9-letter words containing c, e, u
- chubbiest — Superlative form of chubby.
- chuckhole — a pothole
- chudskoye — Lakelake on the Estonian-Russian border: with its S extension, Lake Pskov, c. 1,400 sq mi (3,626 sq km)
- chundered — Simple past tense and past participle of chunder.
- chuntered — Simple past tense and past participle of chunter.
- churchmen — Plural form of churchman.
- ciguatera — food poisoning caused by a ciguatoxin in seafood
- cinctured — Simple past tense and past participle of cincture.
- cinctures — Plural form of cincture.
- cinderous — a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
- cinereous — of a greyish colour
- cingulate — Anatomy, Zoology. a belt, zone, or girdlelike part.
- cinquedea — an Italian short sword of the late 15th and early 16th centuries having a broad, tapering blade, often richly ornamented.
- circuited — Simple past tense and past participle of circuit.
- circuiter — a person who travels a circuit.
- circulate — If a piece of writing circulates or is circulated, copies of it are passed round among a group of people.
- circumfer — (obsolete, transitive) To bear or carry around.
- cissexual — noting or relating to a person who is comfortable with having the physical characteristics of that person’s biological sex.
- clamoured — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clamourer — One who clamours.
- claqueurs — Plural form of claqueur.
- claritude — (obsolete) clarity; splendour.
- claudette — a female given name, form of Claudia.
- clean out — If you clean out something such as a cupboard, room, or container, you take everything out of it and clean the inside of it thoroughly.
- clean-cut — Someone, especially a boy or man, who is clean-cut has a neat, tidy appearance.
- clear out — If you tell someone to clear out of a place or to clear out, you are telling them rather rudely to leave the place.
- clear-cut — Something that is clear-cut is easy to recognize and quite distinct.
- clearchus — died 401? b.c.; Spartan general
- cleobulus — flourished 560 b.c, Greek sage and lyric poet, a native and tyrant of Lindus, Rhodes.
- clitellum — a thickened saddle-like region of epidermis in earthworms and leeches whose secretions bind copulating worms together and later form a cocoon around the eggs
- close out — to terminate (a client's or other account) on which the margin is inadequate or exhausted, usually by sale of securities to realize cash
- close-run — If you describe something such as a race or contest as a close-run thing, you mean that it was only won by a very small amount.
- closeouts — Plural form of closeout.
- closetful — a quantity that may be contained in a closet
- cloud ear — tree ear
- cloudiest — Superlative form of cloudy.
- cloudless — If the sky is cloudless, there are no clouds in it.
- cloudlike — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- cloudware — software that runs and is accessed on remote Internet servers rather than on local servers or personal computers; web-based applications and services.
- clouterly — clumsy
- club deal — a takeover bid in which several private-equity companies form a syndicate to acquire a target company
- clubbable — A clubbable person is friendly and likes being with other people, which makes them good members of social clubs.
- clubfaces — Plural form of clubface.
- clubhouse — A clubhouse is a place where the members of a club, especially a sports club, meet.
- clubmates — Plural form of clubmate.
- clubwomen — Plural form of clubwoman.
- clumpiest — Superlative form of clumpy.
- clumsiest — awkward in movement or action; without skill or grace: He is very clumsy and is always breaking things.
- clunkhead — a stupid or foolish person.
- clustered — If people or things are clustered somewhere, there is a group of them close together there.