8-letter words containing a, e, c, u
- caesious — having a waxy bluish-grey coating
- caesurae — Prosody. a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan.
- caesural — Prosody. a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan.
- caesuras — Plural form of caesura.
- caesuric — caesural
- cagoules — Plural form of cagoule.
- callused — Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.
- calluses — Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.
- calumets — Plural form of calumet.
- calycule — an epicalyx
- camaguey — a city in E central Cuba. Pop: 320 000 (2005 est)
- cameroun — Cameroon
- campuses — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
- canegrub — any of various grubs that are a pest of sugar cane, esp, in Australia, the greyback canegrub, Dermolepida albohirtum
- cannulae — Irregular plural form of cannula.
- canulate — Alternative form of cannulate.
- capaneus — one of the Seven against Thebes, who was destroyed by Zeus for blasphemy.
- capitule — (obsolete) A summary.
- capsuled — Enclosed within a capsule.
- capsules — Plural form of capsule.
- captured — Simple past tense and past participle of capture.
- capturer — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- captures — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- capuched — hooded
- capuches — Plural form of capuche.
- capulets — Plural form of capulet.
- carburet — to combine or mix (a gas) with carbon or carbon compounds
- carefull — Obsolete spelling of careful.
- carneous — fleshy
- caroused — Simple past tense and past participle of carouse.
- carousel — At an airport, a carousel is a moving surface from which passengers can collect their luggage.
- carouser — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
- carouses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of carouse.
- carpeaux — Jean Baptiste [zhahn ba-teest] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), 1827–75, French sculptor.
- carucage — the tax due on a carucate
- carucate — the area of land an oxen team could plough in a year
- caruncle — a fleshy outgrowth on the heads of certain birds, such as a cock's comb
- carve up — If you say that someone carves something up, you disapprove of the way they have divided it into small parts.
- carveout — A small company created from a larger one.
- case out — an often small or portable container for enclosing something, as for carrying or safekeeping; receptacle: a jewel case.
- cathetus — a straight line or radius positioned perpendicular to another line or radius
- cathouse — a house of prostitution
- caucused — U.S. Politics. a meeting of party leaders to select candidates, elect convention delegates, etc. a meeting of party members within a legislative body to select leaders and determine strategy. (often initial capital letter) a faction within a legislative body that pursues its interests through the legislative process: the Women's Caucus; the Black Caucus.
- caucuses — U.S. Politics. a meeting of party leaders to select candidates, elect convention delegates, etc. a meeting of party members within a legislative body to select leaders and determine strategy. (often initial capital letter) a faction within a legislative body that pursues its interests through the legislative process: the Women's Caucus; the Black Caucus.
- caudaite — a small meteorite, generally less than one half millimeter in diameter, containing crystals of more or less pure magnetite.
- caudated — Having a tail, or a termination resembling a tail; caudate.
- caudicle — the stalk to which an orchid's pollen masses are attached
- caulicle — a small stalk or stem
- causable — that can be caused
- causerie — an informal talk or conversational piece of writing