9-letter words containing u, n, c, i, r
- excursion — A short journey or trip, esp. one engaged in as a leisure activity.
- frouncing — Present participle of frounce.
- funicular — of or relating to a rope or cord, or its tension.
- furcation — forked; branching.
- furnacing — Present participle of furnace.
- genicular — of or relating to the knee
- grouching — Present participle of grouch.
- gun crime — offences involving firearms
- hachuring — Present participle of hachure.
- hircinous — (rare) Of, or pertaining to goats; hircine.
- 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.
- in chorus — Music. a group of persons singing in unison. (in an opera, oratorio, etc.) such a group singing choral parts in connection with soloists or individual singers. a piece of music for singing in unison. a part of a song that recurs at intervals, usually following each verse; refrain.
- in colour — If a film or television programme is in colour, it has been made so that you see the picture in all its colours, and not just in black, white, or grey.
- incisures — Plural form of incisure.
- inclosure — enclosure.
- incorrupt — not corrupt; not debased or perverted; morally upright.
- incourage — Archaic form of encourage.
- incrusted — Alternative spelling of encrusted.
- incubator — an apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially.
- inculture — (obsolete) Lack or neglect of cultivation or culture.
- 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.
- incurious — not curious; not inquisitive or observant; inattentive; indifferent.
- incurrent — carrying or relating to an inward current.
- incurring — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
- incursion — a hostile entrance into or invasion of a place or territory, especially a sudden one; raid: The bandits made brief incursions on the village.
- incursive — making incursions.
- incurtain — (obsolete) To curtain.
- incurvate — curved, especially inward.
- incurving — Present participle of incurve.
- incurvity — the quality of having inward curvature
- indecorum — indecorous behavior or character.
- inductors — Plural form of inductor.
- indurance — Obsolete form of endurance.
- innsbruck — an alpine region in W Austria and N Italy: a former Austrian crown land.
- instructs — (informal) shortened form of instructions.
- 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
- 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.
- involucre — Botany. a collection or rosette of bracts subtending a flower cluster, umbel, or the like.
- 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.
- laurencin — Marie [ma-ree] /maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1885–1956, French painter, lithographer, and stage designer.
- lecturing — Present participle of lecture.
- licensure — the granting of licenses, especially to engage in professional practice.
- 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.