9-letter words containing s, c, u
- curvesome — (dated) curvy.
- curviness — The state or condition of being curvy.
- cush-cush — yampee.
- cushiness — the quality or condition of being cushy
- cushioned — provided with cushions
- cushionet — a small cushion
- cusimanse — A small mongoose, of genus Crossarchus, native to West Africa.
- cuspidate — having a cusp or cusps
- cuspidors — Plural form of cuspidor.
- cusswords — Plural form of cussword.
- custodial — Custodial means relating to keeping people in prison.
- custodian — The custodian of an official building, a companies' assets, or something else valuable is the person who is officially in charge of it.
- custodier — a custodian
- custodies — Plural form of custody.
- customary — Customary is used to describe things that people usually do in a particular society or in particular circumstances.
- customers — A person or organization that buys goods or services from a store or business.
- customise — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- customize — If you customize something, you change its appearance or features to suit your tastes or needs.
- custumary — Obsolete form of customary.
- cut class — miss a school lesson
- cut glass — Cut glass is glass that has patterns cut into its surface.
- cut loose — to free or become freed from restraint, custody, anchorage, etc
- cut short — to stop abruptly before the end
- cut stone — a stone or stonework dressed to a relatively fine finish with tools other than hammers.
- cut-grass — any grass (esp. Leersia oryzoides) having tiny hooks along the edges of the blades that cause scratches on the human skin
- cutaneous — of, relating to, or affecting the skin
- cutlasses — Plural form of cutlass.
- cutleries — cutting instruments collectively, especially knives for cutting food.
- cutpurses — Plural form of cutpurse.
- cutwaters — Plural form of cutwater.
- cybersoul — The supposed equivalent of a soul in cyberspace.
- cynosures — Plural form of cynosure.
- cystidium — (in certain basidiomycetous fungi) one of the large, inflated, sterile cells growing between the basidia and usually projecting beyond them.
- d-glucose — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- dachshund — A dachshund is a small dog that has very short legs, a long body, and long ears.
- dacquoise — a cake with nut meringue layers and buttercream
- davis cup — an annual international lawn tennis championship for men's teams
- debauches — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
- debouches — to march out from a narrow or confined place into open country, as a body of troops: The platoon debouched from the defile into the plain.
- deciduous — A deciduous tree or bush is one that loses its leaves in the autumn every year.
- deckhouse — a houselike cabin on the deck of a ship
- declivous — having a declining slope or gradient
- decouples — Separate, disengage, or dissociate (something) from something else.
- decourous — Misspelling of decorous.
- decubitis — (medical) Inflammations cause by a reclined position of the body; it often refers to the complications of bed-ridden patients such as bed sores.
- decubitus — the posture adopted when lying down
- decurions — Plural form of decurion.
- decursion — a military exercise performed by men bearing arms
- decus cpp — An almost-ANSI C preprocessor by Martin Minow. It is shipped with X11R5 (contrib/util/cpp) because some systems don't have a working cpp. It runs on VMS (Vax C, Decus C), RSX-11M, RSTS/E, P/OS, RT11, A/UX and Apollo Domain/IX 9.6 and is highly portable.
- decussate — to cross or cause to cross in the form of the letter X; intersect