9-letter words containing t, r, a
- 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.
- choreatic — any of several diseases of the nervous system characterized by jerky, involuntary movements, chiefly of the face and extremities.
- christian — A Christian is someone who follows the teachings of Jesus Christ.
- christina — 1626–89, queen of Sweden (1632–54), daughter of Gustavus Adolphus, noted particularly for her patronage of literature
- christmas — Christmas is a Christian festival when the birth of Jesus Christ is celebrated. Christmas is celebrated on the 25th of December.
- 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
- cicatrice — Physiology. new tissue that forms over a wound and later contracts into a scar.
- cicatrise — (transitive) To heal a wound through scarring (by causing a scar or cicatrix to form).
- cicatrize — (of a wound or defect in tissue) to close or be closed by scar formation; heal
- cigarette — Cigarettes are small tubes of paper containing tobacco which people smoke.
- ciguatera — food poisoning caused by a ciguatoxin in seafood
- cinerator — an incinerator.
- circinate — (of part of a plant, such as a young fern) coiled so that the tip is at the centre
- circuital — an act or instance of going or moving around.
- circulant — (mathematics) A circulant matrix.
- circulate — If a piece of writing circulates or is circulated, copies of it are passed round among a group of people.
- cisternae — Plural form of cisterna.
- cithaeron — a mountain range in SE Greece: sacred to Dionysus, in Greek mythology. to 4623 feet (1409 meters).
- citharist — a player of the cithara
- citigrade — relating to (fast-moving) wolf spiders
- claremont — a town in SW California.
- claretian — a member of the “Congregation of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary,” founded in Spain in 1849, and devoted chiefly to missionary work.
- clarinets — Plural form of clarinet.
- clarities — clearness or lucidity as to perception or understanding; freedom from indistinctness or ambiguity.
- claritude — (obsolete) clarity; splendour.
- clarthead — a slow-witted or stupid person
- clathrate — resembling a net or lattice
- clattered — to make a loud, rattling sound, as that produced by hard objects striking rapidly one against the other: The shutters clattered in the wind.
- clatterer — One who clatters.
- claustral — of or related to a cloister
- claustrum — a thin layer of grey matter in the brain
- clear out — If you tell someone to clear out of a place or to clear out, you are telling them rather rudely to leave the place.
- clear-cut — Something that is clear-cut is easy to recognize and quite distinct.
- cleartext — (cryptography) The unencrypted form of an encrypted text; plain text.
- cleithral — (of Greek temples) covered with a roof
- cleopatra — a yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx cleopatra, the male of which has its wings flushed with orange
- clericate — a clerical post
- climatory — Having to do with climate.
- clitellar — relating to the clitellum of earthworms
- cloistral — of, like, or characteristic of a cloister
- clothyard — (historical) An old unit of measure for cloth, 36 or 37 inches.
- co-author — The co-authors of a book, play, or report are the people who have written it together.
- co-parent — a divorced or separated parent who shares equally with the other parent in the custody and care of a child.
- co-relate — to correlate.
- coadjutor — a bishop appointed as assistant to a diocesan bishop