9-letter words containing s, c, o
- chop suey — Chop suey is a Chinese-style dish that consists of meat and vegetables that have been stewed together.
- chophouse — a restaurant specializing in steaks, grills, chops, etc
- chopsocky — a genre of martial arts film containing superfluous violence
- chopsteak — chopped steak.
- chopstick — Chopsticks are a pair of thin sticks which people in China and the Far East use to eat their food.
- choralist — a person who sings in a chorus or ensemble
- 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
- choriambs — Plural form of choriamb.
- chorister — A chorister is a singer in a church choir.
- chorusing — Present participle of chorus.
- chorussed — Simple past tense and past participle of chorus.
- christoff — Boris. 1919–93, Bulgarian bass-baritone, noted esp for his performance in the title role of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov
- chromates — Plural form of chromate.
- chudskoye — Lakelake on the Estonian-Russian border: with its S extension, Lake Pskov, c. 1,400 sq mi (3,626 sq km)
- churrasco — meat cooked over an open fire.
- cilicious — made of hair
- cimbaloms — Plural form of cimbalom.
- 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.
- cirrhosis — Cirrhosis or cirrhosis of the liver is a disease which destroys a person's liver and which can kill them. It is often caused by drinking too much alcohol.
- cis woman — an adult who was born female and whose gender identity is female.
- cistronic — cistron-related
- citations — Plural form of citation.
- clafoutis — a French baked pudding
- clamorous — If you describe people or their voices as clamorous, you mean they are talking loudly or shouting.
- clangours — Plural form of clangour.
- classbook — a book kept by a teacher recording student attendance, grades, etc.
- classroom — A classroom is a room in a school where lessons take place.
- classwork — school assignments done in the classroom
- claymores — Plural form of claymore.
- claystone — a compact very fine-grained rock consisting of consolidated clay particles
- cleobulus — flourished 560 b.c, Greek sage and lyric poet, a native and tyrant of Lindus, Rhodes.
- 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
- cloacitis — inflammation of the cloaca in birds, including domestic fowl, and other animals with a common opening of the urinary and gastrointestinal tracts
- clockwise — When something is moving clockwise, it is moving in a circle in the same direction as the hands on a clock.
- cloisonne — a design made by filling in with coloured enamel an outline of flattened wire put on edge
- cloisters — Plural form of cloister.
- cloistral — of, like, or characteristic of a cloister
- close off — To close something off means to separate it from other things or people so that they cannot go there.
- close out — to terminate (a client's or other account) on which the margin is inadequate or exhausted, usually by sale of securities to realize cash
- 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.
- close-set — (esp of the eyes) positioned close together
- closeable — able to be closed
- closedown — a termination or suspension of operations; shutdown: a temporary closedown of a factory.
- closehead — the entrance to a tenement close