9-letter words containing c, i, u
- colour in — If you colour in a drawing, you give it different colours using crayons or paints.
- colouring — The colouring of something is the colour or colours that it is.
- colourise — (UK) Alternative form of colorize (to add colour to).
- colourism — discrimination in which people are judged on the basis of their skin colour
- colourist — A colourist is someone such as an artist or a fashion designer who uses colours in an interesting and original way.
- colourize — to add colour electronically to (an old black-and-white film)
- colubriad — a poem about a snake
- colubrine — of or resembling a snake
- columbian — of or relating to the United States
- columbine — any plant of the ranunculaceous genus Aquilegia, having purple, blue, yellow, or red flowers with five spurred petals
- columbite — a black mineral consisting of a niobium oxide of iron and manganese in orthorhombic crystalline form: occurs in coarse granite, often with tantalite, and is an ore of niobium. Formula: (Fe, Mn)(Nb)2O6
- columbium — niobium
- columnist — A columnist is a journalist who regularly writes a particular kind of article in a newspaper or magazine.
- comatulid — any of a group of crinoid echinoderms, including the feather stars, in which the adults are free-swimming
- comfiture — (obsolete) A confection, especially of preserved fruit.
- comitatus — a retinue of warriors serving a leader, esp in pre-Christian Germanic cultures, such as Anglo-Saxon England and Viking Age Scandinavia
- comminute — to break (a bone) into several small fragments
- communing — to partake of the Eucharist.
- communion — Communion with nature or with a person is the feeling that you are sharing thoughts or feelings with them.
- communise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of communize.
- communism — advocacy of a classless society in which private ownership has been abolished and the means of production and subsistence belong to the community
- communist — A communist is someone who believes in communism.
- community — The community is all the people who live in a particular area or place.
- communize — to make (property) public; nationalize
- commuting — the activity of travelling some distance to work every day by car, bus, or train
- commutive — (linguistics) That which serves to commute.
- computing — Computing is the activity of using a computer and writing programs for it.
- computist — a person who computes
- concubine — In former times, a concubine was a woman who lived with and had a sexual relationship with a man of higher social rank without being married to him.
- conducing — Present participle of conduce.
- conducive — If one thing is conducive to another thing, it makes the other thing likely to happen.
- configure — If you configure a piece of computer equipment, you set it up so that it is ready for use.
- confiseur — a confectioner
- confiture — a confection, preserve of fruit, etc
- confucian — of or relating to the doctrines of Confucius
- confucius — Chinese name Kong Zi or K'ung Fu-tse. 551–479 bc, Chinese philosopher and teacher of ethics (see Confucianism). His doctrines were compiled after his death under the title The Analects of Confucius
- confusing — Something that is confusing makes it difficult for people to know exactly what is happening or what to do.
- confusion — If there is confusion about something, it is not clear what the true situation is, especially because people believe different things.
- confuting — Present participle of confute.
- congruity — the condition or fact of being congruous or congruent
- conjugial — A form of \"conjugal\" used by Swedenborg and his followers, used to distinguish their ideas about marital relations.
- conjuring — the performance of tricks that appear to defy natural laws
- connubial — of or relating to marriage; conjugal
- conscious — If you are conscious of something, you notice it or realize that it is happening.
- consuming — A consuming passion or interest is more important to you than anything else.
- contagium — the specific virus or other direct cause of any infectious disease
- continual — A continual process or situation happens or exists without stopping.
- continued — continuing; not having stopped
- continuer — One who, or that which, continues.
- continues — to go on after suspension or interruption: The program continued after an intermission.