9-letter words containing u, n, c, r
- carbunkle — Misspelling of carbuncle.
- cardpunch — a device, no longer widely used, controlled by a computer, for transferring information from the central processing unit onto punched cards
- carnosaur — any of various large carnivorous bipedal dinosaurs of the group Carnosauria, including the allosaurs
- carousing — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
- cartonful — As much as a carton will hold.
- caruncles — Plural form of caruncle.
- caruncula — A caruncle.
- casuarina — any tree of the genus Casuarina, of Australia and the East Indies, having jointed leafless branchlets: family Casuarinaceae
- cauldrons — Plural form of cauldron.
- cauterant — caustic; cauterizing
- cautioner — A person who cautions.
- cautionry — the position or function of a surety, a person who protects and takes responsibility for another person
- cavernous — A cavernous room or building is very large inside, and so it reminds you of a cave.
- cd burner — A CD burner is the same as a CD writer.
- ceintures — cincture (defs 1, 2).
- censuring — strong or vehement expression of disapproval: The newspapers were unanimous in their censure of the tax proposal.
- centaurea — any of a genus (Centaurea) of annual and perennial plants of the composite family, having egg-shaped flower heads, including the star thistles and the bachelor's buttons
- centauric — characterized by an integration of mind and body for consciousness above the ego-self
- centaurus — a conspicuous extensive constellation in the S hemisphere, close to the Southern Cross, that contains two first magnitude stars, Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri, and the globular cluster Omega Centauri
- 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.
- chancrous — (medicine) Of the nature of a chancre; affected by chancre.
- 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.
- chondrule — one of the small spherical masses of mainly silicate minerals present in chondrites
- chorusing — Present participle of chorus.
- chundered — Simple past tense and past participle of chunder.
- chuntered — Simple past tense and past participle of chunter.
- churching — the act of bringing someone, esp a woman after childbirth, to church for special ceremonies
- churchman — A churchman is the same as a clergyman.
- churchmen — Plural form of churchman.
- churn out — To churn out something means to produce large quantities of it very quickly.
- 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
- circulant — (mathematics) A circulant matrix.
- clangours — Plural form of clangour.
- close-run — If you describe something such as a race or contest as a close-run thing, you mean that it was only won by a very small amount.
- coenamour — to enamour jointly
- cofounder — a joint founder
- coinsurer — A coinsurer is a person or company whose policy covers the same risk as that of another person or company, and shares the loss.
- coinsures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coinsure.
- cointreau — a colourless liqueur with orange flavouring