11-letter words containing c, o, u, a
- coup d’état — When there is a coup d’état, a group of people seize power in a country.
- coupon rate — The coupon rate is the interest rate on a bond calculated on the number of coupons per year.
- coursemates — Plural form of coursemate.
- court dance — a dignified dance for performance at a court. Compare folk dance (def 1).
- cousin jack — a Cornishman, especially a Cornish miner.
- covarrubias — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), 1904–57, Mexican caricaturist, illustrator, and painter.
- crack house — a house or flat where drugs are dealt and used
- craft union — a labour organization membership of which is restricted to workers in a specified trade or craft
- cram course — an intensive course of study designed to review or teach material needed for a specific purpose or, often, material previously taught but not mastered.
- craniopagus — the condition of Siamese twins joined at the head
- crap around — Vulgar. excrement. an act of defecation.
- crapulosity — the quality of being crapulous or crapulent
- crapulously — In a crapulous manner.
- crazy about — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- crazy house — an asylum for people with psychiatric disorders
- crematorium — A crematorium is a building in which the bodies of dead people are burned.
- crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
- creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
- crocus sack — a burlap bag.
- cross vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- crustaceous — forming, resembling, or possessing a surrounding crust or shell
- cryocautery — Cautery by the application of extreme cold.
- cuckoo wasp — any of several small, metallic-green or -blue wasps of the family Chrysididae that deposit their eggs in nests of other wasps.
- cuitlacoche — corn smut.
- culmination — Something, especially something important, that is the culmination of an activity, process, or series of events happens at the end of it.
- cultivation — the planting, tending, improving, or harvesting of crops or plants
- cultivators — Plural form of cultivator.
- cunctatious — addicted to or prone to cunctation
- cupellation — the process of recovering precious metals from lead by melting the alloy in a cupel and oxidizing the lead by means of an air blast
- curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
- currantworm — the larva of any of several insects, as a sawfly, Nematus ribesii (imported currantworm) which infests and feeds on the leaves and fruit of currants.
- curry favor — to try to win favor by flattery, fawning, etc.
- curtain rod — A curtain rod is a long, narrow pole on which you hang curtains.
- cuspidation — decoration using cusps
- custom-made — If something is custom-made, it is made according to someone's special requirements.
- custom-make — to make according to the specifications of an individual buyer
- customaries — Plural form of customary.
- customarily — according to custom; usually
- cut a melon — to declare an abnormally high dividend to shareholders
- cut throats — a person who cuts the throat of another; a murderer.
- cut tobacco — tobacco cut into thin shreds as used in cigarettes, often for pipes and for rolling
- cutaneously — In a cutaneous way.
- cyano group — the univalent group CN; cyanogen.
- cycadaceous — belonging or pertaining to the order Cycadales.
- cyclobutane — (uncountable, organic compound) A simple alicyclic hydrocarbon, C4H8; a light inflammable gas.
- cymophanous — lustrous; brilliant
- cyperaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Cyperaceae, a family of grasslike flowering plants with solid triangular stems, including the sedges, bulrush, cotton grass, and certain rushes. Some are grown as water plants or as ornamental grasses; and Cyperus papyrus is the papyrus plant
- cytophagous — the ingestion of cells by other cells.
- damp course — A damp course is a layer of waterproof material which is put into the bottom of the outside wall of a building to prevent moisture from rising.
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.