10-letter words containing a, e, c, u
- 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.
- culturable — able to be cultivated or cultured
- 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
- cumulative — If a series of events have a cumulative effect, each event makes the effect greater.
- cunctative — delay; tardiness.
- cup of tea — a favorite or well-suited thing, activity, etc.
- cupbearers — Plural form of cupbearer.
- curateship — the office or position of a curate
- curettages — Plural form of curettage.
- curl paper — a strip of paper used to roll up and set a section of hair, usually wetted, into a curl
- curry leaf — a shrub or tree, Murraya koenigii, of India and Sri Lanka.
- curselarie — (in the works of Shakespeare) cursory
- 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.
- curvaceous — If someone describes a woman as curvaceous, they think she is attractive because of the curves of her body.
- curvatures — Plural form of curvature.
- curve ball — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- curve-ball — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- curveballs — Plural form of curveball.
- cuspidated — Alternative form of cuspidate.
- customable — subject to customs
- cut a deal — to come to an arrangement; make a deal
- cut a tape — To write a software or document distribution on magnetic tape for shipment. Has nothing to do with physically cutting the medium! "Cutting a disk" has also been reported as live usage. Related slang usages are mainstream business's "cut a check", the recording industry's "cut a record", and the military's "cut an order". All of these usages reflect physical processes in obsolete recording and duplication technologies. The first stage in manufacturing an old-style vinyl record involved cutting grooves in a stamping die with a precision lathe. More mundanely, the dominant technology for mass duplication of paper documents in pre-photocopying days involved "cutting a stencil", punching away portions of the wax overlay on a silk screen. More directly, paper tape with holes punched in it was an important early storage medium.
- cut square — a stamp cut from the envelope on which it has been printed so as to leave a square margin.
- cutis vera — cutis.
- cutter bar — Also called sickle bar. (in a mower, binder, or combine) a bar with triangular guards along which a knife or blade runs.
- damascenus — Johannes [joh-han-eez,, -is] /dʒoʊˈhæn iz,, -ɪs/ (Show IPA), John of Damascus, Saint.
- dampcourse — a horizontal layer of impervious material in a brick wall, fairly close to the ground, to stop moisture rising
- debauchees — Plural form of debauchee.
- debauchery — You use debauchery to refer to the drinking of alcohol or to sexual activity if you disapprove of it or regard it as excessive.
- debauching — Present participle of debauch.
- decamerous — having ten sections or partitions
- decapodous — Decapodal; ten-footed.
- decoupaged — Simple past tense and past participle of decoupage.
- decoupages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decoupage.
- decumulate — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- decussated — Simple past tense and past participle of decussate.
- deductable — Alternative spelling of deductibletrue; that which can be deducted.
- denunciate — to condemn; denounce
- depucelage — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
- detruncate — to cut off a part of; truncate
- diazeuctic — (of a tone) separating two tetrachords
- dijudicate — to make a decision or judgment about a matter that is disputed by two parties
- dilucidate — to elucidate
- discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- disculpate — (transitive) To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate.