9-letter words containing a, n, o, u, c
- curandero — a male healer or shaman in Hispanic-America
- currajong — kurrajong
- currawong — any Australian crowlike songbird of the genus Strepera, having black, grey, and white plumage: family Cracticidae
- curtation — the discrepancy between the curtate distance and the true distance of a planet from the sun
- curvation — the action of curving or bending
- custodian — The custodian of an official building, a companies' assets, or something else valuable is the person who is officially in charge of it.
- cut along — to hurry off
- cutaneous — of, relating to, or affecting the skin
- 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
- ecuadoran — a republic in NW South America. 109,483 sq. mi. (283,561 sq. km). Capital: Quito.
- education — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
- encourage — Give support, confidence, or hope to (someone).
- eulachons — Plural form of eulachon.
- fructosan — any of the class of hexosans, as inulin and the like, that yield fructose upon hydrolysis.
- furcation — forked; branching.
- gluconate — a salt of gluconic acid
- hacqueton — an upholstered garment for the upper body worn under chain mail or such a garment covered with chain mail
- headcount — The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
- hurricano — (obsolete) A waterspout; a hurricane.
- incaution — lack of caution; heedlessness; carelessness.
- incourage — Archaic form of encourage.
- incubator — an apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially.
- inoculant — inoculum.
- inoculate — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- 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)
- kuangchou — Wade-Giles. Canton.
- la coruna — a seaport in NW Spain.
- laconicum — the sudatorium of an ancient Roman bath.
- languedoc — a former province in S France. Capital: Toulouse.
- larcenous — of, resembling, or characteristic of larceny.
- launcelot — Arthurian Romance. the greatest of Arthur's knights and the lover of Queen Guinevere.
- luctation — an effort; a struggle
- manchukuo — a former country (1932–45) in E Asia, under Japanese control: included Manchuria and parts of Inner Mongolia; now a part of China.
- minacious — menacing; threatening.
- molluscan — Relating to mollusks.
- monocular — having only one eye.
- mucronate — having an abruptly projecting point, as a feather or leaf.
- nectarous — of the nature of or resembling nectar.
- noctiluca — a dinoflagellate of the genus Noctiluca, capable of producing light and, in groups, of causing a luminous appearance of the sea.
- nocturnal — of or relating to the night (opposed to diurnal).
- noncampus — not located on a campus of a university, corporation, or any other business or organization
- noncasual — not casual
- noncausal — of, constituting, or implying a cause.
- nucleator — having a nucleus.
- nucleolar — of, relating to, or forming a nucleolus.
- nugacious — trivial; unimportant or insignificant; nugatory.
- obcuneate — inversely cuneate.
- obscurant — a person who strives to prevent the increase and spread of knowledge.
- occupance — Occupancy.