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9-letter words containing n, a, c, r

  • ceromancy — divination by interpreting the significance of shapes formed when melted wax is dropped into water
  • certainly — You use certainly to emphasize what you are saying when you are making a statement.
  • certainty — Certainty is the state of being definite or of having no doubts at all about something.
  • certosina — a technique of inlaying light-colored material, as bone, ivory, metal, or pale wood, in elaborate designs on a dark ground.
  • cervantes — Miguel de (miˈɣɛl ðe), full surname Cervantes Saavedra. 1547–1616, Spanish dramatist, poet, and prose writer, most famous for Don Quixote (1605), which satirizes the chivalric romances and greatly influenced the development of the novel
  • cesareans — Plural form of cesarean.
  • cfa franc — a monetary unit used by several countries in West Africa, including Benin, Ivory Coast, Niger, Senegal, Togo, and Burkina Faso.
  • chaeronea — an ancient Greek town in W Boeotia: site of the victory of Philip of Macedon over the Athenians and Thebans (338 bc) and of Sulla over Mithridates (86 bc)
  • chagrined — If you are chagrined by something, it disappoints, upsets, or annoys you, perhaps because of your own failure.
  • chainwork — any work linked or looped in the manner of or resembling a chain or chains
  • chamfrons — Plural form of chamfron.
  • chanceler — Obsolete form of chancellor.
  • chancroid — a soft venereal ulcer, esp of the male genitals, caused by infection with the bacillus Haemophilus ducreyi
  • chancrous — (medicine) Of the nature of a chancre; affected by chancre.
  • chandlers — Plural form of chandler.
  • chandlery — the business, warehouse, or merchandise of a chandler
  • channeler — a person or thing that channels; specif., a medium (sense 7)
  • chantress — a female chanter or singer
  • chantries — Plural form of chantry.
  • chaperone — A chaperone is someone who accompanies another person somewhere in order to make sure that they do not come to any harm.
  • chaperons — Plural form of chaperon.
  • char-ring — to do (housework, odd jobs, or chores); clean or repair.
  • charabanc — A charabanc is a large old-fashioned coach with several rows of seats. Charabancs were used especially for taking people on trips or on holiday.
  • charangas — Plural form of charanga.
  • charangos — Plural form of charango.
  • chariness — the state of being chary
  • charlatan — You describe someone as a charlatan when they pretend to have skills or knowledge that they do not really possess.
  • charleton — a male given name.
  • charmante — Silk fabric with a crepe back.
  • charminar — a 16th-century monument with four minarets at Hyderabad, India
  • charmings — Plural form of charming.
  • chartings — Plural form of charting.
  • charwoman — A charwoman is a woman who is employed to clean houses or offices.
  • charwomen — Plural form of charwoman.
  • chastener — to inflict suffering upon for purposes of moral improvement; chastise.
  • cheapener — One who cheapens.
  • chicanery — Chicanery is using cleverness to cheat people.
  • chinaroot — the root of either of two plants, the galanga or the smilax
  • chinaware — articles made of china, esp those made for domestic use
  • chinstrap — a strap that goes under the chin
  • chloracne — a disfiguring skin disease that results from contact with or ingestion or inhalation of certain chlorinated aromatic hydrocarbons
  • chloranil — a yellow, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 6 Cl 4 O 2 , used chiefly as a fungicide and as an intermediate in the manufacture of dyes.
  • chlordane — a white insoluble toxic solid existing in several isomeric forms and usually used, as an insecticide, in the form of a brown impure liquid. Formula: C10H6Cl8
  • chondroma — a benign cartilaginous growth or neoplasm
  • christian — A Christian is someone who follows the teachings of Jesus Christ.
  • christina — 1626–89, queen of Sweden (1632–54), daughter of Gustavus Adolphus, noted particularly for her patronage of literature
  • chromagen — (biochemistry) Any compound, such as heme, that forms a biological pigment when attached to a protein.
  • chromatin — the part of the nucleus that consists of DNA and proteins, forms the chromosomes, and stains with basic dyes
  • chronaxie — the minimum time required for excitation of a nerve or muscle when the stimulus is double the minimum (threshold) necessary to elicit a basic response
  • chronical — relating to or controlled by time
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