8-letter words containing c, u, t, i, n
- function — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- gunstick — a ramrod
- hutching — Present participle of hutch.
- hutchins — Robert Maynard, 1899–1977, U.S. educator and college president.
- in dutch — of, relating to, or characteristic of the natives or inhabitants of the Netherlands or their country or language.
- in touch — If you get in touch with someone, you contact them by writing to them or telephoning them. If you are, keep, or stay in touch with them, you write, phone, or visit each other regularly.
- incubate — to sit upon (eggs) for the purpose of hatching.
- 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.
- inductor — Also called inductance. Electricity. a coil used to introduce inductance into an electric circuit.
- insculpt — engraved
- instruct — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
- 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.
- junction — an act of joining; combining.
- 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).
- linocuts — Plural form of linocut.
- locution — a particular form of expression; a word, phrase, expression, or idiom, especially as used by a particular person, group, etc.
- lunatics — Plural form of lunatic.
- micronut — (climbing) A small nut (piece of metal jammed into the rockface to protect a climb).
- miscount — an erroneous counting; miscalculation.
- mulcting — Present participle of mulct.
- mutchkin — Scot. a unit of liquid measure equal to a little less than a U.S. liquid pint.
- nautical — of or relating to sailors, ships, or navigation: nautical terms.
- 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.
- noctuids — Plural form of noctuid.
- noctuoid — a member of the family of moths Noctuidae
- nocturia — a condition in which one often wakes up during the night to urinate.
- nugacity — triviality; insignificance.
- nutpicks — Plural form of nutpick.
- nycturia — a condition in which one often wakes up during the night to urinate.
- pin tuck — a narrow ornamental fold used esp on shirt fronts and dress bodices
- pinchgut — someone who does not give other people enough food
- plutonic — noting or pertaining to a class of igneous rocks that have solidified far below the earth's surface.
- punditic — of or relating to pundits
- quantico — a U.S. Marine Corps base and development and education command in NE Virginia, NE of Fredericksburg on the Potomac River.
- quantics — Plural form of quantic.
- quintics — Plural form of quintic.
- reinduct — to install in an office, benefice, position, etc., especially with formal ceremonies: The committee inducted her as president.
- ructions — disturbance
- ruthenic — containing ruthenium in a higher valence state than the corresponding ruthenious compound.
- saturnic — having or affected with lead-poisoning
- scouting — a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
- scrutiny — a searching examination or investigation; minute inquiry.
- sinciput — the forepart of the skull.
- subtonic — the seventh tone of a scale, being the next below the upper tonic.
- subtunic — a garment worn under a tunic