9-letter words containing c, i, u
- continuos — a keyboard accompanying part consisting originally of a figured bass, which in modern scores is usually realized, and serving to provide or fill out the harmonic texture.
- continuum — A continuum is a set of things on a scale, which have a particular characteristic to different degrees.
- contusing — Present participle of contuse.
- contusion — A contusion is a bruise.
- contusive — to injure (tissue), especially without breaking the skin; bruise.
- copiously — large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful: copious amounts of food.
- coquilles — any of various seafood or chicken dishes baked with a sauce and usually served in a scallop shell or a shell-shaped serving dish.
- corbicula — pollen basket.
- corbusier — (Charles Édouard Jeanneret) 1887–1965, Swiss architect in France.
- cormidium — a collection of polyps in a siphonophore
- cornelius — a masculine name: fem. Cornelia
- cornicula — plural form of singular corniculum: small horn
- coroutine — (programming) A piece of code that performs a task, and that can be passed new input and return output more than once.
- cost unit — a quantity or unit of a product or service whose cost is computed, used as a standard for comparison with other costs.
- costumier — A costumier is a person or company that makes or supplies costumes.
- costuming — a style of dress, including accessories and hairdos, especially that peculiar to a nation, region, group, or historical period.
- coticular — of or relating to whetstones
- cotunnite — a soft, white to yellowish mineral, lead chloride, PbCl 2 , that forms as an alteration product of galena.
- couchings — the act of a person or thing that couches.
- coulibiac — a Russian dish of rich pastry with a filling of salmon or other fish and mushrooms, onions, egg, buckwheat, dill, etc.
- coulisses — Plural form of coulisse.
- coulombic — relating to the discoveries of Charles Augustin de Coulomb
- councilor — A councilor is a member of a local council.
- countline — (in the confectionery trade) a chocolate-based bar
- countries — a state or nation: What European countries have you visited?
- countrify — to make countrified.
- countship — the rank or position of a count.
- couplings — Plural form of coupling.
- couponing — the distribution or redemption of promotional coupons
- coupstick — (historical) A stick or switch used among some Native Americans for making or counting a coup.
- couraging — Present participle of courage.
- courbaril — a tropical American leguminous tree, Hymenaea courbaril. Its wood is a useful timber and its gum is a source of copal
- couriered — Simple past tense and past participle of courier.
- courtesie — Obsolete spelling of courtesy.
- courtiers — a person who is often in attendance at the court of a king or other royal personage.
- courtlike — reminiscent of the court in style or manner; elegant; courtly
- courtling — a fawning or sycophantic member of a royal court
- courtship — Courtship is the activity of courting or the time during which a man and a woman are courting.
- courtside — the area closest to the court
- cousinage — a kinship or relationship
- couturier — A couturier is a person who designs, makes, and sells expensive, fashionable clothes for women.
- credulity — Credulity is a willingness to believe that something is real or true.
- cretinous — If you describe someone as cretinous, you think they are very stupid.
- cribellum — a sievelike spinning organ in certain spiders that occurs between the spinnerets
- criminous — criminal
- criterium — a bicycle road race, consisting of numerous laps of a short closed circuit
- critiqued — Simple past tense and past participle of critique.
- critiques — Plural form of critique.
- crouching — to stoop or bend low.
- croupiers — Plural form of croupier.