9-letter words containing o, n, r, u
- crank out — If you say that a company or person cranks out a quantity of similar things, you mean they produce them quickly, in the same way, and are usually implying that the things are not original or are of poor quality.
- cretinous — If you describe someone as cretinous, you think they are very stupid.
- criminous — criminal
- cromulent — (humorous) Fine, acceptable or normal; excellent, realistic, legitimate or authentic.
- cropbound — (of poultry) having a congested crop
- croquante — a crisp cake or pastry
- crotonbug — species of cockroach
- crouching — to stoop or bend low.
- crowdfund — To fund (a project) by having many individuals pool their money together, usually via the Internet.
- crumhorns — Plural form of crumhorn.
- cunctator — (Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus"Cunctator") 275–203 b.c, Roman statesman and general: defeated Hannibal's army by harassment without risking a pitched battle.
- cuneiform — wedge-shaped
- cupertino — a town in W California.
- cupferron — a salt ammonium compound (N-nitrosophenylhydroxylamine) used as a reagent in metal ion complexation
- curandero — a male healer or shaman in Hispanic-America
- curbstone — A curbstone is one of the stones that form a curb.
- currajong — kurrajong
- currawong — any Australian crowlike songbird of the genus Strepera, having black, grey, and white plumage: family Cracticidae
- 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
- cynosures — Plural form of cynosure.
- dangerous — If something is dangerous, it is able or likely to hurt or harm you.
- decurions — Plural form of decurion.
- decursion — a military exercise performed by men bearing arms
- deerhound — a very large rough-coated breed of dog of the greyhound type
- demeanour — Your demeanour is the way you behave, which gives people an impression of your character and feelings.
- denouncer — One who, or that which, denounces.
- detouring — Present participle of detour.
- detrusion — the act of detruding.
- deuterons — Plural form of deuteron.
- devouring — Present participle of devour.
- diandrous — (of some flowers or flowering plants) having two stamens
- 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.
- dirhinous — having paired nostrils.
- diruption — (archaic) disruption.
- dishonour — lack or loss of honor; disgraceful or dishonest character or conduct.
- doronicum — any composite plant of the genus Doronicum, comprising the leopard's-banes.
- downburst — a strong downward current of air from a cumulonimbus cloud, often associated with intense thunderstorms.
- downcourt — to or into the opposite end of the court.
- downpours — Plural form of downpour.
- downturns — Plural form of downturn.
- draghound — a hound for use in following a hunting drag, specifically bred for speed and stamina rather than subtlety of sense of smell.
- draw upon — use as source or resource
- drawn-out — long-drawn-out.
- drown out — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- drum into — instill by repetition
- dubrovnik — a seaport in S Croatia, on the Adriatic: resort.
- dumbarton — Also, Dunbarton [duhn-bahr-tn] /dʌnˈbɑr tn/ (Show IPA). Also called Dumbartonshire [duhm-bahr-tn-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈbɑr tnˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in W Scotland.