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10-letter words containing c, u, s, t

  • beltcourse — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
  • benedictus — a short canticle beginning Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini in Latin and Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord in English
  • bile ducts — a large duct that transports bile from the liver to the duodenum, having in humans and many other vertebrates a side branch to a gallbladder for bile storage.
  • black rust — a stage in any of several diseases of cereals and grasses caused by rust fungi in which black masses of spores appear on the stems or leaves
  • boy scouts — the worldwide movement founded by Lord Baden-Powell in 1908, now called the Scout Association in the UK and the Boys Scouts of America in the USA, which pursues a programme of activities for boys with the aim of developing character and responsibility
  • bruschetta — Bruschetta is a slice of toasted bread which is brushed with olive oil and usually covered with chopped tomatoes.
  • bucky bits — /buh'kee bits/ 1. Obsolete. The bits produced by the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard (octal 200 and 400 respectively), resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set. The MIT AI TV (Knight) keyboards extended this with TOP and separate left and right CONTROL and META keys, resulting in a 12-bit character set; later, LISP Machines added such keys as SUPER, HYPER, and GREEK (see space-cadet keyboard). 2. By extension, bits associated with "extra" shift keys on any keyboard, e.g. the ALT on an IBM PC or command and option keys on a Macintosh. It has long been rumored that "bucky bits" were named after Buckminster Fuller during a period when he was consulting at Stanford. Actually, bucky bits were invented by Niklaus Wirth when *he* was at Stanford in 1964--65; he first suggested the idea of an EDIT key to set the 8th bit of an otherwise 7 bit ASCII character. It seems that, unknown to Wirth, certain Stanford hackers had privately nicknamed him "Bucky" after a prominent portion of his dental anatomy, and this nickname transferred to the bit. Bucky-bit commands were used in a number of editors written at Stanford, including most notably TV-EDIT and NLS. The term spread to MIT and CMU early and is now in general use. Ironically, Wirth himself remained unaware of its derivation for nearly 30 years, until GLS dug up this history in early 1993! See double bucky, quadruple bucky.
  • buff stick — a small stick covered with leather or the like, used in polishing.
  • bust chops — Usually, chops. the jaw.
  • c terminus — the carboxyl end of a protein molecule.
  • cactaceous — belonging to the Cactaceae, the cactus family of plants.
  • calamitous — If you describe an event or situation as calamitous, you mean it is very unfortunate or serious.
  • calculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calculate.
  • calixtus i — Saint, a.d. c160–222, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 218–222.
  • candlenuts — Plural form of candlenut.
  • candytufts — Plural form of candytuft.
  • capacitous — Having the legal capacity to do something.
  • capillatus — (of a cumulonimbus cloud) having a cirriform upper portion that resembles an anvil or a disorderly mass of hair.
  • capsulated — Enclosed in a capsule.
  • captiously — In a captious manner.
  • caqueteuse — cacqueteuse.
  • caractacus — flourished a.d. c50, British chieftain who opposed the Romans.
  • carmustine — a toxic nitrosurea, C 5 H 9 Cl 2 N 3 O 2 , used in the treatment of a wide range of tumors.
  • carthusian — a member of an austere monastic order founded by Saint Bruno in 1084 near Grenoble, France
  • cartouches — Plural form of cartouche.
  • case study — A case study is a written account that gives detailed information about a person, group, or thing and their development over a period of time.
  • cash audit — an audit confined to cash transactions for a prescribed period, for the purpose of determining the amount of cash on hand or on deposit in a bank.
  • cashew nut — edible nut
  • cast about — to make a mental or visual search
  • castle nut — a hexagonal nut with six slots in the head, two of which take a locking pin to hold it firmly in position
  • casualties — Military. a member of the armed forces lost to service through death, wounds, sickness, capture, or because his or her whereabouts or condition cannot be determined. casualties, loss in numerical strength through any cause, as death, wounds, sickness, capture, or desertion.
  • catalogues — Plural form of catalogue.
  • catamounts — Plural form of catamount.
  • catawampus — askew; awry
  • catch-ups' — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
  • caterwauls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of caterwaul.
  • catholicus — catholicos.
  • caulescent — having a stem clearly visible above the ground
  • causations — Plural form of causation.
  • causatives — Plural form of causative.
  • cause list — a list of cases awaiting a hearing
  • causticity — capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue.
  • cauterised — Simple past tense and past participle of cauterise.
  • cauterizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cauterize.
  • cautioners — Plural form of cautioner.
  • cautiously — showing, using, or characterized by caution: a cautious man; To be cautious is often to show wisdom.
  • celeritous — (rare) Swift, speedy, fast.
  • cellulitis — inflammation of any of the tissues of the body, characterized by fever, pain, swelling, and redness of the affected area
  • centauress — A female centaur; a she-centaur.
  • centauries — Plural form of centaury.
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