9-letter words containing c
- acquisite — (obsolete) acquired.
- acquittal — Acquittal is a formal declaration in a court of law that someone who has been accused of a crime is innocent.
- acquitted — to relieve from a charge of fault or crime; declare not guilty: They acquitted him of the crime. The jury acquitted her, but I still think she's guilty.
- acquitter — Agent noun of acquit; one who acquits or releases.
- acre-foot — the volume of water that would cover an area of 1 acre to a depth of 1 foot: equivalent to 43 560 cubic feet or 1233.5 cubic metres
- acre-inch — the volume of water that would cover an area of 1 acre to a depth of 1 inch; one twelfth of an acre-foot: equivalent to 3630 cubic feet or 102.8 cubic metres
- acridness — Bitterness or acerbity.
- acritarch — a type of small fossil
- acritical — showing no indication of crisis
- acrobatic — An acrobatic movement or display involves difficult physical acts such as jumping and balancing, especially in a circus.
- acrodonts — Plural form of acrodont.
- acrodrome — (of the veins of a leaf) running parallel to the edges of the leaf and fusing at the tip
- acrodynia — (pathology) An epidemic disease of the skin characterized by increased sensibility of the soles and palms, with pricking sensations in them and rheumatoid pains in the hands and feet.
- acrolects — Plural form of acrolect.
- acroliths — Plural form of acrolith.
- acrologic — Of or pertaining to the naming of hieroglyphic symbols by the first phonetic sound of the picture they represent.
- acronical — happening at sunset, as the rising of a star
- acronymed — a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.
- acronymic — a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.
- acropathy — any disease of the extremities.
- acropetal — (of leaves and flowers) produced in order from the base upwards so that the youngest are at the apex
- acrophobe — a person who is abnormally afraid of heights
- acrophony — the use of symbols to represent sounds
- acropolis — the citadel of an ancient Greek city
- acrosomal — relating to the acrosome
- acrosomes — Plural form of acrosome.
- acrospire — the first shoot developing from the plumule of a germinating grain seed
- acrospore — a spore borne at the tip of a sporophore, as a basidiospore.
- acrostics — Plural form of acrostic.
- acroteria — acroters
- actinides — Plural form of actinide.
- actinopod — any protozoan of the phylum Actinopoda, such as a radiolarian or a heliozoan, having stiff radiating cytoplasmic projections
- actionary — (business, obsolete) A shareholder in a joint-stock company.
- actioners — Plural form of actioner.
- actioning — Present participle of action.
- actionist — a person who is bent on (spoken) action
- activated — to make active; cause to function or act.
- activater — Alternative spelling of activator.
- activates — to make active; cause to function or act.
- activator — a thing or person that activates
- activists — Plural form of activist.
- actresses — Plural form of actress.
- actualise — to make actual or real; turn into action or fact.
- actualism — the doctrine that all reality is animate or in motion.
- actualist — a person who deals in hard facts; a realist
- actualité — humorous word for truth
- actuality — Actuality is the state of really existing rather than being imagined.
- actualize — to make actual or real
- actuarial — Actuarial means relating to the work of an actuary.
- actuarian — Insurance. a person who computes premium rates, dividends, risks, etc., according to probabilities based on statistical records.