9-letter words containing a, l, i, u
- curialism — the doctrine and methods of the ultramontane party in the Roman Catholic Church
- curialist — a member or supporter of the papal curia
- curricula — the aggregate of courses of study given in a school, college, university, etc.: The school is adding more science courses to its curriculum.
- cursorial — adapted for running
- curtailed — to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.
- curtailer — One who curtails.
- curtilage — the enclosed area of land adjacent to a dwelling house
- custodial — Custodial means relating to keeping people in prison.
- cuticulae — Plural form of cuticula.
- cuticular — Of or pertaining to the cuticle.
- dalhousie — 9th Earl of, title of George Ramsay. 1770–1838, British general; governor of the British colonies in Canada (1819–28)
- daliesque — of, pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of the surrealist art of Salvador Dali: giant advertising posters depicting Daliesque distortions of everyday objects.
- daubingly — in a coating or smearing manner
- day pupil — a pupil at a boarding school who attends lessons during the day but does not sleep at the school
- deauville — a town and resort in NW France: casino. Pop: 3968 (2008)
- decubital — any position assumed by a patient when lying in bed.
- delictual — (legal) Derived from a delict (analogous to a tort).
- dentalium — any scaphopod mollusc of the genus Dentalium
- deucalion — the son of Prometheus and, with his wife Pyrrha, the only survivor on earth of a flood sent by Zeus (Deucalion's flood). Together, they were allowed to repopulate the world by throwing stones over their shoulders, which became men and women
- devaluing — to deprive of value; reduce the value of.
- dialogued — Simple past tense and past participle of dialogue.
- dialogues — Plural form of dialogue.
- dicumarol — a white, crystalline powder, C19H12O6, originally extracted from spoiled sweet clover, used to retard blood clots
- difflugia — a genus of ameboid protozoans that construct a shell of cemented sand grains.
- dilutable — capable of being diluted
- dip fault — a fault that runs perpendicular to the strike of the affected rocks (i.e. parallel to the plane of the angle of dip of the rocks)
- disbursal — The act of disbursing money.
- dismayful — filled with dismay
- disulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid, as sodium disulfate, Na 2 S 2 O 7 .
- disvalued — Simple past tense and past participle of disvalue.
- diurnally — of or relating to a day or each day; daily.
- diuturnal — Durable, long-lasting.
- divulgate — to make publicly known; publish.
- drainplug — A plug for a drain.
- droitural — pertaining to right of ownership as distinguished from right of possession.
- druidical — Alt form Druidical.
- dualistic — of, relating to, or of the nature of dualism.
- dualities — Plural form of duality.
- dubitable — open to doubt; doubtful; uncertain.
- dubitably — Defn en.
- ducktails — Plural form of ducktail.
- dulcianas — Plural form of dulciana.
- duplation — multiplication by two; doubling.
- duplicand — the twofold increase of feu-duty for the period of a year, or the feu-duty paid, as occasioned at specific times
- duplicate — a copy exactly like an original.
- duralumin — an alloy of aluminum that is 4 percent copper and contains small amounts of magnesium, manganese, iron, and silicon: used for applications requiring lightness and strength, as in airplane construction.
- duumviral — relating to duumvirs
- effluvial — a slight or invisible exhalation or vapor, especially one that is disagreeable or noxious.
- el faiyûm — a city in N Egypt: a site of towns going back at least to the 12th dynasty. Pop: 311 000 (2005 est)
- elaterium — a greenish sediment prepared from the juice of the squirting cucumber, used as a purgative