9-letter words containing c, a, l, u
- cartulary — a collection of charters or records, esp relating to the title to an estate or monastery
- caruncles — Plural form of caruncle.
- caruncula — A caruncle.
- cassoulet — a stew originating from France, made from haricot beans and goose, duck, pork, etc
- castellum — a small fort, normally used as a watch tower
- casualise — make (a regular employee) into a casual worker
- casualism — the doctrine that the existence and occurrence of everything is controlled by chance
- casualize — If a business casualizes its employees or casualizes their labour, it replaces employees with permanent contracts and full rights with employees with temporary contracts and few rights.
- cat-built — (of a sailing vessel) having a bluff bow and straight stern without a figurehead.
- catalogue — A catalogue is a list of things such as the goods you can buy from a particular company, the objects in a museum, or the books in a library.
- catapults — Plural form of catapult.
- caterwaul — If a person or animal caterwauls, they make a loud, high, unpleasant noise like the noise that cats make when they fight.
- caudillos — Plural form of caudillo.
- cauldrife — susceptible to cold; chilly
- cauldrons — Plural form of cauldron.
- caulfield — Patrick (Joseph). 1936–2005, British painter and printmaker
- cauliculi — plural form of singular cauliculus: another word for caulicle
- cauliform — resembling or similar to a caulis
- causalgia — a burning sensation along the course of a peripheral nerve together with local changes in the appearance of the skin
- causalgic — relating to pain of the nerves
- causality — Causality is the relationship of cause and effect.
- causeless — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- cautelous — crafty or cunning
- cavillous — Characterized by caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbling.
- cellarous — of, relating to or resembling a cellar
- cellulase — any enzyme that converts cellulose to the disaccharide cellobiose
- cellulate — cellular.
- centurial — of or relating to a Roman century
- cephalous — having a head
- chalk out — to outline (a plan, scheme, etc); sketch
- chalumeau — an early reed instrument, the precursor of the clarinet
- chalutzim — halutz.
- chanceful — eventful
- changeful — often changing; inconstant; variable
- chargeful — onerous; expensive
- chartulae — charta (def 2).
- chasubles — Plural form of chasuble.
- chennault — Claire Lee [klair] /klɛər/ (Show IPA), 1890–1958, U.S. Air Force general.
- chequable — (finance, of an account) On which cheques can be drawn.
- chermoula — a marinade used in N African cookery
- choluteca — a city in S Honduras.
- cingulate — Anatomy, Zoology. a belt, zone, or girdlelike part.
- circuital — an act or instance of going or moving around.
- circulant — (mathematics) A circulant matrix.
- circulars — Plural form of circular.
- circulary — (obsolete) circular; illogical.
- circulate — If a piece of writing circulates or is circulated, copies of it are passed round among a group of people.
- cissexual — noting or relating to a person who is comfortable with having the physical characteristics of that person’s biological sex.
- clafoutis — a French baked pudding
- clamorous — If you describe people or their voices as clamorous, you mean they are talking loudly or shouting.