11-letter words containing c, u, i, t, e
- counterraid — a retaliatory raid on an enemy
- countersign — If you countersign a document, you sign it after someone else has signed it.
- countersing — (ethology, of a bird) To sing in response to the song of another.
- countersink — to enlarge the upper part of (a hole) in timber, metal, etc, so that the head of a bolt or screw can be sunk below the surface
- countersuit — a legal claim made as a reaction to a claim made against one
- countervail — to act or act against with equal power or force
- countervair — (heraldry) A heraldic fur resembling vair, except in the arrangement of the patches or figures.
- counterview — an opposite or opposing view
- countrified — You use countrified to describe something that seems or looks like something in the country, rather than in a town.
- countryfied — countrified
- countryside — The countryside is land which is away from towns and cities.
- countrywide — Something that happens or exists countrywide happens or exists throughout the whole of a particular country.
- courtierism — the characteristic practices or qualities of a courtier
- courtliness — polite, refined, or elegant: courtly manners.
- credit hour — A credit hour is a credit that a school or college awards to students who have completed a course of study.
- crematorium — A crematorium is a building in which the bodies of dead people are burned.
- crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
- crimebuster — (chiefly, US, informal) A person, especially a law enforcement officer, who is particularly effective in thwarting criminal activity and in bringing criminals to justice.
- crinkle-cut — (of chips or crisps) having a striated or furrowed surface
- crunch time — the critical moment
- cuitlacoche — corn smut.
- culminative — (of stress or tone accent) serving to indicate the number of independent words or the important points in an utterance by assigning prominence to one syllable in each word or close-knit group of words.
- cult figure — a person who inspires devotion in a particular group of people
- cultishness — the quality of being cultish
- culturalize — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- culver city — a city in SW California, W of Los Angeles.
- cupellation — the process of recovering precious metals from lead by melting the alloy in a cupel and oxidizing the lead by means of an air blast
- curb weight — the weight of an automotive vehicle including fuel, coolant, and lubricants but excluding occupants and cargo.
- curie point — the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic
- curiosities — Plural form of curiosity.
- curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.
- curtainless — without a curtain or curtains
- custard pie — Custard pies are artificial pies which people sometimes throw at each other as a joke.
- custard-pie — characteristic of a type of slapstick comedy in which a performer throws a pie in another's face: popular especially in the era of vaudeville and early silent films.
- customaries — Plural form of customary.
- cut it fine — to allow little margin of time, space, etc
- cutoff time — The cutoff time is the time at which a bank stops crediting same-day deposits.
- cuts no ice — If you say that something cuts no ice with you, you mean that you are not impressed or influenced by it.
- cysticercus — an encysted larval form of many tapeworms, consisting of a head (scolex) inverted in a fluid-filled bladder
- daisycutter — Alternative form of daisy cutter.
- deceitfully — given to deceiving: A deceitful person cannot keep friends for long.
- declinature — the act of refusing politely
- declivitous — fairly steep
- declutching — Present participle of declutch.
- decrepitude — Decrepitude is the state of being very old and in poor condition.
- decumbiture — the act of lying recumbent and, in particular, as a sick patient in bed
- decurionate — the post or position of a decurion
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- decussating — Present participle of decussate.
- decussation — a decussating or being decussated