8-letter words containing c, e, u
- carburet — to combine or mix (a gas) with carbon or carbon compounds
- carefull — Obsolete spelling of careful.
- carneous — fleshy
- caroused — Simple past tense and past participle of carouse.
- carousel — At an airport, a carousel is a moving surface from which passengers can collect their luggage.
- carouser — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
- carouses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of carouse.
- carpeaux — Jean Baptiste [zhahn ba-teest] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), 1827–75, French sculptor.
- carucage — the tax due on a carucate
- carucate — the area of land an oxen team could plough in a year
- caruncle — a fleshy outgrowth on the heads of certain birds, such as a cock's comb
- carve up — If you say that someone carves something up, you disapprove of the way they have divided it into small parts.
- carveout — A small company created from a larger one.
- case out — an often small or portable container for enclosing something, as for carrying or safekeeping; receptacle: a jewel case.
- cathetus — a straight line or radius positioned perpendicular to another line or radius
- cathouse — a house of prostitution
- caucused — U.S. Politics. a meeting of party leaders to select candidates, elect convention delegates, etc. a meeting of party members within a legislative body to select leaders and determine strategy. (often initial capital letter) a faction within a legislative body that pursues its interests through the legislative process: the Women's Caucus; the Black Caucus.
- caucuses — U.S. Politics. a meeting of party leaders to select candidates, elect convention delegates, etc. a meeting of party members within a legislative body to select leaders and determine strategy. (often initial capital letter) a faction within a legislative body that pursues its interests through the legislative process: the Women's Caucus; the Black Caucus.
- caudaite — a small meteorite, generally less than one half millimeter in diameter, containing crystals of more or less pure magnetite.
- caudated — Having a tail, or a termination resembling a tail; caudate.
- caudicle — the stalk to which an orchid's pollen masses are attached
- caulicle — a small stalk or stem
- causable — that can be caused
- causerie — an informal talk or conversational piece of writing
- causeuse — an upholstered settee for two persons.
- causeway — A causeway is a raised path or road that crosses water or wet land.
- ceinture — cincture (defs 1, 2).
- celature — the art of embossing metal.
- cellular — Cellular means relating to the cells of animals or plants.
- cementum — a thin bonelike tissue that covers the dentine in the root of a tooth
- censured — strong or vehement expression of disapproval: The newspapers were unanimous in their censure of the tax proposal.
- censurer — strong or vehement expression of disapproval: The newspapers were unanimous in their censure of the tax proposal.
- censures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of censure.
- censused — an official enumeration of the population, with details as to age, sex, occupation, etc.
- censuses — Plural form of census.
- centaurs — Classical Mythology. one of a race of monsters having the head, trunk, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
- centaury — any Eurasian plant of the genus Centaurium, esp C. erythraea, having purplish-pink flowers and formerly believed to have medicinal properties: family Gentianaceae
- centuple — a hundred times as much or as many; hundredfold
- cephalus — the husband of Procris.
- cepstrum — (mathematics) The Fourier transform of the logarithm of a spectrum; used especially in voice analysis.
- cerberus — a dog, usually represented as having three heads, that guarded the entrance to Hades
- cerebrum — the anterior portion of the brain of vertebrates, consisting of two lateral hemispheres joined by a thick band of fibres: the dominant part of the brain in man, associated with intellectual function, emotion, and personality
- cereuses — Plural form of cereus.
- cernauti — a city in SW Ukraine, on the Prut River: formerly in Romania.
- cernuous — (of some flowers or buds) drooping
- cerulean — a deep blue colour; azure
- cerulein — a bright blue dyestuff obtained from indigo
- cervicum — the flexible region between the prothorax and head in insects
- cetaceum — spermaceti.
- changeup — Alternative form of change-up.