8-letter words containing c, t, u
- subtopic — a topic that is included within another topic.
- subtract — to withdraw or take away, as a part from a whole.
- subtunic — a garment worn under a tunic
- succinct — expressed in few words; concise; terse.
- suckiest — disagreeable; unpleasant.
- sufficit — as much as suffices; enough.
- suitcase — a usually rectangular piece of luggage especially for carrying clothes while traveling.
- sultanic — the sovereign of an Islamic country.
- sun city — city in SC Arizona: pop. 38,000
- suricate — a small, burrowing South African carnivore, Suricata suricatta, of a grayish color with dark bands across the back, related to the mongooses and having social behavior similar to that of prairie dogs.
- tacahout — an abnormal outgrowth on a tamarisk plant
- taciturn — inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in conversation.
- tacubaya — a former city in the Federal District of Mexico: now a SW district of Mexico City; national observatory.
- taichung — a city in and the provincial capital of Taiwan, in the W part.
- talmudic — of or relating to the Talmud.
- tapaculo — a small passeriform bird, Pteroptochus albicollis (megapodius), with short wings and cocked tail, native to South America
- tecumseh — 1768?–1813, American Indian chief of the Shawnee tribe.
- telluric — of or containing tellurium, especially in the hexavalent state.
- teuchter — a derogatory word used by Lowlanders for a Highlander
- teucrian — of or relating to the ancient Trojans.
- teutonic — of or relating to the ancient Teutons.
- the crud — a disease; rot
- theurgic — a system of beneficent magic practiced by the Egyptian Platonists and others.
- thurrock — unitary authority in Essex, SE England, on the N of the Thames River. 71 sq. mi. (184 sq. km).
- tillicum — (in the Pacific Northwest) a friend
- tincture — Pharmacology. a solution of alcohol or of alcohol and water, containing animal, vegetable, or chemical drugs.
- too much — an excess of
- torcular — a tourniquet or bandage
- toreutic — of or relating to toreutics or the objects produced by this technique.
- toucanet — any of several small South and Central American toucans, especially of the genus Aulacorhynchus.
- touch on — to put the hand, finger, etc., on or into contact with (something) to feel it: He touched the iron cautiously.
- touch up — the act or state of touching; state or fact of being touched.
- touch-up — an act or instance of touching up: Her makeup needed a touch-up.
- touching — affecting; moving; pathetic: a touching scene of farewell.
- touchpad — a computer input device for controlling the pointer on a display screen by sliding the finger along a touch-sensitive surface: used chiefly in laptop computers.
- traducer — to speak maliciously and falsely of; slander; defame: to traduce someone's character.
- trap cut — step cut.
- trauchle — to fatigue; tire; wear out.
- triticum — any annual cereal grass of the genus Triticum, which includes the wheats
- trouncer — a person who trounces someone or something
- truchman — an interpreter
- truckage — conveyance by a truck or trucks.
- truckful — the amount of something that can be conveyed in a truck
- trucking — a shuffling jitterbug step.
- truckman — a truckdriver.
- truistic — a self-evident, obvious truth.
- truncate — to shorten by cutting off a part; cut short: Truncate detailed explanations.
- tsunamic — an unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or undersea volcanic eruption.
- tubercle — a small rounded projection or excrescence, as on a bone or on the surface of the body.
- tubicole — an invertebrate animal that lives in a self-constructed tube