9-letter words containing c, o, l, u, s
- delicious — very enjoyable; delightful
- diclinous — (of flowering plants) bearing unisexual flowers
- discolour — Alternative spelling of discolor.
- dishclout — a cloth for use in washing dishes; dishrag.
- dustcloth — a soft, absorbent cloth used for dusting.
- enclosure — An area that is sealed off with an artificial or natural barrier.
- eulachons — Plural form of eulachon.
- exclosure — An area from which unwanted animals are excluded.
- exclusion — The process or state of excluding or being excluded.
- exclusory — Having the power or the function of excluding.
- filaceous — composed of threads
- floccules — Plural form of floccule.
- flocculus — floccule.
- floscular — Flosculous.
- fluoresce — to exhibit fluorescence.
- focusable — Capable of being focused.
- focusless — Lacking focus.
- glucoside — any of an extensive group of compounds that yield glucose and some other substance or substances when treated with a dilute acid or decomposed by a ferment or enzyme.
- holocaust — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
- housecarl — a member of the household troops or bodyguard of a Danish or early English king or noble.
- inclosure — enclosure.
- inclusion — the act of including.
- l-glucose — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- lactulose — (organic compound) A disaccharide of galactose and fructose formed when milk is heated.
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- larcenous — of, resembling, or characteristic of larceny.
- lecherous — given to or characterized by lechery; lustful.
- lichenous — of, relating to, or resembling a lichen.
- lilaceous — of or approaching the color lilac.
- limaceous — Characteristic of slugs (of the family Limacidae).
- lobscouse — a stew of meat, potatoes, onions, ship biscuit, etc.
- local bus — (hardware) A bus connecting a processor to memory, usually on the same circuit board as opposed to a backplane and therefore faster. Various proprietary local busses for personal computers are still in use. The most common are Vesa local bus (VLB or VL), and Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI). Some computers, e.g. notebook computers, use a local bus with no expansion slots. Previous non-local bus standards include ISA, EISA and MCA.
- lockhouse — the house of a lock-keeper
- locutions — Plural form of locution.
- lodicules — Plural form of lodicule.
- lubricous — (of a surface, coating, etc.) having an oily smoothness; slippery.
- ludicrous — causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable: a ludicrous lack of efficiency.
- luncheons — Plural form of luncheon.
- malicious — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- miscolour — (transitive) To give a wrong colour to.
- molecules — Plural form of molecule.
- molluscan — Relating to mollusks.
- molluscum — any of various skin conditions characterized by soft, rounded tumors.
- muscology — the scientific study of mosses
- myoclonus — an abrupt spasm or twitch of a muscle or group of muscles, occurring in some neurological diseases.
- nickelous — containing bivalent nickel.
- nocuously — In a nocuous manner.
- noncasual — not casual
- noncausal — of, constituting, or implying a cause.
- nucleoids — Plural form of nucleoid.