11-letter words containing c, u, t, a, b
- carburettor — A carburettor is the part of an engine, usually in a car, in which air and petrol are mixed together to form a vapour which can be burned.
- carbutamide — An antidiabetic drug.
- carvelbuilt — Alternative form of carvel-built.
- cat burglar — A cat burglar is a thief who steals from houses or other buildings by climbing up walls and entering through windows or through the roof.
- cattle grub — the larva or adult of a warble fly, especially Hypoderma lineatum, a common pest of cattle in North America.
- causability — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- celebutante — a young woman from a wealthy background who becomes a celebrity
- chartbuster — A popular singer or group that makes a best-selling recording.
- chukka boot — an ankle-high boot made of suede or rubber and worn for playing polo
- coach-built — (of a vehicle) having specially built bodywork
- cobalt blue — any greenish-blue pigment containing cobalt aluminate, usually made by heating cobaltous sulphate, aluminium oxide, and phosphoric acid together
- combat duty — active service
- concubitant — a person obliged to marry another, esp a woman obliged to marry her husband's brother on her husband's death
- confabulate — to talk together; converse; chat
- construable — that can be construed
- contubernal — occupying the same tent
- conurbation — A conurbation consists of a large city together with the smaller towns around it.
- corbiculate — having corbiculae or pollen baskets
- corruptable — Able to be corrupted.
- cougar bait — a younger man who is often pursued by older women seeking a sexual relationship: We all agreed he was prime cougar bait.
- counterbase — a double bass
- crab cactus — Christmas cactus
- crazy about — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- cretan bull — a savage bull, captured on Crete by Hercules and allowed to roam near Marathon in Greece until captured by Theseus.
- culebra cut — former name of Gaillard Cut.
- culpability — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.
- curb market — curb (def 5).
- currant bun — a sweet bun containing currants
- cut sb dead — If you see someone you know and cut them dead, you ignore them.
- cut tobacco — tobacco cut into thin shreds as used in cigarettes, often for pipes and for rolling
- cyclobutane — (uncountable, organic compound) A simple alicyclic hydrocarbon, C4H8; a light inflammable gas.
- debauchment — The act of debauching or corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
- disturbance — the act of disturbing.
- double coat — an outer coat of hair on a dog serving as protection against underbrush and resistant to weather, combined with an undercoat of softer hair for warmth and waterproofing.
- educability — capable of being educated.
- eubacterial — (biology) Of or pertaining to the Eubacteria.
- eubacterium — A bacterium of a large group typically having simple cells with rigid cell walls and often flagella for movement. The group comprises the “ true ” bacteria and cyanobacteria, as distinct from archaebacteria.
- fault block — a mass of rock bounded on at least two opposite sides by faults.
- fracturable — Capable of being fractured.
- futurebasic — (language) A BASIC compiler for the Macintosh.
- hash bucket — hash coding
- health club — a usually private club that offers its members facilities for exercising and physical conditioning.
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
- incubations — Plural form of incubation.
- ineluctable — incapable of being evaded; inescapable: an ineluctable destiny. Synonyms: inevitable, unavoidable, irrevocable, unpreventable, unstoppable, inexorable. Antonyms: certain, sure, fated.
- ineluctably — incapable of being evaded; inescapable: an ineluctable destiny. Synonyms: inevitable, unavoidable, irrevocable, unpreventable, unstoppable, inexorable. Antonyms: certain, sure, fated.
- inscrutable — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- inscrutably — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- justiceable — Liable to trial in a court of justice.
- justiciable — capable of being settled by law or by the action of a court: a justiciable dispute.