10-letter words containing c, u, m, l
- communally — used or shared in common by everyone in a group: a communal jug of wine.
- communital — a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage.
- commutable — (of a punishment) capable of being reduced in severity
- compluvium — an unroofed space over the atrium in a Roman house, through which rain fell and was collected
- compulsion — A compulsion is a strong desire to do something, which you find difficult to control.
- compulsive — You use compulsive to describe people or their behaviour when they cannot stop doing something wrong, harmful, or unnecessary.
- compulsory — If something is compulsory, you must do it or accept it, because it is the law or because someone in a position of authority says you must.
- computable — computability theory
- consumable — Consumable goods are items which are intended to be bought, used, and then replaced.
- consumedly — (intensifier)
- corniculum — a small horn or corniform part
- coulometer — an electrolytic cell for measuring the magnitude of an electric charge by determining the total amount of decomposition resulting from the passage of the charge through the cell
- coulometry — a method used in quantitative analysis, whereby the amount of a substance set free or deposited during electrolysis is determined by measuring the number of coulombs that passed through the electrolyte.
- coumarilic — coumaric
- councilman — A councilman is a man who is a member of a local council.
- councilmen — Plural form of councilman.
- couplement — the action of coupling or the state of being coupled
- crumbcloth — a cloth placed under a dining table to protect the carpet from crumbs and other material
- crumblings — any pieces of matter which have crumbled or fallen from a larger part
- crumplings — crumpling or folding actions
- cuculiform — of, relating to, or belonging to the order Cuculiformes, which includes the cuckoos
- cuddlesome — cuddly (sense 1)
- culiciform — resembling a gnat
- culminated — Simple past tense and past participle of culminate.
- culminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of culminate.
- cult movie — film with small but enthusiastic fan base
- cultriform — (botany, zoology) Shaped like a pruning knife; cultrate.
- cumberland — (until 1974) a county of NW England, now part of Cumbria
- cumberless — unencumbered
- cumbrously — In a cumbrous manner.
- cumulating — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- cumulation — the act of cumulating; accumulation.
- cumulative — If a series of events have a cumulative effect, each event makes the effect greater.
- cumuliform — resembling a cumulus cloud
- curly palm — a feather palm, Howea belmoreana, of Lord Howe Island, having plumy leaves about 7 feet (2.1 meter) long.
- curriculum — A curriculum is all the different courses of study that are taught in a school, college, or university.
- curtmantle — ("Henry the Saint") 973–1024, king of Germany 1002–24 and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1014–24.
- customable — subject to customs
- cycle pump — a hand pump for pumping air into the tyres of a bicycle
- cynomolgus — a macaque native to SE Asia
- decumulate — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- dicoumarol — a substance obtained naturally from sweet clover or produced synthetically as a drug, used as an anticoagulant
- documental — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- dumb cluck — a stupid person.
- duodecimal — pertaining to twelfths or to the number 12.
- ecumenical — general; universal.
- emaculated — Simple past tense and past participle of emaculate.
- emasculate — Make (a person, idea, or piece of legislation) weaker or less effective.
- embryulcia — the act of forcibly removing a fetus
- encephalum — The brain of an insect.