9-letter words containing c, o, u, e, i
- elocution — The skill of clear and expressive speech, especially of distinct pronunciation and articulation.
- emunction — The act of blowing one's nose.
- encomiums — Plural form of encomium.
- equivocal — Open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous.
- eruciform — Shaped like a caterpillar.
- euchloric — relating to euchlorine
- eunuchoid — Resembling a eunuch, typically in having reduced or indeterminate sexual characteristics.
- eurytopic — (of a species) able to tolerate a wide range of environments
- eutectoid — Relating to or denoting an alloy that has a minimum transformation temperature between a solid solution and a simple mixture of metals.
- eutrophic — (of a lake or other body of water) rich in nutrients and so supporting a dense plant population, the decomposition of which kills animal life by depriving it of oxygen.
- 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.
- facetious — not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark.
- feracious — Producing in abundance; fertile, fruitful.
- ferocious — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- filaceous — composed of threads
- fruticose — having the form of a shrub; shrublike.
- 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.
- grouchier — Comparative form of grouchy.
- guilloche — an ornamental pattern or border, as in architecture, consisting of paired ribbons or lines flowing in interlaced curves around a series of circular voids.
- gynoecium — the pistil or pistils of a flower; the female parts.
- ice house — a building for storing ice.
- icehouses — Plural form of icehouse.
- 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.
- incestous — Misspelling of incestuous.
- inclosure — enclosure.
- incourage — Archaic form of encourage.
- indecorum — indecorous behavior or character.
- 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.
- 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.
- jouisance — joy; delight
- kilocurie — a unit of radioactivity, equal to 1000 curies. Abbreviation: kCi, kc.
- leucoline — quinoline.
- lichenous — of, relating to, or resembling a lichen.
- lilaceous — of or approaching the color lilac.
- limaceous — Characteristic of slugs (of the family Limacidae).
- liquorice — licorice.
- lodicules — Plural form of lodicule.
- micaceous — consisting of, containing, or resembling mica.
- microtube — A microscopic tube, especially one used in the construction of specialized lasers.
- midcourse — the middle of a course.
- monecious — monoecious.
- monticule — a subordinate volcanic cone.
- moo juice — cow's milk.
- moo-juice — cow's milk.