12-letter words containing a, s, u
- bushelbasket — a rounded basket with a capacity of one bushel
- bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
- bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
- butter sauce — a sauce made of melted butter, often diluted with water, sometimes thickened with flour or egg yolk, or both, and seasoned with lemon juice.
- buzzards bay — arm of the Atlantic, on the SE coast of Mass., at the base of Cape Cod peninsula
- byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
- cacophonious — cacophonous
- cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
- cadent house — any of the four houses that precede the angles: the third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth houses, which correspond, respectively, to neighborhood and relatives, work and health, philosophy and foreign travel, and secret matters and service to others.
- calamitously — In a calamitous manner.
- calcareously — in a calcareous manner
- calculations — Plural form of calculation.
- calixtus iii — (Alfonso de Borja; Alfonso Borgia) 1378–1458, Spanish ecclesiastic: pope 1455–58.
- callistus ii — died 1124, French ecclesiastic: pope 1119–24.
- calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
- calumniously — in a calumnious manner
- calycoideous — calycoid
- camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
- canorousness — The quality of being musical.
- cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
- canterburies — Plural form of canterbury.
- cape agulhas — a headland in South Africa, the southernmost point of the African continent
- cape sounion — Cape, a cape in E central Greece, SE of Athens, at the tip of the Attica peninsula, in W Aegean Sea.
- caper spurge — a spurge, Euphorbia lathyris, producing latex that is considered a possible source of crude oil and gasoline.
- capillaceous — having numerous filaments resembling hairs or threads
- capitularies — Plural form of capitulary.
- capriciously — subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic: He's such a capricious boss I never know how he'll react.
- captiousness — The state of being captious.
- car industry — the industry concerned with the manufacture and selling of automobiles
- carbon brush — a small block of carbon used to convey current between the stationary and moving parts of an electric generator, motor, etc
- carbonaceous — of, resembling, or containing carbon
- card surfing — a form of cash-card fraud in which one person watches another using a cash dispenser, notes his or her personal identification number, and, after an accomplice has stolen the card, uses the card to withdraw cash
- caricaturist — A caricaturist is a person who shows other people in an exaggerated way in order to be humorous or critical, especially in drawings or cartoons.
- carnal abuse — Law. any lascivious contact with the sexual organs of a child by an adult, especially without sexual intercourse.
- carnivourous — Misspelling of carnivorous.
- carpophagous — feeding on fruit
- cash account — an account with a brokerage which stipulates that the client pays in full for any transactions, rather than being extended credit
- cash journal — cashbook.
- cash squeeze — a shortage of money or funding
- cash-in-lieu — Cash-in-lieu is payment of cash instead of stock when a stock splits or changes and the shareholder only owns a partial share.
- caster sugar — Caster sugar is white sugar that has been ground into fine grains. It is used in cooking.
- castor sugar — finely ground or powdered sugar.
- cat squirrel — the gray squirrel, as distinguished from the fox squirrel.
- catacoustics — the branch of acoustics dealing with echoes and reflected sounds
- cater-cousin — a close friend
- caught short — having a sudden need to urinate or defecate
- cauliflowers — Plural form of cauliflower.
- causationism — the theory of universal causation
- causationist — a person who believes in the theory of universal causation
- caustic lime — lime1 (def 1).