10-letter words containing a, c, u
- camoufleur — a person who camouflages military equipment
- camp it up — If a performer camps it up, they deliberately perform in an exaggerated and often amusing way.
- campanular — shaped like a bell
- campground — A campground is the same as a campsite.
- campuswide — Throughout a campus.
- canaliculi — a small canal or tubular passage, as in bone.
- cancel out — If one thing cancels out another thing, the two things have opposite effects, so that when they are combined no real effect is produced.
- 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.
- candy pull — a social gathering at which taffy or molasses candy is made.
- candytufts — Plural form of candytuft.
- cane sugar — the sucrose obtained from sugar cane, which is identical to that obtained from sugar beet
- canecutter — any of several species of large cottontails inhabiting swamps or marshes.
- cannelured — a groove or fluting around the cylindrical part of a bullet.
- cannelures — Plural form of cannelure.
- cannot but — You use cannot but, could not but, and cannot help but when you want to emphasize that you believe something must be true and that there is no possibility of anything else being the case.
- cannulated — Simple past tense and past participle of cannulate.
- canonsburg — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- canorously — In a canorous manner.
- cantaloupe — A cantaloupe is a type of melon.
- canteloube — (Marie) Joseph (French ʒozɛf). 1879–1957, French composer, best known for his Chants d'Auvergne (1923–30)
- canterbury — a late 18th-century low wooden stand with partitions for holding cutlery and plates: often mounted on casters
- caoutchouc — rubber; esp. India rubber, or crude, natural rubber, obtained from latex
- capacitous — Having the legal capacity to do something.
- cape dutch — (in South Africa) a distinctive style of furniture or architecture
- capillatus — (of a cumulonimbus cloud) having a cirriform upper portion that resembles an anvil or a disorderly mass of hair.
- capitellum — an enlarged knoblike structure at the end of a bone that forms an articulation with another bone; capitulum
- capitulant — a person who capitulates
- capitulary — any of the collections of ordinances promulgated by the Frankish kings (8th–10th centuries ad)
- capitulate — If you capitulate, you stop resisting and do what someone else wants you to do.
- cappuccino — Cappuccino is coffee which is made using milk and has froth and sometimes powdered chocolate on top.
- 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.
- captiously — In a captious manner.
- capturable — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- caqueteuse — cacqueteuse.
- caquetoire — cacqueteuse.
- caractacus — flourished a.d. c50, British chieftain who opposed the Romans.
- carbuncled — infected with a carbuncle.
- carbuncles — Plural form of carbuncle.
- carbureted — (of a vehicle or engine) having fuel supplied through a carburetor, rather than an injector.
- carburetor — A carburetor is the part of an engine, usually in a car, in which air and gasoline are mixed together to form a vapor which can be burned.
- carburized — Simple past tense and past participle of carburize.
- card punch — keypunch (def 1).