7-letter words containing c, a, u
- copulae — Plural form of copula.
- copular — (grammar) Being or relating to a copula.
- copulas — Plural form of copula.
- coquina — a soft limestone consisting of shells, corals, etc, that occurs in parts of the US
- corbeau — a blackish green colour
- cornual — a horn, especially a bony part that resembles a horn.
- corumba — a city in W Brazil.
- corunna — La Coruña
- cougars — A large American wild cat with a plain tawny to grayish coat, found from Canada to Patagonia.
- couhage — Obsolete form of cowage.
- coupage — The blending (or 'cutting') of wine.
- courage — Courage is the quality shown by someone who decides to do something difficult or dangerous, even though they may be afraid.
- courant — a courante
- courlan — limpkin
- couteau — a large two-edged knife used formerly as a weapon
- couvade — a custom in certain cultures of treating the husband of a woman giving birth as if he were bearing the child
- crackup — a cracking up
- cranium — Your cranium is the round part of your skull that contains your brain.
- crap up — Vulgar. excrement. an act of defecation.
- crapaud — a frog or toad
- crapula — Sickness or indisposition caused by excessive eating or drinking.
- crassus — Marcus Licinius (ˈmɑːkəs lɪˈsɪnɪəs). ?115–53 bc, Roman general; member of the first triumvirate with Caesar and Pompey
- crathur — (Ireland, obsolete) creature.
- craturs — Plural form of cratur.
- craunch — crunch
- creatur — Obsolete spelling of creature.
- crucial — If you describe something as crucial, you mean it is extremely important.
- crucian — a European cyprinid fish, Carassius carassius, with a dark-green back, a golden-yellow undersurface, and reddish dorsal and tail fins: an aquarium fish
- crusade — A crusade is a long and determined attempt to achieve something for a cause that you feel strongly about.
- crusado — a former gold or silver coin of Portugal bearing on its reverse the figure of a cross
- crustal — of or relating to the earth's crust
- cruzado — a former standard monetary unit of Brazil, replaced by the cruzeiro
- cubbena — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- cubical — of or related to volume
- cubital — of or relating to the forearm
- cudbear — a purple dye prepared from lichens
- cueball — the ball a player strikes with the cue, as distinguished from the other balls on the table.
- cuirass — a piece of armour, of leather or metal covering the chest and back
- cullman — a city in N Alabama.
- cultual — a particular system of religious worship, especially with reference to its rites and ceremonies.
- cumaean — of Cumae
- cumarin — a fragrant crystalline substance, C 9 H 6 O 2 , obtained from the tonka bean, sweet clover, and certain other plants or prepared synthetically, used chiefly in soaps and perfumery.
- cumbias — Plural form of cumbia.
- cumbria — (since 1974) a county of NW England comprising the former counties of Westmorland and Cumberland together with N Lancashire: includes the Lake District mountain area and surrounding coastal lowlands with the Pennine uplands in the extreme east. Administrative centre: Carlisle. Pop: 489 800 (2003 est). Area: 6810 sq km (2629 sq miles)
- cumquat — kumquat
- cumshaw — (used, esp formerly, by beggars in Chinese ports) a present or tip
- cuneate — wedge-shaped: cuneate leaves are attached at the narrow end
- cupcake — Cupcakes are small iced cakes for one person.
- cupgall — a cup-shaped gall found on oak leaves
- cuphead — a hemispherical bolt-head