9-letter words containing u, n, c
- sun block — a substance that provides a high degree of protection against sunburn, often preventing most tanning as well as burning, as by obstructing the penetration of ultraviolet rays.
- sun cream — a chemical, usually in the form of a cream, applied to exposed skin to block out all or almost all of the ultraviolet rays of the sun
- sun dance — a religious ceremony associated with the sun, practiced by North American Indians of the Plains, consisting of dancing attended with various symbolic rites and commonly including self-torture.
- sun porch — a windowed porch or porchlike room having more window than wall area, intended to receive large amounts of sunlight.
- sun-cured — cured or preserved by exposure to the rays of the sun, as meat, fish, fruit, tobacco, etc.
- sunk cost — A sunk cost is an expense that you have already paid for or committed to and which you cannot change.
- sunscreen — a substance formulated to prevent sunburn, skin cancers, and other conditions caused by excessive exposure to the sun, usually by absorbing and reflecting ultraviolet radiation. Compare SPF.
- sunstruck — affected with sunstroke.
- surcingle — a belt or girth that passes around the belly of a horse and over the blanket, pack, saddle, etc., and is buckled on the horse's back.
- surfacing — the outer face, outside, or exterior boundary of a thing; outermost or uppermost layer or area.
- surgeoncy — the office, duties, or position of a surgeon, esp in the army or navy
- suspicion — act of suspecting.
- syncytium — a multinucleate mass of cytoplasm that is not separated into cells.
- synecious — synoicous.
- synoicous — having male and female flowers on one head, as in many composite plants.
- synsacrum — a dorsal ridge of bone in the pelvic region of birds, formed by the fusion of certain thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and caudal vertebrae.
- t account — A T account is a type of account that uses two columns to show debits and credits.
- tauchnitz — Karl Christoph Traugott [kahrl kris-tawf trou-gawt] /ˈkɑrl ˈkrɪs tɔf ˈtraʊ gɔt/ (Show IPA), 1761–1836, and his son, Karl Christian Philipp [kris-tee-ahn fee-lip,, fil-ip] /ˈkrɪs tiˌɑn ˈfi lɪp,, ˈfɪl ɪp/ (Show IPA) 1798–1884, German printers and publishers.
- technique — the manner and ability with which an artist, writer, dancer, athlete, or the like employs the technical skills of a particular art or field of endeavor.
- temulence — drunkenness
- tenacious — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
- tenaculum — Surgery. a small sharp-pointed hook set in a handle, used for seizing and picking up parts in operations and dissections.
- titubancy — staggering or stumbling
- touchdown — Football. an act or instance of scoring six points by being in possession of the ball on or behind the opponent's goal line.
- touchline — any of the outer lines bordering the playing field.
- tourcoing — a city in N France, near the Belgian border.
- trachinus — a weever fish
- transduce — to convert (energy) from one form into another.
- trouncing — to beat severely; thrash.
- truckline — a transportation line utilizing trucks.
- truculent — fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
- truncated — truncated.
- truncheon — the club carried by a police officer; billy.
- tuck into — to put into a small, close, or concealing place: Tuck the money into your wallet.
- tumescent — swelling; slightly tumid.
- turducken — a deboned turkey that is stuffed with a deboned duck that is stuffed with a deboned chicken.
- turn back — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- un-strict — characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles: a strict observance of rituals.
- una corda — with the soft pedal depressed (a musical direction in piano playing).
- unaccrued — to happen or result as a natural growth, addition, etc.
- unaccused — not charged with wrongdoing
- unacerbic — (of a taste) not sharp or bitter
- unactable — (of a play, role, etc) not able to be acted or dramatized
- unamerced — not amerced or punished
- unbalance — to throw or put out of balance.
- unblocked — to obstruct (someone or something) by placing obstacles in the way (sometimes followed by up): to block one's exit; to block up a passage.
- unbricked — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
- uncandled — (of a room, place, object, or time period) not illuminated by candlelight
- uncandour — lack of candour
- uncannily — having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis; beyond the ordinary or normal; extraordinary: uncanny accuracy; an uncanny knack of foreseeing trouble.