9-letter words containing en
- convenors — Plural form of convenor.
- convented — Simple past tense and past participle of convent.
- coparceny — (legal) An equal share of an inheritance.
- copayment — a fee paid by a subscriber to a service for the use of additional services not covered by the subscription
- copresent — to present jointly
- coregency — Monarchical position (such as king, queen, emperor or empress) held by two persons when normally held by only one.
- cornermen — Plural form of cornerman.
- corpulent — If you describe someone as corpulent, you mean they are fat.
- corrigent — (in a medicine) an ingredient that negates a side effect of another ingredient
- coryphene — either of two large marine percoid fishes, Coryphaena hippurus or C. equisetis, that resemble the cetacean dolphins and have an iridescent coloration
- cosmogeny — (dated) cosmogony.
- cost rent — (in Britain) the rent of a dwelling calculated on the cost of providing and maintaining the property without allowing for a profit
- cotangent — (of an angle) a trigonometric function that in a right-angled triangle is the ratio of the length of the adjacent side to that of the opposite side; the reciprocal of tangent
- covalence — the number of pairs of electrons that an atom can share with its neighboring atoms
- covalency — the formation and nature of covalent bonds
- covenants — Plural form of covenant.
- coventure — An international coproduction set up in the absence of any official treaty between the countries.
- cowritten — to coauthor.
- cozenages — Plural form of cozenage.
- cracksmen — Plural form of cracksman.
- craftsmen — a person who practices or is highly skilled in a craft; artisan.
- crapulent — given to or resulting from intemperance
- cravening — Present participle of craven.
- credences — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of credence.
- credendum — an article of faith
- credenzas — Plural form of credenza.
- creedence — Misspelling of credence.
- crenation — any of the rounded teeth or the notches between them on a crenate structure
- crenature — a rounded projection, as on the margin of a leaf, etc.
- crenelate — to furnish with battlements or crenels, or with squared notches
- crenulate — having a margin very finely notched with rounded projections, as certain leaves
- crescence — (obsolete) increase; enlargement.
- 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.
- crescents — Plural form of crescent.
- crimplene — Crimplene is an artificial fabric used for making clothes which does not crease easily.
- cromulent — (humorous) Fine, acceptable or normal; excellent, realistic, legitimate or authentic.
- crudeness — in a raw or unprepared state; unrefined or natural: crude sugar.
- cryogenic — of or relating to the production or use of very low temperatures: cryogenic storage.
- ctenidium — one of the comblike respiratory gills of molluscs
- cteniform — resembling a comb
- cullender — colander
- cultigens — Plural form of cultigen.
- culturgen — One of the propagating mutating cultural units that form the subject of memetics.
- currently — at the presenttime; now: She is currently working as a lab technician.
- cyclamens — Plural form of cyclamen.
- cyllenian — of or relating to Mount Cyllene in Arcadia, Greece, or to the god Hermes, reputed to have been born there.
- cyrenaica — a region and former province (1951–63) of E Libya: largely desert; settled by the Greeks in about 630 bc; ruled successively by the Egyptians, Romans, Arabs, Turks, and Italians. Area: 855 370 sq km (330 258 sq miles)
- cytopenia — a condition characterized by a deficiency of a type of blood cells
- d'avenant — Sir William, 1606–68, English dramatist and producer: poet laureate 1638–68.
- damascene — to ornament (metal, esp steel) by etching or by inlaying, usually with gold or silver