre and involved plots, use of irony and black humour, and allusions to film classics
- coenosarc — a system of protoplasmic branches connecting the polyps of colonial organisms such as corals
- coenzymes — Plural form of coenzyme.