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9-letter words containing e, o, u

  • bunkhouse — (in the US and Canada) a building containing the sleeping quarters of workers on a ranch
  • buoy rope — a rope attaching a buoy to its anchor
  • burdenous — burdensome
  • burgeoned — to grow or develop quickly; flourish: The town burgeoned into a city. He burgeoned into a fine actor.
  • burladero — a safe area for the bull-fighter in a bull ring
  • burrstone — buhrstone
  • burst edo — Burst Extended Data Out DRAM
  • bus error — (processor)   A fatal failure in the execution of a machine language instruction resulting from the processor detecting an anomalous condition on its bus. Such conditions include invalid address alignment (accessing a multi-byte number at an odd address), accessing a physical address that does not correspond to any device, or some other device-specific hardware error. A bus error triggers a processor-level exception which Unix translates into a "SIGBUS" signal which, if not caught, will terminate the current process.
  • buteonine — of or relating to hawks
  • cacafuego — a person with a fiery temper
  • cajeputol — cineole.
  • calculose — calculous
  • calembour — a pun
  • calloused — A foot or hand that is calloused is covered in calluses.
  • callouses — made hard; hardened.
  • camouflet — a type of bomb that is used during a siege to collapse an enemy's tunnel
  • cancerous — Cancerous cells or growths are cells or growths that are the result of cancer.
  • cankerous — having cankers
  • carousels — A merry-go-round.
  • carrefour — a public square, esp one at the intersection of several roads
  • carrousel — carousel
  • cartouche — a carved or cast ornamental tablet or panel in the form of a scroll, sometimes having an inscription
  • carve out — to make or create (a career)
  • carve-out — to cut (a solid material) so as to form something: to carve a piece of pine.
  • casebound — bound in hard covers.
  • cassoulet — a stew originating from France, made from haricot beans and goose, duck, pork, etc
  • castoreum — the oil secreted from the beaver which is used as bait by trappers
  • catalogue — A catalogue is a list of things such as the goods you can buy from a particular company, the objects in a museum, or the books in a library.
  • cathouses — Plural form of cathouse.
  • cautelous — crafty or cunning
  • cautioned — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
  • cautioner — A person who cautions.
  • cavernous — A cavernous room or building is very large inside, and so it reminds you of a cave.
  • ceanothus — any shrub of the North American rhamnaceous genus Ceanothus: grown for their ornamental, often blue, flower clusters
  • cellarous — of, relating to or resembling a cellar
  • cellhouse — a prison building containing separate cells, each usually intended for one or two prisoners.
  • celluloid — You can use celluloid to refer to films and the cinema.
  • cellulose — Cellulose is a substance that exists in the cell walls of plants and is used to make paper, plastic, and various fabrics and fibres.
  • cellulous — consisting of or filled with cells
  • centurion — A centurion was an officer in the Roman army.
  • cepaceous — having an onion-like smell or taste
  • cephalous — having a head
  • ceraceous — waxlike or waxy
  • ceratodus — any of various extinct lungfish constituting the genus Ceratodus, common in Cretaceous and Triassic times
  • cespitous — Turfy; resembling turf.
  • cetaceous — Relating to whales or more generally to any marine mammal of the order Cetacea.
  • chargeous — (obsolete) burdensome.
  • cheap out — to take the cheapest option; try to do something as cheaply as possible
  • chechaquo — Alternative form of cheechako.
  • check out — When you check out of a hotel or clinic where you have been staying, or if someone checks you out, you pay the bill and leave.
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