10-letter words containing a, n, i, c, u
- beautician — A beautician is a person whose job is giving people beauty treatments such as doing their nails, treating their skin, and putting on their make-up.
- bicornuate — Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
- binoculars — Binoculars consist of two small telescopes joined together side by side, which you look through in order to look at things that are a long way away.
- binucleate — having two nuclei
- buccinator — a thin muscle that compresses the cheeks and holds them against the teeth during chewing, etc
- buchmanism — the principles or the international movement of Moral Re-Armament or of the Oxford Group, or belief in or adherence to them.
- buckingham — a town in S central England, in Buckinghamshire; university (1975). Pop: 12 512 (2001)
- buckraking — the practice of accepting large sums of money for speaking to special interest groups.
- bull chain — a chain for dragging logs to a sawmill.
- cacuminous — (of a tree) having a pointed or a pyramidal top
- caliginous — dark; dim
- calmodulin — a protein found in most living cells; it regulates many enzymic processes that are dependent on calcium
- calumniate — to slander
- calumnious — of or using calumny
- canaliculi — a small canal or tubular passage, as in bone.
- candaulism — A practice or in which a man exposes his female partner, or images of her, to other people for their pleasure.
- capitulant — a person who capitulates
- cappuccino — Cappuccino is coffee which is made using milk and has froth and sometimes powdered chocolate on top.
- capsorubin — (organic compound) A di-hydroxy, keto carotenoid, which, together with capsanthin, constitutes the red pigment of paprika.
- cardueline — of or relating to the passerine subfamily Carduelinae, including the goldfinches, siskins, canaries and crossbills.
- carmustine — a toxic nitrosurea, C 5 H 9 Cl 2 N 3 O 2 , used in the treatment of a wide range of tumors.
- carthusian — a member of an austere monastic order founded by Saint Bruno in 1084 near Grenoble, France
- casuarinas — Plural form of casuarina.
- caucussing — the act of holding a private, often secret meeting of members of a political party prior to an election or general party meeting
- caudal fin — the tail fin of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates, used for propulsion during locomotion
- causations — Plural form of causation.
- cautionary — A cautionary story or a cautionary note to a story is one that is intended to give a warning to people.
- cautioners — Plural form of cautioner.
- cautioning — Present participle of caution.
- cavaquinho — A small, four-stringed guitar resembling a ukulele, popular in Brazil and Portugal.
- centaurian — resembling or of the nature of a centaur
- centauries — Plural form of centaury.
- chain pump — a pump consisting of buckets, plates, or the like, rising upon a chain within a cylinder for raising liquids entering the cylinder at the bottom.
- chain rule — a theorem that may be used in the differentiation of the function of a function. It states that du/dx = (du/dy)(dy/dx), where y is a function of x and u a function of y
- chairbound — unable to walk; dependent on a wheelchair for mobility
- charmonium — an elementary particle that contains an antiquark and a charm quark
- chaucerian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer
- chauvinism — Chauvinism is a strong, unreasonable belief that your own country is more important and morally better than other people's.
- chauvinist — a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
- china blue — a bright greenish blue.
- chine nual — (documentation) /sheen'yu-*l/ (MIT) The LISP Machine Manual, so called because the title was wrapped around the cover so only those letters showed on the front.
- chinquapin — a dwarf chestnut tree, Castanea pumila, of the eastern US, yielding edible nuts
- churnalism — a type of journalism that relies on reusing existing material such as press releases and wire service reports instead of original research, esp as a result of an increased demand for news content
- ciguatoxin — a toxin found in seafood
- cinerarium — a place for keeping the ashes of the dead after cremation
- cingulated — Having a cingulum.
- circannual — noting or pertaining to a biological activity or cycle that recurs yearly.
- clamouring — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- claudicant — (medicine) limping.
- coatimundi — The ring-tailed coati, Nasua nasua, a south American carnivore.