9-letter words containing u, c, t
- recapture — to capture again; recover by capture; retake.
- recaution — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- recompute — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
- reconduct — personal behavior; way of acting; bearing or deportment.
- reconsult — to consult (someone or something) again
- recontour — the outline of a figure or body; the edge or line that defines or bounds a shape or object.
- recountal — an act of recounting.
- recounted — to relate or narrate; tell in detail; give the facts or particulars of.
- recounter — someone who recounts or narrates a story
- recruital — an act of recruiting
- recruiter — a newly enlisted or drafted member of the armed forces.
- rectitude — rightness of principle or conduct; moral virtue: the rectitude of her motives.
- recumbent — lying down; reclining; leaning.
- recurrent — that recurs; occurring or appearing again, especially repeatedly or periodically.
- recurvate — bent back or backward; recurved.
- recutting — to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger.
- red count — a count of the red cells in a person's blood.
- reductant — a reducing agent which as it is oxidized is capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance
- reductase — any enzyme acting as a reducing agent.
- reducting — to reduce.
- reduction — the act of reducing or the state of being reduced.
- reductive — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
- reeducate — to educate again, as for new purposes.
- reluctant — unwilling; disinclined: a reluctant candidate.
- reluctate — to show reluctance.
- rest cure — a treatment for nervous disorders, consisting of a complete rest, usually combined with systematic diet, massage, etc., especially at a spa or sanitorium.
- rest-cure — a treatment for nervous disorders, consisting of a complete rest, usually combined with systematic diet, massage, etc., especially at a spa or sanitorium.
- resubject — to subject again
- resurrect — to raise from the dead; bring to life again.
- reticular — having the form of a net; netlike.
- reticulum — any fine network, esp one in the body composed of cells, fibres, etc
- revictual — to victual or provide with food again
- rheumatic — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- rock dust — a crushed limestone sprayed on surfaces in mines to make coal dust incombustible in case of a gas explosion.
- rotachute — a device serving the same purpose as a parachute, in which the canopy is replaced by freely revolving rotor blades, used for the delivery of stores or recovery of missiles
- rough-cut — cut into small, irregular pieces (contrasted with fine-cut): rough-cut tobacco.
- roughcast — Also called spatter dash. an exterior wall finish composed of mortar and fine pebbles mixed together and dashed against the wall. Compare pebble dash.
- rubescent — becoming red; blushing.
- rubricate — to mark or color with red.
- ructation — an eructation or belch
- rufescent — somewhat reddish; tinged with red; rufous.
- runcinate — (of a leaf) pinnately incised, with the lobes or teeth curved backward.
- runecraft — understanding of and skill working with runes
- rusticana — objects, such as agricultural implements, garden furniture, etc, relating to the countryside or made in imitation of rustic styles
- rusticate — to go to the country.
- rusticism — a rustic expression
- rusticity — the state or quality of being rustic.
- rusticize — to make rustic
- rutaceous — of or like rue.
- sacculate — formed into or having a saccule, sac, or saclike dilation.