9-letter words containing n, o, u, i
- innuendos — Plural form of innuendo.
- inoculant — inoculum.
- inoculate — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- inodorous — not odorous; odorless.
- inpouring — The action of pouring something in; an infusion.
- inquorate — (of an assembly) unable to proceed effectively because not enough members are present to make up a quorum.
- insidious — intended to entrap or beguile: an insidious plan.
- insiduous — Misspelling of insidious.
- insoluble — incapable of being dissolved: insoluble salts.
- insolubly — In an insoluble manner; irresolubly, irresolvably.
- insulator — Electricity. a material of such low conductivity that the flow of current through it is negligible. insulating material, often glass or porcelain, in a unit form designed so as to support a charged conductor and electrically isolate it.
- integrous — (rare) Having or characterized by integrity.
- intourist — a Russian agency that handles travel arrangements for foreign visitors to the former Soviet Union.
- introduce — to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.
- introduct — (obsolete) To instruct.
- introitus — (medicine) The entrance to a hollow organ or canal; often specifically the entrance to the vagina.
- intrusion — Law. an illegal act of entering, seizing, or taking possession of another's property. a wrongful entry after the determination of a particular estate, made before the remainderman or reversioner has entered.
- intuition — direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process; immediate apprehension.
- inuendoes — Plural form of inuendo.
- inunction — the act of anointing.
- invidious — calculated to create ill will or resentment or give offense; hateful: invidious remarks.
- involucel — a secondary involucre, as in a compound cluster of flowers.
- involucre — Botany. a collection or rosette of bracts subtending a flower cluster, umbel, or the like.
- involuted — intricate; complex.
- involutes — Plural form of involute.
- inwrought — worked in or closely combined with something.
- ionopause — the transitional zone between the ionosphere and the mesosphere.
- iron blue — any of the class of blue pigments having a high tinting strength and ranging in shade and in coloring properties from reddish blue to jet blue: used chiefly in the manufacture of paints and printing inks.
- iron duke — 1st Duke of (Arthur Wellesley"the Iron Duke") 1769–1852, British general and statesman, born in Ireland: prime minister 1828–30.
- iron lung — a chamberlike respirator, formerly used in the treatment of poliomyelitis, that encloses the whole body except the head and in which alternate pulsations of high and low pressure induce normal breathing movements or force air into and out of the lungs.
- ironbound — bound with iron.
- iroquoian — a family of North American Indian languages that includes Cherokee, Seneca, Mohawk, and Oneida.
- irruption — a breaking or bursting in; a violent incursion or invasion.
- isandrous — having the stamens similar to each other and equal in number to the petals.
- isanthous — having regular flowers.
- isobutane — a colorless, flammable gas, C 4 H 10 , used as a fuel, as a refrigerant, and in the manufacture of gasoline by alkylation.
- isobutene — (organic compound) The unsaturated hydrocarbon methylpropene, (CH3)2C=CH2; used in the manufacture of polybutene and butyl rubber.
- isogenous — of the same or similar origin, as parts derived from the same or corresponding tissues of the embryo.
- isoquants — Plural form of isoquant.
- ivory nut — the seed of a low, South American palm, Phytelephas macrocarpa, yielding vegetable ivory.
- jocundity — the state or an instance of being jocund; gaiety.
- join duty — to report for work after a period of leave or a strike
- joined-up — In joined-up writing, you join all the letters in each word together, without taking your pen off the paper. This sort of writing is used by older children and adults.
- jointures — Plural form of jointure.
- jonquiere — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- jotunheim — the outer world, or realm of giants; Utgard.
- jouisance — joy; delight
- junctions — Plural form of junction.
- juniorate — a two-year course of study for a Jesuit novice in preparation for the course in philosophy.
- juniority — the state or fact of being junior in age, rank, standing, etc.