8-letter words containing c, a, l, u
- cutglass — Made of cut glass.
- cuticula — cuticle
- cuttable — capable of being cut
- dactylus — the tip of a cephalopod's tentacular club
- decidual — the endometrium of a pregnant uterus that in many of the higher mammals is cast off at parturition.
- drucilla — a female given name.
- ducktail — DA.
- duckwalk — Walk with the body in a squatting posture.
- dulciana — an organ stop having metal pipes and giving thin, incisive, somewhat stringlike tones.
- dulcinea — a ladylove; sweetheart.
- duncical — relating to a dunce or being stupid or simple-minded
- educable — capable of being educated.
- escurial — Escorial
- eucalypt — Any tree of the genus Eucalyptus.
- eulachon — A small edible fish of North America, Thaleichthys pacificus; the candlefish.
- eusocial — (biology) Of or pertaining to certain social animals' societies (such as those of ants) in which sterile individuals work for reproductive individuals.
- fan club — a club enthusiastically devoted to a movie star or other celebrity or to a sports team.
- fanciful — characterized by or showing fancy; capricious or whimsical in appearance: a fanciful design of butterflies and flowers.
- feluccas — Plural form of felucca.
- fiducial — accepted as a fixed basis of reference or comparison: a fiducial point; a fiducial temperature.
- foucault — Jean Bernard Léon [zhahn ber-nar ley-awn] /ʒɑ̃ bɛrˈnar leɪˈɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1819–68, French physicist.
- fuck all — Fuck all is used to mean 'nothing at all'.
- fuel-can — A derogatory term for the Atari Falcon.
- fulcrate — having or supported by fulcra
- fullback — a running back who lines up behind the quarterback and is farthest from the line of scrimmage.
- furculae — Plural form of furcula.
- furcular — of or relating to the furcula
- gauchely — In a gauche manner.
- glacious — Characteristic, composed, or of the nature of icy; icy.“Gla
- glaucoma — Ophthalmology. abnormally high fluid pressure in the eye, most commonly caused either by blockage of the channel through which aqueous humor drains (open-angle glaucoma or chronic glaucoma) or by pressure of the iris against the lens, which traps the aqueous humor (angle-closure glaucoma or acute glaucoma)
- glaucous — light bluish-green or greenish-blue.
- glucagon — a hormone secreted by the pancreas that acts in opposition to insulin in the regulation of blood glucose levels.
- glucosan — any of a number of polysaccharides that yield glucose upon hydrolysis.
- glutamic — (organic chemistry) Of, pertaining to, or derived from glutamic acid.
- glutaric — Of or pertaining to glutaric acid or its derivatives.
- graceful — characterized by elegance or beauty of form, manner, movement, or speech; elegant: a graceful dancer; a graceful reply.
- guaiacol — a slightly yellowish, aromatic, crystalline substance, C 7 H 8 O 2 , resembling creosote and usually obtained from guaiacum resin: used in medicine chiefly as an expectorant and local anesthetic.
- half cut — to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger.
- half-cup — half of a cup, equal to 4 fluid ounces (0.1 liter) or 8 tablespoons.
- half-cut — to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger.
- hallucal — of or relating to the hallux.
- halluces — the first or innermost digit of the foot of humans and other primates or of the hind foot of other mammals; great toe; big toe.
- haulback — (in lumbering) a small line for pulling a cable back to its original position after it has been used to haul a log away.
- ich-laut — the voiceless palatal fricative sound that is written as ch in German ich, often allophonic with the ach-laut
- jaculate — to throw or hurl (a dart, javelin, etc.).
- judicial — pertaining to judgment in courts of justice or to the administration of justice: judicial proceedings; the judicial system.
- la-chute — French La Chute. a novel (1957) by Albert Camus.
- labrusca — of or derived from the North American fox grape, Vitis labrusca.
- lace bug — any of several bugs of the family Tingidae, characterized by a lacy pattern of ridges on the head, thorax, and wings, and feeding on the leaves of oak, birch, sycamore, etc.
- lace-ups — Lace-ups are shoes which are fastened with laces.