9-letter words containing c, i, s, l, u
- ocularist — a person who makes artificial eyes
- ossiculum — (anatomy) An ossicle.
- pediculus — a louse
- plus tick — uptick (def 2).
- publicise — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
- publicist — a person who publicizes, especially a press agent or public-relations consultant.
- puckishly — in a puckish manner
- reclusion — the condition or life of a recluse.
- reclusive — a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation.
- ridicules — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
- salacious — lustful or lecherous.
- saliaunce — an onslaught
- salicetum — a plantation of willows
- saluretic — of or relating to a substance that promotes renal excretion of sodium and chloride ions.
- scamillus — a slight bevel at an arris of a stone, as in the necking of a Greek Doric column.
- scrubbily — in a scrubby or messy manner
- scruffily — in an unkempt or shabby fashion
- scuffling — to struggle or fight in a rough, confused manner.
- scungille — the meat of a mollusc or conch, eaten as a delicacy
- scungilli — the edible part of a conch
- scuttling — to run with quick, hasty steps; scurry.
- secluding — to place in or withdraw into solitude; remove from social contact and activity, etc.
- seclusion — an act of secluding: the seclusion of unruly students.
- seclusive — tending to seclude, especially oneself.
- seducible — to lead astray, as from duty, rectitude, or the like; corrupt.
- semuncial — of or pertaining to a semuncia or to half an ounce
- side curl — earlock.
- siliceous — containing, consisting of, or resembling silica.
- silicious — containing, consisting of, or resembling silica.
- simulacra — a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance.
- simulacre — simulacrum.
- simulcast — a program broadcast simultaneously on radio and television, or on more than one station, or in several languages, etc.
- siphuncle — (in a nautilus) the connecting tube that passes from the end of the body through all of the septa to the innermost chamber.
- sluiceway — a channel controlled by a sluice gate.
- solacious — providing solace
- spiculate — having the form of a spicule.
- spit curl — a tight curl of hair, usually pressed against the forehead or cheek.
- st. lucia — one of the Windward Islands, in the E West Indies.
- 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.
- subapical — located below the apex.
- subclimax — the development of an ecological community to a stage short of the expected climax because of some factor, as repeated fires in a forest, that arrests the normal succession.
- subsocial — without a definite social structure.
- suctorial — adapted for sucking or suction, as an organ; functioning as a sucker for imbibing or adhering.
- sulcalize — to furrow, make a furrow in; predominantly, to make a furrow in (the tongue), make the surface of (the tongue) concave in order to produce certain phonemes
- sulcation — having long, narrow grooves or channels, as plant stems, or being furrowed or cleft, as hoofs.
- sulphatic — sulphuric, of or pertaining to a sulphate
- sulpician — a member of a society of secular priests founded in France in 1642, engaged chiefly in training men to teach in seminaries.
- supercoil — superhelix.
- supplicat — a petition (to a university) for a degree
- surcingle — a belt or girth that passes around the belly of a horse and over the blanket, pack, saddle, etc., and is buckled on the horse's back.