9-letter words containing c, i, u
- cuticular — Of or pertaining to the cuticle.
- cutie pie — a person regarded as appealing or attractive, esp a girl or woman
- cutie-pie — darling; sweetheart; sweetie (often used as a term of endearment).
- cutinized — Simple past tense and past participle of cutinize.
- cutleries — cutting instruments collectively, especially knives for cutting food.
- cuttingly — In a cutting manner.
- cymbidium — a genus, Cymbidium, of subtropical and tropical orchids native to Australia and Asia, having boat-shaped showy flowers
- cystidium — (in certain basidiomycetous fungi) one of the large, inflated, sterile cells growing between the basidia and usually projecting beyond them.
- dacquoise — a cake with nut meringue layers and buttercream
- davis cup — an annual international lawn tennis championship for men's teams
- deceitful — If you say that someone is deceitful, you mean that they behave in a dishonest way by making other people believe something that is not true.
- decennium — decade (sense 2)
- deciduate — having or characterized by a decidua.
- deciduous — A deciduous tree or bush is one that loses its leaves in the autumn every year.
- declivous — having a declining slope or gradient
- decubital — any position assumed by a patient when lying in bed.
- decubitis — (medical) Inflammations cause by a reclined position of the body; it often refers to the complications of bed-ridden patients such as bed sores.
- decubitus — the posture adopted when lying down
- decupling — Present participle of decuple.
- decurions — Plural form of decurion.
- decursion — a military exercise performed by men bearing arms
- deducible — to derive as a conclusion from something known or assumed; infer: From the evidence the detective deduced that the gardener had done it.
- deducibly — in a deducible or conjecturable manner
- deducting — Present participle of deduct.
- deduction — A deduction is a conclusion that you have reached about something because of other things that you know to be true.
- deductive — Deductive reasoning involves drawing conclusions logically from other things that are already known.
- delicious — very enjoyable; delightful
- delictual — (legal) Derived from a delict (analogous to a tort).
- demiurgic — Philosophy. Platonism. the artificer of the world. (in the Gnostic and certain other systems) a supernatural being imagined as creating or fashioning the world in subordination to the Supreme Being, and sometimes regarded as the originator of evil.
- depicture — (transitive) To make a picture of; to paint or depict.
- 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
- deviceful — full of devices; inventive; cunning
- diacodium — (in pre-modern medicine) a herbal remedy made chiefly from poppies, acting as an opiate and thus used to aid sleep
- diazeutic — Alternative form of diazeuctic.
- dibucaine — a compound, C 20 H 29 N 3 O 2 , used as a local and spinal anesthetic.
- dicacious — teasing and cheeky in the way one speaks
- dichasium — a cymose inflorescence in which each branch bearing a flower gives rise to two other flowering branches, as in the stitchwort
- diclinous — (of flowering plants) bearing unisexual flowers
- dictamnus — (botany) A suffrutescent plant, Dictamnus albus (the only species in the genus), with strong perfume and showy flowers.
- dictature — dictatorship
- dicumarol — a white, crystalline powder, C19H12O6, originally extracted from spoiled sweet clover, used to retard blood clots
- difficult — not easily or readily done; requiring much labor, skill, or planning to be performed successfully; hard: a difficult job.
- difluence — diffluence.
- dimercury — (chemistry, especially in combination) Two mercury atoms in a molecule.
- dioecious — (especially of plants) having the male and female organs in separate and distinct individuals; having separate sexes.
- dischurch — to cause (a church) to no longer be a church
- discluded — Simple past tense and past participle of disclude.
- discolour — Alternative spelling of discolor.
- discounts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discount.
- discoured — Simple past tense and past participle of discoure.