9-letter words containing n, o, u, i
- couraging — Present participle of courage.
- courtling — a fawning or sycophantic member of a royal court
- cousinage — a kinship or relationship
- cretinous — If you describe someone as cretinous, you think they are very stupid.
- criminous — criminal
- crouching — to stoop or bend low.
- cullionly — rascally; despicable
- cuneiform — wedge-shaped
- cunjevois — Plural form of cunjevoi.
- cupertino — a town in W California.
- currijong — kurrajong.
- curtation — the discrepancy between the curtate distance and the true distance of a planet from the sun
- curvation — the action of curving or bending
- cushioned — provided with cushions
- cushionet — a small cushion
- custodian — The custodian of an official building, a companies' assets, or something else valuable is the person who is officially in charge of it.
- decurions — Plural form of decurion.
- decursion — a military exercise performed by men bearing arms
- deduction — A deduction is a conclusion that you have reached about something because of other things that you know to be true.
- defluxion — anything that flows downwards
- delousing — Present participle of delouse.
- delusions — Plural form of delusion.
- detouring — Present participle of detour.
- detrusion — the act of detruding.
- 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
- devouring — Present participle of devour.
- diandrous — (of some flowers or flowering plants) having two stamens
- diazonium — of, consisting of, or containing the group, Ar-N:N-, where Ar is an aryl group
- diclinous — (of flowering plants) bearing unisexual flowers
- diffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
- dilutions — Plural form of dilution.
- diner-out — a person who dines out.
- dinosaurs — any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile of the extinct orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, from the Mesozoic Era, certain species of which are the largest known land animals.
- dionysius — ("the Elder") 431?–367 b.c, Greek soldier: tyrant of Syracuse 405–367.
- dirhinous — having paired nostrils.
- diruption — (archaic) disruption.
- discounts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discount.
- dishonour — lack or loss of honor; disgraceful or dishonest character or conduct.
- dismounts — Plural form of dismount.
- divulsion — a tearing apart; violent separation.
- dominguin — Luis Miguel [lwees mee-gel] /lwis miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), (Luis Miguel González Lucas) 1926–1996, Spanish bullfighter.
- dominique — one of an American breed of chicken, having slate-colored plumage crossed by light and dark bars, raised for its meat and brown eggs.
- dong quai — an aromatic herb, Angelica sinensis, of the parsley family, native to China and Japan, used to treat menopausal symptoms, premenstrual syndrome, and menstrual irregularity.
- doronicum — any composite plant of the genus Doronicum, comprising the leopard's-banes.
- doujinshi — (anime, manga, video games) A fan-produced work, especially a manga, anime, or video game.
- douppioni — an irregular silk thread reeled from two or more entangled cocoons and producing a coarse yarn generally used in fabrics such as shantung or pongee.
- drum into — instill by repetition
- dubrovnik — a seaport in S Croatia, on the Adriatic: resort.
- dundonian — a native or inhabitant of Dundee
- duobinary — denoting a communications system for coding digital data in which three data bands are used, 0, +1, –1