11-letter words containing c, a, t, u
- aquiculture — aquaculture
- arc-boutant — flying buttress.
- arctic skua — a predatory gull-like bird, Stercorarius parasiticus, which harasses terns or gulls into dropping or disgorging fish they have caught; it breeds in northern Eurasia and North America
- aristarchus — a crater in the NE quadrant of the moon, having a diameter of about 37 kilometres, which is the brightest formation on the moon
- artefactual — relating to an artefact
- articulable — having the ability to be articulated
- articularly — of or relating to the joints.
- articulated — An articulated vehicle, especially a lorry, is made in two or more sections which are joined together by metal bars, so that the vehicle can turn more easily.
- articulates — Express (an idea or feeling) fluently and coherently.
- articulator — a person or thing that articulates
- artifactual — any object made by human beings, especially with a view to subsequent use.
- ascititious — having been added to from something inessential or separate
- asteraceous — belonging to the Asterasceae, an alternative name for the plant family Compositae.
- astronautic — Of or pertaining to astronautics.
- atrociously — extremely or shockingly wicked, cruel, or brutal: an atrocious crime.
- auction off — If you auction off something, you sell it to the person who offers the most money for it, often at an auction.
- auctioneers — Plural form of auctioneer.
- audiometric — the testing of hearing by means of an audiometer.
- auriculated — (biology, rare) Having ears or appendages like ears; eared.
- auscultated — Simple past tense and past participle of auscultate.
- auscultates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of auscultate.
- auspicating — Present participle of auspicate.
- austromancy — Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds or cloud formations.
- authentical — authentic.
- authenticly — Alternative spelling of authentically.
- authorcraft — the skilled ability of an author
- auto racing — the sport of racing automobiles in which drivers compete against each other on a course designed for racing or on closed public roads.
- auto-erotic — producing sexual excitement or pleasure without association with another person or external stimulation.
- autocephaly — the state of being autocephalous.
- autochanger — a device in a record player or CD player that enables a small stack of records or CDs to be dropped automatically onto the turntable or player tray one at a time and played separately
- autochthons — Plural form of autochthon.
- autochthony — pertaining to autochthons; aboriginal; indigenous (opposed to heterochthonous).
- autoclaving — Present participle of autoclave.
- autocorrect — a function that attempts to correct errors made by the user when entering text into an electronic device
- autocracies — Plural form of autocracy.
- autodidacts — Plural form of autodidact.
- autodynamic — Supplying its own power.
- autofocuses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of autofocus.
- autogenetic — self-generated.
- autographic — of, for, or like an autograph or autographs
- autokinetic — automatically self-moving
- autological — (grammar) Of a phrase (especially an adjective), possessing the property it describes.
- automagical — (of a usually complicated technical or computer process) done, operating, or happening in a way that is hidden from or not understood by the user, and in that sense, apparently “magical”: I just downloaded an automagical update to my word processing software that somehow fixed the problems.
- automatical — Archaic form of automatic.
- automorphic — shaped and designed after oneself
- autonomical — autonomous.
- autoplastic — Of or pertaining to autoplasty.
- autopotamic — (of an organism) living or growing only in flowing freshwater streams.
- autotrophic — (of organisms such as green plants) capable of manufacturing complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources such as carbon dioxide, water, and nitrates, using energy from the sun
- auxotrophic — designating or of a mutant organism requiring more nutritional substances than its prototrophic parent because it has lost the ability to make a certain enzyme