10-letter words containing c, l, u
- camoufleur — a person who camouflages military equipment
- campanular — shaped like a bell
- canaliculi — a small canal or tubular passage, as in bone.
- cancel out — If one thing cancels out another thing, the two things have opposite effects, so that when they are combined no real effect is produced.
- cancellous — having a porous or spongelike structure
- candaulism — A practice or in which a man exposes his female partner, or images of her, to other people for their pleasure.
- candlenuts — Plural form of candlenut.
- candy pull — a social gathering at which taffy or molasses candy is made.
- cannelured — a groove or fluting around the cylindrical part of a bullet.
- cannelures — Plural form of cannelure.
- cannulated — Simple past tense and past participle of cannulate.
- canorously — In a canorous manner.
- cantaloupe — A cantaloupe is a type of melon.
- canteloube — (Marie) Joseph (French ʒozɛf). 1879–1957, French composer, best known for his Chants d'Auvergne (1923–30)
- capillatus — (of a cumulonimbus cloud) having a cirriform upper portion that resembles an anvil or a disorderly mass of hair.
- capitellum — an enlarged knoblike structure at the end of a bone that forms an articulation with another bone; capitulum
- capitulant — a person who capitulates
- capitulary — any of the collections of ordinances promulgated by the Frankish kings (8th–10th centuries ad)
- capitulate — If you capitulate, you stop resisting and do what someone else wants you to do.
- capsulated — Enclosed in a capsule.
- capsulised — Simple past tense and past participle of capsulise.
- capsulized — Simple past tense and past participle of capsulize.
- capsulizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capsulize.
- captiously — In a captious manner.
- capturable — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- carbuncled — infected with a carbuncle.
- carbuncles — Plural form of carbuncle.
- cardueline — of or relating to the passerine subfamily Carduelinae, including the goldfinches, siskins, canaries and crossbills.
- cargo cult — a religious movement of the SW Pacific, characterized by expectation of the return of spirits in ships or aircraft carrying goods that will provide for the needs of the followers
- caruncular — Of, relating to, or like, a caruncle.
- cash value — the nonforfeiture value of a life-insurance policy payable to the insured in cash upon its surrender.
- castle nut — a hexagonal nut with six slots in the head, two of which take a locking pin to hold it firmly in position
- casualness — happening by chance; fortuitous: a casual meeting.
- casualties — Military. a member of the armed forces lost to service through death, wounds, sickness, capture, or because his or her whereabouts or condition cannot be determined. casualties, loss in numerical strength through any cause, as death, wounds, sickness, capture, or desertion.
- casualwear — clothing designed for wear on informal occasions.
- catacumbal — of or resembling catacombs
- catafalque — a temporary raised platform on which a body lies in state before or during a funeral
- catalogued — a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.
- cataloguer — One who catalogues.
- catalogues — Plural form of catalogue.
- catapulted — an ancient military engine for hurling stones, arrows, etc.
- catapultic — of or resembling a catapult
- catenulate — (of certain spores) formed in a row or chain
- caterwauls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of caterwaul.
- catholicus — catholicos.
- cattle run — a barnyard or fenced area adjacent to a barn used as a limited grazing area or exercise lot for cattle.
- caudal fin — the tail fin of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates, used for propulsion during locomotion
- caudle cup — a deep drinking cup having two handles and, usually, a cover.
- caulescent — having a stem clearly visible above the ground
- cauliflory — the production of flowers on the trunk, branches, etc, of a woody plant, as opposed to the ends of the twigs