9-letter words containing c, i, r, u
- innsbruck — an alpine region in W Austria and N Italy: a former Austrian crown land.
- instructs — (informal) shortened form of instructions.
- 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
- interclub — a heavy stick, usually thicker at one end than at the other, suitable for use as a weapon; a cudgel.
- interduce — (construction) An intertie.
- intraclub — Within a club.
- introduce — to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.
- introduct — (obsolete) To instruct.
- involucre — Botany. a collection or rosette of bracts subtending a flower cluster, umbel, or the like.
- jackfruit — a large, tropical, milky-juiced tree, Artocarpus heterophyllus, of the mulberry family, having stiff and glossy green leaves, cultivated for its very large, edible fruit and seeds.
- jacquerie — the revolt of the peasants of northern France against the nobles in 1358.
- judicator — a person who acts as judge or sits in judgment.
- judiciary — the judicial branch of government.
- juridical — of or relating to the administration of justice.
- juristics — The theory of law, or its study.
- justiciar — a high judicial officer in medieval England.
- kick turn — a turn from a stationary position in which a skier lifts one ski to a point where the heel is nearly at right angles to the snow, then faces the ski outward, sets it down in the direction to be turned, and swings the other ski around so that both skis are parallel.
- kilocurie — a unit of radioactivity, equal to 1000 curies. Abbreviation: kCi, kc.
- kiss curl — lock of hair curled on forehead
- latreutic — of or relating to latria.
- laurencin — Marie [ma-ree] /maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1885–1956, French painter, lithographer, and stage designer.
- lecturing — Present participle of lecture.
- licensure — the granting of licenses, especially to engage in professional practice.
- lincrusta — a wallpaper having a hard embossed surface
- liquorice — licorice.
- liturgics — the science or art of conducting public worship.
- lubricant — a substance, as oil or grease, for lessening friction, especially in the working parts of a mechanism.
- 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).
- lubricity — oily smoothness, as of a surface; slipperiness.
- lubricous — (of a surface, coating, etc.) having an oily smoothness; slippery.
- luciferin — a pigment occurring in luminescent organisms, as fireflies, that emits light when undergoing oxidation.
- lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- lucretius — (Titus Lucretius Carus) 97?–54 b.c, Roman poet and philosopher.
- ludicrous — causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable: a ludicrous lack of efficiency.
- lumbrical — any of four wormlike muscles in the palm of the hand and in the sole of the foot.
- lumbricus — a member of a genus of worms of the same name, the most common of which is the common earth worm, Lumbricus terrestris
- lustrical — Pertaining to, or used for, purification.
- maclaurin — Colin, 1698–1746, Scottish mathematician.
- macquarie — a river in SE Australia, in New South Wales, flowing NW to the Darling River. 750 miles (1210 km) long.
- manchuria — a historic region in NE China: ancestral home of the Manchu. About 413,000 sq. mi. (1,070,000 sq. km).
- manicured — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- manicures — Plural form of manicure.
- matricula — a register of people belonging to a group or organization, such as a guild or university
- megacurie — a unit of radioactivity equal to one million curies
- melanuric — relating to melanuria
- mercurial — changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic: a mercurial nature.
- mercurify — to mix with mercury; amalgamate.
- mercurius — (Mercurius) died a.d. 535, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 533–535.
- mercurize — mercurate (def 2).
- micronuts — Plural form of micronut.