9-letter words containing u, c, t
- guncotton — a highly explosive cellulose nitrate, made by digesting clean cotton in a mixture of one part nitric acid and three parts sulfuric acid: used in making smokeless powder.
- gunstocks — Plural form of gunstock.
- gut check — a pause to assess the state, progress, or condition of something such as an enterprise or institution
- gutbucket — jazz played in the raucous and high-spirited style of barrelhouse.
- hackitude — (jargon) An even sillier word for hackishness.
- hacqueton — an upholstered garment for the upper body worn under chain mail or such a garment covered with chain mail
- halieutic — Of or pertaining to fishing.
- hardcourt — relating to a type of tennis court that is made of hard material
- hatch out — be hatched from an egg
- headcount — The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
- heuretics — the use of logic
- heuristic — serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
- hexateuch — the first six books of the Old Testament.
- holocaust — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
- homecourt — (basketball) The home court of a basketball team.
- hot sauce — any of several highly spiced, pungent condiments, especially one containing some type of pepper or chili.
- housecats — Plural form of housecat.
- housecoat — a woman's robe or dresslike garment in various lengths, for casual wear about the house.
- hubristic — excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance.
- hucksters — Plural form of huckster.
- huckstery — the business of a huckster
- humectant — a substance that absorbs or helps another substance retain moisture, as glycerol.
- humectate — to humect ie to moisten, to wet
- humective — tending to moisten
- hutcheson — Francis. 1694–1746, Scottish philosopher: he published books on ethics and aesthetics, including System of Moral Philosophy (1755)
- hypocaust — a hollow space or system of channels in the floor or walls of some ancient Roman buildings that provided a central heating system by receiving and distributing the heat from a furnace.
- impactful — having or manifesting a great impact or effect: After the senator's impactful speech, her bill passed.
- in shtuck — in trouble
- incaution — lack of caution; heedlessness; carelessness.
- incestous — Misspelling of incestuous.
- inciteful — That incites (rouses, stirs up or excites), or provides incitement.
- incorrupt — not corrupt; not debased or perverted; morally upright.
- incrusted — Alternative spelling of encrusted.
- incubated — Simple past tense and past participle of incubate.
- incubates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incubate.
- incubator — an apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially.
- inculcate — to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly (usually followed by upon or in): to inculcate virtue in the young.
- inculpate — to charge with fault; blame; accuse.
- inculture — (obsolete) Lack or neglect of cultivation or culture.
- incumbent — holding an indicated position, role, office, etc., currently: the incumbent officers of the club.
- incurrent — carrying or relating to an inward current.
- incurtain — (obsolete) To curtain.
- incurvate — curved, especially inward.
- incurvity — the quality of having inward curvature
- inductees — Plural form of inductee.
- inductile — not ductile; not pliable or yielding.
- inducting — to install in an office, benefice, position, etc., especially with formal ceremonies: The committee inducted her as president.
- induction — the act of inducing, bringing about, or causing: induction of the hypnotic state.
- inductive — of, relating to, or involving electrical induction or magnetic induction.
- inductors — Plural form of inductor.