8-letter words containing a, u
- capsular — relating to or resembling a capsule
- capsuled — Enclosed within a capsule.
- capsules — Plural form of capsule.
- captious — apt to make trivial criticisms; fault-finding; carping
- 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.
- capuccio — a capuche
- capuched — hooded
- capuches — Plural form of capuche.
- capuchin — any agile intelligent New World monkey of the genus Cebus, inhabiting forests in South America, typically having a cowl of thick hair on the top of the head
- capulets — Plural form of capulet.
- carburet — to combine or mix (a gas) with carbon or carbon compounds
- carcajou — wolverine
- card-cut — having a fretwork pattern in low relief: card-cut woodwork.
- carducci — Giosuè (dʒozuˈɛ). 1835–1907, Italian poet: Nobel prize for literature 1906
- carefull — Obsolete spelling of careful.
- cariacou — any of several deer of the American subgenus Cariacus
- caribous — Plural form of caribou.
- carinula — a small carina.
- carnauba — a Brazilian fan palm, Copernicia cerifera
- carneous — fleshy
- carousal — a merry drinking party
- 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.
- carryout — designating or of prepared food sold as by a restaurant to be eaten away from the premises
- cartouch — Alternative form of cartouche.
- 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
- carupano — a seaport in N Venezuela.
- 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.
- casaubon — Isaac (izaak). 1559–1614, French Protestant theologian and classical scholar
- case out — an often small or portable container for enclosing something, as for carrying or safekeeping; receptacle: a jewel case.
- cash out — cash in1 (sense 1)
- cash-out — Also, cashout. a direct cash payment or a cash profit or remainder: The store owner lived on a cash-out of fifty dollars a day.
- cast out — To cast out something or someone means to get rid of them because you do not like or need them, or do not want to take responsibility for them.
- casually — happening by chance; fortuitous: a casual meeting.
- casualty — A casualty is a person who is injured or killed in a war or in an accident.
- casuists — Plural form of casuist.
- cat suit — a jumpsuit.
- catalufa — any of several bigeyes, as Pristigenys serrula (popeye catalufa) found in the Pacific Ocean.
- catapult — A catapult is a device for shooting small stones. It is made of a Y-shaped stick with a piece of elastic tied between the two top parts.
- catch up — If you catch up with someone who is in front of you, you reach them by walking faster than they are walking.
- catch-up — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
- cathetus — a straight line or radius positioned perpendicular to another line or radius