10-letter words containing c, o, u, e
- berlusconi — Silvio (ˈsilvjo). born 1936, Italian politician and media tycoon: prime minister of Italy (1994–95, 2001–06, 2008–11); convicted of tax fraud and expelled from the Italian Senate in 2013
- bertolucci — Bernardo (berˈnardo). born 1940, Italian film director: his films include The Spider's Stratagem (1970), The Conformist (1970), 1900 (1976), The Last Emperor (1987), The Sheltering Sky (1990), and The Dreamers (2003)
- betancourt — Rómulo [rom-yuh-loh;; Spanish raw-moo-law] /ˈrɒm yəˌloʊ;; Spanish ˈrɔ muˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1908–81, Venezuelan journalist and political leader: president of Venezuela 1945–48 and 1959–64.
- bicornuate — Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
- bivouacked — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
- 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 cross — a nonprofit health insurance organization offering hospitalization and medical benefits to subscribers, esp. to groups of employees and their families
- blues-rock — a blend of rock-'n'-roll and blues.
- bounceable — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
- bounceback — the act or an instance of bouncing back, recovering, or recuperating: Fall sales have experienced a tremendous bounceback.
- bouncedown — an occasion of restarting play by the umpire bouncing the ball
- box cutter — a knife-like tool with a short retractable blade
- brockhouse — Bertram Neville, 1918–2003, Canadian physicist: Nobel Prize 1994.
- bubonocele — an incomplete hernia in the groin; partial inguinal hernia
- bucket out — to empty out with or as if with a bucket
- bulbaceous — bulbous
- 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.
- byssaceous — consisting of fine threads
- cable buoy — a buoy marking or supporting part of a submerged cable.
- cactaceous — belonging to the Cactaceae, the cactus family of plants.
- cadaverous — If you describe someone as cadaverous, you mean they are extremely thin and pale.
- cafetorium — a room, usually in a school or other educational institution, which serves both as a cafeteria and an auditorium
- cake flour — finely ground wheat flour.
- calcaneous — Misspelling of calcaneus.
- calcareous — of, containing, or resembling calcium carbonate; chalky
- call house — a house or apartment used by prostitutes for arranging or keeping assignations.
- 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.
- camoufleur — a person who camouflages military equipment
- 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
- 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)
- caquetoire — cacqueteuse.
- carburetor — A carburetor is the part of an engine, usually in a car, in which air and gasoline are mixed together to form a vapor which can be burned.
- cartouches — Plural form of cartouche.
- 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.
- cautioners — Plural form of cautioner.
- cefuroxime — (pharmaceutical drug) A second-generation cephalosporin antibiotic.
- celebrious — (obsolete) famous.
- celeritous — (rare) Swift, speedy, fast.
- cellulosic — of or made from cellulose
- censorious — If you describe someone as censorious, you do not like the way they strongly disapprove of and criticize someone else's behaviour.
- centurions — Plural form of centurion.
- ceratosaur — a carnivorous, swift-running North American theropod dinosaur of the genus Ceratosaurus and closely related genera, of the Jurassic Period, having a large skull with a short horn between the nostrils and a bony knob in front of each eye, and reaching a length of 20 feet (6.1 meter).
- ceriferous — producing or bearing wax
- ceruminous — earwax.
- charthouse — the compartment on a ship or boat where charts are kept