8-letter words containing a, c, u, t
- arcturus — the brightest star in the constellation Boötes: a red giant. Visual magnitude: –0.4; spectral type: K2III; distance: 37 light years
- arcuated — Alternative form of arcuate.
- astucity — Craftiness; astuteness.
- auctions — Plural form of auction.
- audacity — Audacity is audacious behaviour.
- auncient — Obsolete form of ancient.
- autacoid — any natural internal secretion, esp one that exerts an effect similar to a drug
- autarchy — unlimited rule; autocracy
- autarkic — the condition of self-sufficiency, especially economic, as applied to a nation.
- autecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- autistic — An autistic person suffers from autism.
- autocade — a procession or parade of automobiles; motorcade.
- autocarp — any fruit that is produced through self-fertilization
- autocide — suicide by crashing the vehicle one is driving.
- autocode — (language) 1. The assembly language accepted by AUTOCODER. 2. A generic term for symbolic assembly language. Versions of Autocode were developed for Ferranti Atlas, Titan, Mercury and Pegasus and IBM 702 and IBM 705.
- autocoid — Alternative form of autacoid.
- autoconf — (software, tool) The GNU project's tool that configures a source code distribution to compile and run on a different platform. Among open source hackers, a mere running binary of a program is not considered a full release; what's interesting is a source tree that can be built into binaries using standard tools. Since the mid-1990s, autoconf, automake, and libtools have been the standard way to make a distribution portable so that it can be built on multiple operating systems without change.
- autocrat — An autocrat is a person in authority who has complete power.
- autopsic — relating to autopsy
- autoptic — relating to or belonging to personal observation
- auxocyte — any cell undergoing meiosis, esp an oocyte or spermatocyte
- back out — If you back out, you decide not to do something that you previously agreed to do.
- baculite — an extinct species of mollusc from the Late Cretaceous period, fossils of which have been found ranging from 7cm to 2m in length
- bathcube — a cube of soluble scented material for use in a bath
- batucada — A style of repetitive, fast-paced percussive samba.
- bauxitic — consisting of, containing or resembling bauxite
- blackout — A blackout is a period of time during a war in which towns and buildings are made dark so that they cannot be seen by enemy planes.
- blu-tack — a type of blue, malleable, sticky material used to attach paper, card, etc to walls and other surfaces
- bluecoat — a person who wears a blue coat, such as a sailor or policeman
- bucatini — pasta in the shape of long tubes
- buckfast — a fortified tonic wine
- buckstay — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
- bucktail — a fishing lure adorned with deer hair
- buffcoat — buff1 (def 6).
- cactuses — Plural form of cactus.
- caducity — perishableness
- calathus — a vase-shaped basket represented in ancient Greek art, used as a symbol of fruitfulness
- calcutta — Kolkata
- caliduct — a pipe or duct for conveying a heating medium, as hot air or steam.
- calixtus — (Alfonso de Borja; Alfonso Borgia) 1378–1458, Spanish ecclesiastic: pope 1455–58.
- call out — If you call someone out, you order or request that they come to help, especially in an emergency.
- call-out — an act or instance of calling out.
- calumets — Plural form of calumet.
- calutron — a device used for the separation of isotopes
- camp out — If you say that people camp out somewhere in the open air, you are emphasizing that they stay there for a long time, because they are waiting for something to happen.
- canticum — a canticle
- cantuar. — Cantuariensis
- canulate — Alternative form of cannulate.
- capitula — Biology. any globose or knoblike part, as a flower head or the head of a bone.
- capitule — (obsolete) A summary.