9-letter words containing u, n, c
- gun crime — offences involving firearms
- guncotton — a highly explosive cellulose nitrate, made by digesting clean cotton in a mixture of one part nitric acid and three parts sulfuric acid: used in making smokeless powder.
- gunnysack — a sack made of gunny or burlap.
- gunstocks — Plural form of gunstock.
- gynaeceum — (among the ancient Greeks) the part of a dwelling used by women.
- gynoecium — the pistil or pistils of a flower; the female parts.
- hachuring — Present participle of hachure.
- hacqueton — an upholstered garment for the upper body worn under chain mail or such a garment covered with chain mail
- handcuffs — a ring-shaped metal device that can be locked around a person's wrist, usually one of a pair connected by a short chain or linked bar; shackle: The police put handcuffs on the suspect.
- headcount — The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
- herculean — requiring the great strength of a Hercules; very hard to perform: Digging the tunnel was a herculean task.
- 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.
- huascaran — a mountain in W Peru, in the Andes. 22,205 feet (6768 meters).
- humectant — a substance that absorbs or helps another substance retain moisture, as glycerol.
- hunchback — a person whose back is humped in a convex position because of abnormal spinal curvature. Compare kyphosis, kyphoscoliosis.
- 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.
- hutcheson — Francis. 1694–1746, Scottish philosopher: he published books on ethics and aesthetics, including System of Moral Philosophy (1755)
- 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.
- incestous — Misspelling of incestuous.
- incisures — Plural form of incisure.
- inciteful — That incites (rouses, stirs up or excites), or provides incitement.
- inclosure — enclosure.
- including — to contain, as a whole does parts or any part or element: The package includes the computer, program, disks, and a manual.
- inclusion — the act of including.
- inclusive — including or encompassing the stated limit or extremes in consideration or account (usually used postpositively): from 6 to 37 inclusive.
- incorrupt — not corrupt; not debased or perverted; morally upright.
- incourage — Archaic form of encourage.
- incrusted — Alternative spelling of encrusted.
- incubated — Simple past tense and past participle of incubate.
- incubates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incubate.
- incubator — an apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially.
- inculcate — to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly (usually followed by upon or in): to inculcate virtue in the young.
- inculpate — to charge with fault; blame; accuse.
- inculture — (obsolete) Lack or neglect of cultivation or culture.
- incumbent — holding an indicated position, role, office, etc., currently: the incumbent officers of the club.
- incunable — a book constituting part of a collection of incunabula.
- 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.