9-letter words containing c, o, n, t, u
- furcation — forked; branching.
- gluconate — a salt of gluconic acid
- guncotton — a highly explosive cellulose nitrate, made by digesting clean cotton in a mixture of one part nitric acid and three parts sulfuric acid: used in making smokeless powder.
- gunstocks — Plural form of gunstock.
- hacqueton — an upholstered garment for the upper body worn under chain mail or such a garment covered with chain mail
- headcount — The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
- hutcheson — Francis. 1694–1746, Scottish philosopher: he published books on ethics and aesthetics, including System of Moral Philosophy (1755)
- incaution — lack of caution; heedlessness; carelessness.
- incestous — Misspelling of incestuous.
- incorrupt — not corrupt; not debased or perverted; morally upright.
- incubator — an apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially.
- induction — the act of inducing, bringing about, or causing: induction of the hypnotic state.
- inductors — Plural form of inductor.
- innocuity — not harmful or injurious; harmless: an innocuous home remedy.
- 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.
- introduce — to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.
- introduct — (obsolete) To instruct.
- inunction — the act of anointing.
- jocundity — the state or an instance of being jocund; gaiety.
- junctions — Plural form of junction.
- knock out — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- knockouts — Plural form of knockout.
- kostunica — Vojislav (ˈvɒjɪslæf). born 1944, Serbian politician; president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (2000–03); prime minister of Serbia and Montenegro (2004–06); prime minister of Serbia (2006–08)
- launcelot — Arthurian Romance. the greatest of Arthur's knights and the lover of Queen Guinevere.
- 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
- micronuts — Plural form of micronut.
- miscounts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of miscount.
- mockernut — a North American hickory, Carya tomentosa, bearing a sweet, edible nut.
- monticule — a subordinate volcanic cone.
- montlucon — a city in central France.
- mucronate — having an abruptly projecting point, as a feather or leaf.
- munch out — to chew with steady or vigorous working of the jaws, often audibly.
- nectarous — of the nature of or resembling nectar.
- neurotics — Plural form of neurotic.
- neutronic — (physics) Involving neutrons.
- noctiluca — a dinoflagellate of the genus Noctiluca, capable of producing light and, in groups, of causing a luminous appearance of the sea.
- nocturnal — of or relating to the night (opposed to diurnal).
- nocturnes — Plural form of nocturne.
- noncounty — relating to a borough that does not have county status, specifically in reference to local governance in England
- nosecount — the counting of individual persons, as for a census.
- nouthetic — Being or relating to a form of Evangelical Protestant pastoral counseling based upon the Bible and focused on Christ.
- nucleator — having a nucleus.
- obcuneate — inversely cuneate.
- obduction — (obsolete) The act of drawing or laying over, as a covering.
- obscurant — a person who strives to prevent the increase and spread of knowledge.
- occupants — Plural form of occupant.