8-letter words containing c, a, u, s, e
- hachures — Short parallel lines used in hill-shading on maps, their closeness indicating steepness of gradient.
- halluces — the first or innermost digit of the foot of humans and other primates or of the hind foot of other mammals; great toe; big toe.
- haunches — the hip.
- housecat — a domesticated cat kept as a pet.
- huisache — a tropical and subtropical New World shrub, Acacia farnesiana, of the legume family, having clusters of fragrant, deep-yellow flower heads.
- issuance — the act of issuing.
- j'accuse — any strong denunciation
- lace-ups — Lace-ups are shoes which are fastened with laces.
- lacquers — Plural form of lacquer.
- lacteous — milky; of the color of milk.
- lacunose — full of or having lacunae.
- launches — Plural form of launch.
- lunacies — Plural form of lunacy.
- macaques — Plural form of macaque.
- maculose — related to or characterized by having spots
- muscadel — muscatel.
- muscadet — a white grape grown especially in the lower Loire Valley region of France.
- muscatel — a sweet wine made from muscat grapes.
- musicale — a music program forming the main part of a social occasion.
- mustache — the hair growing on the upper lip.
- nacreous — of or relating to nacre.
- nautches — Plural form of nautch.
- nuclease — any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of nucleic acids.
- nuisance — an obnoxious or annoying person, thing, condition, practice, etc.: a monthly meeting that was more nuisance than pleasure.
- nut case — a deranged person; lunatic.
- osculate — to come into close contact or union.
- outcaste — (in India) a person who has left or been expelled from his or her caste.
- outpaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outpace.
- poaceous — belonging to the Poaceae, an alternate name for the plant family Gramineae.
- pucellas — a tool resembling tongs or shears for handling and shaping molten glass.
- purchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- racemous — racemose.
- racquets — Plural form of racquet.
- reaccuse — to accuse (a person, organization, etc) again
- recusant — refusing to submit, comply, etc.
- ruckseat — a seat fixed to or forming part of a rucksack
- sacellum — a small chapel, as a monument within a church.
- sadducee — a member of a Palestinian sect, consisting mainly of priests and aristocrats, that flourished from the 1st century b.c. to the 1st century a.d. and differed from the Pharisees chiefly in its literal interpretation of the Bible, rejection of oral laws and traditions, and denial of an afterlife and the coming of the Messiah.
- saeculum — an age in astronomy
- saguache — Sawatch.
- saucebox — a saucy person.
- saucepan — a metal container of moderate depth, usually having a long handle and sometimes a cover, for stewing, boiling, etc.
- saucepot — a cooking pot having a handle on each side and a close-fitting lid, used especially for stewing and simmering.
- saucisse — a small sausage
- scale up — increase in size
- scalenus — any of three muscles on each side of the neck, the action of which raises the first and second ribs in respiration and assists in bending the neck to one side.
- scare up — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
- scituate — a town in E Massachusetts.
- sea duck — any of various diving ducks, as the scaups, goldeneyes, scoters, and eiders, found principally on seas.
- seacunny — a steersman or quartermaster in a ship manned by lascars