8-letter words containing c, e, u
- bluejack — a species of oak, Quercus incana, the leaves of which have a blue tinge
- bluetick — a type of coonhound commonly bred in the southern United States
- brace up — to call forth one's courage, resolution, etc., as after defeat or disappointment
- brochure — A brochure is a magazine or thin book with pictures that gives you information about a product or service.
- brucella — any of a genus of nonmotile bacteria that cause brucellosis
- bruckner — Anton (ˈantoːn). 1824–96, Austrian composer and organist in the Romantic tradition. His works include nine symphonies, four masses, and a Te Deum
- bruncher — a person who eats brunch
- bucchero — an Etruscan black ceramic ware, often ornamented with incised geometrical patterns or figures carved in relief.
- bucellas — a Portuguese white wine
- buck-eye — any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Aesculus, as A. glabra (Ohio buckeye) having palmate leaves, gray, scaly bark, and bell-shaped greenish-yellow flowers in upright clusters: the state tree of Ohio.
- buckbean — a marsh plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, with white or pink flowers: family Menyanthaceae
- bucketed — a deep, cylindrical vessel, usually of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail, for collecting, carrying, or holding water, sand, fruit, etc.; pail.
- buckrake — a large rake for agricultural use, often attached to a tractor
- buckshee — without charge; free
- bullneck — an enlarged neck
- buncombe — bunkum
- buoyance — the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness.
- burlecue — burlesque (def 3).
- butchery — You can refer to the cruel killing of a lot of people as butchery when you want to express your horror and disgust at this.
- butchest — butch haircut.
- caciques — Plural form of cacique.
- cactuses — Plural form of cactus.
- caducean — relating to a caduceus
- caduceus — a staff entwined with two serpents and bearing a pair of wings at the top, carried by Hermes (Mercury) as messenger of the gods
- caesious — having a waxy bluish-grey coating
- caesurae — Prosody. a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan.
- caesural — Prosody. a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan.
- caesuras — Plural form of caesura.
- caesuric — caesural
- cagoules — Plural form of cagoule.
- callused — Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.
- calluses — Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.
- calumets — Plural form of calumet.
- calycule — an epicalyx
- camaguey — a city in E central Cuba. Pop: 320 000 (2005 est)
- cameroun — Cameroon
- campuses — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
- canegrub — any of various grubs that are a pest of sugar cane, esp, in Australia, the greyback canegrub, Dermolepida albohirtum
- cannulae — Irregular plural form of cannula.
- canulate — Alternative form of cannulate.
- capaneus — one of the Seven against Thebes, who was destroyed by Zeus for blasphemy.
- capitule — (obsolete) A summary.
- capsuled — Enclosed within a capsule.
- capsules — Plural form of capsule.
- captured — Simple past tense and past participle of capture.
- capturer — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- captures — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- capuched — hooded
- capuches — Plural form of capuche.
- capulets — Plural form of capulet.