7-letter words containing c, a, u
- paunchy — having a large and protruding belly; potbellied: a paunchy middle-aged man.
- pay cut — a decrease in pay or salary
- ponceau — a vivid red to reddish-orange color.
- puranic — any of 18 collections of Hindu legends and religious instructions.
- purbach — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 75 miles (120 km) in diameter.
- purchas — Samuel, 1575?–1626, English writer and editor of travel books.
- quacked — Simple past tense and past participle of quack.
- quacker — a fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill.
- quadric — of the second degree (said especially of functions with more than two variables).
- quantic — a rational, integral, homogeneous function of two or more variables.
- quartic — of or relating to the fourth degree.
- queachy — unwell
- quechan — Yuma (defs 1, 2).
- quechua — the language of the Inca civilization, presently spoken by about 7 million people in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina.
- quercia — Jacopo Della [yah-kaw-paw del-lah] /ˈyɑ kɔ pɔ ˌdɛl lɑ/ (Show IPA), 1374?–1438, Italian sculptor.
- quichua — Quechua.
- quranic — Alternative spelling of Qur'anic.
- rack up — ruin or destruction; wrack.
- rackful — Enough to fill a rack.
- racquet — a light bat having a netting of catgut or nylon stretched in a more or less oval frame and used for striking the ball in tennis, the shuttlecock in badminton, etc.
- rancour — bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice.
- raucous — harsh; strident; grating: raucous voices; raucous laughter.
- raunchy — vulgar or smutty; crude; earthy; obscene: a raunchy joke.
- recusal — the disqualification of a judge for a particular lawsuit or proceeding, especially due to some possible conflict of interest or prejudice.
- rinceau — an ornamental foliate or floral motif.
- ruckman — a person who plays in the ruck
- runback — Football. a run made by a player toward the goal line of the opponents after receiving a kick, intercepting a pass, or recovering an opponent's fumble. the distance covered in making such a run.
- ruzicka — Leopold [ley-oh-pawlt] /ˈleɪ oʊˌpɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1887–1976, Swiss chemist, born in Yugoslavia: Nobel prize 1939.
- saccule — Anatomy. the smaller of two sacs in the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear. Compare utricle (def 3).
- sackbut — a medieval form of the trombone.
- sackful — the amount a sack will hold.
- sambuca — a licorice-flavored Italian liqueur made from elderberries.
- sanctum — a sacred or holy place.
- sanctus — (italics). Also called Tersanctus. the hymn beginning “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts,” with which the Eucharistic preface culminates.
- sarcous — consisting of or pertaining to flesh or skeletal muscle.
- saucers — a small, round, shallow dish to hold a cup.
- saucier — a chef or cook who specializes in making sauces.
- saucily — impertinent; insolent: a saucy remark; a saucy child.
- sawbuck — a ten-dollar bill.
- scaleup — an increase in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaleup of an engineering design; a scaleup program of energy conservation.
- scapula — Anatomy. either of two flat, triangular bones, each forming the back part of a shoulder in humans; shoulder blade.
- scauper — a graver with a flattened or hollowed blade, used in engraving.
- schuman — Robert [rob-ert;; French raw-ber] /ˈrɒb ərt;; French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), 1886–1963, French political leader: premier of France 1947–48.
- scopula — a dense tuft of hairs, as on the feet of certain spiders.
- scrauch — to squawk loudly
- scumbag — a condom.
- scutage — (in the feudal system) a payment exacted by a lord in lieu of military service due to him by the holder of a fee.
- scutari — Lake, a lake between NW Albania and Montenegro. About 135 sq. mi. (350 sq. km).
- scutate — Botany. formed like a round buckler.
- secular — of or relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: secular interests.