9-letter words containing c, i, u
- guilloche — an ornamental pattern or border, as in architecture, consisting of paired ribbons or lines flowing in interlaced curves around a series of circular voids.
- gun crime — offences involving firearms
- gynoecium — the pistil or pistils of a flower; the female parts.
- hachuring — Present participle of hachure.
- hackitude — (jargon) An even sillier word for hackishness.
- halieutic — Of or pertaining to fishing.
- haruspicy — divination by a haruspex.
- heraclius — a.d. 575?–641, Byzantine emperor 610–641.
- heuretics — the use of logic
- heuristic — serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
- hiccoughs — Plural form of hiccough.
- hiccuping — a quick, involuntary inhalation that follows a spasm of the diaphragm and is suddenly checked by closure of the glottis, producing a short, relatively sharp sound.
- hiccupped — a quick, involuntary inhalation that follows a spasm of the diaphragm and is suddenly checked by closure of the glottis, producing a short, relatively sharp sound.
- hircinous — (rare) Of, or pertaining to goats; hircine.
- homunculi — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- hubristic — excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance.
- humective — tending to moisten
- hurricane — a violent, tropical, cyclonic storm of the western North Atlantic, having wind speeds of or in excess of 72 miles per hour (32 m/sec). Compare tropical cyclone, typhoon.
- hurricano — (obsolete) A waterspout; a hurricane.
- hydraulic — operated by, moved by, or employing water or other liquids in motion.
- hypericum — A yellow-flowered plant of a genus that includes the St. John’s worts and rose of Sharon.
- ice house — a building for storing ice.
- ice-minus — noting or pertaining to genetically altered bacteria used on crops to inhibit frost formation.
- icehouses — Plural form of icehouse.
- ichneumon — Also called African mongoose, Egyptian mongoose. a slender, long-tailed mongoose, Herpestes ichneumon, inhabiting Africa and southern Europe, and believed by the ancient Egyptians to devour crocodile eggs.
- illyricum — a Roman province in ancient Illyria.
- immusical — (archaic) inharmonious; unmusical; discordant.
- impactful — having or manifesting a great impact or effect: After the senator's impactful speech, her bill passed.
- impudence — the quality or state of being impudent; effrontery; insolence.
- impudency — (now rare) Impudence.
- in chorus — Music. a group of persons singing in unison. (in an opera, oratorio, etc.) such a group singing choral parts in connection with soloists or individual singers. a piece of music for singing in unison. a part of a song that recurs at intervals, usually following each verse; refrain.
- in colour — If a film or television programme is in colour, it has been made so that you see the picture in all its colours, and not just in black, white, or grey.
- in public — of, relating to, or affecting a population or a community as a whole: public funds; a public nuisance.
- in shtuck — in trouble
- incaution — lack of caution; heedlessness; carelessness.
- incestous — Misspelling of incestuous.
- incisures — Plural form of incisure.
- inciteful — That incites (rouses, stirs up or excites), or provides incitement.
- inclosure — enclosure.
- including — to contain, as a whole does parts or any part or element: The package includes the computer, program, disks, and a manual.
- inclusion — the act of including.
- inclusive — including or encompassing the stated limit or extremes in consideration or account (usually used postpositively): from 6 to 37 inclusive.
- incorrupt — not corrupt; not debased or perverted; morally upright.
- incourage — Archaic form of encourage.
- incrusted — Alternative spelling of encrusted.
- incubated — Simple past tense and past participle of incubate.
- incubates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incubate.
- incubator — an apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially.
- inculcate — to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly (usually followed by upon or in): to inculcate virtue in the young.
- inculpate — to charge with fault; blame; accuse.