9-letter words containing s, c, i, u
- parecious — paroicous.
- paroicous — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
- pecunious — having plenty of money; wealthy
- pediculus — a louse
- picturise — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- pinaceous — belonging to the plant family Pinaceae.
- plus tick — uptick (def 2).
- pop music — popular music
- posticous — hinder; posterior.
- precieuse — one of the 17th-century literary women of France who affected an extreme care in the use of language.
- prescious — prescient
- prickspur — a spur having a single sharp goad or point.
- procopius — a.d. c490–c562, Greek historian.
- promuscis — the proboscis of some insects
- publicise — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
- publicist — a person who publicizes, especially a press agent or public-relations consultant.
- puckishly — in a puckish manner
- puissance — power, might, or force.
- pumiceous — Also called pumice stone. a porous or spongy form of volcanic glass, used as an abrasive.
- pushchair — A pushchair is a small chair on wheels, in which a baby or small child can sit and be wheeled around.
- putschist — a participant in a putsch.
- quebecois — Quebecer.
- quickness — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
- quicksand — a bed of soft or loose sand saturated with water and having considerable depth, yielding under weight and therefore tending to suck down any object resting on its surface.
- quicksets — Plural form of quickset.
- quicksort — A sorting algorithm with O(n log n) average time complexity. One element, x of the list to be sorted is chosen and the other elements are split into those elements less than x and those greater than or equal to x. These two lists are then sorted recursively using the same algorithm until there is only one element in each list, at which point the sublists are recursively recombined in order yielding the sorted list. This can be written in Haskell:
- quickstep — (formerly) a lively step used in marching.
- quidnuncs — Plural form of quidnunc.
- quiescent — being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless: a quiescent mind.
- quiesence — Misspelling of quiescence.
- rap music — a style of popular music, developed by disc jockeys and urban blacks in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, slangy, and often boastful rhyming patter glibly intoned by a vocalist or vocalists.
- rapacious — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- reclusion — the condition or life of a recluse.
- reclusive — a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation.
- recursion — the process of defining a function or calculating a number by the repeated application of an algorithm.
- recursive — recursion
- rediscuss — to discuss again
- ridicules — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
- rusticana — objects, such as agricultural implements, garden furniture, etc, relating to the countryside or made in imitation of rustic styles
- rusticate — to go to the country.
- rusticism — a rustic expression
- rusticity — the state or quality of being rustic.
- rusticize — to make rustic
- sack suit — a man's suit that has a loose-fitting jacket.
- sacrarium — Roman Catholic Church. a piscina.
- sagacious — having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd: a sagacious lawyer.
- salacious — lustful or lecherous.
- saliaunce — an onslaught
- salicetum — a plantation of willows
- saluretic — of or relating to a substance that promotes renal excretion of sodium and chloride ions.