8-letter words containing a, u, c
- buckbean — a marsh plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, with white or pink flowers: family Menyanthaceae
- buckfast — a fortified tonic wine
- buckland — William. 1784–1856, English geologist; he became a proponent of the idea of catastrophic ice ages
- buckrake — a large rake for agricultural use, often attached to a tractor
- buckstay — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
- bucktail — a fishing lure adorned with deer hair
- bucovina — Bukovina
- bucrania — (in classical architecture) an ornament, especially on a frieze, having the form of the skull of an ox.
- buffcoat — buff1 (def 6).
- bulimiac — pertaining to, resembling, or affected by bulimia.
- buoyance — the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness.
- buoyancy — Buoyancy is the ability that something has to float on a liquid or in the air.
- buy-back — A buy-back is a situation in which a company buys shares back from its investors.
- cabassou — (obsolete) The southern naked-tailed armadillo, a type of large armadillo native to South America, with five toes and enormous claws (Cabassous unicinctus).
- cachucha — a graceful Spanish solo dance in triple time
- caciques — Plural form of cacique.
- cactuses — Plural form of cactus.
- caducean — relating to a caduceus
- caduceus — a staff entwined with two serpents and bearing a pair of wings at the top, carried by Hermes (Mercury) as messenger of the gods
- caducity — perishableness
- caducous — (of parts of a plant or animal) shed during the life of the organism
- 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.
- cahuilla — a member of a North American Indian people of southern California.
- caladium — any of various tropical plants of the aroid genus Caladium, which are widely cultivated as potted plants for their colourful variegated foliage
- calakmul — a ruined Mayan city in SE Mexico.
- calathus — a vase-shaped basket represented in ancient Greek art, used as a symbol of fruitfulness
- calcular — relating to calculus
- calculus — Calculus is a branch of advanced mathematics which deals with variable quantities.
- calcutta — Kolkata
- caliduct — a pipe or duct for conveying a heating medium, as hot air or steam.
- caligula — original name Gaius Caesar, son of Germanicus. 12–41 ad, Roman emperor (37–41), noted for his cruelty and tyranny; assassinated
- calippus — flourished 4th century b.c, Greek astronomer.
- calixtus — (Alfonso de Borja; Alfonso Borgia) 1378–1458, Spanish ecclesiastic: pope 1455–58.
- call out — If you call someone out, you order or request that they come to help, especially in an emergency.
- call-out — an act or instance of calling out.
- callosum — (anatomy) corpus callosum.
- 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.
- calutron — a device used for the separation of isotopes
- calycule — an epicalyx
- calyculi — Plural form of calyculus.
- camaguey — a city in E central Cuba. Pop: 320 000 (2005 est)
- cambiums — Plural form of cambium.
- cameroun — Cameroon