8-letter words containing c, t, u
- go dutch — of, relating to, or characteristic of the natives or inhabitants of the Netherlands or their country or language.
- goncourt — Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de [ed-mawn lwee ahn-twan y-oh duh] /ɛdˈmɔ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈtwan üˈoʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1822–96, and his brother Jules Alfred Huot de [zhyl al-fred] /ʒyl alˈfrɛd/ (Show IPA) 1830–70, French art critics, novelists, and historians: collaborators until the death of Jules.
- gonoduct — a duct leading from a gonad to the exterior, through which gametes pass
- grutches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grutch.
- gunstick — a ramrod
- gunstock — the stock or support in which the barrel of a shoulder weapon is fixed.
- haircuts — Plural form of haircut.
- half cut — to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger.
- half-cut — to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger.
- hatchure — Alternative form of hachure.
- hitch up — pull higher; clothing, suspender
- hochhuth — Rolf (rɔlf). born 1931, German dramatist. His best-known works are the controversial documentary drama The Representative (1963), on the papacy's attitude to the Jews in World War II, Soldiers (1967), German Love Story (1980), and Wessis in Weimar (1992)
- housecat — a domesticated cat kept as a pet.
- huckster — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
- hutching — Present participle of hutch.
- hutchins — Robert Maynard, 1899–1977, U.S. educator and college president.
- ich-laut — the voiceless palatal fricative sound that is written as ch in German ich, often allophonic with the ach-laut
- in dutch — of, relating to, or characteristic of the natives or inhabitants of the Netherlands or their country or language.
- in touch — If you get in touch with someone, you contact them by writing to them or telephoning them. If you are, keep, or stay in touch with them, you write, phone, or visit each other regularly.
- incubate — to sit upon (eggs) for the purpose of hatching.
- inducted — to install in an office, benefice, position, etc., especially with formal ceremonies: The committee inducted her as president.
- inductee — a person inducted into military service.
- inductor — Also called inductance. Electricity. a coil used to introduce inductance into an electric circuit.
- insculpt — engraved
- instruct — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
- intercur — (obsolete, intransitive) To intervene; to come or occur in the meantime.
- intercut — to cut from one type of shot to another, as from a long shot to a closeup.
- jaculate — to throw or hurl (a dart, javelin, etc.).
- jesuitic — of or relating to Jesuits or Jesuitism.
- juiciest — Superlative form of juicy.
- jump cut — an abrupt break in the continuity of a scene created by editing out part of a shot or scene.
- junction — an act of joining; combining.
- juncture — a point of time, especially one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances: At this juncture, we must decide whether to stay or to walk out.
- juristic — of or relating to a jurist or to jurisprudence; juridical.
- justicer — a judge or magistrate.
- justices — Plural form of justice.
- justicia — any of numerous plants and shrubs of the genus Justicia, which includes the shrimp plant and water willow.
- kentucky — a state in the E central United States. 40,395 sq. mi. (104,625 sq. km). Capital: Frankfort. Abbreviation: KY (for use with zip code), Ken., Ky.
- kick out — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- kick-out — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- knockout — Informal. a person or thing overwhelmingly attractive, appealing, or successful.
- kushitic — a subfamily of the Afroasiatic family of languages, including Somali, Oromo, and other languages of Somalia and Ethiopia.
- la-chute — French La Chute. a novel (1957) by Albert Camus.
- lacteous — milky; of the color of milk.
- lawcourt — a court of law
- lectured — a speech read or delivered before an audience or class, especially for instruction or to set forth some subject: a lecture on Picasso's paintings.
- lecturer — a person who lectures.
- lectures — Plural form of lecture.
- lecythus — (in ancient Greece) a vase with a narrow neck
- lettuces — Plural form of lettuce.