7-letter words containing c, a, u
- bucardo — a recently extinct Spanish mountain goat
- buccaro — unglazed pottery.
- buccina — a curved brass horn used by the ancient Roman army
- buchman — Frank Nathan Daniel, 1878–1961, U.S. evangelist, founder of Moral Re-Armament movement.
- buckram — cotton or linen cloth stiffened with size, etc, used in lining or stiffening clothes, bookbinding, etc
- bucksaw — a woodcutting saw having its blade set in a frame and tensioned by a turnbuckle across the back of the frame
- bullace — a small Eurasian rosaceous tree, Prunus domestica insititia (or P. insititia), of which the damson is the cultivated form
- buyback — an agreement to buy something in return, as by a supplier to buy its customer's product
- c quark — the quark having electric charge 2/3 times the elementary charge and charm C = +1. It is more massive than the up, down, and strange quarks.
- cachous — Plural form of cachou.
- cacique — a Native American chief in a Spanish-speaking region
- cacumen — an apex
- cadbury — George. 1839–1922, British Quaker industrialist and philanthropist. He established, with his brother Richard Cadbury (1835–99), the chocolate-making company Cadbury Brothers and the garden village Bournville, near Birmingham, for their workers
- cadmium — Cadmium is a soft bluish-white metal that is used in the production of nuclear energy.
- caducei — Plural form of caduceus.
- caesium — a ductile silvery-white element of the alkali metal group that is the most electropositive metal. It occurs in pollucite and lepidolite and is used in photocells. The radioisotope caesium-137, with a half-life of 30.2 years, is used in radiotherapy. Symbol: Cs; atomic no: 55; atomic wt: 132.90543; valency: 1; relative density: 1.873; melting pt: 28.39±0.01°C; boiling pt: 671°C
- caesura — (in modern prosody) a pause, esp for sense, usually near the middle of a verse line
- cageful — an amount which fills a cage to capacity
- cagoule — a lightweight usually knee-length type of anorak
- cajeput — cajuput
- cajuput — a small myrtaceous tree or shrub, Melaleuca leucadendron, native to the East Indies and Australia, with whitish flowers and leaves
- calamus — any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus, some species of which are a source of rattan and canes
- calcium — Calcium is a soft white element which is found in bones and teeth, and also in limestone, chalk, and marble.
- calculi — Mathematics. a method of calculation, especially one of several highly systematic methods of treating problems by a special system of algebraic notations, as differential or integral calculus.
- calhoun — John Caldwell1782-1850; U.S. statesman: vice president (1825-32)
- calicut — seaport in SW India, on the Arabian Sea: pop. 420,000
- call up — If you call someone up, you telephone them.
- call-up — an order to report for active military service.
- callous — A callous person or action is very cruel and shows no concern for other people or their feelings.
- callout — (communication) Outward bound telephone calls.
- calluna — a low-growing evergreen Eurasian ericaceous shrub, Calluna vulgaris
- calumba — the root of the Mozambiquan plant Jateorhiza columba, used as an aid to digestion and as a mild tonic
- calumet — a long-stemmed ceremonial pipe, smoked by North American Indians as a token of peace, at sacrifices, etc.
- calumny — Calumny or a calumny is an untrue statement made about someone in order to reduce other people's respect and admiration for them.
- calvous — lacking all or most of the hair on the head; bald.
- camaieu — a cameo
- camauro — a crimson velvet cap trimmed with ermine, worn by the pope on nonliturgical occasions.
- cambium — a meristem that increases the girth of stems and roots by producing additional xylem and phloem
- campout — a camping trip
- can but — can only
- candiru — a tiny parasitic freshwater catfish of the Amazon region
- candour — Candour is the quality of speaking honestly and openly about things.
- cannula — a narrow tube for insertion into a bodily cavity, as for draining off fluid, introducing medication, etc
- canopus — the brightest star in the constellation Carina and the second brightest star in the sky. Visual magnitude: -0.7; spectral type: F0II; distance: 313 light years
- canthus — the inner or outer corner or angle of the eye, formed by the natural junction of the eyelids
- canular — shaped like a cannula; tubular.
- cap gun — cap pistol.
- capsule — A capsule is a very small tube containing powdered or liquid medicine, which you swallow.
- capture — If you capture someone or something, you catch them, especially in a war.
- capuana — Luigi. 1839–1915, Italian realist novelist, dramatist, and critic. His works include the novel Giacinta (1879) and the play Malia (1895)