10-letter words containing c, u, e, i
- censorious — If you describe someone as censorious, you do not like the way they strongly disapprove of and criticize someone else's behaviour.
- centaurian — resembling or of the nature of a centaur
- centauries — Plural form of centaury.
- centrifuge — A centrifuge is a machine that spins mixtures of different substances around very quickly so that they separate by centrifugal force.
- centurions — Plural form of centurion.
- ceriferous — producing or bearing wax
- certitudes — Plural form of certitude.
- ceruminous — earwax.
- cesium 137 — the radioactive cesium isotope with mass number 137 and a half-life of 33 years: used for gamma irradiation of certain foods and for radiation therapy.
- chain rule — a theorem that may be used in the differentiation of the function of a function. It states that du/dx = (du/dy)(dy/dx), where y is a function of x and u a function of y
- charcutier — a pork butcher.
- chaucerian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer
- chelyuskin — Capenorthernmost point of Asia, on the Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia
- chen duxiu — 1879–1942, Chinese intellectual, journalist, and cofounder of the Chinese Communist Party.
- chequering — Present participle of chequer.
- cherubfish — a brilliantly colored butterflyfish, Centropyge argi, found in the West Indies: kept in home aquariums.
- cherubical — Cherubic.
- cherubicon — the hymn sung during the Great Entrance by the choir, which represents the cherubim.
- cherublike — a celestial being. Gen. 3:24; Ezek. 1, 10.
- chi-square — an inferential statistic common in survey research
- china blue — a bright greenish blue.
- chine nual — (documentation) /sheen'yu-*l/ (MIT) The LISP Machine Manual, so called because the title was wrapped around the cover so only those letters showed on the front.
- chipmunked — Simple past tense and past participle of chipmunk.
- chirurgeon — surgeon
- chirurgery — surgery.
- choreutics — a system that analyzes form in movement, developed by Rudolf von Laban (1879–1958), Hungarian choreographer and dance theorist.
- chubbiness — round and plump: a chubby child; a chubby face.
- chuffiness — the quality of being chuffy; boorishness
- chumminess — friendly; intimate; sociable.
- chundering — vomit.
- chunkiness — The state of being chunky.
- chuntering — to grumble or grouse mildly or tediously.
- churchlike — resembling or appropriate to a church: churchlike silence.
- chuttering — Present participle of chutter.
- cienfuegos — a port in S Cuba, on Cienfuegos Bay. Pop: 147 000 (2005 est)
- cinerarium — a place for keeping the ashes of the dead after cremation
- cingulated — Having a cingulum.
- cinquefoil — any plant of the N temperate rosaceous genus Potentilla, typically having five-lobed compound leaves
- circle-out — a closed plane curve consisting of all points at a given distance from a point within it called the center. Equation: x 2 + y 2 = r 2 .
- circuiteer — someone who completes a circuit
- circuities — Plural form of circuity.
- circulable — able to be circulated
- circulated — to move in a circle or circuit; move or pass through a circuit back to the starting point: Blood circulates throughout the body.
- circulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circulate.
- circumcise — If a boy or man is circumcised, the loose skin at the end of his penis is cut off.
- circumcize — Misspelling of circumcise.
- circumduce — to cause (something) to circulate on its axis
- circumflex — A circumflex or a circumflex accent is a symbol written over a vowel in French and other languages, usually to indicate that it should be pronounced longer than usual. It is used for example in the word 'rôle'.
- circumfuse — to pour or spread (a liquid, powder, etc) around
- circummure — to surround by means of a wall