9-letter words containing u, n, c, i
- calpurnia — flourished 1st century b.c, third wife of Julius Caesar 59–44. Compare Cornelia (def 2), Pompeia.
- calumnies — Plural form of calumny.
- canefruit — a fruit, such as the raspberry, which grows on woody-stemmed plants
- canicular — of or relating to the star Sirius or its rising
- canonicus — c1565–1647, Narragansett leader: yielded Rhode Island to Roger Williams 1636.
- capturing — Present participle of capture.
- capuchins — Plural form of capuchin.
- carbenium — (organic chemistry, informal) Any carbocation.
- carbonium — a transient, positively charged organic ion, as H3C+, R3+, that has one less electron than the corresponding free radical
- carousing — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
- casuarina — any tree of the genus Casuarina, of Australia and the East Indies, having jointed leafless branchlets: family Casuarinaceae
- caucasian — A Caucasian person is a white person.
- caucusing — Present participle of caucus.
- causation — The causation of something, usually something bad, is the factors that have caused it.
- cautioned — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- cautioner — A person who cautions.
- cautionry — the position or function of a surety, a person who protects and takes responsibility for another person
- ceintures — cincture (defs 1, 2).
- censuring — strong or vehement expression of disapproval: The newspapers were unanimous in their censure of the tax proposal.
- centauric — characterized by an integration of mind and body for consciousness above the ego-self
- centumvir — one of a body of judges responsible for presiding over civil court cases
- centurial — of or relating to a Roman century
- centuried — existing for an indefinite number of centuries.
- centuries — Plural form of century.
- centurion — A centurion was an officer in the Roman army.
- centurium — A rejected name for fermium.
- cgs units — a metric system of units based on the centimetre, gram, and second. For scientific and technical purposes these units have been replaced by SI units
- cherubini — (Maria) Luigi (Carlo Zenobio Salvatore) (luˈiːdʒi). 1760–1842, Italian composer, noted particularly for his church music and his operas.
- cheruping — Present participle of cherup.
- ching-t'u — Pure Land.
- chipmunks — Plural form of chipmunk.
- chitinous — a nitrogen-containing polysaccharide, related chemically to cellulose, that forms a semitransparent horny substance and is a principal constituent of the exoskeleton, or outer covering, of insects, crustaceans, and arachnids.
- chorusing — Present participle of chorus.
- chu kiang — Zhu Jiang.
- chuckling — Present participle of chuckle.
- chukotian — a group of genetically related languages spoken on the Chukchi and Kamchatka peninsulas in eastern Siberia, including Chukchi, Kamchadal, and Koryak.
- chungking — Chongqing
- churching — the act of bringing someone, esp a woman after childbirth, to church for special ceremonies
- churnings — Plural form of churning.
- churnmilk — buttermilk
- cinctured — Simple past tense and past participle of cincture.
- cinctures — Plural form of cincture.
- cinderous — a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
- cinereous — of a greyish colour
- cingulate — Anatomy, Zoology. a belt, zone, or girdlelike part.
- cinquedea — an Italian short sword of the late 15th and early 16th centuries having a broad, tapering blade, often richly ornamented.
- circulant — (mathematics) A circulant matrix.
- clianthus — any Australian or New Zealand plant of the leguminous genus Clianthus, with ornamental clusters of slender scarlet flowers
- clinquant — glittering, esp with tinsel
- clutching — to hatch (chickens).