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

  • authigenic — (of minerals) having crystallized in a sediment during or after deposition
  • autochrome — a material once used for color photography, consisting of a photographic emulsion applied over a multicolored screen of minute starch grains dyed red, green, and blue-violet.
  • autoclaved — Simple past tense and past participle of autoclave.
  • autoclaves — Plural form of autoclave.
  • autoecious — (of parasites, esp the rust fungi) completing the entire life cycle on a single species of host
  • autoerotic — producing sexual excitement or pleasure without association with another person or external stimulation.
  • autonoetic — Of or relating to autonoesis.
  • aviculture — the keeping and rearing of birds
  • avouchment — The act of avouching.
  • avunculate — the custom in some societies of assigning rights and duties to a maternal uncle concerning his sister's son
  • awe-struck — filled with awe
  • back quote — (character)   "`" ASCII code 96. Common names: left quote; left single quote; open quote; ITU-T: grave accent; grave. Rare: backprime; INTERCAL: backspark; unapostrophe; birk; blugle; back tick; back glitch; push; ITU-T: opening single quotation mark; quasiquote. Back quote is used in Unix shells to invoke command substitution.
  • beautician — A beautician is a person whose job is giving people beauty treatments such as doing their nails, treating their skin, and putting on their make-up.
  • 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
  • bertolucci — Bernardo (berˈnardo). born 1940, Italian film director: his films include The Spider's Stratagem (1970), The Conformist (1970), 1900 (1976), The Last Emperor (1987), The Sheltering Sky (1990), and The Dreamers (2003)
  • betancourt — Rómulo [rom-yuh-loh;; Spanish raw-moo-law] /ˈrɒm yəˌloʊ;; Spanish ˈrɔ muˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1908–81, Venezuelan journalist and political leader: president of Venezuela 1945–48 and 1959–64.
  • bicornuate — Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
  • bifurcated — divided into two branches.
  • 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.
  • bimaculate — marked with two spots.
  • binucleate — having two nuclei
  • bit bucket — (jargon)   1. (Or "write-only memory", "WOM") The universal data sink (originally, the mythical receptacle used to catch bits when they fall off the end of a register during a shift instruction). Discarded, lost, or destroyed data is said to have "gone to the bit bucket". On Unix, often used for /dev/null. Sometimes amplified as "the Great Bit Bucket in the Sky". 2. The place where all lost mail and news messages eventually go. The selection is performed according to Finagle's Law; important mail is much more likely to end up in the bit bucket than junk mail, which has an almost 100% probability of getting delivered. Routing to the bit bucket is automatically performed by mail-transfer agents, news systems, and the lower layers of the network. 3. The ideal location for all unwanted mail responses: "Flames about this article to the bit bucket." Such a request is guaranteed to overflow one's mailbox with flames. 4. Excuse for all mail that has not been sent. "I mailed you those figures last week; they must have landed in the bit bucket." Compare black hole. This term is used purely in jest. It is based on the fanciful notion that bits are objects that are not destroyed but only misplaced. This appears to have been a mutation of an earlier term "bit box", about which the same legend was current; old-time hackers also report that trainees used to be told that when the CPU stored bits into memory it was actually pulling them "out of the bit box". Another variant of this legend has it that, as a consequence of the "parity preservation law", the number of 1 bits that go to the bit bucket must equal the number of 0 bits. Any imbalance results in bits filling up the bit bucket. A qualified computer technician can empty a full bit bucket as part of scheduled maintenance. In contrast, a "chad box" is a real container used to catch chad. This may be related to the origin of the term "bit bucket" [Comments ?].
  • bluejacket — a sailor in the Navy
  • box cutter — a knife-like tool with a short retractable blade
  • bruschetta — Bruschetta is a slice of toasted bread which is brushed with olive oil and usually covered with chopped tomatoes.
  • buck teeth — upper front teeth which stick out
  • bucket out — to empty out with or as if with a bucket
  • buffet car — a railway coach where light refreshments are served
  • bureaucrat — Bureaucrats are officials who work in a large administrative system. You can refer to officials as bureaucrats especially if you disapprove of them because they seem to follow rules and procedures too strictly.
  • c terminus — the carboxyl end of a protein molecule.
  • cactaceous — belonging to the Cactaceae, the cactus family of plants.
  • cafetorium — a room, usually in a school or other educational institution, which serves both as a cafeteria and an auditorium
  • calculated — If something is calculated to have a particular effect, it is specially done or arranged in order to have that effect.
  • calculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calculate.
  • calumniate — to slander
  • calyculate — having a calycule
  • cancel out — If one thing cancels out another thing, the two things have opposite effects, so that when they are combined no real effect is produced.
  • candlenuts — Plural form of candlenut.
  • canecutter — any of several species of large cottontails inhabiting swamps or marshes.
  • cannulated — Simple past tense and past participle of cannulate.
  • cantaloupe — A cantaloupe is a type of melon.
  • canteloube — (Marie) Joseph (French ʒozɛf). 1879–1957, French composer, best known for his Chants d'Auvergne (1923–30)
  • canterbury — a late 18th-century low wooden stand with partitions for holding cutlery and plates: often mounted on casters
  • cape dutch — (in South Africa) a distinctive style of furniture or architecture
  • capitellum — an enlarged knoblike structure at the end of a bone that forms an articulation with another bone; capitulum
  • capitulate — If you capitulate, you stop resisting and do what someone else wants you to do.
  • capsulated — Enclosed in a capsule.
  • capturable — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
  • caqueteuse — cacqueteuse.
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