9-letter words containing a, b, c, u
- fast buck — money made easily or quickly and sometimes unscrupulously: He speculated briefly in the commodities market in the hope of making a fast buck.
- febricula — a slight and short fever, especially when of obscure causation.
- feuerbach — Ludwig Andreas [ahn-drey-uh s,, an-;; German ahn-drey-ahs] /ɑnˈdreɪ əs,, æn-;; German ɑnˈdreɪ ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1804–72, German philosopher.
- flashcube — a cube, for attaching to a camera, that contains a flashbulb in each vertical side and rotates automatically for taking four flash pictures in succession.
- focusable — Capable of being focused.
- full-back — sports; player , position
- fullbacks — Plural form of fullback.
- half buck — a half dollar; the sum of 50 cents.
- huckaback — toweling of linen or cotton, of a distinctive absorbent weave.
- humpbacks — Plural form of humpback.
- hunchback — a person whose back is humped in a convex position because of abnormal spinal curvature. Compare kyphosis, kyphoscoliosis.
- incubated — Simple past tense and past participle of incubate.
- incubates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incubate.
- incubator — an apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially.
- incunable — a book constituting part of a collection of incunabula.
- incurable — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- incurably — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- intraclub — Within a club.
- jazz club — jazz music venue
- jubilance — showing great joy, satisfaction, or triumph; rejoicing; exultant: the cheers of the jubilant victors; the jubilant climax of his symphony.
- jubilancy — (rare) Jubilation.
- judicable — capable of being or liable to be judged or tried.
- kachumber — a salad of chopped onion, tomato, cucumber, and (sometimes) other vegetables, typically seasoned with chilli and coriander, served as an accompaniment to a main meal
- kickabout — An informal amateur game of football/soccer.
- la cumbre — Uspallata Pass.
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- local bus — (hardware) A bus connecting a processor to memory, usually on the same circuit board as opposed to a backplane and therefore faster. Various proprietary local busses for personal computers are still in use. The most common are Vesa local bus (VLB or VL), and Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI). Some computers, e.g. notebook computers, use a local bus with no expansion slots. Previous non-local bus standards include ISA, EISA and MCA.
- lubricant — a substance, as oil or grease, for lessening friction, especially in the working parts of a mechanism.
- lubricate — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- lucky bag — a bag of mixed sweets, intended for children; the bag is transparent, so that you do not know exactly what it contains
- lucubrate — to work, write, or study laboriously, especially at night.
- lumbrical — any of four wormlike muscles in the palm of the hand and in the sole of the foot.
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- megabucks — one million dollars.
- munchable — an item of food that can be munched; a snack
- obcuneate — inversely cuneate.
- obfuscate — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- obscurant — a person who strives to prevent the increase and spread of knowledge.
- orbicular — like an orb; circular; ringlike; spherical; rounded.
- osnabruck — a city in Lower Saxony, in NW Germany.
- outbacker — a person who lives in the Australian outback
- parbuckle — a kind of tackle for raising or lowering a cask or similar object along an inclined plane or a vertical surface, consisting of a rope looped over a post or the like, with its two ends passing around the object to be moved.
- pardubice — a city in N central Czech Republic, on the Elbe River.
- pub crawl — visit to a series of bars
- pub-crawl — to have drinks at one bar after another.
- pull back — the act of pulling back, especially a retreat or a strategic withdrawal of troops; pullout.
- punchball — a form of playground or street baseball in which a rubber ball is batted with the fist.
- push back — force to retreat
- quebracho — any of several tropical American trees of the genus Schinopsis, having very hard wood, especially S. lorentzii, the wood and bark of which are important in tanning and dyeing.
- quickbeam — a rowan tree