13-letter words containing a, y, u
- casual friday — In some companies, employees are allowed to wear clothes that are more informal than usual on a Friday. This day is known as a casual Friday.
- casualty list — a list of servicemen who have been killed, wounded, captured, or gone missing as a result of enemy action
- casualty ward — a ward which temporarily accommodates patients who have been treated in the casualty department and who need to stay in hospital
- caution money — a sum of money deposited as security for good conduct, against possible debts, etc
- centrifugally — Away from a centre or axis.
- century plant — an agave, Agave americana, native to tropical America but naturalized elsewhere, having very large spiny greyish leaves and greenish flowers on a tall fleshy stalk. It blooms only once in its life, after 10 to 30 years (formerly thought to flower after a century)
- cherry laurel — a Eurasian rosaceous evergreen shrub, Prunus laurocerasus, having glossy aromatic leaves, white flowers, and purplish-black fruits
- chiaochou bay — an inlet of the Yellow Sea, in E China, in Shandong province. 20 miles (32 km) long; 15 miles (24 km) wide.
- chrysanthemum — A chrysanthemum is a large garden flower with many long, thin petals.
- chrysocarpous — bearing golden-yellow fruit.
- circumjacency — the state of being circumjacent
- coagulability — The ability to coagulate, of being coagulable.
- coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
- colloquiality — a colloquial style
- colorado ruby — a fire-red form of garnet found in Colorado and other parts of North America
- commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
- communicatory — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
- commutability — The quality of being commutable.
- commutatively — of or relating to commutation, exchange, substitution, or interchange.
- commutativity — the property of being commutative
- company union — an unaffiliated union of workers usually restricted to a single business enterprise
- computability — (computing theory) The property of being computable by purely mechanical means.
- conceptuality — a conceptualization
- conchylaceous — Of or relating to shells; resembling a shell.
- conclusionary — conclusory
- condylomatous — Relating to condyloma.
- confabulatory — the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
- conjecturally — of, of the nature of, or involving conjecture; problematical: Theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are highly conjectural.
- connaturality — the quality of being connatural
- consanguinity — relationship by blood; kinship
- consumability — able or meant to be consumed, as by eating, drinking, or using: consumable goods.
- contextuality — (uncountable) The condition of being contextual.
- contractually — of, relating to, or secured by a contract.
- convulsionary — of or affected with convulsion.
- corduroy road — a road across swampy ground, made of logs laid transversely
- costimulatory — Of or pertaining to co-stimulation.
- costume party — A costume party or costume ball is a party at which the guests try to look like famous people or people from history, from stories, or from particular professions.
- counterplayer — a person who makes a counterplay
- country dance — a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets and perform a series of movements, esp facing one another in a line
- country-dance — a dance of rural English origin in which the dancers form circles or squares or in which they face each other in two rows.
- county family — an old family that has lived in a particular county for several generations
- courtesy call — a formal visit
- courtesy card — a privilege card
- crustaceology — The branch of zoology dealing with crustaceans.
- curly bracket — a punctuation mark { }, also used as a symbol in maths
- currency rate — the rate of exchange of a particular currency against another
- curvilinearly — In a curvilinear way.
- cut both ways — to have both good and bad effects
- cut-away coat — Also called cutaway coat. a man's formal daytime coat having the front portion of the skirt cut away from the waist so as to curve or slope to the tails at the back.
- cyanuric acid — a white crystalline powder commonly used to stabilize chlorine in swimming pools. Formula C3H3N3O3