9-letter words containing s, o, n
- costanoan — a family of eight languages, now extinct, spoken by American Indian peoples of coastal California: part of the Penutian stock.
- costings' — cost accounting.
- costuming — a style of dress, including accessories and hairdos, especially that peculiar to a nation, region, group, or historical period.
- cothurnus — the buskin worn in ancient Greek tragedy
- couchings — the act of a person or thing that couches.
- counseled — advice; opinion or instruction given in directing the judgment or conduct of another.
- counselee — a person who is being professionally counseled
- counselor — A counselor is a person whose job is to give advice to people who need it, especially advice on their personal problems.
- countless — Countless means very many.
- countries — a state or nation: What European countries have you visited?
- countship — the rank or position of a count.
- couplings — Plural form of coupling.
- courantes — Plural form of courante.
- courtesan — In former times, a courtesan was a woman who had sexual relationships with rich and powerful men for money.
- cousinage — a kinship or relationship
- covenants — Plural form of covenant.
- coverings — Plural form of covering.
- cowperson — (politically correct, rare) a cowhand of any gender.
- coxswains — Plural form of coxswain.
- cozenages — Plural form of cozenage.
- cramdowns — Plural form of cramdown.
- crayonist — (dated) An artist who uses crayons.
- creations — The action or process of bringing something into existence.
- creodonts — Plural form of creodont.
- crescendo — A crescendo is a noise that gets louder and louder. Some people also use crescendo to refer to the point when a noise is at its loudest.
- cretinous — If you describe someone as cretinous, you think they are very stupid.
- criminous — criminal
- crimsoned — Simple past tense and past participle of crimson.
- crinosity — Hairiness.
- croissant — Croissants are small, sweet bread rolls in the shape of a crescent that are eaten for breakfast.
- crossband — (in furniture) a layer of wood beneath, and with its grain at right angles to, the veneer
- crossings — Plural form of crossing.
- crossline — a line crossing another line or connecting two separated points: The main lines are linked at intervals by crosslines.
- crossness — the quality or state of being cross or angry; irritability; snappishness.
- crosstown — A crosstown bus or route is one that crosses the main roads or transportation lines of a town or city.
- crosswind — A crosswind is a strong wind that blows across the direction that vehicles, boats, or aircraft are travelling in, and that makes it difficult for them to keep moving steadily forward.
- crotonism — poisoning by ingestion of croton oil, characterized by burning of the mouth, severe diarrhea, and colic, with possible death from respiratory or circulatory failure.
- crown saw — a hollow cylinder with cutting teeth forming a rotary saw for trepanning
- crownings — Plural form of crowning.
- crownless — Without a crown.
- crumhorns — Plural form of crumhorn.
- cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.
- ctesiphon — an ancient city on the River Tigris about 100 km (60 miles) above Babylon. First mentioned in 221 bc, it was destroyed in the 7th and 8th centuries ad
- cunjevois — Plural form of cunjevoi.
- curbstone — A curbstone is one of the stones that form a curb.
- cushioned — provided with cushions
- cushionet — a small cushion
- custodian — The custodian of an official building, a companies' assets, or something else valuable is the person who is officially in charge of it.
- cut stone — a stone or stonework dressed to a relatively fine finish with tools other than hammers.
- cutaneous — of, relating to, or affecting the skin