9-letter words containing a, l, u, t, c, e
- le cateau — a town in NE France: site (August 26, 1914) of the largest British battle since Waterloo, which led to the disruption of the German attack on the Allies. Pop: 6998 (2009)
- leucothea — a sea goddess, the deified Ino, who gave Odysseus a veil as a float after a storm had destroyed his raft.
- loculated — Locular.
- 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).
- lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- lucubrate — to work, write, or study laboriously, especially at night.
- lunchmeat — luncheon meat.
- maculated — Simple past tense and past participle of maculate.
- maculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maculate.
- masculate — (obsolete, transitive) To make strong.
- muscatels — Plural form of muscatel.
- neuchatel — a canton in W Switzerland. 309 sq. mi. (800 sq. km).
- nucleated — having a nucleus.
- nucleates — Plural form of nucleate.
- nucleator — having a nucleus.
- osculated — Simple past tense and past participle of osculate.
- osculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of osculate.
- outplacer — a person who outplaces ex-employees
- petulance — moodiness, irritability
- plicature — the act or procedure of folding.
- recountal — an act of recounting.
- recruital — an act of recruiting
- reluctant — unwilling; disinclined: a reluctant candidate.
- reluctate — to show reluctance.
- reticular — having the form of a net; netlike.
- revictual — to victual or provide with food again
- sacculate — formed into or having a saccule, sac, or saclike dilation.
- salicetum — a plantation of willows
- saluretic — of or relating to a substance that promotes renal excretion of sodium and chloride ions.
- scatheful — causing harm or injury
- scopulate — broom-shaped; brushlike.
- scrutable — capable of being understood by careful study or investigation.
- speculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- spiculate — having the form of a spicule.
- sterculia — any of various tropical trees of the genus Sterculia, of which some species are grown as ornamentals and some are the source of commercially valuable wood.
- table cut — a variety of step cut in which a very large table is joined to the girdle with a bevel.
- teacupful — as much as a teacup will hold, equal to 4 fluid ounces (113 grams).
- tenaculum — Surgery. a small sharp-pointed hook set in a handle, used for seizing and picking up parts in operations and dissections.
- touchable — to put the hand, finger, etc., on or into contact with (something) to feel it: He touched the iron cautiously.
- trabecula — Anatomy, Botany. a structural part resembling a small beam or crossbar.
- trauchled — to fatigue; tire; wear out.
- truckable — (of a barge, tug, etc) capable or suitable for being conveyed in or on a truck
- tubercula — a tubercle.
- ulcerated — to form an ulcer; become ulcerous: His skin ulcerated after exposure to radioactive material.
- unactable — (of a play, role, etc) not able to be acted or dramatized
- unethical — lacking moral principles; unwilling to adhere to proper rules of conduct.
- unlocated — to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
- urceolate — shaped like a pitcher; swelling out like the body of a pitcher and contracted at the orifice, as a corolla.
- utilicare — a usually state-funded program that helps elderly persons of low income to pay their utility bills, especially heating bills in winter.
- vacuolate — having a vacuole or vacuoles.