9-letter words containing c
- actuaries — Plural form of actuary.
- actuating — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- actuation — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- actuators — Plural form of actuator.
- acuminate — narrowing to a sharp point, as some types of leaf
- acuminous — keen insight; shrewdness: remarkable acumen in business matters.
- acupoints — Plural form of acupoint.
- acusector — a needle for cutting tissue by means of a high-frequency electric current.
- acuteness — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- acyclical — (economics) Moving independent of the overall state of an economy.
- acyclovir — an antiviral drug used to treat herpes. Formula: C8H11N5O3
- acylation — the introduction into a chemical compound of an acyl group
- ad agency — An ad agency is a company whose business is to create advertisements for other companies or organizations.
- addicting — a person who is addicted to an activity, habit, or substance: a drug addict.
- addiction — Addiction is the condition of taking harmful drugs and being unable to stop taking them.
- addictive — If a drug is addictive, people who take it cannot stop taking it.
- adducting — Present participle of adduct.
- adduction — an adducing or citing
- adductive — of a nature that leads towards a change
- adductors — Plural form of adductor.
- adherence — Adherence is the fact of adhering to a particular rule, agreement, or belief.
- adhocracy — management that responds to urgent problems rather than planning to avoid them
- adiabatic — (of a thermodynamic process) taking place without loss or gain of heat
- adipocere — a waxlike fatty substance formed during the decomposition of corpses
- adipocyte — a fat cell that accumulates and stores fats
- adjacence — the state of being adjacent
- adjacency — the quality or state of being adjacent; nearness
- adjection — Act of adjecting or adding, or the thing added.
- adjective — An adjective is a word such as 'big', 'dead', or 'financial' that describes a person or thing, or gives extra information about them. Adjectives usually come before nouns or after link verbs.
- adjunctly — In an adjunct manner.
- adjutancy — the rank or office of a military adjutant
- adminicle — something contributing to prove a point without itself being complete proof
- admirance — an admiration (for)
- adnascent — growing on or to something else
- advancers — Plural form of advancer.
- advanceth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advance.
- advancing — to move or bring forward: The general advanced his troops to the new position.
- advection — the transference of heat energy in a horizontal stream of gas, esp of air
- advective — relating to advection
- adviceful — thoughtful or attentive
- advocated — to speak or write in favor of; support or urge by argument; recommend publicly: He advocated higher salaries for teachers.
- advocater — Alternative form of advocator.
- advocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advocate.
- advocator — a person who advocates
- aerobatic — (used with a plural verb) stunts performed in flight by an airplane, glider, or the like.
- aerogenic — producing gas, as certain bacteria.
- aeromancy — the interpretation of the weather and atmospheric conditions to foretell the future
- aeronomic — of or relating to the study of the upper atmosphere
- aeroscope — a device that collects bacteria from the air, used for observing the atmosphere
- aerospace — Aerospace companies are involved in developing and making rockets, missiles, space vehicles, and related equipment.