9-letter words containing u, n, c, i
- eunuchoid — Resembling a eunuch, typically in having reduced or indeterminate sexual characteristics.
- euphenics — the study of biological improvement
- euthenics — The study of the effects of place on people.
- excluding — Not taking someone or something into account; apart from; except.
- exclusion — The process or state of excluding or being excluded.
- excursing — Present participle of excurse.
- excursion — A short journey or trip, esp. one engaged in as a leisure activity.
- excussion — The process or proceedings whereby a creditor must proceed against a principal debtor before proceeding against a surety or subsidiary debtor.
- executing — Present participle of execute.
- execution — The carrying out or putting into effect of a plan, order, or course of action.
- exsuction — The act of sucking out.
- facundity — (archaic) eloquence; readiness of speech.
- fancifull — Archaic form of fanciful.
- faunistic — of or relating to the geographical distribution of animal life.
- fecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
- festucine — (obsolete) Of a straw colour; greenish-yellow.
- fettucine — Misspelling of fettuccine.
- final cut — the final edited version of a film, approved by the director and producer.
- flouncing — a strip of material gathered or pleated and attached at one edge, with the other edge left loose or hanging: used for trimming, as on the edge of a skirt or sleeve or on a curtain, slipcover, etc.
- focusings — Plural form of focusing.
- focussing — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- fonticuli — fontanelles
- frouncing — Present participle of frounce.
- fucking a — an emphatic exclamation of approval
- functions — Plural form of function.
- fungicide — a substance or preparation, as a spray or dust, used for destroying fungi.
- funicular — of or relating to a rope or cord, or its tension.
- funiculus — Anatomy. a conducting cord, as a nerve cord or umbilical cord.
- furcation — forked; branching.
- furnacing — Present participle of furnace.
- genicular — of or relating to the knee
- grouching — Present participle of grouch.
- guidances — the act or function of guiding; leadership; direction.
- gun crime — offences involving firearms
- gynoecium — the pistil or pistils of a flower; the female parts.
- hachuring — Present participle of hachure.
- hiccuping — a quick, involuntary inhalation that follows a spasm of the diaphragm and is suddenly checked by closure of the glottis, producing a short, relatively sharp sound.
- hircinous — (rare) Of, or pertaining to goats; hircine.
- homunculi — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- 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.
- ice-minus — noting or pertaining to genetically altered bacteria used on crops to inhibit frost formation.
- ichneumon — Also called African mongoose, Egyptian mongoose. a slender, long-tailed mongoose, Herpestes ichneumon, inhabiting Africa and southern Europe, and believed by the ancient Egyptians to devour crocodile eggs.
- impudence — the quality or state of being impudent; effrontery; insolence.
- impudency — (now rare) Impudence.
- 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.
- in public — of, relating to, or affecting a population or a community as a whole: public funds; a public nuisance.
- in shtuck — in trouble
- incaution — lack of caution; heedlessness; carelessness.