9-letter words containing o, c, u, l, a
- countable — capable of being counted
- countably — in a countable manner
- courbaril — a tropical American leguminous tree, Hymenaea courbaril. Its wood is a useful timber and its gum is a source of copal
- crapulous — characterized by intemperance, esp. in drinking; debauched
- culpatory — expressing blame
- cup coral — any of several species of coral in which the polyp forms and houses itself in a cup-shaped depression in the skeleton.
- cupolated — having a cupola or cupolas.
- cursorial — adapted for running
- custodial — Custodial means relating to keeping people in prison.
- cut along — to hurry off
- decalogue — Ten Commandments
- 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
- dicumarol — a white, crystalline powder, C19H12O6, originally extracted from spoiled sweet clover, used to retard blood clots
- dulcorate — (obsolete, transitive) To sweeten; to make less acrimonious.
- dulocracy — rule by slaves.
- equivocal — Open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous.
- eulachons — Plural form of eulachon.
- filaceous — composed of threads
- floccular — of or relating to the flocculus of the cerebellum
- floscular — Flosculous.
- focusable — Capable of being focused.
- formulaic — made according to a formula; composed of formulas: a formulaic plot.
- fumarolic — Of or relating to a fumarole or fumaroles.
- glaucodot — a mineral, iron and cobalt sulfarsenide, (Co,Fe)AsS, occurring in grayish-white crystals.
- gluconate — a salt of gluconic acid
- guacamole — a dip of mashed avocado mixed with tomato, onion, and seasonings.
- holocaust — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
- housecarl — a member of the household troops or bodyguard of a Danish or early English king or noble.
- 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.
- jaculator — a person who hurls or throws
- jocularly — given to, characterized by, intended for, or suited to joking or jesting; waggish; facetious: jocular remarks about opera stars.
- joculator — (obsolete) A jester; a joker.
- la coruna — a seaport in NW Spain.
- laconicum — the sudatorium of an ancient Roman bath.
- lactulose — (organic compound) A disaccharide of galactose and fructose formed when milk is heated.
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- languedoc — a former province in S France. Capital: Toulouse.
- larcenous — of, resembling, or characteristic of larceny.
- launcelot — Arthurian Romance. the greatest of Arthur's knights and the lover of Queen Guinevere.
- law court — court of law.
- leucothea — a sea goddess, the deified Ino, who gave Odysseus a veil as a float after a storm had destroyed his raft.
- lilaceous — of or approaching the color lilac.
- limaceous — Characteristic of slugs (of the family Limacidae).
- local bus — (hardware) A bus connecting a processor to memory, usually on the same circuit board as opposed to a backplane and therefore faster. Various proprietary local busses for personal computers are still in use. The most common are Vesa local bus (VLB or VL), and Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI). Some computers, e.g. notebook computers, use a local bus with no expansion slots. Previous non-local bus standards include ISA, EISA and MCA.
- loculated — Locular.
- loquacity — the state of being loquacious; talkativeness; garrulity.
- luctation — an effort; a struggle
- malicious — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- mcdougall — William, 1871–1938, U.S. psychologist and writer, born in England.