9-letter words containing n, o, t, u, r
- contoured — A contoured surface has curves and slopes on it, rather than being flat.
- corn smut — an ascomycetous parasitic fungus, Ustilago zeae, that causes gall-like deformations on maize grain
- coroutine — (programming) A piece of code that performs a task, and that can be passed new input and return output more than once.
- corpulent — If you describe someone as corpulent, you mean they are fat.
- coruscant — giving off flashes of light
- cothurnal — relating to the cothurnus or to tragedy
- cothurnus — the buskin worn in ancient Greek tragedy
- count for — to check over (the separate units or groups of a collection) one by one to determine the total number; add up; enumerate: He counted his tickets and found he had ten.
- countered — in the wrong way; contrary to the right course; in the reverse or opposite direction.
- countries — a state or nation: What European countries have you visited?
- countrify — to make countrified.
- countryfy — Alternative spelling of countrify.
- courantes — Plural form of courante.
- courtesan — In former times, a courtesan was a woman who had sexual relationships with rich and powerful men for money.
- courtezan — Alternative spelling of courtesan.
- courtling — a fawning or sycophantic member of a royal court
- coventure — An international coproduction set up in the absence of any official treaty between the countries.
- crank out — If you say that a company or person cranks out a quantity of similar things, you mean they produce them quickly, in the same way, and are usually implying that the things are not original or are of poor quality.
- cretinous — If you describe someone as cretinous, you think they are very stupid.
- cromulent — (humorous) Fine, acceptable or normal; excellent, realistic, legitimate or authentic.
- croquante — a crisp cake or pastry
- crotonbug — species of cockroach
- cunctator — (Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus"Cunctator") 275–203 b.c, Roman statesman and general: defeated Hannibal's army by harassment without risking a pitched battle.
- cupertino — a town in W California.
- curbstone — A curbstone is one of the stones that form a curb.
- curtation — the discrepancy between the curtate distance and the true distance of a planet from the sun
- curvation — the action of curving or bending
- detouring — Present participle of detour.
- detrusion — the act of detruding.
- deuterons — Plural form of deuteron.
- diner-out — a person who dines out.
- diruption — (archaic) disruption.
- downburst — a strong downward current of air from a cumulonimbus cloud, often associated with intense thunderstorms.
- downcourt — to or into the opposite end of the court.
- downturns — Plural form of downturn.
- drawn-out — long-drawn-out.
- drown out — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- drum into — instill by repetition
- dumbarton — Also, Dunbarton [duhn-bahr-tn] /dʌnˈbɑr tn/ (Show IPA). Also called Dumbartonshire [duhm-bahr-tn-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈbɑr tnˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in W Scotland.
- dunbarton — former county of W Scotland
- durations — Plural form of duration.
- emunctory — Pertaining to the elimination of waste from the body.
- en croûte — wrapped in pastry and baked
- encounter — Unexpectedly experience or be faced with (something difficult or hostile).
- entourage — A group of people attending or surrounding an important person.
- enwrought — (archaic) Made from (a material).
- epuration — purification
- erudition — The quality of having or showing great knowledge or learning; scholarship.
- eruptions — Plural form of eruption.
- europanet — A combination of pan-European backbone services run by DANTE.