8-letter words containing c, u, a
- eurocard — A range of standard circuit board sizes. Normal double Eurocard = 233.4 x 160 mm Extended double Eurocard = 233.4 x 220 mm Super extended double Eurocard = 233.4 x 250 mm Hyper extended double Eurocard = 233.4 x 280 mm
- eurocrat — European Union official
- eusocial — (biology) Of or pertaining to certain social animals' societies (such as those of ants) in which sterile individuals work for reproductive individuals.
- eustatic — Of or pertaining to eustasy.
- evacuant — A medicine that induces some kind of bodily discharge, such as an emetic, a sudorific, or especially a laxative.
- evacuate — Remove (someone) from a place of danger to a safe place.
- evacuees — Plural form of evacuee.
- excubant — keeping watch; on guard
- face out — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- factious — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- factotum — a person, as a handyman or servant, employed to do all kinds of work around the house.
- factures — Plural form of facture.
- fan club — a club enthusiastically devoted to a movie star or other celebrity or to a sports team.
- fanciful — characterized by or showing fancy; capricious or whimsical in appearance: a fanciful design of butterflies and flowers.
- farceurs — Plural form of farceur.
- farceuse — a woman skilled in farce.
- farouche — fierce.
- fascinum — An ivory phallus used in certain ancient erotic rites.
- fast-cut — to go abruptly from one brief scene to another.
- faucaria — any succulent plant of the genus Faucaria, comprising several species native to southern Africa and having solitary yellow or white flowers.
- fauchard — a shafted weapon having a knifelike blade with a convex cutting edge and a beak on the back for catching the blade of an aggressor's weapon.
- feluccas — Plural form of felucca.
- fiducial — accepted as a fixed basis of reference or comparison: a fiducial point; a fiducial temperature.
- foucault — Jean Bernard Léon [zhahn ber-nar ley-awn] /ʒɑ̃ bɛrˈnar leɪˈɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1819–68, French physicist.
- fracture — the breaking of a bone, cartilage, or the like, or the resulting condition. Compare comminuted fracture, complete fracture, compound fracture, greenstick fracture, simple fracture.
- francium — a radioactive element of the alkali metal group. Symbol: Fr; atomic number: 87.
- fuchsias — Plural form of fuchsia.
- fuck all — Fuck all is used to mean 'nothing at all'.
- fuckhead — a stupid or obnoxious person.
- fuel-can — A derogatory term for the Atari Falcon.
- fugacity — fleeting; transitory: a sensational story with but a fugacious claim on the public's attention.
- fulcrate — having or supported by fulcra
- fullback — a running back who lines up behind the quarterback and is farthest from the line of scrimmage.
- fur coat — overcoat covered with animal fur
- furacity — (obsolete) Addictedness to theft; thievishness.
- furcated — Forked or branched.
- furcraea — a member of a genus of succulent plants of the family Agavaceae native to tropical parts of Central and South America
- furculae — Plural form of furcula.
- furcular — of or relating to the furcula
- furnaced — (in combinations) having a particular type or number of furnaces.
- furnaces — Plural form of furnace.
- gauchely — In a gauche manner.
- glacious — Characteristic, composed, or of the nature of icy; icy.“Gla
- glaucoma — Ophthalmology. abnormally high fluid pressure in the eye, most commonly caused either by blockage of the channel through which aqueous humor drains (open-angle glaucoma or chronic glaucoma) or by pressure of the iris against the lens, which traps the aqueous humor (angle-closure glaucoma or acute glaucoma)
- glaucous — light bluish-green or greenish-blue.
- glucagon — a hormone secreted by the pancreas that acts in opposition to insulin in the regulation of blood glucose levels.
- glucosan — any of a number of polysaccharides that yield glucose upon hydrolysis.
- glutamic — (organic chemistry) Of, pertaining to, or derived from glutamic acid.
- glutaric — Of or pertaining to glutaric acid or its derivatives.
- gouaches — Plural form of gouache.