9-letter words containing u, n, c
- calenture — a mild fever of tropical climates, similar in its symptoms to sunstroke
- call unix — (communications, tool) (cu) The original Unix virtual terminal utility. cu allows a user on one computer to log in to another connected via Ethernet, direct serial line or modem. It shares some configuration files with UUCP in order to be able to use the same connections without conflict.
- call upon — to cry out in a loud voice; shout: He called her name to see if she was home.
- callusing — Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.
- calpurnia — flourished 1st century b.c, third wife of Julius Caesar 59–44. Compare Cornelia (def 2), Pompeia.
- calumnies — Plural form of calumny.
- campanula — any N temperate plant of the campanulaceous genus Campanula, typically having blue or white bell-shaped flowers
- cancellus — (in an early Christian basilica) one of a row of bars separating the clergy and sometimes the choir from the congregation.
- cancerous — Cancerous cells or growths are cells or growths that are the result of cancer.
- candlenut — a euphorbiaceous tree, Aleurites mollucana, of tropical Asia and Polynesia
- candytuft — either of two species of Iberis grown as annual garden plants for their umbels ("tufts") of white, red, or purplish flowers
- canefruit — a fruit, such as the raspberry, which grows on woody-stemmed plants
- canicular — of or relating to the star Sirius or its rising
- cankerous — having cankers
- cannelure — a groove or fluting, esp one around the cylindrical part of a bullet
- cannulate — to insert a cannula into (a person)
- canonicus — c1565–1647, Narragansett leader: yielded Rhode Island to Roger Williams 1636.
- cantharus — a large two-handled pottery cup
- canulated — Simple past tense and past participle of canulate.
- canulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canulate.
- capernaum — a ruined town in N Israel, on the NW shore of the Sea of Galilee: closely associated with Jesus Christ during his ministry
- capturing — Present participle of capture.
- capuchins — Plural form of capuchin.
- carbenium — (organic chemistry, informal) Any carbocation.
- carbonium — a transient, positively charged organic ion, as H3C+, R3+, that has one less electron than the corresponding free radical
- carbonous — of, containing, or derived from carbon.
- carbuncle — A carbuncle is a large swelling under the skin.
- 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.
- casebound — bound in hard covers.
- casuarina — any tree of the genus Casuarina, of Australia and the East Indies, having jointed leafless branchlets: family Casuarinaceae
- catamount — any of various medium-sized felines, such as the puma or lynx
- caucasian — A Caucasian person is a white person.
- caucusing — Present participle of caucus.
- cauldrons — Plural form of cauldron.
- cauquenes — a city in central Chile.
- causation — The causation of something, usually something bad, is the factors that have caused it.
- cauterant — caustic; cauterizing
- cautioned — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- 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.
- cd4 count — a blood test that measures the number of helper T cells, used to evaluate patients infected with HIV.
- ceanothus — any shrub of the North American rhamnaceous genus Ceanothus: grown for their ornamental, often blue, flower clusters