8-letter words containing c, l, u
- block up — If you block something up or if it blocks up, it is blocked completely so that nothing can get through it.
- blu-tack — a type of blue, malleable, sticky material used to attach paper, card, etc to walls and other surfaces
- bluchers — a strong, leather half boot.
- blue cod — a common marine spiny-finned food fish, Parapercis colias, of the sub-Antarctic waters of New Zealand, esp at the Chatham Islands, which is greenish blue with brown marbling and inhabits rocky bottoms. Its smoked flesh is considered a delicacy
- blue ice — the oldest and densest ice in a glacier, distinguished by a pale-blue color.
- blueback — any of several species of fish with a blue colouring
- bluecoat — a person who wears a blue coat, such as a sailor or policeman
- bluejack — a species of oak, Quercus incana, the leaves of which have a blue tinge
- bluetick — a type of coonhound commonly bred in the southern United States
- brucella — any of a genus of nonmotile bacteria that cause brucellosis
- buccally — from the point of view of the cheek or mouth
- bucellas — a Portuguese white wine
- buckland — William. 1784–1856, English geologist; he became a proponent of the idea of catastrophic ice ages
- buckling — Buckling happens when a force presses on a slender structure and makes it collapse.
- bucktail — a fishing lure adorned with deer hair
- bucolics — a pastoral poem.
- bulfinch — Charles1763-1844; U.S. architect
- bulimiac — pertaining to, resembling, or affected by bulimia.
- bullneck — an enlarged neck
- bullocky — the driver of a team of bullocks
- bunchily — in a bunchy manner
- burlecue — burlesque (def 3).
- caesural — Prosody. a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan.
- cagoules — Plural form of cagoule.
- cahuilla — a member of a North American Indian people of southern California.
- caladium — any of various tropical plants of the aroid genus Caladium, which are widely cultivated as potted plants for their colourful variegated foliage
- calakmul — a ruined Mayan city in SE Mexico.
- calathus — a vase-shaped basket represented in ancient Greek art, used as a symbol of fruitfulness
- calcular — relating to calculus
- calculus — Calculus is a branch of advanced mathematics which deals with variable quantities.
- calcutta — Kolkata
- caliduct — a pipe or duct for conveying a heating medium, as hot air or steam.
- caligula — original name Gaius Caesar, son of Germanicus. 12–41 ad, Roman emperor (37–41), noted for his cruelty and tyranny; assassinated
- calippus — flourished 4th century b.c, Greek astronomer.
- calixtus — (Alfonso de Borja; Alfonso Borgia) 1378–1458, Spanish ecclesiastic: pope 1455–58.
- call out — If you call someone out, you order or request that they come to help, especially in an emergency.
- call-out — an act or instance of calling out.
- callosum — (anatomy) corpus callosum.
- callused — Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.
- calluses — Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.
- calumets — Plural form of calumet.
- calutron — a device used for the separation of isotopes
- calycule — an epicalyx
- calyculi — Plural form of calyculus.
- canicula — Sirius, the Dog Star
- cannulae — Irregular plural form of cannula.
- cannular — shaped like a cannula
- cannulas — Plural form of cannula.
- canulate — Alternative form of cannulate.
- capitula — Biology. any globose or knoblike part, as a flower head or the head of a bone.