9-letter words containing c, r, u, i, s
- drumstick — a stick for beating a drum.
- dulcimers — Plural form of dulcimer.
- duricrust — a hard crust that forms on or in soil in semiarid climates owing to cementation of soil particles. Compare caliche, hardpan (defs 1, 2).
- echovirus — any of numerous retroviruses of the picornavirus group, some harmless and others associated with various human disorders, as aseptic meningitis.
- egrecious — Misspelling of egregious.
- epicurism — Epicureanism.
- esurience — The quality of being esurient; extreme gluttony or boundless hunger.
- eucharist — The Eucharist is the Christian religious ceremony in which Christ's last meal with his disciples is celebrated by eating bread and drinking wine.
- excursing — Present participle of excurse.
- excursion — A short journey or trip, esp. one engaged in as a leisure activity.
- excursive — Of the nature of an excursion; ranging widely; digressive.
- fabricius — Johan Christian [yoh-hahn kris-chuh n;; Danish yoh-hahn kris-tyahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈkrɪs tʃən;; Danish yoʊˈhɑn ˈkrɪs tyɑn/ (Show IPA), 1743–1808, Danish entomologist.
- feracious — Producing in abundance; fertile, fruitful.
- ferocious — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- fractious — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- frictious — (rare) Of, related to, or caused by friction.
- fruticose — having the form of a shrub; shrublike.
- fruticous — (botany) fruticose.
- furacious — given to stealing; thievish
- haruspicy — divination by a haruspex.
- heraclius — a.d. 575?–641, Byzantine emperor 610–641.
- heuretics — the use of logic
- heuristic — serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
- hircinous — (rare) Of, or pertaining to goats; hircine.
- hubristic — excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance.
- 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.
- incisures — Plural form of incisure.
- inclosure — enclosure.
- incrusted — Alternative spelling of encrusted.
- 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.
- incursive — making incursions.
- inductors — Plural form of inductor.
- innsbruck — an alpine region in W Austria and N Italy: a former Austrian crown land.
- instructs — (informal) shortened form of instructions.
- insurance — the act, system, or business of providing financial protection for property, life, health, etc, against specified contingencies, such as death, loss, or damage, and involving payment of regular premiums in return for a policy guaranteeing such protection
- juristics — The theory of law, or its study.
- justiciar — a high judicial officer in medieval England.
- kiss curl — lock of hair curled on forehead
- licensure — the granting of licenses, especially to engage in professional practice.
- lincrusta — a wallpaper having a hard embossed surface
- liturgics — the science or art of conducting public worship.
- lubricous — (of a surface, coating, etc.) having an oily smoothness; slippery.
- lucretius — (Titus Lucretius Carus) 97?–54 b.c, Roman poet and philosopher.
- ludicrous — causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable: a ludicrous lack of efficiency.
- lumbricus — a member of a genus of worms of the same name, the most common of which is the common earth worm, Lumbricus terrestris
- lustrical — Pertaining to, or used for, purification.
- manicures — Plural form of manicure.
- mercurius — (Mercurius) died a.d. 535, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 533–535.
- micronuts — Plural form of micronut.