11-letter words containing c, e, u
- coal cutter — a machine for undercutting a coal seam
- cobalt blue — any greenish-blue pigment containing cobalt aluminate, usually made by heating cobaltous sulphate, aluminium oxide, and phosphoric acid together
- cocciferous — (of a plant) bearing berries
- cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
- cocksuckers — (vulgar) Plural form of cocksucker.
- coconut ice — a sweetmeat made from desiccated coconut and sugar
- cocultivate — to cultivate jointly
- code number — a number used to identify something
- coeducation — instruction in schools, colleges, etc, attended by both sexes
- coelurosaur — any of various small to very large bipedal carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs belonging to the suborder Theropoda, active in the Triassic and Cretaceous periods; Tyrannosaurus was a coelurosaur, and birds are thought to have evolved from small coelurosaurs
- coevolution — the evolution of complementary adaptations in two or more species of organisms because of a special relationship that exists between them, as in insect-pollinated plants and their insect pollinators
- coexecutrix — a joint executrix.
- coextrusion — simultaneous extrusion of two or more different yet compatible metals or plastics through the same die.
- coffee hour — an informal gathering of people at which coffee and refreshments are served.
- coffeehouse — an establishment that sells coffee and usually other refreshments and that commonly serves as an informal club for its regular customers
- coinsurance — a method of insurance by which property is insured for a certain percentage of its value by a commercial insurance policy while the owner assumes liability for the remainder
- colatitudes — Plural form of colatitude.
- cold rubber — synthetic rubber made at low temperatures (about 5°C). It is stronger than that made at higher temperatures and is used for car tyres
- cold turkey — Cold turkey is the unpleasant physical reaction that people experience when they suddenly stop taking a drug that they have become addicted to.
- cold-turkey — to withdraw from (an addictive substance or a habit) abruptly and completely.
- collagenous — any of a class of extracellular proteins abundant in higher animals, especially in the skin, bone, cartilage, tendon, and teeth, forming strong insoluble fibers and serving as connective tissue between cells, yielding gelatin when denatured by boiling.
- colliquable — capable of dissolving
- collusively — in a collusive manner
- colour code — a system of easily distinguishable colours, as for the identification of electrical wires or resistors
- colour line — the social separation of racial groups within a community (esp in the phrase to cross the colour line)
- colourbreed — to breed (animals or plants) to be a particular colour
- colporteurs — Plural form of colporteur.
- columniated — having columns or arranged in columns
- combustible — A combustible material or gas catches fire and burns easily.
- come around — If someone comes around or comes round to your house, they call there to see you.
- come out in — If you come out in spots, you become covered with them.
- come out of — costs: be subtracted
- come up for — When someone or something comes up for consideration or action of some kind, the time arrives when they have to be considered or dealt with.
- comedy club — a club where stand-up comedians perform
- comeuppance — If you say that someone has got their comeuppance, you approve of the fact that they have been punished or have suffered for something wrong that they have done.
- comment out — (programming) To surround a section of code with comment delimiters or to prefix every line in the section with a comment marker. This prevents it from being compiled or interpreted. It is often done to temporarily disable the code, e.g. during debugging or when the code is redundant or obsolete, but is being left in the source to make the intent of the active code clearer. The word "comment" is sometimes replaced with whatever syntax is used to mark comments in the language in question, e.g. "hash out" (shell script, Perl), "REM out" (BASIC), etc. Compare condition out.
- commissures — Plural form of commissure.
- communalise — Alternative form of communalize.
- communalize — to render (something) the property of a commune or community
- communicate — to impart (knowledge) or exchange (thoughts, feelings, or ideas) by speech, writing, gestures, etc
- communiques — Misspelling of communiqués.
- communities — Plural form of community.
- communitive — Relating to community.
- commutative — relating to or involving substitution
- compendious — containing or stating the essentials of a subject in a concise form; succinct
- compendiums — Plural form of compendium.
- compressure — the act of compressing.
- compulsives — Plural form of compulsive.
- computative — of, relating to, or involving computation
- computerate — If someone is computerate, they have enough skill and knowledge to be able to use a computer.