9-letter words containing l, e, u, c, i
- colourize — to add colour electronically to (an old black-and-white film)
- colubrine — of or resembling a snake
- columbine — any plant of the ranunculaceous genus Aquilegia, having purple, blue, yellow, or red flowers with five spurred petals
- columbite — a black mineral consisting of a niobium oxide of iron and manganese in orthorhombic crystalline form: occurs in coarse granite, often with tantalite, and is an ore of niobium. Formula: (Fe, Mn)(Nb)2O6
- coquilles — any of various seafood or chicken dishes baked with a sauce and usually served in a scallop shell or a shell-shaped serving dish.
- cornelius — a masculine name: fem. Cornelia
- coulisses — Plural form of coulisse.
- countline — (in the confectionery trade) a chocolate-based bar
- courtlike — reminiscent of the court in style or manner; elegant; courtly
- credulity — Credulity is a willingness to believe that something is real or true.
- cribellum — a sievelike spinning organ in certain spiders that occurs between the spinnerets
- crucibles — Plural form of crucible.
- crude oil — Crude oil is oil in its natural state before it has been processed or refined.
- cruelties — Plural form of cruelty.
- cudgeling — a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
- culminate — If you say that an activity, process, or series of events culminates in or with a particular event, you mean that event happens at the end of it.
- cultigens — Plural form of cultigen.
- cultivate — If you cultivate land or crops, you prepare land and grow crops on it.
- culverins — Plural form of culverin.
- curlicued — Simple past tense and past participle of curlicue.
- curlicues — Plural form of curlicue.
- curliness — The state of being curly.
- curricles — Plural form of curricle.
- cursively — In a cursive manner.
- curtailed — to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.
- curtailer — One who curtails.
- curtilage — the enclosed area of land adjacent to a dwelling house
- cuticulae — Plural form of cuticula.
- cutleries — cutting instruments collectively, especially knives for cutting food.
- deceitful — If you say that someone is deceitful, you mean that they behave in a dishonest way by making other people believe something that is not true.
- declivous — having a declining slope or gradient
- decubital — any position assumed by a patient when lying in bed.
- decupling — Present participle of decuple.
- deducible — to derive as a conclusion from something known or assumed; infer: From the evidence the detective deduced that the gardener had done it.
- deducibly — in a deducible or conjecturable manner
- delicious — very enjoyable; delightful
- delictual — (legal) Derived from a delict (analogous to a tort).
- deucalion — the son of Prometheus and, with his wife Pyrrha, the only survivor on earth of a flood sent by Zeus (Deucalion's flood). Together, they were allowed to repopulate the world by throwing stones over their shoulders, which became men and women
- deviceful — full of devices; inventive; cunning
- difluence — diffluence.
- discluded — Simple past tense and past participle of disclude.
- dulcified — Sweetened; mollified.
- dulcifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dulcify.
- dulcimers — Plural form of dulcimer.
- dulcitude — Sweetness.
- duplicate — a copy exactly like an original.
- elocution — The skill of clear and expressive speech, especially of distinct pronunciation and articulation.
- elucidate — Make (something) clear; explain.
- equivocal — Open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous.
- eucalypti — Plural form of eucalyptus.