9-letter words containing n, u, l
- cromulent — (humorous) Fine, acceptable or normal; excellent, realistic, legitimate or authentic.
- cruelness — The state of being cruel; cruelty.
- crumbling — to break into small fragments or crumbs.
- crumpling — Present participle of crumple.
- cry uncle — a brother of one's father or mother.
- cubanelle — a long thin variety of sweet pepper
- cuchulain — a legendary hero of Ulster
- cuddlings — Plural form of cuddling.
- cudgeling — a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
- cuff link — one of a pair of linked buttons, used to join the buttonholes on the cuffs of a shirt
- cufflinks — one of a pair of linked ornamental buttons or buttonlike devices for fastening a shirt cuff.
- cullender — colander
- cullionly — rascally; despicable
- 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.
- cultigens — Plural form of cultigen.
- culturgen — One of the propagating mutating cultural units that form the subject of memetics.
- culturing — the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
- culverins — Plural form of culverin.
- cunicular — a small conduit or burrow, as an underground drain or rabbit hole.
- cuniculus — a small conduit or burrow, as an underground drain or rabbit hole.
- cunningly — skill employed in a shrewd or sly manner, as in deceiving; craftiness; guile.
- cup final — the final of any cup competition
- cup plant — a hardy composite plant, Silphium perfoliatum, of eastern North America, having large yellow flower heads and opposite leaves that envelop the stem, forming a cup.
- curliness — The state of being curly.
- currently — at the presenttime; now: She is currently working as a lab technician.
- cut along — to hurry off
- cut lunch — a sandwich lunch carried from home to work, school, etc
- cuttingly — In a cutting manner.
- cyan blue — a moderate greenish-blue to bluish-green color.
- daubingly — in a coating or smearing manner
- dauntless — A dauntless person is brave and confident and not easily frightened.
- debulking — Present participle of debulk.
- decupling — Present participle of decuple.
- defluxion — anything that flows downwards
- defueling — combustible matter used to maintain fire, as coal, wood, oil, or gas, in order to create heat or power.
- dehulling — to remove the hulls from (beans, seeds, etc.); hull.
- delousing — Present participle of delouse.
- delphinus — a small constellation in the N hemisphere, between Pegasus and Sagitta
- delundung — a spotted carnivorous mammal, Prionodon gracilis, native to East India and similar to the civet
- delusions — Plural form of delusion.
- demulcent — soothing; mollifying
- dentalium — any scaphopod mollusc of the genus Dentalium
- dentulous — having teeth
- depluming — Present participle of deplume.
- depulping — Also called dental pulp. the inner substance of the tooth, containing arteries, veins, and lymphatic and nerve tissue that communicate with their respective vascular, lymph, and nerve systems.
- designful — full of design or intention
- 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
- devaluing — to deprive of value; reduce the value of.
- diclinous — (of flowering plants) bearing unisexual flowers