9-letter words containing u, n, c, a
- hurricane — a violent, tropical, cyclonic storm of the western North Atlantic, having wind speeds of or in excess of 72 miles per hour (32 m/sec). Compare tropical cyclone, typhoon.
- hurricano — (obsolete) A waterspout; a hurricane.
- incaution — lack of caution; heedlessness; carelessness.
- incourage — Archaic form of encourage.
- 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.
- incunable — a book constituting part of a collection of incunabula.
- incurable — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- incurably — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- incurtain — (obsolete) To curtain.
- incurvate — curved, especially inward.
- indurance — Obsolete form of endurance.
- infuscate — darkened with a fuscous or brownish tinge.
- 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.
- insurance — the act, system, or business of providing financial protection for property, life, health, etc, against specified contingencies, such as death, loss, or damage, and involving payment of regular premiums in return for a policy guaranteeing such protection
- intraclub — Within a club.
- invacuate — To confine (people) to a closed area in an emergency situation.
- issuances — Plural form of issuance.
- janiculum — a ridge near the Tiber in Rome, Italy.
- jaundiced — affected with or colored by or as if by jaundice: jaundiced skin.
- jaundices — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jaundice.
- jouisance — joy; delight
- jubilance — showing great joy, satisfaction, or triumph; rejoicing; exultant: the cheers of the jubilant victors; the jubilant climax of his symphony.
- jubilancy — (rare) Jubilation.
- juice man — an extortionist.
- junctural — of or relating to phonological juncture.
- junk call — a telephone call soliciting a donation or selling a product or service by a caller making many such calls to a list of prospects.
- 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)
- kuangchou — Wade-Giles. Canton.
- la coruna — a seaport in NW Spain.
- laconicum — the sudatorium of an ancient Roman bath.
- languedoc — a former province in S France. Capital: Toulouse.
- larcenous — of, resembling, or characteristic of larceny.
- launcelot — Arthurian Romance. the greatest of Arthur's knights and the lover of Queen Guinevere.
- launchers — Plural form of launcher.
- launching — Present participle of launch.
- launchpad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
- laurencin — Marie [ma-ree] /maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1885–1956, French painter, lithographer, and stage designer.
- lincrusta — a wallpaper having a hard embossed surface
- lubricant — a substance, as oil or grease, for lessening friction, especially in the working parts of a mechanism.
- luctation — an effort; a struggle
- lucullian — (especially of banquets, parties, etc.) marked by lavishness and richness; sumptuous.
- luminance — brightness
- lunatical — (no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) an insane person.
- lunchmeat — luncheon meat.
- lunchpail — lunchbox.