9-letter words containing t, r, o, c
- cantorial — of or relating to a precentor
- capacitor — A capacitor is a device for accumulating electric charge.
- caporetto — Italian village (now in Slovenia): scene of a battle of WWI in which the Italian army was defeated by Austro-German forces (1917)
- captopril — an ACE inhibitor used to treat high blood pressure and congestive heart failure
- carbonate — Carbonate is used in the names of some substances that are formed from carbonic acid, which is a compound of carbon dioxide and water.
- carbonite — An explosive manufactured from a variety of materials, including nitroglycerine, wood meal and nitrates.
- card vote — a vote by delegates, esp at a trade-union conference, in which each delegate's vote counts as a vote by all his or her constituents
- cardstock — paper stock stiff enough for the printing of business cards and similar uses.
- carefront — To caringly confront an individual; To approach someone in love and respect and correct them in an honoring manner.
- cariosity — (medicine) caries.
- carnation — A carnation is a plant with white, pink, or red flowers.
- carnosity — an abnormal fleshy protrusion growing on any part of the body
- carnotite — a radioactive yellow mineral consisting of hydrated uranium potassium vanadate: occurs in sedimentary rocks and is a source of uranium, radium, and vanadium. Formula: K2(UO2)2(VO4)2.3H2O
- carotenes — Plural form of carotene.
- carothers — Wallace Hume1896-1937; U.S. chemist
- carromata — (in the Philippines) a light, two-wheeled covered vehicle, usually drawn by one horse.
- carry out — If you carry out a threat, task, or instruction, you do it or act according to it.
- carry-cot — carrier (sense 5)
- carry-out — food: take-away
- carrycots — Plural form of carrycot.
- carthorse — A carthorse is a large, powerful horse that is used to pull carts or farm machinery.
- cartloads — Plural form of cartload.
- cartogram — a map showing statistical information in diagrammatic form
- cartology — the theory or science of mapmaking
- cartonage — the material from which many Egyptian mummy masks and coffins were made, consisting of linen or papyrus held together with glue
- cartonero — A person in Latin America who collects discarded waste, such as cardboard, to reuse or resell.
- cartonful — As much as a carton will hold.
- cartooney — Misspelling of cartoony.
- cartopper — an object, esp a small boat, designed to be transported on top of a vehicle
- cartouche — a carved or cast ornamental tablet or panel in the form of a scroll, sometimes having an inscription
- carve out — to make or create (a career)
- carve-out — to cut (a solid material) so as to form something: to carve a piece of pine.
- cast iron — Cast iron is iron which contains a small amount of carbon. It is hard and cannot be bent so it has to be made into objects by casting.
- cast-iron — made of cast iron.
- castoreum — the oil secreted from the beaver which is used as bait by trappers
- castrator — One who castrates (gelds or neuters).
- castroism — the philosophy and policies of Fidel Castro and his followers
- castroist — of or relating to the philosophy and policies of Fidel Castro and his followers
- cataloger — a person, normally in a library, who catalogues literary materials
- catanzaro — a city in S Italy, in Calabria. Pop: 95 251 (2001)
- cataphora — the use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word used subsequently in the same discourse
- catchword — A catchword is a word or phrase that becomes popular or well-known, for example, because it is associated with a political campaign.
- catchwork — A simple irrigation system, used on sloping land, in which water from a stream or spring is fed in at the top and allowed to trickle down over a number of artificial terraces.
- categoric — Categoric means the same as categorical.
- catoptric — the branch of optics dealing with the formation of images by mirrors.
- cautioner — A person who cautions.
- cautionry — the position or function of a surety, a person who protects and takes responsibility for another person
- caveators — a person who files or enters a caveat.
- cavorting — to prance or caper about.
- centriole — either of two rodlike bodies in most animal cells that form the poles of the spindle during mitosis