9-letter words containing rr
- carryback — (in U.S. income-tax law) a special provision allowing part of a net loss or of an unused credit in a given year to be apportioned over one or two preceding years, chiefly in order to ease the tax burden. Compare carry·forward (def 2).
- carrycots — Plural form of carrycot.
- carryover — If something is a carryover from an earlier time, it began during an earlier time but still exists or happens now.
- carrytale — a gossipmonger
- catarrhal — Pathology. inflammation of a mucous membrane, especially of the respiratory tract, accompanied by excessive secretions.
- chaparral — (in the southwestern US) a dense growth of shrubs and trees, esp evergreen oaks
- charrette — a final, intensive effort to finish a project, especially an architectural design project, before a deadline.
- chirruped — Simple past tense and past participle of chirrup.
- churrasco — meat cooked over an open fire.
- cirrhosis — Cirrhosis or cirrhosis of the liver is a disease which destroys a person's liver and which can kill them. It is often caused by drinking too much alcohol.
- cirrhotic — a disease of the liver characterized by increase of connective tissue and alteration in gross and microscopic makeup.
- cirriform — cirrus-like
- cirripede — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, including the barnacles, the adults of which are sessile or parasitic
- cirripeds — Plural form of cirriped.
- concurred — to accord in opinion; agree: Do you concur with his statement?
- conferral — a conferring of an honor, degree, or favor; bestowal
- conferred — to consult together; compare opinions; carry on a discussion or deliberation.
- conferree — a person on whom something is conferred, especially the recipient of an academic degree.
- conferrer — A person who confers or bestows something.
- corrading — Present participle of corrade.
- corraling — Present participle of corral.
- corralled — an enclosure or pen for horses, cattle, etc.
- corrasion — erosion of a rock surface by rock fragments transported over it by water, wind, or ice
- corrasive — Obsolete form of corrosive.
- corrected — to set or make true, accurate, or right; remove the errors or faults from: The native guide corrected our pronunciation. The new glasses corrected his eyesight.
- correctly — to set or make true, accurate, or right; remove the errors or faults from: The native guide corrected our pronunciation. The new glasses corrected his eyesight.
- corrector — to set or make true, accurate, or right; remove the errors or faults from: The native guide corrected our pronunciation. The new glasses corrected his eyesight.
- corregate — Based on Internal Translator (IT).
- correggio — Antonio Allegri da (anˈtɔːnjo alˈleːɡri da). 1494–1534, Italian painter, noted for his striking use of perspective and foreshortening
- correlate — If one thing correlates with another, there is a close similarity or connection between them, often because one thing causes the other. You can also say that two things correlate.
- corridors — Plural form of corridor.
- corrigent — (in a medicine) an ingredient that negates a side effect of another ingredient
- corroding — to eat or wear away gradually as if by gnawing, especially by chemical action.
- corrolate — Misspelling of correlate.
- corrosion — Corrosion is the damage that is caused when something is corroded.
- corrosive — A corrosive substance is able to destroy solid materials by a chemical reaction.
- corrugate — to fold or be folded into alternate furrows and ridges
- corrupted — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- corrupter — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- corruptly — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- corruptor — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- costarred — Simple past tense and past participle of costar.
- courrèges — André (ɑ̃dre). 1923–2016, French couturier: helped to launch unisex fashion in the mid-1960s
- cranberry — Cranberries are red berries with a sour taste. They are often used to make a sauce or jelly that you eat with meat.
- crowberry — a low-growing N temperate evergreen shrub, Empetrum nigrum, with small purplish flowers and black berry-like fruit: family Empetraceae
- cupferron — a salt ammonium compound (N-nitrosophenylhydroxylamine) used as a reagent in metal ion complexation
- currajong — kurrajong
- currawong — any Australian crowlike songbird of the genus Strepera, having black, grey, and white plumage: family Cracticidae
- currently — at the presenttime; now: She is currently working as a lab technician.
- curricles — Plural form of curricle.