10-letter words containing a, b, c, u
- bureaucrat — Bureaucrats are officials who work in a large administrative system. You can refer to officials as bureaucrats especially if you disapprove of them because they seem to follow rules and procedures too strictly.
- byssaceous — consisting of fine threads
- cabanatuan — city in SC Luzon, in the Philippines: pop. 173,000
- cable buoy — a buoy marking or supporting part of a submerged cable.
- calculable — Calculable amounts or consequences can be calculated.
- calico bug — harlequin bug.
- cannot but — You use cannot but, could not but, and cannot help but when you want to emphasize that you believe something must be true and that there is no possibility of anything else being the case.
- canonsburg — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- canteloube — (Marie) Joseph (French ʒozɛf). 1879–1957, French composer, best known for his Chants d'Auvergne (1923–30)
- canterbury — a late 18th-century low wooden stand with partitions for holding cutlery and plates: often mounted on casters
- capsorubin — (organic compound) A di-hydroxy, keto carotenoid, which, together with capsanthin, constitutes the red pigment of paprika.
- capturable — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- carbuncled — infected with a carbuncle.
- carbuncles — Plural form of carbuncle.
- carbureted — (of a vehicle or engine) having fuel supplied through a carburetor, rather than an injector.
- carburetor — A carburetor is the part of an engine, usually in a car, in which air and gasoline are mixed together to form a vapor which can be burned.
- carburized — Simple past tense and past participle of carburize.
- cash bonus — an extra amount of money given to someone for doing something good, over and above the amount that is normally paid for that achievement
- cast about — to make a mental or visual search
- catacumbal — of or resembling catacombs
- celebutard — (informal, pejorative, offensive, slang) A celebrity viewed as unintelligent; especially a celebrity who behaves badly in public.
- censurable — deserving censure, condemnation, or blame
- chairbound — unable to walk; dependent on a wheelchair for mobility
- cherubical — Cherubic.
- china blue — a bright greenish blue.
- choliambus — a line of iambic meter with a spondee or trochee replacing the last foot.
- choriambus — choriamb.
- chupacabra — An animal said to exist in parts of Latin America, where it supposedly attacks animals, especially goats.
- circulable — able to be circulated
- clarksburg — a city in N West Virginia, on the Monongahela River.
- cloud base — the apparent lower surface of a cloud or cloud layer.
- club chair — a large, heavily upholstered armchair, usually with a low back
- club class — a class of air travel which is less luxurious than first class but more luxurious than economy class
- club grass — cattail.
- club steak — a small steak that is cut from the short loin of beef and contains no part of the tenderloin
- club wheat — a wheat, Triticum compactum, characterized by compact, club-shaped spikes, used for making pastry flour and the like.
- clubmaster — the manager of a gentlemen's club
- clutch bag — clutch1 (def 15).
- coagulable — that can be coagulated
- cockabully — any of several small freshwater fish of New Zealand
- colour bar — discrimination against people of a different race, esp as practised by White people against Black people
- colourable — capable of being coloured
- columbaria — Irregular plural form of columbarium.
- come about — When you say how or when something came about, you say how or when it happened.
- commutable — (of a punishment) capable of being reduced in severity
- computable — computability theory
- confabular — of or relating to confabulation
- confusable — Able or liable to be confused with something else.
- confusably — In a confusable way; such that they may be confused.
- confutable — (archaic, or, formal) That can be confuted, i.e. shown to be false; disprovable.