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10-letter words containing c, l, u

  • black rust — a stage in any of several diseases of cereals and grasses caused by rust fungi in which black masses of spores appear on the stems or leaves
  • blackguard — an unprincipled contemptible person; scoundrel
  • blacksburg — a town in SW Virginia.
  • blockhouse — (formerly) a wooden fortification with ports or loopholes for defensive fire, observation, etc
  • blue coral — any coral of the genus Heliopora, having brown polyps and a blue skeleton, found in the Indo-Pacific region.
  • blue crane — the great blue heron.
  • blue cross — a nonprofit health insurance organization offering hospitalization and medical benefits to subscribers, esp. to groups of employees and their families
  • blue dicks — a plant, Dichelostemma pulchellum, of the amaryllis family, common on the western coast of the U.S., having headlike clusters of blue flowers.
  • blue racer — a long slender blackish-blue fast-moving colubrid snake, Coluber constrictor flaviventris, of the US
  • blue-black — Something that is blue-black is bluish black in colour.
  • blue-curls — any of a genus (Trichostema) of plants of the mint family, with downy, narrow leaves and blue flowers
  • bluejacket — a sailor in the Navy
  • blues-rock — a blend of rock-'n'-roll and blues.
  • boucicault — Dion (ˈdaɪɒn), real name Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot. 1822–90, Irish dramatist and actor. His plays include London Assurance (1841), The Octoroon (1859), and The Shaughran (1874)
  • bounceable — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
  • bouncingly — in a bouncing manner
  • box column — a hollow wooden column, as for a porch, usually having a rectangular cross section.
  • bubble car — (in Britain, formerly) a small car, often having three wheels, with a transparent bubble-shaped top
  • bubonocele — an incomplete hernia in the groin; partial inguinal hernia
  • bucephalus — the favourite horse of Alexander the Great
  • buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
  • bulbaceous — bulbous
  • bulk cargo — unpackaged cargoes, such as grain or coal
  • bull block — a machine for drawing wire in which the wire is pulled through the dies by a power-operated drum.
  • bull chain — a chain for dragging logs to a sawmill.
  • bullbucker — a foreman who supervises fallers and buckers.
  • bur clover — any of several Eurasian legumes of the genus Medicago, as M. hispida, having yellow flowers and prickly, coiled, black pods, naturalized in North America.
  • burchfieldCharles Ephraim, 1893–1967, U.S. painter.
  • cable buoy — a buoy marking or supporting part of a submerged cable.
  • cake flour — finely ground wheat flour.
  • calamitous — If you describe an event or situation as calamitous, you mean it is very unfortunate or serious.
  • calcaneous — Misspelling of calcaneus.
  • calcareous — of, containing, or resembling calcium carbonate; chalky
  • calcifuges — Plural form of calcifuge.
  • calculable — Calculable amounts or consequences can be calculated.
  • calculated — If something is calculated to have a particular effect, it is specially done or arranged in order to have that effect.
  • calculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calculate.
  • calculator — A calculator is a small electronic device that you use for making mathematical calculations.
  • calendulas — Plural form of calendula.
  • calico bug — harlequin bug.
  • caliginous — dark; dim
  • calixtus iSaint, a.d. c160–222, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 218–222.
  • call house — a house or apartment used by prostitutes for arranging or keeping assignations.
  • callathump — a shivaree.
  • callithump — a noisy band or parade
  • calmodulin — a protein found in most living cells; it regulates many enzymic processes that are dependent on calcium
  • calumniate — to slander
  • calumnious — of or using calumny
  • calyculate — having a calycule
  • camouflage — Camouflage consists of things such as leaves, branches, or brown and green paint, which are used to make it difficult for an enemy to see military forces and equipment.
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