9-letter words containing a, c, s, u
- justiciar — a high judicial officer in medieval England.
- justicoat — justaucorps.
- kostunica — Vojislav (ˈvɒjɪslæf). born 1944, Serbian politician; president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (2000–03); prime minister of Serbia and Montenegro (2004–06); prime minister of Serbia (2006–08)
- lactulose — (organic compound) A disaccharide of galactose and fructose formed when milk is heated.
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- larcenous — of, resembling, or characteristic of larceny.
- launchers — Plural form of launcher.
- lilaceous — of or approaching the color lilac.
- limaceous — Characteristic of slugs (of the family Limacidae).
- lincrusta — a wallpaper having a hard embossed surface
- 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.
- lustrical — Pertaining to, or used for, purification.
- macrotous — having large ears
- macrurous — long-tailed, as a lobster (opposed to brachyurous).
- maculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maculate.
- maieutics — the Socratic method of eliciting knowledge by a series of questions and answers
- majuscule — (of letters) capital.
- malicious — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- man crush — an intense but non-sexual admiration felt by one man for another
- manicheus — Manes.
- manicules — Plural form of manicule.
- manicures — Plural form of manicure.
- marcellus — (ʿAlī ibn-abu-Talib"the Lion of God") a.d. c600–661, Arab caliph (cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad).
- marruecos — Spanish name of Morocco.
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- mascouche — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- masculate — (obsolete, transitive) To make strong.
- masculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- masculism — Support for male domination of women, for patriarchy; opposition to equality for women; anti-feminism.
- masculist — Of or relating to masculism.
- mass cult — something regarded as significant by a minority, but a very large one
- maulstick — mahlstick.
- megabucks — one million dollars.
- micaceous — consisting of, containing, or resembling mica.
- minacious — menacing; threatening.
- molluscan — Relating to mollusks.
- moraceous — belonging to the Moraceae, the mulberry family of plants.
- moustache — the hair growing on the upper lip.
- muckheaps — Plural form of muckheap.
- muckrakes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of muckrake.
- mucksweat — profuse sweat or a state of profuse sweating
- multicast — Send (data) across a computer network to several users at the same time.
- multiscan — (hardware) A monitor that can synchronise to a variety of horizontal scan rates and refresh rates, allowing it to display images at different resolutions.
- musaceous — belonging to the Musaceae, the banana family of plants.
- muscadine — a grape, Vitis rotundifolia, of the southern U.S., having dull purple, thick-skinned musky fruit and being the origin of many grape varieties.
- muscarine — a poisonous compound, C 8 H 1 9 NO 3 , found in certain mushrooms, especially fly agaric, and in decaying fish.
- muscatels — Plural form of muscatel.
- muscatine — a city in E Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- muscavado — muscovado.
- muscleman — Informal. a man with a muscular or brawny physique, especially a bodybuilder.