10-letter words containing a, d, u
- claudicant — (medicine) limping.
- claudius i — 10 b.c.–a.d. 54, Roman emperor a.d. 41–54.
- cloud base — the apparent lower surface of a cloud or cloud layer.
- cloud peak — a mountain in N central Wyoming: highest peak in the Bighorn Mountains. 13,175 feet (4018 meters).
- cloud rack — a group of moving clouds
- cloudscape — a picturesque formation of clouds
- coadjutant — cooperating
- coadjutors — Plural form of coadjutor.
- coadjuvant — Cooperating.
- coagulated — Subject to coagulation.
- coastguard — A coastguard is an official who watches the sea near a coast in order to get help for sailors when they need it and to stop illegal activities.
- coatimundi — The ring-tailed coati, Nasua nasua, a south American carnivore.
- coauthored — one of two or more joint authors.
- colatitude — the complement of the celestial latitude
- collarstud — a stud that is used to attach a removable collar to a shirt
- columnated — Architecture. a rigid, relatively slender, upright support, composed of relatively few pieces. a decorative pillar, most often composed of stone and typically having a cylindrical or polygonal shaft with a capital and usually a base.
- comatulids — Plural form of comatulid.
- communards — Plural form of communard.
- commutated — to reverse the direction of (a current or currents), as by a commutator.
- conductant — Able to conduct (e.g. conduct electrical current); conductive.
- conga drum — a large tubular bass drum, used chiefly in Latin American and funk music and played with the hands
- conjugated — (of a molecule, compound, or substance) containing two or more double bonds alternating with single bonds
- corrugated — Corrugated metal or cardboard has been folded into a series of small parallel folds to make it stronger.
- coruscated — Simple past tense and past participle of coruscate.
- court card — (in a pack of playing cards) a king, queen, or jack of any suit
- court hand — a style of handwriting formerly used in English law courts
- courtyards — Plural form of courtyard.
- cracked up — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- cranked up — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crassitude — gross ignorance or stupidity.
- crenulated — minutely crenate, as the margin of certain leaves.
- croustades — Plural form of croustade.
- crude tank — A crude tank is a large vessel for crude oil.
- cuadrillas — Plural form of cuadrilla.
- cucullated — hooded; hood-shaped
- cul-de-sac — A cul-de-sac is a short road which is closed off at one end.
- culminated — Simple past tense and past participle of culminate.
- cultivated — If you describe someone as cultivated, you mean they are well educated and have good manners.
- cumberland — (until 1974) a county of NW England, now part of Cumbria
- cuspidated — Alternative form of cuspidate.
- custodians — Plural form of custodian.
- cut a dash — If you say that someone cuts a dash, you mean that they have an attractively stylish appearance or a rather bold manner.
- cut a deal — to come to an arrangement; make a deal
- d'annunzio — Gabriele (ɡaˈbrjɛːle). 1863–1938, Italian poet, dramatist, novelist, national hero, and Fascist. His works include the poems in Alcione (1904) and the drama La Figlia di Iorio (1904)
- dachshunds — Plural form of dachshund.
- daguerrean — relating to Daguerre or the daguerreotype
- dairyhouse — A farm building operating as a dairy.
- daisy bush — any of various shrubs of the genus Olearia, of Australia and New Zealand, with daisy-like flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
- damascenus — Johannes [joh-han-eez,, -is] /dʒoʊˈhæn iz,, -ɪs/ (Show IPA), John of Damascus, Saint.
- damasus ii — died 1048, pope 1048.