9-letter words containing u, c, t
- lincrusta — a wallpaper having a hard embossed surface
- liturgics — the science or art of conducting public worship.
- 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.
- lubricant — a substance, as oil or grease, for lessening friction, especially in the working parts of a mechanism.
- lubricate — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- lubricity — oily smoothness, as of a surface; slipperiness.
- 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.
- lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- lucretius — (Titus Lucretius Carus) 97?–54 b.c, Roman poet and philosopher.
- luctation — an effort; a struggle
- lucubrate — to work, write, or study laboriously, especially at night.
- lunatical — (no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) an insane person.
- lunchmeat — luncheon meat.
- lunchtime — a period set aside for eating lunch or the period of an hour or so, beginning roughly at noon, during which lunch is commonly eaten.
- lustrical — Pertaining to, or used for, purification.
- lutescent — yellowish in colour
- macarthur — Douglas, 1880–1964, U.S. general: supreme commander of allied forces in SW Pacific during World War II and of UN forces in Korea 1950–51.
- macrotous — having large ears
- maculated — Simple past tense and past participle of maculate.
- maculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maculate.
- maieutics — the Socratic method of eliciting knowledge by a series of questions and answers
- manducate — to chew; masticate; eat.
- masculate — (obsolete, transitive) To make strong.
- masculist — Of or relating to masculism.
- mass cult — something regarded as significant by a minority, but a very large one
- matricula — a register of people belonging to a group or organization, such as a guild or university
- maulstick — mahlstick.
- meet cute — to meet for the first time, often in a contrived or unusual way
- meet-cute — attractive, especially in a dainty way; pleasingly pretty: a cute child; a cute little apartment.
- mercurate — Also, mercuriate [mer-kyoo r-ee-it, -eyt] /mərˈkyʊər i ɪt, -ˌeɪt/ (Show IPA). any salt in which bivalent mercury is part of a complex anion.
- micronuts — Plural form of micronut.
- microtube — A microscopic tube, especially one used in the construction of specialized lasers.
- micturate — to pass urine; urinate.
- milk duct — a duct leading from the mammary gland to the tip of a nipple which carries milk to the nipple in breastfeeding women
- 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.
- mucksweat — profuse sweat or a state of profuse sweating
- 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.
- multicast — Send (data) across a computer network to several users at the same time.