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

  • averruncate — to avert, to turn away
  • back out of — to withdraw from (an enterprise)
  • back-mutate — to undergo back mutation.
  • backcountry — an area far from cities and towns that is thinly populated and largely undeveloped; hinterland
  • backdraught — a reverse movement of air, gas, or liquid
  • bacteriuria — the presence of bacteria in the urine
  • balance out — If two or more opposite things balance out or if you balance them out, they become equal in amount, value, or effect.
  • baluchistan — a mountainous region of SW Asia, in SW Pakistan and SE Iran
  • barracoutas — Plural form of barracouta.
  • bastard cut — (of a file) having medium teeth; intermediate between a coarse cut and a fine cut
  • bateau neck — boat neck.
  • baudot code — (communications)   (For etymology, see baud) A character set predating EBCDIC and used originally and primarily on paper tape. Use of Baudot reportedly survives in TDDs and some HAM radio applications. In Baudot, characters are expressed using five bits. Baudot uses two code sub-sets, the "letter set" (LTRS), and the "figure set" (FIGS). The FIGS character (11011) signals that the following code is to be interpreted as being in the FIGS set, until this is reset by the LTRS (11111) character. binary hex LTRS FIGS -------------------------- 00011 03 A - 11001 19 B ? 01110 0E C : 01001 09 D $ 00001 01 E 3 01101 0D F ! 11010 1A G & 10100 14 H # 00110 06 I 8 01011 0B J BELL 01111 0F K ( 10010 12 L ) 11100 1C M . 01100 0C N , 11000 18 O 9 10110 16 P 0 10111 17 Q 1 01010 0A R 4 00101 05 S ' 10000 10 T 5 00111 07 U 7 11110 1E V ; 10011 13 W 2 11101 1D X / 10101 15 Y 6 10001 11 Z " 01000 08 CR CR 00010 02 LF LF 00100 04 SP SP 11111 1F LTRS LTRS 11011 1B FIGS FIGS 00000 00 [..unused..] Where CR is carriage return, LF is linefeed, BELL is the bell, SP is space, and STOP is the stop character. Note: these bit values are often shown in inverse order, depending (presumably) which side of the paper tape you were looking at. Local implementations of Baudot may differ in the use of #, STOP, BELL, and '.
  • beancounter — Alternative spelling of bean counter.
  • beauticians — Plural form of beautician.
  • beta crucis — a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Southern Cross.
  • betulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Betulaceae, a family of mostly N temperate catkin-bearing trees and shrubs such as birch and alder, some species of which reach the northern limits of tree growth
  • bifurcation — the act or fact of bifurcating
  • binucleated — having two nuclei
  • biquadratic — of or relating to the fourth power
  • black stump — a long way off
  • blacktongue — canine pellagra.
  • brunch coat — a knee-length housecoat.
  • buccinatory — relating to a trumpeter or trumpet playing
  • buck rabbit — Welsh rabbit with either an egg or a piece of toast on top
  • bucket seat — A bucket seat is a seat for one person in a car or aeroplane which has rounded sides that partly enclose and support the body.
  • bucket-load — a large quantity
  • burmese cat — a breed of cat similar in shape to the Siamese but typically having a dark brown or blue-grey coat
  • bursiculate — resembling a pouch
  • bush jacket — a casual jacket or shirt having four patch pockets and a belt
  • butter clam — any of a genus (Saxidomus) of large, edible clams found along the Pacific coast of North America
  • buttercream — a vanilla-flavored cake frosting or filling made principally of softened butter and powdered sugar.
  • butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
  • cabin court — Older Use. a roadside motel having cabins.
  • cabin trunk — a large trunk specially designed to be used on journeys, and often having large handles at either end to make it easy to move
  • cacqueteuse — a narrow, upright armchair of 16th-century France, having widely splayed arms and a very narrow back.
  • cactus moth — a moth, Cactoblastis cactorum, native to South America and introduced into Australia to control prickly pear cactus, on which the larvae feed.
  • cactus pear — tuna2 .
  • cactus wren — any American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of arid regions, especially C. brunneicapillus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
  • cafe brulot — black coffee flavored with sugar, lemon and orange rinds, cloves, cinnamon, and brandy, ignited and allowed to flame briefly.
  • cafetoriums — Plural form of cafetorium.
  • calculating — If you describe someone as calculating, you disapprove of the fact that they deliberately plan to get what they want, often by hurting or harming other people.
  • calculation — A calculation is something that you think about and work out mathematically. Calculation is the process of working something out mathematically.
  • calculative — the act or process of calculating; computation.
  • calculators — Plural form of calculator.
  • calculatory — the act or process of calculating; computation.
  • calixtus ii — died 1124, French ecclesiastic: pope 1119–24.
  • callistus i — Calixtus I.
  • calochortus — any plant of the genus Calochortus, of the lily family, as the mariposa lily and the sego lily.
  • calumniated — Simple past tense and past participle of calumniate.
  • calumniates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calumniate.
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