9-letter words containing c, o, n, u
- encourage — Give support, confidence, or hope to (someone).
- eulachons — Plural form of eulachon.
- eunuchoid — Resembling a eunuch, typically in having reduced or indeterminate sexual characteristics.
- exclusion — The process or state of excluding or being excluded.
- excursion — A short journey or trip, esp. one engaged in as a leisure activity.
- excussion — The process or proceedings whereby a creditor must proceed against a principal debtor before proceeding against a surety or subsidiary debtor.
- execution — The carrying out or putting into effect of a plan, order, or course of action.
- exsuction — The act of sucking out.
- 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.
- focusings — Plural form of focusing.
- focussing — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- fonticuli — fontanelles
- fourpence — a sum of money of the value of four English pennies.
- frouncing — Present participle of frounce.
- fructosan — any of the class of hexosans, as inulin and the like, that yield fructose upon hydrolysis.
- functions — Plural form of function.
- furcation — forked; branching.
- gluconate — a salt of gluconic acid
- grouching — Present participle of grouch.
- 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.
- gynoecium — the pistil or pistils of a flower; the female parts.
- 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.
- hircinous — (rare) Of, or pertaining to goats; hircine.
- homunculi — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- hurricano — (obsolete) A waterspout; a hurricane.
- hutcheson — Francis. 1694–1746, Scottish philosopher: he published books on ethics and aesthetics, including System of Moral Philosophy (1755)
- ichneumon — Also called African mongoose, Egyptian mongoose. a slender, long-tailed mongoose, Herpestes ichneumon, inhabiting Africa and southern Europe, and believed by the ancient Egyptians to devour crocodile eggs.
- in chorus — Music. a group of persons singing in unison. (in an opera, oratorio, etc.) such a group singing choral parts in connection with soloists or individual singers. a piece of music for singing in unison. a part of a song that recurs at intervals, usually following each verse; refrain.
- 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.
- incaution — lack of caution; heedlessness; carelessness.
- incestous — Misspelling of incestuous.
- inclosure — enclosure.
- inclusion — the act of including.
- incorrupt — not corrupt; not debased or perverted; morally upright.
- incourage — Archaic form of encourage.
- incubator — an apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially.
- incurious — not curious; not inquisitive or observant; inattentive; indifferent.
- incursion — a hostile entrance into or invasion of a place or territory, especially a sudden one; raid: The bandits made brief incursions on the village.
- indecorum — indecorous behavior or character.
- 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.
- innocuous — 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.