9-letter words containing u, n, r, i
- infusoria — Irregular plural form of infusorium.
- injurious — harmful, hurtful, or detrimental, as in effect: injurious eating habits.
- innsbruck — an alpine region in W Austria and N Italy: a former Austrian crown land.
- inodorous — not odorous; odorless.
- inpouring — The action of pouring something in; an infusion.
- inquirers — to seek information by questioning; ask: to inquire about a person.
- inquiries — a seeking or request for truth, information, or knowledge.
- inquiring — seeking facts, information, or knowledge: an inquiring mind.
- inquorate — (of an assembly) unable to proceed effectively because not enough members are present to make up a quorum.
- inrushing — Moving towards or into.
- instructs — (informal) shortened form of instructions.
- insularly — of or relating to an island or islands: insular possessions.
- insulator — Electricity. a material of such low conductivity that the flow of current through it is negligible. insulating material, often glass or porcelain, in a unit form designed so as to support a charged conductor and electrically isolate it.
- insurable — capable of being or proper to be insured, as against loss or harm.
- insurance — the act, system, or business of providing financial protection for property, life, health, etc, against specified contingencies, such as death, loss, or damage, and involving payment of regular premiums in return for a policy guaranteeing such protection
- insurgent — a person who rises in forcible opposition to lawful authority, especially a person who engages in armed resistance to a government or to the execution of its laws; rebel.
- integrous — (rare) Having or characterized by integrity.
- interclub — a heavy stick, usually thicker at one end than at the other, suitable for use as a weapon; a cudgel.
- interduce — (construction) An intertie.
- interfuse — to intersperse, intermingle, or permeate with something.
- interlude — an intervening episode, period, space, etc.
- intermure — to wall in
- internaut — A user of the Internet, especially a habitual or skilled one.
- interrupt — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
- interunit — a single thing or person.
- intourist — a Russian agency that handles travel arrangements for foreign visitors to the former Soviet Union.
- intraclub — Within a club.
- intraural — Alternate form of intra-aural.
- intrigued — to arouse the curiosity or interest of by unusual, new, or otherwise fascinating or compelling qualities; appeal strongly to; captivate: The plan intrigues me, but I wonder if it will work.
- intriguer — to arouse the curiosity or interest of by unusual, new, or otherwise fascinating or compelling qualities; appeal strongly to; captivate: The plan intrigues me, but I wonder if it will work.
- intrigues — Plural form of intrigue.
- introduce — to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.
- introduct — (obsolete) To instruct.
- introitus — (medicine) The entrance to a hollow organ or canal; often specifically the entrance to the vagina.
- intruders — Plural form of intruder.
- intruding — Present participle of intrude.
- intrusion — Law. an illegal act of entering, seizing, or taking possession of another's property. a wrongful entry after the determination of a particular estate, made before the remainderman or reversioner has entered.
- intrusive — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
- intrusted — entrust.
- inumbrate — (obsolete) To shade; to darken.
- inurement — to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to): inured to cold.
- inurnment — to put into an urn, especially ashes after cremation.
- investure — (obsolete) To clothe; to invest.
- involucre — Botany. a collection or rosette of bracts subtending a flower cluster, umbel, or the like.
- inwrought — worked in or closely combined with something.
- ip number — internet address
- iron blue — any of the class of blue pigments having a high tinting strength and ranging in shade and in coloring properties from reddish blue to jet blue: used chiefly in the manufacture of paints and printing inks.
- iron duke — 1st Duke of (Arthur Wellesley"the Iron Duke") 1769–1852, British general and statesman, born in Ireland: prime minister 1828–30.
- iron lung — a chamberlike respirator, formerly used in the treatment of poliomyelitis, that encloses the whole body except the head and in which alternate pulsations of high and low pressure induce normal breathing movements or force air into and out of the lungs.
- ironbound — bound with iron.