9-letter words containing c, i, u
- liquorice — licorice.
- liturgics — the science or art of conducting public worship.
- locutions — Plural form of locution.
- lodicules — Plural form of lodicule.
- loquacity — the state of being loquacious; talkativeness; garrulity.
- 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.
- lucencies — shining.
- lucidness — the quality of being easily understood, completely intelligible, or comprehensible: She makes her argument with pointed logic and exemplary lucidity.
- luciferin — a pigment occurring in luminescent organisms, as fireflies, that emits light when undergoing oxidation.
- lucifugus — Misspelling of lucifugous.
- lucius ii — (Gherardo Caccianemici dell' Orso) died 1145, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1144–45.
- luck into — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- luckiness — having or marked by good luck; fortunate: That was my lucky day.
- lucky dip — game: picking out random prize
- lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- lucretius — (Titus Lucretius Carus) 97?–54 b.c, Roman poet and philosopher.
- luctation — an effort; a struggle
- lucullian — (especially of banquets, parties, etc.) marked by lavishness and richness; sumptuous.
- ludically — in a ludic or playful manner
- 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
- luminance — brightness
- luminesce — to exhibit luminescence.
- lunatical — (no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) an insane person.
- lunchpail — lunchbox.
- lunchtime — a period set aside for eating lunch or the period of an hour or so, beginning roughly at noon, during which lunch is commonly eaten.
- 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.
- maieutics — the Socratic method of eliciting knowledge by a series of questions and answers
- malicious — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- manchuria — a historic region in NE China: ancestral home of the Manchu. About 413,000 sq. mi. (1,070,000 sq. km).
- mancunian — a native or resident of Manchester, England.
- manicheus — Manes.
- manicules — Plural form of manicule.
- manicured — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- manicures — Plural form of manicure.
- masculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- masculism — Support for male domination of women, for patriarchy; opposition to equality for women; anti-feminism.
- masculist — Of or relating to masculism.
- matricula — a register of people belonging to a group or organization, such as a guild or university
- maulstick — mahlstick.
- mcauliffe — Anthony Clement, 1898–1975, U.S. Army general.
- megacurie — a unit of radioactivity equal to one million curies
- melanuric — relating to melanuria
- mercurial — changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic: a mercurial nature.