9-letter words containing c, r, u, i, s
- midcourse — the middle of a course.
- miscolour — (transitive) To give a wrong colour to.
- murchison — an intermittent river in W Australia, flowing SW to the Indian Ocean. 440 miles (708 km) long.
- muscarine — a poisonous compound, C 8 H 1 9 NO 3 , found in certain mushrooms, especially fly agaric, and in decaying fish.
- musciform — (botany) Having the appearance or form of a moss.
- mycerinus — king of ancient Egypt c2600–2570 b.c.: builder of the third great pyramid at ·El· Giza.
- mycovirus — any fungus-infecting virus.
- narcissus — any bulbous plant belonging to the genus Narcissus, of the amaryllis family, having showy yellow or white flowers with a cup-shaped corona.
- naucratis — an ancient Greek city in N Egypt, on the Nile delta.
- neurotics — Plural form of neurotic.
- nuisancer — a person that creates a nuisance or public offence
- obscuring — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- obscurity — the state or quality of being obscure.
- occupiers — Plural form of occupier.
- occursion — (obsolete) A meeting or striking together; a clash or collision.
- ocularist — a person who makes artificial eyes
- oncovirus — any of various RNA viruses that cause tumors in humans and other animals.
- paracusia — defective hearing.
- paracusis — defective hearing.
- parecious — paroicous.
- paroicous — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
- picturise — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- precieuse — one of the 17th-century literary women of France who affected an extreme care in the use of language.
- prescious — prescient
- prickspur — a spur having a single sharp goad or point.
- procopius — a.d. c490–c562, Greek historian.
- promuscis — the proboscis of some insects
- pushchair — A pushchair is a small chair on wheels, in which a baby or small child can sit and be wheeled around.
- quicksort — A sorting algorithm with O(n log n) average time complexity. One element, x of the list to be sorted is chosen and the other elements are split into those elements less than x and those greater than or equal to x. These two lists are then sorted recursively using the same algorithm until there is only one element in each list, at which point the sublists are recursively recombined in order yielding the sorted list. This can be written in Haskell:
- rap music — a style of popular music, developed by disc jockeys and urban blacks in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, slangy, and often boastful rhyming patter glibly intoned by a vocalist or vocalists.
- rapacious — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- reclusion — the condition or life of a recluse.
- reclusive — a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation.
- recursion — the process of defining a function or calculating a number by the repeated application of an algorithm.
- recursive — recursion
- rediscuss — to discuss again
- ridicules — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
- rusticana — objects, such as agricultural implements, garden furniture, etc, relating to the countryside or made in imitation of rustic styles
- rusticate — to go to the country.
- rusticism — a rustic expression
- rusticity — the state or quality of being rustic.
- rusticize — to make rustic
- sacrarium — Roman Catholic Church. a piscina.
- saluretic — of or relating to a substance that promotes renal excretion of sodium and chloride ions.
- scirrhous — of a hard, fibrous consistency.
- scorbutic — pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected with scurvy.
- scourging — a whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture.
- scourings — dirt or refuse removed by scouring.
- scripture — Often, Scriptures. Also called Holy Scripture, Holy Scriptures. the sacred writings of the Old or New Testaments or both together.
- scrubbily — in a scrubby or messy manner