9-letter words containing n, s
- cuisinart — a brand of food processor
- cuisinier — a cook; chef
- cultigens — Plural form of cultigen.
- culverins — Plural form of culverin.
- cuniculus — a small conduit or burrow, as an underground drain or rabbit hole.
- cunjevois — Plural form of cunjevoi.
- cuppiness — The state or quality of being cuppy.
- curbstone — A curbstone is one of the stones that form a curb.
- curliness — The state of being curly.
- curtsying — Present participle of curtsey.
- curviness — The state or condition of being curvy.
- cushiness — the quality or condition of being cushy
- cushioned — provided with cushions
- cushionet — a small cushion
- cusimanse — A small mongoose, of genus Crossarchus, native to West Africa.
- custodian — The custodian of an official building, a companies' assets, or something else valuable is the person who is officially in charge of it.
- cut stone — a stone or stonework dressed to a relatively fine finish with tools other than hammers.
- cutaneous — of, relating to, or affecting the skin
- cyclamens — Plural form of cyclamen.
- cylinders — Plural form of cylinder.
- cynicisms — Plural form of cynicism.
- cynosures — Plural form of cynosure.
- cyphonism — An ancient form of punishment involving a sort of wooden pillory by which the victim's neck was bent or weighed downward.
- cystidean — any one of the order of fossil echinoderms Cystidea
- cytokines — Plural form of cytokine.
- cytolysin — a substance that can partially or completely destroy animal cells
- d-s meson — a positively charged meson having a mass 3852 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 4.7 X 10 -13 seconds.
- dachshund — A dachshund is a small dog that has very short legs, a long body, and long ears.
- daffiness — silliness; craziness
- daghestan — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: annexed from Persia in 1813; rich mineral resources. Capital: Makhachkala. Pop: 2 584 200 (2002). Area: 50 278 sq km (19 416 sq miles)
- dailiness — the quality or nature of being daily
- daintiest — Superlative form of dainty.
- dal segno — (of a piece of music) to be repeated from the point marked with a sign to the word fine
- daltonism — colour blindness, esp the confusion of red and green
- damascene — to ornament (metal, esp steel) by etching or by inlaying, usually with gold or silver
- damaskeen — Alternative form of damascene.
- damasking — Present participle of damask.
- damasquin — decorate metal
- damnedest — If you say that something is the damnedest thing, you are emphasizing that it is surprising or odd.
- dandifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dandify.
- dandiness — Quality of being dandy.
- dangerous — If something is dangerous, it is able or likely to hurt or harm you.
- dantesque — in the style of Dante; characterized by impressive elevation of style with deep solemnity or somberness of feeling.
- darkeners — Plural form of darkener.
- darkeness — Obsolete form of darkness.
- darklings — in darkness
- darknesse — Archaic spelling of darkness.
- darnedest — (euphemistic) See damnedest.
- darwinism — the theory of the origin of animal and plant species by evolution through a process of natural selection
- darwinist — the Darwinian theory that species originate by descent, with variation, from parent forms, through the natural selection of those individuals best adapted for the reproductive success of their kind.