9-letter words containing r, a, n, c
- transonic — close to the speed of propagation of sound; moving at 700–780 miles per hour (1127–1255 km/h) at sea level.
- trash can — a container for the disposal of dry waste matter.
- trenchant — incisive or keen, as language or a person; caustic; cutting: trenchant wit.
- trenchard — Hugh Montague, 1st Viscount, 1873–1956, British Royal Air Force marshal.
- trichinal — relating to trichina
- triclosan — a drug used to treat skin infections
- trinacria — an ancient name of Sicily.
- truncated — truncated.
- turn back — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- una corda — with the soft pedal depressed (a musical direction in piano playing).
- unaccrued — to happen or result as a natural growth, addition, etc.
- unacerbic — (of a taste) not sharp or bitter
- unamerced — not amerced or punished
- uncandour — lack of candour
- uncareful — not careful; not caring or vigilant; careless
- uncatered — to provide food, service, etc., as for a party or wedding: to cater for a banquet.
- uncertain — not definitely ascertainable or fixed, as in time of occurrence, number, dimensions, or quality.
- uncharged — not charged, especially with electricity; electrically neutral: an uncharged battery; an uncharged particle.
- uncharity — lack of charity; uncharitable thought or behaviour; unkindness
- uncharmed — marked by good fortune or privilege: a charmed life.
- uncharnel — to remove from a charnel; exhume
- uncharred — not charred; free from charring
- uncharted — not shown or located on a map; unexplored; unknown, as a place or region: the uncharted depths of space.
- unclarity — clearness or lucidity as to perception or understanding; freedom from indistinctness or ambiguity.
- uncleared — left untidy
- uncordial — unfriendly
- uncracked — broken: a container full of cracked ice.
- uncreated — not yet created; not existing
- uncurable — capable of being cured.
- uncurtain — to reveal
- undercard — an event or group of events preceding and supporting a featured event: the undercard of tonight's boxing match.
- undercast — Mining. a crossing of two passages, as airways, dug at the same level so that one descends to pass beneath the other without any opening into it. Compare overcast (def 9).
- underclad — not wearing enough clothes
- underclay — a grey or whitish clay rock containing fossilized plant roots and occurring beneath coal seams. When used as a refractory, it is known as fireclay
- undercoat — a coat or jacket worn under another.
- uniocular — monocular.
- unit card — a main entry catalog card, duplicates of which are used for added entries.
- unlyrical — not lyrical
- unorganic — noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon.
- unradical — of or going to the root or origin; fundamental: a radical difference.
- unreached — not reached
- unscarred — a mark left by a healed wound, sore, or burn.
- unsecular — not secular
- untracked — that is not or cannot be tracked or traced: untracked marauders of the jungle.
- up-anchor — to weigh anchor.
- uraniscus — a starlike ornament, as in a coffer of a ceiling.
- utterance — the utmost extremity, especially death.
- vancouver — George, 1758–98, English explorer.
- vicariant — the geographical separation and isolation of a subpopulation, resulting in the original population's differentiation as a new variety or species.
- victorian — of or relating to Queen Victoria or the period of her reign: Victorian poets.