11-letter words containing c, i, s, a, u
- cuirassiers — Plural form of cuirassier.
- cultivators — Plural form of cultivator.
- culturalism — A belief system that emphasizes the role of culture.
- cunctatious — addicted to or prone to cunctation
- curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
- curia regis — (in Norman England) the king's court, which performed all functions of government
- curialistic — of or relating to curialism or curialists
- curie's law — the principle that the magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic substance is inversely proportional to its thermodynamic temperature
- curtainless — without a curtain or curtains
- cuspidation — decoration using cusps
- custard pie — Custard pies are artificial pies which people sometimes throw at each other as a joke.
- custard-pie — characteristic of a type of slapstick comedy in which a performer throws a pie in another's face: popular especially in the era of vaudeville and early silent films.
- customaries — Plural form of customary.
- customarily — according to custom; usually
- cutlassfish — any of a family (Trichiuridae) of very long, thin percoid fishes with a wide mouth and sharp, pointed teeth, found near the surface in tropical seas
- daisycutter — Alternative form of daisy cutter.
- dance music — music that is suitable for dancing
- day cruiser — a motorboat too small to have any accommodations for sleeping.
- decasualize — to replace the casual workers in (a business) with permanent employees
- decussating — Present participle of decussate.
- decussation — a decussating or being decussated
- denunciates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denunciate.
- diacoustics — the branch of physics that deals with refracted sound
- diascordium — a herbal medicine, no longer in use, containing among other ingredients the herb scordium and opium
- dicephalous — having two heads
- dichogamous — having the stamens and pistils maturing at different times, thereby preventing self-pollination, as a monoclinous flower (opposed to homogamous).
- dio cassius — ?155–?230 ad, Roman historian. His History of Rome covers the period of Rome's transition from Republic to Empire
- disaccustom — to cause to lose a habit: In the country I was quickly disaccustomed of sleeping late.
- discouraged — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- discourager — One who discourages.
- discourages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discourage.
- disculpated — Simple past tense and past participle of disculpate.
- discussable — to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.
- discussants — Plural form of discussant.
- disgraceful — bringing or deserving disgrace; shameful; dishonorable; disreputable.
- disgracious — Lacking grace; not pleasing; disagreeable.
- dispatchful — of or relating to dispatch, particularly in terms of haste
- distractful — (archaic) distracting.
- disturbance — the act of disturbing.
- duodecimals — Plural form of duodecimal.
- duplicators — Plural form of duplicator.
- dyscalculia — Severe difficulty in making arithmetical calculations, as a result of brain disorder.
- early music — music of the medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque periods, especially revived and played on period instruments; European music after ancient music and before the classical music era, from the beginning of the Middle Ages to about 1750.
- efficacious — capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.: The medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough.
- electuaries — Plural form of electuary.
- elucidators — Plural form of elucidator.
- enunciators — Plural form of enunciator.
- equivocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of equivocate.
- eremacausis — A gradual oxidation from exposure to air and moisture, as in the decay of old trees or dead animals.
- eructations — Plural form of eructation.