9-letter words containing u, n, l, c
- luckpenny — a coin kept for luck
- luctation — an effort; a struggle
- lucullian — (especially of banquets, parties, etc.) marked by lavishness and richness; sumptuous.
- luminance — brightness
- luminesce — to exhibit luminescence.
- lunatical — (no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) an insane person.
- lunch box — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
- luncheons — Plural form of luncheon.
- lunchhook — Usually, lunchhooks. hands.
- lunchmeat — luncheon meat.
- lunchpail — lunchbox.
- lunchroom — a room, as in a school, where light meals or snacks can be bought or where food brought from home may be eaten.
- lunchtime — a period set aside for eating lunch or the period of an hour or so, beginning roughly at noon, during which lunch is commonly eaten.
- lutescent — yellowish in colour
- lynchburg — a city in central Virginia.
- maclaurin — Colin, 1698–1746, Scottish mathematician.
- manicules — Plural form of manicule.
- masculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- melanuric — relating to melanuria
- miniscule — minuscule.
- minuscule — very small.
- molluscan — Relating to mollusks.
- monocular — having only one eye.
- monticule — a subordinate volcanic cone.
- montlucon — a city in central France.
- multician — (jargon, person) /muhl-ti'shn/ A term coined at Honeywell, ca. 1970 for a competent user of Multics. Perhaps oddly, no one has ever promoted the analogous "Unician".
- multiscan — (hardware) A monitor that can synchronise to a variety of horizontal scan rates and refresh rates, allowing it to display images at different resolutions.
- multisync — (hardware) An NEC trademark term for multiscan. As NEC was the first to manufacture multiscan monitors the term is often used interchangeably with multiscan.
- munchable — an item of food that can be munched; a snack
- municipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
- muscle in — a tissue composed of cells or fibers, the contraction of which produces movement in the body.
- muscleman — Informal. a man with a muscular or brawny physique, especially a bodybuilder.
- musclemen — Plural form of muscleman.
- myoclonus — an abrupt spasm or twitch of a muscle or group of muscles, occurring in some neurological diseases.
- navicular — boat-shaped, as certain bones.
- neckmould — (architecture) A small convex moulding surrounding a column at the junction of the shaft and capital.
- neuchatel — a canton in W Switzerland. 309 sq. mi. (800 sq. km).
- neuralgic — sharp and paroxysmal pain along the course of a nerve.
- neurocoel — the system of cavities of the embryonic brain and spinal cord.
- nickelous — containing bivalent nickel.
- nightclub — Also, night club. an establishment for evening entertainment, generally open until the early morning, that serves liquor and usually food and offers patrons music, comedy acts, a floor show, or dancing; nightspot.
- noctiluca — a dinoflagellate of the genus Noctiluca, capable of producing light and, in groups, of causing a luminous appearance of the sea.
- nocturnal — of or relating to the night (opposed to diurnal).
- nocuously — In a nocuous manner.
- noncasual — not casual
- noncausal — of, constituting, or implying a cause.
- noncolour — an achromatic colour such as black or white
- nonpublic — Not open or available to the public.
- nucleases — Plural form of nuclease.
- nucleated — having a nucleus.