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

  • capillary tube — a glass tube with a fine bore and thick walls, used in thermometers, etc
  • capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
  • capital outlay — a capital expenditure.
  • captain crunch — 1.   (person)   ("Cap'n Crunch") An early 1970s hacker/phreaker/phacker who used a free whistle included with "Cap'n Crunch" breakfast cereal to fake pay phone system tones and make large quantities of free phone calls. Also alludes to "crunch". 2. (After the above) wardialer. 3. Reportedly, a program which crashes a computer by overloading the interrupt stack.
  • carbon capture — the capture of atmospheric carbon dioxide, esp as a technique to prevent climate change
  • carbon neutral — A carbon neutral lifestyle, company, or activity does not cause an increase in the overall amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
  • carbon-neutral — pertaining to or having achieved a state in which the net amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere is reduced to zero because it is balanced by actions to reduce or offset these emissions: Since the administration installed solar panels, the campus has become carbon neutral; a carbon-neutral brewery.
  • card catalogue — a catalogue of books, papers, etc, filed on cards
  • cardiac output — blood volume in liters pumped by the left ventricle of the heart per minute.
  • caricaturistic — Grossly and comically exaggerated, like a caricature.
  • carpet muncher — lesbian
  • castrop-rauxel — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 78 208 (2003 est)
  • casual contact — the level of contact at which a person is not subject to contracting a communicable disease from another, especially nonsexual contact with a person infected with a venereal disease.
  • catechumenship — the office or position of a catechumen
  • cathedral hull — a motorboat hull having a bottom characterized by two or more, usually three, V -shaped hull profiles meeting below the waterline.
  • caustic baryta — baryta (def 2).
  • caustic potash — potassium hydroxide
  • caustic-baryta — Also called calcined baryta, barium oxide, barium monoxide, barium protoxide. a white or yellowish-white poisonous solid, BaO, highly reactive with water: used chiefly as a dehydrating agent and in the manufacture of glass.
  • central europe — an area between Eastern and Western Europe, generally accepted as comprising Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Switzerland
  • central sulcus — a deep cleft in each hemisphere of the brain separating the frontal lobe from the parietal lobe
  • centrifugalize — to subject (something) to centrifugal motion
  • centrifugation — a being subjected to centrifugal action, esp. in a centrifuge
  • cerro de punta — a mountain in central Puerto Rico: highest peak on the island. 4389 feet (1339 meters).
  • channel tunnel — the Anglo-French railway tunnel that runs beneath the English Channel, between Folkestone and Coquelles, near Calais; opened in 1994
  • charge account — a business arrangement by which a customer may buy goods or services and pay for them within a specified future period
  • charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
  • chartered club — a private club licensed to serve alcohol to members
  • chauvinist pig — a sexist man
  • chemoautotroph — an organism that obtains energy through chemoautotrophy
  • cheque account — an account at a bank or a building society upon which cheques can be drawn
  • christiansburg — a town in SW Virginia.
  • christmas bush — any of various trees or shrubs flowering at Christmas and used for decoration
  • christmas club — a savings account in a bank in which regular deposits are made, usually throughout one year, as to provide funds for Christmas shopping.
  • chrysanthemums — Plural form of chrysanthemum.
  • cigarette burn — a burn created by a cigarette
  • cigarette butt — A cigarette butt or a cigarette end is the part of a cigarette that you throw away when you have finished smoking it.
  • circular light — light that is circularly polarized.
  • circular pitch — relative point, position, or degree: a high pitch of excitement.
  • circumagitated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumagitate.
  • circumambulate — to walk around (something)
  • circumfixation — a prefix and a suffix attached to a root or stem, as the a and -ing in a-going.
  • circumgalactic — (astronomy) Surrounding a galaxy.
  • circumgyration — the act of rolling, turning, or travelling about
  • circumgyratory — characterized by circumgyration
  • circumlittoral — adjoining the shore
  • circumnavigate — If someone circumnavigates the world or an island, they sail all the way around it.
  • circumnutation — the irregular spiral or elliptical rotation of the apex of a growing stem, root, or shoot, caused by differences in the rate of growth of the opposite sides
  • circumnutatory — relating to circumnutation
  • circumrotation — Rotation or revolution around an axis.
  • circumrotatory — Turning, rolling, or whirling round.
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