9-letter words containing t, r, o, c
- jaculator — a person who hurls or throws
- jobcentre — Alternative spelling of Jobcentre.
- jockstrap — an elasticized belt, a men's undergarment, with a pouch for supporting and protecting the genitals, worn especially while participating in athletics.
- joculator — (obsolete) A jester; a joker.
- judicator — a person who acts as judge or sits in judgment.
- karyocyte — (cytology) Any cell that has a nucleus.
- keratotic — any skin disease characterized by a horny growth, as a wart.
- korat cat — rare blue-grey breed of cat
- krautrock — (music) A genre of German experimental rock music from the 1970s.
- kurchatov — Igor Vasilievich [ee-guh r-vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /ˈi gər vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–60, Soviet nuclear physicist.
- latecomer — a person who arrives late: The latecomers were seated after the overture.
- latrociny — banditry
- law court — court of law.
- lectorate — a lecturer in a college or university.
- lictorian — of or relating to a lictor
- locomotor — Also, locomotory. of, relating to, or affecting locomotion.
- lovecraft — H(oward) P(hillips) 1890–1937, U.S. horror-story writer.
- lyocratic — noting a colloid owing its stability to the affinity of its particles for the liquid in which they are dispersed.
- lyotropic — noting any series of ions, salts, or radicals arranged in descending order relative to the magnitude of their effect on a given solvent.
- macerator — to soften or separate into parts by steeping in a liquid.
- macrocyst — a large cyst or spore case, especially the encysted, resting plasmodium of a slime mold.
- macrocyte — an abnormally large red blood cell.
- macrodont — the condition of having abnormally large teeth.
- macroetch — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
- macrolith — a stone tool about 1 foot (30 cm) long.
- macrotape — (storage) /mak'roh-tayp/ An industry-standard reel of magnetic tape, as opposed to a microtape. See also round tape.
- macrotous — having large ears
- manticore — a legendary monster with a man's head, horns, a lion's body, and the tail of a dragon or, sometimes, a scorpion.
- masoretic — of or relating to the Masorah or the Masoretes.
- mecometer — a caliperlike instrument for measuring the length of newborn infants.
- mercapto- — (in chemical compounds) indicating the presence of an HS- group
- meroistic — (of an ovary) producing yolk and ova
- mestrovic — Ivan [ahy-vuh n Serbo-Croatian. ee-vahn] /ˈaɪ vən Serbo-Croatian. ˈi vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1883–1962, Yugoslav sculptor, in the U.S. after 1946.
- metalcore — (music) A genre of rock music related to punk and heavy metal.
- metarchon — a nontoxic substance, such as a chemical to mask pheromones, that reduces the persistence of a pest
- micro$oft — (abuse, company) Microsoft written with a dollar sign, as though there was any doubt that they are a money-making enterprise. This little witticism was probably created before Microsoft's founder, Bill Gates established the philanthropic Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
- microbots — Plural form of microbot.
- microcity — An unusually small city or citylike environment.
- microcyte — Pathology. an abnormally small red blood cell.
- microdata — (statistics) data concerning individuals in a trial, survey etc.
- microdont — abnormally small teeth.
- microdots — Plural form of microdot.
- microlite — any microscopic crystal.
- microlith — a tiny stone tool, often of geometric shape, made from a bladelet and mounted singly or in series as the working part of a composite tool or weapon, especially during late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic times.
- micromort — a unit of risk equal to a one-in-a-million chance of dying
- micronuts — Plural form of micronut.
- microsite — (Internet) A self-contained page or group of pages meant to supplement a larger website.
- microsoft — Microsoft Corporation
- microstat — a negative of a microphotograph made directly from a negative by a copy camera.
- microtape — (hardware, storage) /mi:'kroh-tayp/ Occasionally used to mean a DECtape, as opposed to a macrotape. Apparently the term "microtape" was actually the official term used within DEC for these tapes until someone coined the word "DECtape", which, of course, sounded sexier to the marketroids. Another version of the story holds that someone discovered a conflict with another company's "microtape" trademark.