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9-letter words starting with cor

  • corn lily — any of several South African iridaceous plants of the genus Ixia, which have coloured lily-like flowers
  • corn meal — meal made from maize
  • corn pone — a kind of corn bread baked in small oval loaves, or pones
  • corn rose — any of several red-flowered weeds of cornfields, such as the corn poppy
  • corn silk — the silky tuft of styles and stigmas at the tip of an ear of maize, formerly used as a diuretic
  • corn smut — an ascomycetous parasitic fungus, Ustilago zeae, that causes gall-like deformations on maize grain
  • corn snow — granular snow formed by alternate freezing and thawing
  • corn-pone — of or characteristic of an unsophisticated rural person, especially from the South: a corn-pone accent.
  • cornballs — Plural form of cornball.
  • cornborer — the larva of the pyralid moth Pyrausta nubilalis, native to S and Central Europe: in E North America a serious pest of maize
  • cornbraid — to braid (hair) in close parallel rows, creating a hairstyle known as a corn row
  • cornbrash — a type of limestone which produces good soil for growing corn
  • cornbread — Cornbread is bread made from ground maize or corn. It is popular in the United States.
  • corncrake — a common Eurasian rail, Crex crex, of fields and meadows, with a buff speckled plumage and reddish wings
  • corncribs — Plural form of corncrib.
  • corneille — Pierre (pjɛr). 1606–84, French tragic dramatist often regarded as the founder of French classical drama. His plays include Médée (1635), Le Cid (1636), Horace (1640), and Polyeucte (1642)
  • corneitis — an inflammation of the cornea
  • cornelian — carnelian
  • cornelius — a masculine name: fem. Cornelia
  • cornemuse — a type of French bagpipes
  • cornering — the ability of a motor vehicle to cope with bends or corners in a road
  • cornerman — the first baseman
  • cornermen — Plural form of cornerman.
  • cornetist — a person who plays the cornet
  • cornfield — A cornfield is a field in which corn is being grown.
  • cornflake — Cornflakes are small flat pieces of maize that are eaten with milk as a breakfast cereal. They are popular in Britain and the United States.
  • cornflour — Cornflour is a fine white powder made from maize and is used to make sauces thicker.
  • cornforth — Sir John Warcup. 1917–2014, Australian chemist, who shared the 1975 Nobel prize for chemistry with Vladimir Prelog for their work on stereochemistry
  • cornhouse — a corncrib.
  • cornhusks — Plural form of cornhusk.
  • corniches — Plural form of corniche.
  • cornichon — a type of small gherkin
  • cornicing — a moulding or other material used to make cornices
  • cornicula — plural form of singular corniculum: small horn
  • cornified — Converted into horn; horny.
  • corniform — shaped like a horn
  • corniglia — a group of five coastal villages (Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore) on the Ligurian Sea in NW Italy, near La Spezia.
  • corniness — the quality of being corny
  • cornopean — a cornet
  • cornpones — Plural form of cornpone.
  • cornrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of cornrow.
  • cornstalk — a stalk or stem of corn
  • cornstick — a corn muffin baked in the form of a small ear of corn.
  • cornstone — a mottled green and red limestone
  • corollary — A corollary of something is an idea, argument, or fact that results directly from it.
  • corollate — having or resembling a corolla
  • corolline — relating to a corolla
  • coronachs — Plural form of coronach.
  • coronally — in a coronal manner
  • coronated — having or wearing a crown, coronet, or the like.
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