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9-letter words containing t, o, c

  • crowsteps — Plural form of crowstep.
  • cryolathe — an instrument for reshaping the cornea to correct severe nearsightedness or farsightedness: the cornea is removed from the eye, rapidly frozen, reshaped, and reinserted.
  • cryometer — a thermometer for measuring low temperatures
  • cryometry — The measurement of very low temperatures.
  • cryophyte — an organism, esp an alga or moss, that grows on snow or ice
  • cryostats — Plural form of cryostat.
  • cryptogam — (in former plant classification schemes) any organism that does not produce seeds, including algae, fungi, mosses, and ferns
  • cryptonym — a code name or secret name
  • cteniform — resembling a comb
  • 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
  • cub scout — a member of a junior branch (for those aged 8–11 years) of the Scout Association
  • cube root — The cube root of a number is another number that makes the first number when it is multiplied by itself twice. For example, the cube root of 8 is 2.
  • culpatory — expressing blame
  • cunctator — (Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus"Cunctator") 275–203 b.c, Roman statesman and general: defeated Hannibal's army by harassment without risking a pitched battle.
  • cup towel — a dishtowel.
  • cupertino — a town in W California.
  • cupolated — having a cupola or cupolas.
  • curbstone — A curbstone is one of the stones that form a curb.
  • curiosity — Curiosity is a desire to know about something.
  • curly top — a disease of plants, especially beets, characterized by puckered or cupped leaves and stunting or distortion, caused by a virus, Ruga verrucosans.
  • curtation — the discrepancy between the curtate distance and the true distance of a planet from the sun
  • curvation — the action of curving or bending
  • cushionet — a small cushion
  • custodial — Custodial means relating to keeping people in prison.
  • custodian — The custodian of an official building, a companies' assets, or something else valuable is the person who is officially in charge of it.
  • custodier — a custodian
  • custodies — Plural form of custody.
  • customary — Customary is used to describe things that people usually do in a particular society or in particular circumstances.
  • customers — A person or organization that buys goods or services from a store or business.
  • customise — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
  • customize — If you customize something, you change its appearance or features to suit your tastes or needs.
  • cut above — to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger.
  • cut along — to hurry off
  • cut loose — to free or become freed from restraint, custody, anchorage, etc
  • cut short — to stop abruptly before the end
  • 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
  • cuticolor — of the color of flesh.
  • cutthroat — a person who cuts throats; murderer
  • cyanotype — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, that produces a blue line on a white background.
  • cybergoth — (uncountable) A subculture combining elements of goth and rave culture, typically involving energetic electronic music and brightly coloured, futuristic clothing.
  • cyclolith — a stone circle
  • cyclonite — a white crystalline insoluble explosive prepared by the action of nitric acid on hexamethylenetetramine; cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine: used in bombs and shells. Formula: C3H6N6O6
  • cyclotome — a type of scalpel for performing a cyclotomy.
  • cyclotomy — Surgery. incision of the ciliary muscle.
  • cyclotron — a type of particle accelerator in which the particles spiral inside two D-shaped hollow metal electrodes placed facing each other under the effect of a strong vertical magnetic field, gaining energy by a high-frequency voltage applied between these electrodes
  • cystiform — resembling a cyst
  • cystocarp — a reproductive body in red algae, developed after fertilization and consisting of filaments bearing carpospores
  • cystocele — a hernia of the urinary bladder, esp one protruding into the vagina
  • cystogram — A diagnostic image produced by cystography.
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