10-letter words containing a, c, u, l
- antilochus — a son of Nestor and a trusted friend of Achilles.
- anucleated — without a nucleus
- apiculture — the breeding and care of bees
- apolaustic — concerned with or dedicated to enjoyment
- applesauce — a relish or dessert made of apples stewed to a pulp and sweetened; (fig.) (sl.) bunkum, nonsense
- arbuscular — relating to, or similar to, arbuscles
- arcesilaus — 316–241 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- arcosolium — (in Roman catacombs) an arched recess for a sarcophagus.
- arcubalist — an arbalest
- articulacy — uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
- articulary — (anatomy) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.
- articulate — If you describe someone as articulate, you mean that they are able to express their thoughts and ideas easily and well.
- audiologic — of or relating to audiology
- auriculate — having ears
- auscultate — to examine (a patient) by means of auscultation
- autarkical — of or relating to autarky
- autecology — the ecological study of an individual organism or species
- autoclaved — Simple past tense and past participle of autoclave.
- autoclaves — Plural form of autoclave.
- avicularia — Plural form of avicularium.
- aviculture — the keeping and rearing of birds
- avirulence — The state of being avirulent.
- avouchable — able to be avouched
- avunculate — the custom in some societies of assigning rights and duties to a maternal uncle concerning his sister's son
- bacilluria — the presence of bacilli in the urine
- baculiform — shaped like a rod
- bale cubic — the space available in a ship's hold for the stowage of general cargo, measured in cubic feet.
- bar-le-duc — Dutch Maas. a river in W Europe, flowing from NE France through E Belgium and S Netherlands into the North Sea. 575 miles (925 km) long.
- beach plum — a rosaceous shrub, Prunus maritima, of coastal regions of E North America
- bicapsular — (of plants) having two capsules or one capsule with two chambers
- bicultural — having two cultures
- bimaculate — marked with two spots.
- binoculars — Binoculars consist of two small telescopes joined together side by side, which you look through in order to look at things that are a long way away.
- binucleate — having two nuclei
- black duck — a sooty brown, wild duck (Anas rubripes) of E North America
- black flux — a reducing flux consisting of finely divided carbon and potassium carbonate.
- black lung — pneumoconiosis of coal miners, caused by coal dust; anthracosis.
- black ruff — a large, blackish, pelagic fish, Centrolophus niger, of the Atlantic Ocean, chiefly along the coast of Europe.
- black rust — a stage in any of several diseases of cereals and grasses caused by rust fungi in which black masses of spores appear on the stems or leaves
- blackguard — an unprincipled contemptible person; scoundrel
- blacksburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- blue coral — any coral of the genus Heliopora, having brown polyps and a blue skeleton, found in the Indo-Pacific region.
- blue crane — the great blue heron.
- blue racer — a long slender blackish-blue fast-moving colubrid snake, Coluber constrictor flaviventris, of the US
- blue-black — Something that is blue-black is bluish black in colour.
- bluejacket — a sailor in the Navy
- boucicault — Dion (ˈdaɪɒn), real name Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot. 1822–90, Irish dramatist and actor. His plays include London Assurance (1841), The Octoroon (1859), and The Shaughran (1874)
- bounceable — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
- bubble car — (in Britain, formerly) a small car, often having three wheels, with a transparent bubble-shaped top
- bucephalus — the favourite horse of Alexander the Great