11-letter words containing c, a, l, u
- ciudad real — a market town in S central Spain. Pop: 65 703 (2003 est)
- cladanthous — pleurocarpous.
- clamorously — full of, marked by, or of the nature of clamor.
- clapped out — (of machinery or appliances) worn-out; dilapidated.
- clapped-out — If you describe a person or a machine as clapped-out, you mean that they are old and no longer able to work properly.
- claudius ii — full name Marcus Aurelius Claudius, called Gothicus. 214–270 ad, Roman emperor (268–270)
- clavigerous — bearing a key or club
- clean house — to clean and put a home in order
- clean up on — to defeat; beat
- cleaned out — free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress.
- clear round — an instance of a horse and rider clearing all barriers without making any mistakes
- click fraud — repeated clicking on an online advert for fraudulent purposes, esp to charge the advertiser for fictitious traffic to their website
- clinandrium — a cavity in the upper part of the column of an orchid flower that contains the anthers
- closehauled — having the sails adjusted for heading as nearly as possible into the wind
- cloud grass — a grass, Agrostis nebulosa, of Spain, having clusters of tiny spikelets on slender stalks, used in bouquets.
- cloud layer — a continuous or fragmented distribution of clouds all sharing the same cloud base.
- cloud-based — Cloud-based technology allows you to use programs and information that are stored on the Internet rather than on your own computer.
- cloudscapes — Plural form of cloudscape.
- clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club
- cluj-napoca — city in Transylvania, NW Romania: pop. 322,000
- coach-built — (of a vehicle) having specially built bodywork
- coagulating — Present participle of coagulate.
- coagulation — Coagulation is the process of changing from a liquid to a gel or solid, for example, the process that results in the formation of a blood clot.
- coagulative — Obsolete. coagulated.
- coal cutter — a machine for undercutting a coal seam
- cobalt blue — any greenish-blue pigment containing cobalt aluminate, usually made by heating cobaltous sulphate, aluminium oxide, and phosphoric acid together
- cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
- cocultivate — to cultivate jointly
- coelurosaur — any of various small to very large bipedal carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs belonging to the suborder Theropoda, active in the Triassic and Cretaceous periods; Tyrannosaurus was a coelurosaur, and birds are thought to have evolved from small coelurosaurs
- colatitudes — Plural form of colatitude.
- collagenous — any of a class of extracellular proteins abundant in higher animals, especially in the skin, bone, cartilage, tendon, and teeth, forming strong insoluble fibers and serving as connective tissue between cells, yielding gelatin when denatured by boiling.
- colliquable — capable of dissolving
- colluctancy — (obsolete, rare) A struggle to resist; a striving against; resistance; opposition of nature.
- collunarium — a solution for application in the nose; nose drops.
- color guard — the persons carrying and escorting the colors (flag) in a parade, ceremony, etc.
- coloraturas — Plural form of coloratura.
- colouration — (British spelling) alternative spelling of coloration.
- columbarium — a vault having niches for funeral urns
- columnarity — the fact or quality of being columnar
- columniated — having columns or arranged in columns
- comma fault — the use of a comma, rather than a semicolon, colon, or period, to separate related main clauses in the absence of a coordinating conjunction: often considered to be incorrect or undesirable, especially in formal writing.
- commissural — Of or pertaining to a commissure.
- communalise — Alternative form of communalize.
- communalism — a system or theory of government in which the state is seen as a loose federation of self-governing communities
- communalist — An advocate of communalism.
- communality — the state or condition of being communal.
- communalize — to render (something) the property of a commune or community
- concludable — to bring to an end; finish; terminate: to conclude a speech with a quotation from the Bible.
- confabulate — to talk together; converse; chat
- conflictual — of, relating to, or involving conflict