9-letter words containing t, o, c, u
- lactulose — (organic compound) A disaccharide of galactose and fructose formed when milk is heated.
- launcelot — Arthurian Romance. the greatest of Arthur's knights and the lover of Queen Guinevere.
- law court — court of law.
- leucocyte — leukocyte.
- leucothea — a sea goddess, the deified Ino, who gave Odysseus a veil as a float after a storm had destroyed his raft.
- leucothoe — any of various shrubs of the genus Leucothoe, of the heath family, having clusters of white or pinkish flowers.
- leucotome — an instrument for dissecting the white matter of the brain, consisting of a cannula containing a slender rotating blade.
- leucotomy — prefrontal lobotomy.
- leukocyte — white blood cell.
- loculated — Locular.
- locuplete — amply stocked
- locutions — Plural form of locution.
- loquacity — the state of being loquacious; talkativeness; garrulity.
- low-count — (of a woven fabric) having a relatively low number of warp and filling threads per square inch.
- luck into — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- luctation — an effort; a struggle
- macrotous — having large ears
- micronuts — Plural form of micronut.
- microtube — A microscopic tube, especially one used in the construction of specialized lasers.
- miscounts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of miscount.
- mockernut — a North American hickory, Carya tomentosa, bearing a sweet, edible nut.
- moctezuma — Montezuma II.
- monticule — a subordinate volcanic cone.
- montlucon — a city in central France.
- mouchette — a daggerlike form, especially in tracery, created by a segmental and an ogee curve so that it is pointed at one end and circular at the other.
- moustache — the hair growing on the upper lip.
- mucolytic — denoting or pertaining to enzymes that break down mucus.
- mucositis — A complication of some cancer therapies in which the lining of the digestive system becomes inflamed. Often seen as sores in the mouth.
- mucronate — having an abruptly projecting point, as a feather or leaf.
- multicoil — having more than one coil, as an electrical device.
- multicopy — any of several or many copies (of a book, document, record, etc)
- multicore — (computer hardware, of a processor) Combining two or more independent cores into a single package composed of a single integrated circuit.
- munch out — to chew with steady or vigorous working of the jaws, often audibly.
- muscovite — a native or inhabitant of Moscow.
- mustachio — a mustache.
- mutoscope — A motion-picture device of the late nineteenth century, to be viewed by one person at a time through a peephole.
- nectarous — of the nature of or resembling nectar.
- neurotics — Plural form of neurotic.
- neutronic — (physics) Involving neutrons.
- noctiluca — a dinoflagellate of the genus Noctiluca, capable of producing light and, in groups, of causing a luminous appearance of the sea.
- nocturnal — of or relating to the night (opposed to diurnal).
- nocturnes — Plural form of nocturne.
- noncounty — relating to a borough that does not have county status, specifically in reference to local governance in England
- nosecount — the counting of individual persons, as for a census.
- nouthetic — Being or relating to a form of Evangelical Protestant pastoral counseling based upon the Bible and focused on Christ.
- nucleator — having a nucleus.
- obcuneate — inversely cuneate.
- obduction — (obsolete) The act of drawing or laying over, as a covering.
- obfuscate — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- obscurant — a person who strives to prevent the increase and spread of knowledge.