9-letter words containing c, u, r, i, o
- midcourse — the middle of a course.
- miscolour — (transitive) To give a wrong colour to.
- multicore — (computer hardware, of a processor) Combining two or more independent cores into a single package composed of a single integrated circuit.
- murchison — an intermittent river in W Australia, flowing SW to the Indian Ocean. 440 miles (708 km) long.
- musciform — (botany) Having the appearance or form of a moss.
- mycovirus — any fungus-infecting virus.
- neurochip — a semiconductor chip designed for use in an electronic neural network
- neurotics — Plural form of neurotic.
- neutronic — (physics) Involving neutrons.
- 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.
- occurring — to happen; take place; come to pass: When did the accident occur?
- 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.
- orbicular — like an orb; circular; ringlike; spherical; rounded.
- outcrying — Present participle of outcry.
- outpriced — Simple past tense and past participle of outprice.
- overquick — too quick: Let's not be overquick to criticize.
- parecious — paroicous.
- paroicous — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
- picocurie — a trillionth of a curie, which is a unit of radioactivity
- porcupine — any of several rodents covered with stiff, sharp, erectile spines or quills, as Erethizon dorsatum of North America.
- prescious — prescient
- prick out — to transplant (seedlings) as from seed pans to shallow boxes
- procopius — a.d. c490–c562, Greek historian.
- procuring — to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means: to procure evidence.
- producing — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- promuscis — the proboscis of some insects
- pronuncio — a papal ambassador in a country that does not grant the Pope's ambassador precedence over other ambassadors
- puromycin — a substance with antibiotic properties, obtained from certain species of Streptomyces
- quercitol — a colorless, crystalline, sweet, water-soluble solid, C 6 H 1 2 O 5 , obtained from acorns or oak bark: used chiefly in medicine.
- 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:
- rapacious — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- recaution — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- reclusion — the condition or life of a recluse.
- recursion — the process of defining a function or calculating a number by the repeated application of an algorithm.
- reduction — the act of reducing or the state of being reduced.
- rhizocaul — a rootlike stem or stalk
- roubiliac — Louis-François (lwifrɑ̃swa). ?1695–1762, French sculptor: lived chiefly in England: his sculptures include the statue of Handel in Vauxhall Gardens (1737)
- ructation — an eructation or belch
- 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.
- scrutoire — writing desk (def 1).
- scutiform — being in the shape of a shield; shield-shaped.
- securicor — a well-known security company which transports money between shops, banks etc; it is also involved in prison management
- sericeous — silky.