9-letter words starting with c
- cancerian — a person born under the sign of Cancer, usually between June 21 and July 22.
- cancerous — Cancerous cells or growths are cells or growths that are the result of cancer.
- candidacy — Someone's candidacy is their position of being a candidate in an election.
- candidate — A candidate is someone who is being considered for a position, for example someone who is running in an election or applying for a job.
- candlelit — A candlelit room or table is lit by the light of candles.
- candlemas — Feb 2, the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary and the presentation of Christ in the Temple: the day on which the church candles are blessed. In Scotland it is one of the four quarter days
- candlenut — a euphorbiaceous tree, Aleurites mollucana, of tropical Asia and Polynesia
- candlepin — a bowling pin, as used in skittles, tenpin bowling, candlepins, etc
- candlewax — The wax of a candle.
- candomble — any of a number of similar religious cults in Brazil that combine elements of Roman Catholicism with elements of West African, esp Yoruba, and South American Indian religions
- candy bar — A candy bar is a long, thin, sweet food, usually covered in chocolate.
- candy-ass — a timid or cowardly person; wimp
- candygram — a message accompanied by sweets
- candytuft — either of two species of Iberis grown as annual garden plants for their umbels ("tufts") of white, red, or purplish flowers
- cane gall — a disease of blackberries, characterized by rough, warty outgrowths on the canes, caused by a bacterium, Agrobacterium rubi.
- cane reed — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- cane toad — a large toad, Rhinella marina, native to Central and South America but introduced into many countries to control insects and other pests of sugar-cane plantations
- canebrake — a thicket of canes
- canebreak — Alternative spelling of canebrake.
- canefield — A field where cane is grown.
- canefruit — a fruit, such as the raspberry, which grows on woody-stemmed plants
- canephora — Caryatid that supports a basket on her head.
- canescent — white or greyish due to the presence of numerous short white hairs
- canicular — of or relating to the star Sirius or its rising
- canistels — Plural form of canistel.
- canisters — Plural form of canister.
- cankering — a gangrenous or ulcerous sore, especially in the mouth.
- cankerous — having cankers
- cannelure — a groove or fluting, esp one around the cylindrical part of a bullet
- canneries — Plural form of cannery.
- cannibals — Plural form of cannibal.
- cannikins — Plural form of cannikin.
- canniness — the quality of being canny
- cannister — Misspelling of canister.
- cannonade — A cannonade is an intense continuous attack of gunfire.
- cannoneer — (formerly) a soldier who served and fired a cannon; artilleryman
- cannonier — Alternative form of cannoneer.
- cannoning — Present participle of cannon.
- cannoting — cannot but, have no alternative but to: We cannot but choose otherwise.
- cannulate — to insert a cannula into (a person)
- canoeable — (of a river, etc) able to be navigated in a canoe
- canoeists — Plural form of canoeist.
- canon law — Canon law is the law of the Christian church. It has authority only for that church and its members.
- canonchet — (Nanuntenoo) died 1676, Narragansett leader: executed by colonists.
- canonical — If something has canonical status, it is accepted as having all the qualities that a thing of its kind should have.
- canonicus — c1565–1647, Narragansett leader: yielded Rhode Island to Roger Williams 1636.
- canonised — Ecclesiastical. to place in the canon of saints.
- canonized — Made part of the canon, made official.
- canonizer — a person who canonizes
- canonizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canonize.