10-letter words containing a, c, u, s
- back focus — the distance between the back surface of a lens and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
- back issue — A back issue of a magazine or newspaper is one that was published some time ago and is not the most recent.
- backcourts — Plural form of backcourt.
- bardacious — bodacious.
- barracudas — Plural form of barracuda.
- because of — If an event or situation occurs because of something, that thing is the reason or cause.
- bicapsular — (of plants) having two capsules or one capsule with two chambers
- 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.
- 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
- blacksburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- bonus pack — anything sold with a product and marketed as a useful and free extra
- bruschetta — Bruschetta is a slice of toasted bread which is brushed with olive oil and usually covered with chopped tomatoes.
- bucephalus — the favourite horse of Alexander the Great
- buchmanism — the principles or the international movement of Moral Re-Armament or of the Oxford Group, or belief in or adherence to them.
- buckpasser — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
- bulbaceous — bulbous
- bunchgrass — grass that grows in tufts
- byssaceous — consisting of fine threads
- cactaceous — belonging to the Cactaceae, the cactus family of plants.
- cacuminous — (of a tree) having a pointed or a pyramidal top
- cadaverous — If you describe someone as cadaverous, you mean they are extremely thin and pale.
- calamitous — If you describe an event or situation as calamitous, you mean it is very unfortunate or serious.
- calcaneous — Misspelling of calcaneus.
- calcareous — of, containing, or resembling calcium carbonate; chalky
- calcifuges — Plural form of calcifuge.
- calculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calculate.
- calendulas — Plural form of calendula.
- caliginous — dark; dim
- calixtus i — Saint, a.d. c160–222, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 218–222.
- call house — a house or apartment used by prostitutes for arranging or keeping assignations.
- calumnious — of or using calumny
- camarasaur — a plant-eating sauropod dinosaur of the genus Camarasaurus and closely related genera, having a small head, long neck, and short forelimbs, and reaching a length of 40 feet (12.2 meters); until 1981 the type specimen of Brontosaurus excelcus was wrongly reconstructed with a Camarasaurus skull.
- campuswide — Throughout a campus.
- cancellous — having a porous or spongelike structure
- candaulism — A practice or in which a man exposes his female partner, or images of her, to other people for their pleasure.
- candlenuts — Plural form of candlenut.
- candytufts — Plural form of candytuft.
- cane sugar — the sucrose obtained from sugar cane, which is identical to that obtained from sugar beet
- cannelures — Plural form of cannelure.
- canonsburg — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- canorously — In a canorous manner.
- capacitous — Having the legal capacity to do something.
- capillatus — (of a cumulonimbus cloud) having a cirriform upper portion that resembles an anvil or a disorderly mass of hair.
- capraesque — relating to or in the style of the movies of Frank Capra, focusing on courage and its positive effects and the triumph of the underdog.
- capricious — Someone who is capricious often changes their mind unexpectedly.
- capsorubin — (organic compound) A di-hydroxy, keto carotenoid, which, together with capsanthin, constitutes the red pigment of paprika.
- capsulated — Enclosed in a capsule.
- capsulised — Simple past tense and past participle of capsulise.
- capsulized — Simple past tense and past participle of capsulize.
- capsulizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capsulize.