9-letter words containing s, i, o, u
- bibacious — tending to drink in excess
- bifarious — having parts arranged in two rows on either side of a central axis
- big house — a penitentiary (usually preceded by the).
- biliously — in a bilious or bad manner
- biogenous — the production of living organisms from other living organisms.
- birdhouse — a small shelter or box for birds to nest in
- bliss out — supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment: wedded bliss.
- bloquiste — (in Canada) a member or supporter of the Bloc Québécois
- bodacious — If you say that someone or something is bodacious, you mean that they are very good or impressive.
- botulinus — an anaerobic bacterium, Clostridium botulinum, whose toxins (botulins) cause botulism: family Bacillaceae
- bourgeois — If you describe people, their way of life, or their attitudes as bourgeois, you disapprove of them because you consider them typical of conventional middle-class people.
- brighouse — a town in N England, in Calderdale unitary authority, West Yorkshire: machine tools, textiles, engineering. Pop: 32 360 (2001)
- bulbosity — the quality of being bulbous
- bumptious — If you say that someone is bumptious, you are criticizing them because they are very pleased with themselves and their opinions.
- bursiform — shaped like a pouch or sac
- canonicus — c1565–1647, Narragansett leader: yielded Rhode Island to Roger Williams 1636.
- capacious — Something that is capacious has a lot of space to put things in.
- carousing — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
- caucasoid — denoting, relating to, or belonging to the lighter-complexioned supposed racial group of mankind, which includes the peoples indigenous to Europe, N Africa, SW Asia, and the Indian subcontinent and their descendants in other parts of the world
- caudillos — Plural form of caudillo.
- causation — The causation of something, usually something bad, is the factors that have caused it.
- cavillous — Characterized by caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbling.
- cespitous — Turfy; resembling turf.
- chitinous — a nitrogen-containing polysaccharide, related chemically to cellulose, that forms a semitransparent horny substance and is a principal constituent of the exoskeleton, or outer covering, of insects, crustaceans, and arachnids.
- chorusing — Present participle of chorus.
- cilicious — made of hair
- cinderous — a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
- cinereous — of a greyish colour
- clafoutis — a French baked pudding
- cloudiest — Superlative form of cloudy.
- cohousing — a type of housing with some shared facilities
- coiffeuse — a female hairdresser
- coiffures — Plural form of coiffure.
- coinsurer — A coinsurer is a person or company whose policy covers the same risk as that of another person or company, and shares the loss.
- coinsures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coinsure.
- cokuloris — a palette with irregular holes, placed between lighting and camera to prevent glare
- coliseums — Plural form of coliseum.
- collusion — Collusion is secret or illegal co-operation, especially between countries or organizations.
- collusive — Collusive behaviour involves secret or illegal co-operation, especially between countries or organizations.
- colluvies — a collection of filth or discharge
- colourise — (UK) Alternative form of colorize (to add colour to).
- colourism — discrimination in which people are judged on the basis of their skin colour
- colourist — A colourist is someone such as an artist or a fashion designer who uses colours in an interesting and original way.
- columnist — A columnist is a journalist who regularly writes a particular kind of article in a newspaper or magazine.
- comitatus — a retinue of warriors serving a leader, esp in pre-Christian Germanic cultures, such as Anglo-Saxon England and Viking Age Scandinavia
- communise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of communize.
- communism — advocacy of a classless society in which private ownership has been abolished and the means of production and subsistence belong to the community
- communist — A communist is someone who believes in communism.
- computist — a person who computes
- confiseur — a confectioner