9-letter words containing u, n, c, r, t
- contoured — A contoured surface has curves and slopes on it, rather than being flat.
- corn smut — an ascomycetous parasitic fungus, Ustilago zeae, that causes gall-like deformations on maize grain
- coroutine — (programming) A piece of code that performs a task, and that can be passed new input and return output more than once.
- corpulent — If you describe someone as corpulent, you mean they are fat.
- coruscant — giving off flashes of light
- cothurnal — relating to the cothurnus or to tragedy
- cothurnus — the buskin worn in ancient Greek tragedy
- count for — to check over (the separate units or groups of a collection) one by one to determine the total number; add up; enumerate: He counted his tickets and found he had ten.
- countered — in the wrong way; contrary to the right course; in the reverse or opposite direction.
- countries — a state or nation: What European countries have you visited?
- countrify — to make countrified.
- countryfy — Alternative spelling of countrify.
- courantes — Plural form of courante.
- courtesan — In former times, a courtesan was a woman who had sexual relationships with rich and powerful men for money.
- courtezan — Alternative spelling of courtesan.
- courtling — a fawning or sycophantic member of a royal court
- coventure — An international coproduction set up in the absence of any official treaty between the countries.
- crank out — If you say that a company or person cranks out a quantity of similar things, you mean they produce them quickly, in the same way, and are usually implying that the things are not original or are of poor quality.
- crapulent — given to or resulting from intemperance
- crenature — a rounded projection, as on the margin of a leaf, etc.
- crenulate — having a margin very finely notched with rounded projections, as certain leaves
- cretinous — If you describe someone as cretinous, you think they are very stupid.
- cromulent — (humorous) Fine, acceptable or normal; excellent, realistic, legitimate or authentic.
- croquante — a crisp cake or pastry
- crotonbug — species of cockroach
- cuisinart — a brand of food processor
- culturgen — One of the propagating mutating cultural units that form the subject of memetics.
- culturing — the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
- cunctator — (Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus"Cunctator") 275–203 b.c, Roman statesman and general: defeated Hannibal's army by harassment without risking a pitched battle.
- cupertino — a town in W California.
- curbstone — A curbstone is one of the stones that form a curb.
- curetting — to scrape with a curette.
- currently — at the presenttime; now: She is currently working as a lab technician.
- curtained — A curtained window, door, or other opening has a curtain hanging across it.
- curtation — the discrepancy between the curtate distance and the true distance of a planet from the sun
- curtsying — Present participle of curtsey.
- curvation — the action of curving or bending
- curveting — Present participle of curvet.
- cyanurate — a salt or ester derived from cyanide
- cybernaut — a person who is an expert in or uses the internet a lot
- decurrent — extending down the stem, esp (of a leaf) having the base of the blade extending down the stem as two wings
- downcourt — to or into the opposite end of the court.
- emunctory — Pertaining to the elimination of waste from the body.
- en croûte — wrapped in pastry and baked
- encapture — (transitive) To capture.
- encounter — Unexpectedly experience or be faced with (something difficult or hostile).
- encrusted — Simple past tense and past participle of encrust.
- encurtain — to cover or surround with curtains or a veil
- excurrent — (of a vessel or opening) conveying fluid outward.
- fructosan — any of the class of hexosans, as inulin and the like, that yield fructose upon hydrolysis.