9-letter words containing a, c, l, u, i
- mcauliffe — Anthony Clement, 1898–1975, U.S. Army general.
- melanuric — relating to melanuria
- mercurial — changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic: a mercurial nature.
- multicast — Send (data) across a computer network to several users at the same time.
- 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".
- multipack — a packaged item containing two or more products sold as a unit.
- 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.
- municipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
- musicales — Plural form of musicale.
- musically — of, relating to, or producing music: a musical instrument.
- navicular — boat-shaped, as certain bones.
- neuralgic — sharp and paroxysmal pain along the course of a nerve.
- noctiluca — a dinoflagellate of the genus Noctiluca, capable of producing light and, in groups, of causing a luminous appearance of the sea.
- numerical — of or relating to numbers; of the nature of a number.
- ocularist — a person who makes artificial eyes
- orbicular — like an orb; circular; ringlike; spherical; rounded.
- patchouli — a plant, Pogostemon cablin, of tropical Asia, that yields a fragrant oil (patchouli oil) used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- pedicular — of or relating to lice.
- plicature — the act or procedure of folding.
- quantical — relating to quantics
- quillback — a carpsucker, Carpiodes cyprinus, inhabiting waters in the central and eastern U.S., having one ray of the dorsal fin greatly elongated.
- quitclaim — a transfer of all one's interest, as in a parcel of real estate, especially without a warranty of title.
- quizzical — odd, queer, or comical.
- radicular — Botany. of or relating to a radicle or root.
- recruital — an act of recruiting
- reticular — having the form of a net; netlike.
- revictual — to victual or provide with food again
- rhizocaul — a rootlike stem or stalk
- roubiliac — Louis-François (lwifrɑ̃swa). ?1695–1762, French sculptor: lived chiefly in England: his sculptures include the statue of Handel in Vauxhall Gardens (1737)
- salacious — lustful or lecherous.
- saliaunce — an onslaught
- salicetum — a plantation of willows
- saluretic — of or relating to a substance that promotes renal excretion of sodium and chloride ions.
- scamillus — a slight bevel at an arris of a stone, as in the necking of a Greek Doric column.
- semuncial — of or pertaining to a semuncia or to half an ounce
- simulacra — a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance.
- simulacre — simulacrum.
- simulcast — a program broadcast simultaneously on radio and television, or on more than one station, or in several languages, etc.
- sluiceway — a channel controlled by a sluice gate.
- solacious — providing solace
- spiculate — having the form of a spicule.
- st. lucia — one of the Windward Islands, in the E West Indies.
- sterculia — any of various tropical trees of the genus Sterculia, of which some species are grown as ornamentals and some are the source of commercially valuable wood.
- subapical — located below the apex.
- subclimax — the development of an ecological community to a stage short of the expected climax because of some factor, as repeated fires in a forest, that arrests the normal succession.
- subsocial — without a definite social structure.
- suctorial — adapted for sucking or suction, as an organ; functioning as a sucker for imbibing or adhering.
- sulcalize — to furrow, make a furrow in; predominantly, to make a furrow in (the tongue), make the surface of (the tongue) concave in order to produce certain phonemes
- sulcation — having long, narrow grooves or channels, as plant stems, or being furrowed or cleft, as hoofs.
- sulphatic — sulphuric, of or pertaining to a sulphate