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9-letter words containing c, i, r, u

  • prescious — prescient
  • price cut — discount, lowering of costs
  • price-cut — to reduce the price of, especially to gain a competitive advantage.
  • prick out — to transplant (seedlings) as from seed pans to shallow boxes
  • prickspur — a spur having a single sharp goad or point.
  • procopius — a.d. c490–c562, Greek historian.
  • procuring — to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means: to procure evidence.
  • producing — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
  • promuscis — the proboscis of some insects
  • pronuncio — a papal ambassador in a country that does not grant the Pope's ambassador precedence over other ambassadors
  • prurience — having, inclined to have, or characterized by lascivious or lustful thoughts, desires, etc.
  • puromycin — a substance with antibiotic properties, obtained from certain species of Streptomyces
  • pushchair — A pushchair is a small chair on wheels, in which a baby or small child can sit and be wheeled around.
  • quadratic — square.
  • quadricep — Quadriceps.
  • quercetin — a yellow, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, C 1 5 H 1 0 O 7 , obtained from the bark of the quercitron and other vegetable substances, used as a yellow dye; flavin.
  • quercitol — a colorless, crystalline, sweet, water-soluble solid, C 6 H 1 2 O 5 , obtained from acorns or oak bark: used chiefly in medicine.
  • querencia — (bullfighting) The area of the bull-ring where the bull makes its stand. (from 1930s).
  • quickdraw — (climbing) A set of two carabiners connected by a strap.
  • quickener — to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten: She quickened her pace.
  • quickfire — Alternative form of quick-fire.
  • quicklier — (rare, literary, dated) More quickly; with greater rapidity.
  • quicksort — A sorting algorithm with O(n log n) average time complexity. One element, x of the list to be sorted is chosen and the other elements are split into those elements less than x and those greater than or equal to x. These two lists are then sorted recursively using the same algorithm until there is only one element in each list, at which point the sublists are recursively recombined in order yielding the sorted list. This can be written in Haskell:
  • radicular — Botany. of or relating to a radicle or root.
  • rap music — a style of popular music, developed by disc jockeys and urban blacks in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, slangy, and often boastful rhyming patter glibly intoned by a vocalist or vocalists.
  • rapacious — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
  • reacquire — to come into possession or ownership of; get as one's own: to acquire property.
  • recaution — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
  • reclusion — the condition or life of a recluse.
  • reclusive — a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation.
  • recruital — an act of recruiting
  • recruiter — a newly enlisted or drafted member of the armed forces.
  • rectitude — rightness of principle or conduct; moral virtue: the rectitude of her motives.
  • recurring — occurring or appearing again.
  • recursion — the process of defining a function or calculating a number by the repeated application of an algorithm.
  • recursive — recursion
  • recutting — to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger.
  • rediscuss — to discuss again
  • reducible — capable of being reduced.
  • reducting — to reduce.
  • reduction — the act of reducing or the state of being reduced.
  • reductive — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
  • requicken — to restore or come back to life or vigour
  • reticular — having the form of a net; netlike.
  • reticulum — any fine network, esp one in the body composed of cells, fibres, etc
  • revictual — to victual or provide with food again
  • rheumatic — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
  • rhizocaul — a rootlike stem or stalk
  • richelieu — Armand Jean du Plessis [ar-mahn zhahn dy ple-see] /arˈmɑ̃ ʒɑ̃ dü plɛˈsi/ (Show IPA), Duc de, 1585–1642, French cardinal and statesman.
  • ridiculed — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
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