10-letter words containing c, e, l, u
- beltcourse — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
- berlusconi — Silvio (ˈsilvjo). born 1936, Italian politician and media tycoon: prime minister of Italy (1994–95, 2001–06, 2008–11); convicted of tax fraud and expelled from the Italian Senate in 2013
- bertolucci — Bernardo (berˈnardo). born 1940, Italian film director: his films include The Spider's Stratagem (1970), The Conformist (1970), 1900 (1976), The Last Emperor (1987), The Sheltering Sky (1990), and The Dreamers (2003)
- bile ducts — a large duct that transports bile from the liver to the duodenum, having in humans and many other vertebrates a side branch to a gallbladder for bile storage.
- bimaculate — marked with two spots.
- binucleate — having two nuclei
- blockhouse — (formerly) a wooden fortification with ports or loopholes for defensive fire, observation, etc
- blue coral — any coral of the genus Heliopora, having brown polyps and a blue skeleton, found in the Indo-Pacific region.
- blue crane — the great blue heron.
- blue cross — a nonprofit health insurance organization offering hospitalization and medical benefits to subscribers, esp. to groups of employees and their families
- blue dicks — a plant, Dichelostemma pulchellum, of the amaryllis family, common on the western coast of the U.S., having headlike clusters of blue flowers.
- blue racer — a long slender blackish-blue fast-moving colubrid snake, Coluber constrictor flaviventris, of the US
- blue-black — Something that is blue-black is bluish black in colour.
- blue-curls — any of a genus (Trichostema) of plants of the mint family, with downy, narrow leaves and blue flowers
- bluejacket — a sailor in the Navy
- blues-rock — a blend of rock-'n'-roll and blues.
- bounceable — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
- bubble car — (in Britain, formerly) a small car, often having three wheels, with a transparent bubble-shaped top
- bubonocele — an incomplete hernia in the groin; partial inguinal hernia
- bucephalus — the favourite horse of Alexander the Great
- buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
- bulbaceous — bulbous
- bullbucker — a foreman who supervises fallers and buckers.
- bur clover — any of several Eurasian legumes of the genus Medicago, as M. hispida, having yellow flowers and prickly, coiled, black pods, naturalized in North America.
- burchfield — Charles Ephraim, 1893–1967, U.S. painter.
- cable buoy — a buoy marking or supporting part of a submerged cable.
- cake flour — finely ground wheat flour.
- calcaneous — Misspelling of calcaneus.
- calcareous — of, containing, or resembling calcium carbonate; chalky
- calcifuges — Plural form of calcifuge.
- calculable — Calculable amounts or consequences can be calculated.
- calculated — If something is calculated to have a particular effect, it is specially done or arranged in order to have that effect.
- calculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calculate.
- calendulas — Plural form of calendula.
- call house — a house or apartment used by prostitutes for arranging or keeping assignations.
- calumniate — to slander
- calyculate — having a calycule
- camouflage — Camouflage consists of things such as leaves, branches, or brown and green paint, which are used to make it difficult for an enemy to see military forces and equipment.
- camoufleur — a person who camouflages military equipment
- cancel out — If one thing cancels out another thing, the two things have opposite effects, so that when they are combined no real effect is produced.
- cancellous — having a porous or spongelike structure
- candlenuts — Plural form of candlenut.
- cannelured — a groove or fluting around the cylindrical part of a bullet.
- cannelures — Plural form of cannelure.
- cannulated — Simple past tense and past participle of cannulate.
- cantaloupe — A cantaloupe is a type of melon.
- canteloube — (Marie) Joseph (French ʒozɛf). 1879–1957, French composer, best known for his Chants d'Auvergne (1923–30)
- capitellum — an enlarged knoblike structure at the end of a bone that forms an articulation with another bone; capitulum
- capitulate — If you capitulate, you stop resisting and do what someone else wants you to do.
- capsulated — Enclosed in a capsule.