9-letter words containing r, u, c, t
- gobstruck — (slang, chiefly, UK) gobsmacked; astonished; astounded.
- graticule — Navigation. a network of parallels and meridians on a map or chart.
- hardcourt — relating to a type of tennis court that is made of hard material
- heuretics — the use of logic
- heuristic — serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
- homecourt — (basketball) The home court of a basketball team.
- hubristic — excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance.
- hucksters — Plural form of huckster.
- huckstery — the business of a huckster
- incorrupt — not corrupt; not debased or perverted; morally upright.
- incrusted — Alternative spelling of encrusted.
- incubator — an apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially.
- inculture — (obsolete) Lack or neglect of cultivation or culture.
- incurrent — carrying or relating to an inward current.
- incurtain — (obsolete) To curtain.
- incurvate — curved, especially inward.
- incurvity — the quality of having inward curvature
- inductors — Plural form of inductor.
- instructs — (informal) shortened form of instructions.
- interclub — a heavy stick, usually thicker at one end than at the other, suitable for use as a weapon; a cudgel.
- interduce — (construction) An intertie.
- intraclub — Within a club.
- introduce — to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.
- introduct — (obsolete) To instruct.
- jackfruit — a large, tropical, milky-juiced tree, Artocarpus heterophyllus, of the mulberry family, having stiff and glossy green leaves, cultivated for its very large, edible fruit and seeds.
- jaculator — a person who hurls or throws
- joculator — (obsolete) A jester; a joker.
- judicator — a person who acts as judge or sits in judgment.
- junctural — of or relating to phonological juncture.
- junctures — a point of time, especially one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances: At this juncture, we must decide whether to stay or to walk out.
- juristics — The theory of law, or its study.
- justiciar — a high judicial officer in medieval England.
- kick turn — a turn from a stationary position in which a skier lifts one ski to a point where the heel is nearly at right angles to the snow, then faces the ski outward, sets it down in the direction to be turned, and swings the other ski around so that both skis are parallel.
- krautrock — (music) A genre of German experimental rock music from the 1970s.
- kurchatov — Igor Vasilievich [ee-guh r-vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /ˈi gər vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–60, Soviet nuclear physicist.
- latreutic — of or relating to latria.
- law court — court of law.
- lecturers — Plural form of lecturer.
- lecturing — Present participle of lecture.
- lincrusta — a wallpaper having a hard embossed surface
- liturgics — the science or art of conducting public worship.
- lubricant — a substance, as oil or grease, for lessening friction, especially in the working parts of a mechanism.
- lubricate — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- lubricity — oily smoothness, as of a surface; slipperiness.
- lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- lucretius — (Titus Lucretius Carus) 97?–54 b.c, Roman poet and philosopher.
- lucubrate — to work, write, or study laboriously, especially at night.
- lustrical — Pertaining to, or used for, purification.
- macarthur — Douglas, 1880–1964, U.S. general: supreme commander of allied forces in SW Pacific during World War II and of UN forces in Korea 1950–51.
- macrotous — having large ears