9-letter words containing m, u, c
- contumely — scornful or insulting language or behaviour
- conundrum — A conundrum is a problem or puzzle which is difficult or impossible to solve.
- core dump — a copy of main memory that is printed, displayed, or recorded on an output medium.
- cormidium — a collection of polyps in a siphonophore
- corn smut — an ascomycetous parasitic fungus, Ustilago zeae, that causes gall-like deformations on maize grain
- cornemuse — a type of French bagpipes
- cosmonaut — A cosmonaut is an astronaut from the former Soviet Union.
- costumers — a person who makes, sells, or rents costumes, as for theatrical productions.
- costumery — multiple costumes considered collectively
- costumier — A costumier is a person or company that makes or supplies costumes.
- costuming — a style of dress, including accessories and hairdos, especially that peculiar to a nation, region, group, or historical period.
- coulombic — relating to the discoveries of Charles Augustin de Coulomb
- coumarone — a colorless liquid, C8H6O, derived from coal tar and combined with indene to produce synthetic resins used in paints, adhesives, etc.
- coupledom — the state of living as a couple, esp when regarded as being interested in each other to the exclusion of the outside world
- courtroom — A courtroom is a room in which a legal court meets.
- cram-full — stuffed full
- cream jug — a small jug for serving cream
- creamcups — a Californian papaveraceous plant, Platystemon californicus, with small cream-coloured or yellow flowers on long flower stalks
- creampuff — puff pastry filled with cream
- credendum — an article of faith
- cribellum — a sievelike spinning organ in certain spiders that occurs between the spinnerets
- criminous — criminal
- criterium — a bicycle road race, consisting of numerous laps of a short closed circuit
- cromulent — (humorous) Fine, acceptable or normal; excellent, realistic, legitimate or authentic.
- cruciform — A cruciform building or object is shaped like a cross.
- crumbiest — Superlative form of crumby.
- crumbling — to break into small fragments or crumbs.
- crumhorns — Plural form of crumhorn.
- crummiest — Superlative form of crummy.
- crumpling — Present participle of crumple.
- ctenidium — one of the comblike respiratory gills of molluscs
- cube farm — an office which is divided up by mid-height partitions to create separate work spaces
- cubiculum — an underground burial chamber in Imperial Rome, such as those found in the catacombs
- cuckoldom — the state of being a cuckold
- cucumbers — Plural form of cucumber.
- culminant — highest or culminating
- 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.
- cult film — a film that a certain group of people admire very much
- cum laude — If a college student graduates cum laude, they receive the third highest honor that is possible. The second-highest grade is known as magna cum laude, and the highest grade of all is known as summa cum laude.
- cumbering — Present participle of cumber.
- cumbrance — a burden, obstacle, or hindrance
- cumulated — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- cumulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cumulate.
- cuneiform — wedge-shaped
- curialism — the doctrine and methods of the ultramontane party in the Roman Catholic Church
- currycomb — a square comb consisting of rows of small teeth, used for grooming horses
- curvesome — (dated) curvy.
- curviform — having a curved shape
- cusimanse — A small mongoose, of genus Crossarchus, native to West Africa.
- customary — Customary is used to describe things that people usually do in a particular society or in particular circumstances.