10-letter words containing a, c, u, l
- cucullated — hooded; hood-shaped
- cucurbital — of or relating to the genus Cucurbitaceae
- cul-de-sac — A cul-de-sac is a short road which is closed off at one end.
- culinarian — a person skilled in cookery
- culinarily — of, relating to, or used in cooking or the kitchen.
- culminated — Simple past tense and past participle of culminate.
- culminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of culminate.
- cultivable — (of land) capable of being cultivated
- cultivated — If you describe someone as cultivated, you mean they are well educated and have good manners.
- cultivates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cultivate.
- cultivator — A cultivator is a tool or machine which is used to break up the earth or to remove weeds, for example in a garden or field.
- culturable — able to be cultivated or cultured
- culturally — of or relating to culture or cultivation.
- culvertage — the forfeiture of a person's property, thereby reducing him to the status of a villain
- cumberland — (until 1974) a county of NW England, now part of Cumbria
- cumulating — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- cumulation — the act of cumulating; accumulation.
- cumulative — If a series of events have a cumulative effect, each event makes the effect greater.
- curability — capable of being cured.
- curatorial — Curatorial means relating to curators and their work.
- curl paper — a strip of paper used to roll up and set a section of hair, usually wetted, into a curl
- curly palm — a feather palm, Howea belmoreana, of Lord Howe Island, having plumy leaves about 7 feet (2.1 meter) long.
- curricular — the aggregate of courses of study given in a school, college, university, etc.: The school is adding more science courses to its curriculum.
- curry leaf — a shrub or tree, Murraya koenigii, of India and Sri Lanka.
- curselarie — (in the works of Shakespeare) cursory
- curtailing — Present participle of curtail.
- curtilages — Plural form of curtilage.
- curtmantle — ("Henry the Saint") 973–1024, king of Germany 1002–24 and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1014–24.
- curve ball — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- curve-ball — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- curveballs — Plural form of curveball.
- customable — subject to customs
- cut a deal — to come to an arrangement; make a deal
- cutability — the portion of saleable lean meat on a carcass
- dark cloud — grey clouds threatening rain
- decumulate — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- deductable — Alternative spelling of deductibletrue; that which can be deducted.
- depucelage — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
- dicoumarol — a substance obtained naturally from sweet clover or produced synthetically as a drug, used as an anticoagulant
- dilucidate — to elucidate
- diplacusis — a difference in hearing by the two ears so that one sound is heard as two.
- discoursal — of or relating to discourse
- disculpate — (transitive) To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate.
- documental — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- double act — Two comedians or entertainers who perform together are referred to as a double act. Their performance can also be called a double act.
- doulocracy — Government by slaves.
- du chaillu — Paul Belloni [pawl buh-loh-nee;; French pawl be-law-nee] /pɔl bəˈloʊ ni;; French pɔl bɛ lɔˈni/ (Show IPA), 1835–1903, U.S. explorer in Africa, traveler, and writer; born in France.
- dual space — the set of all linear functionals whose domain is a given vector space.
- dual-stack — (networking) A term used to describe a network node running both IPv4 and IPv6 protocol stacks (or possibly others) at the same time. Such a machine can act as a protocol converter between the two networks. A node without dual-stack support can relay traffic in a protocol it does not support natively by use of tunnelling.
- duckwalked — Simple past tense and past participle of duckwalk.