9-letter words containing u, c, t
- infuscate — darkened with a fuscous or brownish tinge.
- injustice — the quality or fact of being unjust; inequity.
- innocuity — not harmful or injurious; harmless: an innocuous home remedy.
- inoculant — inoculum.
- inoculate — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- instructs — (informal) shortened form of instructions.
- interclub — a heavy stick, usually thicker at one end than at the other, suitable for use as a weapon; a cudgel.
- interduce — (construction) An intertie.
- intraclub — Within a club.
- introduce — to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.
- introduct — (obsolete) To instruct.
- intumesce — to swell up, as with heat; become tumid.
- inunction — the act of anointing.
- invacuate — To confine (people) to a closed area in an emergency situation.
- jackfruit — a large, tropical, milky-juiced tree, Artocarpus heterophyllus, of the mulberry family, having stiff and glossy green leaves, cultivated for its very large, edible fruit and seeds.
- jaculator — a person who hurls or throws
- joculator — (obsolete) A jester; a joker.
- jocundity — the state or an instance of being jocund; gaiety.
- judaistic — an adherent or supporter of Judaism.
- judgmatic — judicious.
- judicator — a person who acts as judge or sits in judgment.
- junctions — Plural form of junction.
- junctural — of or relating to phonological juncture.
- junctures — a point of time, especially one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances: At this juncture, we must decide whether to stay or to walk out.
- juristics — The theory of law, or its study.
- justiciar — a high judicial officer in medieval England.
- justicoat — justaucorps.
- kick turn — a turn from a stationary position in which a skier lifts one ski to a point where the heel is nearly at right angles to the snow, then faces the ski outward, sets it down in the direction to be turned, and swings the other ski around so that both skis are parallel.
- kickabout — An informal amateur game of football/soccer.
- knock out — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- knockouts — Plural form of knockout.
- kostunica — Vojislav (ˈvɒjɪslæf). born 1944, Serbian politician; president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (2000–03); prime minister of Serbia and Montenegro (2004–06); prime minister of Serbia (2006–08)
- krautrock — (music) A genre of German experimental rock music from the 1970s.
- kurchatov — Igor Vasilievich [ee-guh r-vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /ˈi gər vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–60, Soviet nuclear physicist.
- lactulose — (organic compound) A disaccharide of galactose and fructose formed when milk is heated.
- latreutic — of or relating to latria.
- launcelot — Arthurian Romance. the greatest of Arthur's knights and the lover of Queen Guinevere.
- law court — court of law.
- le cateau — a town in NE France: site (August 26, 1914) of the largest British battle since Waterloo, which led to the disruption of the German attack on the Allies. Pop: 6998 (2009)
- lecturers — Plural form of lecturer.
- lecturing — Present participle of lecture.
- lenticule — one of many tiny cylindrical or spherical lens segments embossed on the surface of a film used in stereoscopic and color photography.
- leucistic — having reduced pigmentation in the skin but normally coloured eyes
- 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.
- leviticus — the third book of the Bible, containing laws relating to the priests and Levites and to the forms of Jewish ceremonial observance. Abbreviation: Lev.