9-letter words containing c, o, n, l, u
- cornflour — Cornflour is a fine white powder made from maize and is used to make sauces thicker.
- cornicula — plural form of singular corniculum: small horn
- corpulent — If you describe someone as corpulent, you mean they are fat.
- cothurnal — relating to the cothurnus or to tragedy
- councilor — A councilor is a member of a local council.
- counseled — advice; opinion or instruction given in directing the judgment or conduct of another.
- counselee — a person who is being professionally counseled
- counselor — A counselor is a person whose job is to give advice to people who need it, especially advice on their personal problems.
- countable — capable of being counted
- countably — in a countable manner
- countless — Countless means very many.
- countline — (in the confectionery trade) a chocolate-based bar
- couplings — Plural form of coupling.
- courtling — a fawning or sycophantic member of a royal court
- cromulent — (humorous) Fine, acceptable or normal; excellent, realistic, legitimate or authentic.
- cullionly — rascally; despicable
- cut along — to hurry off
- deucalion — the son of Prometheus and, with his wife Pyrrha, the only survivor on earth of a flood sent by Zeus (Deucalion's flood). Together, they were allowed to repopulate the world by throwing stones over their shoulders, which became men and women
- diclinous — (of flowering plants) bearing unisexual flowers
- elocution — The skill of clear and expressive speech, especially of distinct pronunciation and articulation.
- eloquence — Fluent or persuasive speaking or writing.
- eloquency — (nonstandard) Eloquence.
- enclosure — An area that is sealed off with an artificial or natural barrier.
- eulachons — Plural form of eulachon.
- exclusion — The process or state of excluding or being excluded.
- flouncing — a strip of material gathered or pleated and attached at one edge, with the other edge left loose or hanging: used for trimming, as on the edge of a skirt or sleeve or on a curtain, slipcover, etc.
- fonticuli — fontanelles
- gluconate — a salt of gluconic acid
- homunculi — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- 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.
- inclosure — enclosure.
- inclusion — the act of including.
- inoculant — inoculum.
- inoculate — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- involucel — a secondary involucre, as in a compound cluster of flowers.
- involucre — Botany. a collection or rosette of bracts subtending a flower cluster, umbel, or the like.
- kluckhohn — Clyde (Kay Maben) [mey-buh n] /ˈmeɪ bən/ (Show IPA), 1905–60, American anthropologist.
- la coruna — a seaport in NW Spain.
- laconicum — the sudatorium of an ancient Roman bath.
- languedoc — a former province in S France. Capital: Toulouse.
- larcenous — of, resembling, or characteristic of larceny.
- launcelot — Arthurian Romance. the greatest of Arthur's knights and the lover of Queen Guinevere.
- leucoline — quinoline.
- lichenous — of, relating to, or resembling a lichen.
- locutions — Plural form of locution.
- low-count — (of a woven fabric) having a relatively low number of warp and filling threads per square inch.
- 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.
- luctation — an effort; a struggle
- lunch box — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
- luncheons — Plural form of luncheon.