8-letter words containing c, u, n, e, i
- fuchsine — A dye (rosaniline hydrochloride or similar) usually a deep red or magenta colour.
- geulincx — Arnold, 1624?–69, Belgian philosopher.
- guernica — Basque town in northern Spain: bombed and destroyed in 1937 by German planes helping the insurgents in the Spanish Civil War.
- guesclin — Bertrand du ?1320–80, French commander during the Hundred Years' War
- guidance — the act or function of guiding; leadership; direction.
- gynecium — gynoecium.
- icebound — held fast or hemmed in by ice; frozen in: an icebound ship.
- incisure — a notch, as in a bone or other structure.
- included — being part of the whole; contained; covered: Breakfast is included in the price of the room.
- includes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of include.
- inconnue — an unknown woman
- incubate — to sit upon (eggs) for the purpose of hatching.
- incumber — encumber.
- incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
- incurved — Turned inwards.
- inducers — Plural form of inducer.
- induciae — the time limit given for a defendant to appear in court after first receiving a citation to appear
- inducted — to install in an office, benefice, position, etc., especially with formal ceremonies: The committee inducted her as president.
- inductee — a person inducted into military service.
- infecund — not fecund; unfruitful; barren.
- insecure — subject to fears, doubts, etc.; not self-confident or assured: an insecure person.
- insucken — relating to, or situated within, a sucken
- intercur — (obsolete, intransitive) To intervene; to come or occur in the meantime.
- intercut — to cut from one type of shot to another, as from a long shot to a closeup.
- issuance — the act of issuing.
- jaundice — Also called icterus. Pathology. yellow discoloration of the skin, whites of the eyes, etc., due to an increase of bile pigments in the blood, often symptomatic of certain diseases, as hepatitis. Compare physiologic jaundice.
- leucosin — an albumin occurring in some cereal grains, such as wheat
- lincture — A linctus; medicine taken by licking with the tongue.
- line cut — an engraving consisting only of lines or areas that are solid black or white. Compare halftone (def 2).
- lucianne — a female given name.
- lunacies — Plural form of lunacy.
- manicule — (typography) the pointing hand symbol, used in printing, graphics or signs, to draw attention to or indicate something.
- manicure — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- meconium — the first fecal excretion of a newborn child, composed chiefly of bile, mucus, and epithelial cells.
- meniscus — a crescent or a crescent-shaped body.
- munchies — crunchy or chewy. Informal. for snacking: munchy foods like popcorn and cookies.
- neumatic — any of various symbols representing from one to four notes, used in the musical notation of the Middle Ages but now employed solely in the notation of Gregorian chant in the liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church.
- neuritic — inflammation of a nerve.
- neurotic — pertaining to the nerves or to nerve disease; neural: no longer in technical use.
- nucleoid — the central region in a prokaryotic cell, as a bacterium, that contains the chromosomes and that has no surrounding membrane.
- nucleoli — a conspicuous, rounded body within the nucleus of a cell.
- nuclides — Plural form of nuclide.
- nuisance — an obnoxious or annoying person, thing, condition, practice, etc.: a monthly meeting that was more nuisance than pleasure.
- numerics — The field of numerically-controlled engineering.
- picayune — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- pulicene — flea-ridden
- punchier — punch-drunk.
- quercine — of or relating to an oak.
- quickens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quicken.
- reducing — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.