8-letter words containing c, e, u, m
- costumes — Plural form of costume.
- costumey — resembling a costume and therefore unrealistic
- cpu time — processor time
- crimeful — criminal; filled with crime
- crumbled — Simple past tense and past participle of crumble.
- crumbles — Plural form of crumble.
- crumenal — a purse
- crummier — Also, crumby. Slang. dirty and run-down; shabby; seedy: a crummy fleabag of a hotel. of little or no value; cheap; worthless: crummy furniture that falls apart after a month of use. wretchedly inadequate; miserable; lousy: They pay crummy salaries.
- crummies — a cow with crooked horns.
- crumpets — Plural form of crumpet.
- crumpled — creased
- crumples — to press or crush into irregular folds or into a compact mass; bend out of shape; rumple; wrinkle.
- cu-seeme — (communications) /see`-yoo-see'-mee/ ("CU" from Cornell University) A shareware personal computer-based videoconferencing program for use over the Internet, developed at Cornell University, starting in 1992. CU-SeeMe allows for direct audiovisual connections between clients, or, like irc, it can support multi-user converencing via servers (here called "reflectors") to distribute the video and audio signals between multiple clients. CU-SeeMe was the first videoconferencing tool available at a reasonable price (in this case, free) to users of personal computers. Compare with multicast backbone.
- cucumber — A cucumber is a long thin vegetable with a hard green skin and wet transparent flesh. It is eaten raw in salads.
- cumacean — any small malacostracan marine crustacean of the Cumacea family, mostly dwelling on the sea bed but sometimes found among the plankton
- cumarone — a colourless insoluble aromatic liquid obtained from coal tar and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins. Formula: C 8H 6O
- cumbered — Simple past tense and past participle of cumber.
- cumberer — Someone or something that cumbers.
- cumulate — to accumulate
- cumulose — abounding in heaps or cumuli
- customed — accustomed; inured
- customer — You can use customer in expressions such as a cool customer or a tough customer to indicate what someone's behaviour or character is like.
- cut time — alla breve
- decorums — Plural form of decorum.
- decretum — the name given to various collections of canon law, esp that made by the monk Gratian in the 12th century, which forms the first part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
- document — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- dulcimer — Also called hammered dulcimer, hammer dulcimer. a trapezoidal zither with metal strings that are struck with light hammers.
- duncedom — the characteristic behaviour or the realm of a dunce or a dullard
- eboracum — ancient name of York, England.
- ecumenic — Ecumenical.
- electrum — A natural or artificial alloy of gold with at least 20 percent silver, used for jewelry, especially in ancient times.
- encomium — A speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly.
- encumber — Restrict or burden (someone or something) in such a way that free action or movement is difficult.
- gemsbuck — gemsbok.
- gynecium — gynoecium.
- humicole — any plant that thrives on humus
- incumber — encumber.
- leucemia — leukemia.
- leucemic — leukemic
- leukemic — any of several cancers of the bone marrow that prevent the normal manufacture of red and white blood cells and platelets, resulting in anemia, increased susceptibility to infection, and impaired blood clotting.
- lumachel — (mineralogy) A grey form of limestone that contains fossil shells, and reflects a fiery play of colours.
- lutecium — a trivalent rare-earth element. Symbol: Lu; atomic weight: 174.97; atomic number: 71.
- macaques — Plural form of macaque.
- maculate — spotted; stained.
- maculose — related to or characterized by having spots
- maieutic — of or relating to the method used by Socrates of eliciting knowledge in the mind of a person by interrogation and insistence on close and logical reasoning.
- mameluco — (South America) A child born of a white father and American Indian mother.
- manicule — (typography) the pointing hand symbol, used in printing, graphics or signs, to draw attention to or indicate something.
- manicure — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- manucode — any of various birds of paradise of the New Guinea region, having dark, metallic plumage.