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10-letter words containing c, a, t, u

  • callathump — a shivaree.
  • callithump — a noisy band or parade
  • calumniate — to slander
  • calyculate — having a calycule
  • camp it up — If a performer camps it up, they deliberately perform in an exaggerated and often amusing way.
  • cancel out — If one thing cancels out another thing, the two things have opposite effects, so that when they are combined no real effect is produced.
  • candlenuts — Plural form of candlenut.
  • candytufts — Plural form of candytuft.
  • canecutter — any of several species of large cottontails inhabiting swamps or marshes.
  • cannot but — You use cannot but, could not but, and cannot help but when you want to emphasize that you believe something must be true and that there is no possibility of anything else being the case.
  • cannulated — Simple past tense and past participle of cannulate.
  • cantaloupe — A cantaloupe is a type of melon.
  • canteloube — (Marie) Joseph (French ʒozɛf). 1879–1957, French composer, best known for his Chants d'Auvergne (1923–30)
  • canterbury — a late 18th-century low wooden stand with partitions for holding cutlery and plates: often mounted on casters
  • caoutchouc — rubber; esp. India rubber, or crude, natural rubber, obtained from latex
  • capacitous — Having the legal capacity to do something.
  • cape dutch — (in South Africa) a distinctive style of furniture or architecture
  • capillatus — (of a cumulonimbus cloud) having a cirriform upper portion that resembles an anvil or a disorderly mass of hair.
  • capitellum — an enlarged knoblike structure at the end of a bone that forms an articulation with another bone; capitulum
  • capitulant — a person who capitulates
  • capitulary — any of the collections of ordinances promulgated by the Frankish kings (8th–10th centuries ad)
  • capitulate — If you capitulate, you stop resisting and do what someone else wants you to do.
  • capsulated — Enclosed in a capsule.
  • captiously — In a captious manner.
  • capturable — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
  • caqueteuse — cacqueteuse.
  • caquetoire — cacqueteuse.
  • caractacus — flourished a.d. c50, British chieftain who opposed the Romans.
  • carbureted — (of a vehicle or engine) having fuel supplied through a carburetor, rather than an injector.
  • carburetor — A carburetor is the part of an engine, usually in a car, in which air and gasoline are mixed together to form a vapor which can be burned.
  • cargo cult — a religious movement of the SW Pacific, characterized by expectation of the return of spirits in ships or aircraft carrying goods that will provide for the needs of the followers
  • caricatura — a caricature
  • caricature — A caricature of someone is a drawing or description of them that exaggerates their appearance or behaviour in a humorous or critical way.
  • carmustine — a toxic nitrosurea, C 5 H 9 Cl 2 N 3 O 2 , used in the treatment of a wide range of tumors.
  • carthusian — a member of an austere monastic order founded by Saint Bruno in 1084 near Grenoble, France
  • cartouches — Plural form of cartouche.
  • case study — A case study is a written account that gives detailed information about a person, group, or thing and their development over a period of time.
  • cash audit — an audit confined to cash transactions for a prescribed period, for the purpose of determining the amount of cash on hand or on deposit in a bank.
  • cashew nut — edible nut
  • cast about — to make a mental or visual search
  • castle nut — a hexagonal nut with six slots in the head, two of which take a locking pin to hold it firmly in position
  • casualties — Military. a member of the armed forces lost to service through death, wounds, sickness, capture, or because his or her whereabouts or condition cannot be determined. casualties, loss in numerical strength through any cause, as death, wounds, sickness, capture, or desertion.
  • cat around — to search promiscuously for sexual partners; be promiscuous
  • catacumbal — of or resembling catacombs
  • catafalque — a temporary raised platform on which a body lies in state before or during a funeral
  • catalogued — a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.
  • cataloguer — One who catalogues.
  • catalogues — Plural form of catalogue.
  • catamounts — Plural form of catamount.
  • catapulted — an ancient military engine for hurling stones, arrows, etc.
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