10-letter words containing a, c, i, u
- charcutier — a pork butcher.
- charmonium — an elementary particle that contains an antiquark and a charm quark
- chaucerian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer
- chaudfroid — a sweet or savoury jellied sauce used to coat cold meat, chicken, etc
- chauvinism — Chauvinism is a strong, unreasonable belief that your own country is more important and morally better than other people's.
- chauvinist — a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
- cherubical — Cherubic.
- chi-square — an inferential statistic common in survey research
- chihuahuas — Plural form of chihuahua.
- chikamatsu — Monzaemon [mawn-zah-e-mawn] /ˈmɔn zɑ ɛˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), 1653–1724, Japanese playwright.
- china blue — a bright greenish blue.
- chine nual — (documentation) /sheen'yu-*l/ (MIT) The LISP Machine Manual, so called because the title was wrapped around the cover so only those letters showed on the front.
- chinquapin — a dwarf chestnut tree, Castanea pumila, of the eastern US, yielding edible nuts
- chiricahua — a member of an Apache Indian group, formerly located in the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, now living primarily in Oklahoma and New Mexico.
- chivalrous — A chivalrous man is polite, kind, and unselfish, especially towards women.
- choliambus — a line of iambic meter with a spondee or trochee replacing the last foot.
- choriambus — choriamb.
- churnalism — a type of journalism that relies on reusing existing material such as press releases and wire service reports instead of original research, esp as a result of an increased demand for news content
- ciguatoxin — a toxin found in seafood
- cimicifuga — Any member of the genus Cimicifuga of flowering plants: bugbane or cohosh.
- cinerarium — a place for keeping the ashes of the dead after cremation
- cingulated — Having a cingulum.
- circannual — noting or pertaining to a biological activity or cycle that recurs yearly.
- circulable — able to be circulated
- circularly — In a circular way.
- circulated — to move in a circle or circuit; move or pass through a circuit back to the starting point: Blood circulates throughout the body.
- circulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circulate.
- circulator — a person who moves from place to place.
- circumoral — Around or encircling the mouth.
- cistaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Cistaceae, a family of shrubby or herbaceous plants that includes the rockroses
- clamouring — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- claudicant — (medicine) limping.
- claudius i — 10 b.c.–a.d. 54, Roman emperor a.d. 41–54.
- clausewitz — Karl von (karl fɔn). 1780–1831, Prussian general, noted for his works on military strategy, esp Vom Kriege (1833)
- clavicular — a bone of the pectoral arch.
- club chair — a large, heavily upholstered armchair, usually with a low back
- coatimundi — The ring-tailed coati, Nasua nasua, a south American carnivore.
- coequality — The condition of being coequal.
- colatitude — the complement of the celestial latitude
- colliquant — capable of liquefaction or dissolution
- colliquate — to melt or cause to melt
- colloquial — of or relating to conversation
- columbaria — Irregular plural form of columbarium.
- comatulids — Plural form of comatulid.
- communital — a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage.
- communitas — the sense of sharing and intimacy that develops among persons who experience liminality as a group.
- contagious — A disease that is contagious can be caught by touching people or things that are infected with it. Compare infectious.
- continuall — Obsolete spelling of continual.
- continuant — a speech sound, such as (l), (r), (f), or (s), in which the closure of the vocal tract is incomplete, allowing the continuous passage of the breath
- continuate — continuous