8-letter words containing a, t, u, e
- bush tea — a leguminous shrub of the genus Cyclopia, of southern Africa
- bushmeat — meat taken from any animal native to African forests, including species that may be endangered or not usually eaten outside Africa
- butanone — a colourless soluble flammable liquid used mainly as a solvent for resins, as a paint remover, and in lacquers, cements, and adhesives. Formula: CH3COC2H5
- butthead — a stupid person
- butylate — to introduce butyl into (a compound)
- butyrate — any salt or ester of butyric acid, containing the monovalent group C3H7COO- or ion C3H7COO–
- cactuses — Plural form of cactus.
- calumets — Plural form of calumet.
- canulate — Alternative form of cannulate.
- capitule — (obsolete) A summary.
- 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.
- capulets — Plural form of capulet.
- carburet — to combine or mix (a gas) with carbon or carbon compounds
- carucate — the area of land an oxen team could plough in a year
- 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
- 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.
- celature — the art of embossing metal.
- centaurs — Classical Mythology. one of a race of monsters having the head, trunk, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
- centaury — any Eurasian plant of the genus Centaurium, esp C. erythraea, having purplish-pink flowers and formerly believed to have medicinal properties: family Gentianaceae
- cernauti — a city in SW Ukraine, on the Prut River: formerly in Romania.
- cetaceum — spermaceti.
- chanteur — a male singer, especially one who sings in nightclubs and cabarets.
- chaqueta — a heavy jacket associated with South American cowboys
- chateaux — (in France) a castle or fortress.
- chetumal — city in SE Mexico: capital of Quintana Roo state: pop. 38,000
- cleanout — the removal of something from a place
- clearcut — Alternative spelling of clear cut.
- clearout — Alternative form of clear-out.
- clubmate — A person who is in the same club as another person.
- coequate — to equate with something else
- conneaut — a city in NE Ohio.
- copulate — If one animal or person copulates with another, they have sex. You can also say that two animals or people copulate.
- cornuate — (medicine) Being or pertaining to a hornlike structure, as with a bicornuate uterus.
- cotquean — a coarse woman
- courante — an old dance in quick triple time
- cousteau — Jacques Yves (ʒɑk iv). 1910–97, French underwater explorer
- crateful — (informal) As much as a crate would hold.
- creature — You can refer to any living thing that is not a plant as a creature, especially when it is of an unknown or unfamiliar kind. People also refer to imaginary animals and beings as creatures.
- cruciate — shaped or arranged like a cross
- crustate — having a crust or shell
- cubature — the determination of the cubic contents of something
- cultrate — shaped like a knife blade
- cumulate — to accumulate
- cuneatic — cuneiform; cuneate.