9-letter words containing a, c, u, s, n
- construal — an act of construing
- consulage — a duty paid by merchants for a consul's protection of their goods while abroad
- consulate — A consulate is the place where a consul works.
- consumate — Misspelling of consummate.
- coruscant — giving off flashes of light
- cosmonaut — A cosmonaut is an astronaut from the former Soviet Union.
- courantes — Plural form of courante.
- courtesan — In former times, a courtesan was a woman who had sexual relationships with rich and powerful men for money.
- cousinage — a kinship or relationship
- crusading — campaigning
- cuisinart — a brand of food processor
- cusimanse — A small mongoose, of genus Crossarchus, native to West Africa.
- custodian — The custodian of an official building, a companies' assets, or something else valuable is the person who is officially in charge of it.
- cutaneous — of, relating to, or affecting the skin
- dachshund — A dachshund is a small dog that has very short legs, a long body, and long ears.
- dictamnus — (botany) A suffrutescent plant, Dictamnus albus (the only species in the genus), with strong perfume and showy flowers.
- dulcianas — Plural form of dulciana.
- encaustic — (especially in painting and ceramics) using pigments mixed with hot wax that are burned in as an inlay.
- enceladus — a giant who was punished for his rebellion against the gods by a fatal blow from a stone cast by Athena. He was believed to be buried under Mount Etna in Sicily
- ensurance — (obsolete) insurance.
- eulachons — Plural form of eulachon.
- faunistic — of or relating to the geographical distribution of animal life.
- fructosan — any of the class of hexosans, as inulin and the like, that yield fructose upon hydrolysis.
- gnu emacs — Emacs
- guidances — the act or function of guiding; leadership; direction.
- gunnysack — a sack made of gunny or burlap.
- handcuffs — a ring-shaped metal device that can be locked around a person's wrist, usually one of a pair connected by a short chain or linked bar; shackle: The police put handcuffs on the suspect.
- huascaran — a mountain in W Peru, in the Andes. 22,205 feet (6768 meters).
- incubates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incubate.
- infuscate — darkened with a fuscous or brownish tinge.
- insurance — the act, system, or business of providing financial protection for property, life, health, etc, against specified contingencies, such as death, loss, or damage, and involving payment of regular premiums in return for a policy guaranteeing such protection
- issuances — Plural form of issuance.
- jaundices — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jaundice.
- jouisance — joy; delight
- 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)
- larcenous — of, resembling, or characteristic of larceny.
- launchers — Plural form of launcher.
- lincrusta — a wallpaper having a hard embossed surface
- 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.
- masculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- minacious — menacing; threatening.
- molluscan — Relating to mollusks.
- 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.
- 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.
- muscatine — a city in E Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- muscleman — Informal. a man with a muscular or brawny physique, especially a bodybuilder.