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

  • tenaciously — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
  • tent circus — a circus performed in tents rather than in an arena.
  • tentaculate — having tentacles
  • tentaculite — a fossil of the genus Tentaculites
  • teotihuacan — the ruins of an ancient Mesoamerican city in central Mexico, near Mexico City, that flourished a.d. c200–c750 and is the site of the pyramids of the Sun and Moon and of many temples, palaces, and dwellings.
  • terricolous — living on or in the ground.
  • testiculate — shaped like a testis.
  • tetracoccus — a spherical bacterium occurring in square groups of four.
  • the accused — the defendant or defendants appearing on a criminal charge
  • the centaur — the constellation Centaurus
  • the circuit — a series of tournaments in which the same players regularly take part
  • the commune — the revolutionary government of Paris from 1792 to 1794
  • the council — the local governing authority of a town, county, etc
  • the country — the outlying area or area furthest from the finish of a sports ground or racecourse
  • the curtain — the end of a scene of a play, opera, etc, marked by the fall or closing of the curtain
  • the tussock — country where tussock grass grows
  • theme music — music played at the beginning and end of a programme or film
  • therapeutic — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
  • thermoduric — (of certain microorganisms) able to survive high temperatures, as during pasteurization.
  • thumbsucker — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
  • thunderclap — a crash of thunder.
  • tocqueville — Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clérel de [a-lek-see sharl ahn-ree maw-rees kley-rel duh] /a lɛkˈsi ˈʃarl ɑ̃ˈri mɔˈris kleɪˈrɛl də/ (Show IPA), 1805–59, French statesman and author.
  • toe-curling — If you describe something as toe-curling, you mean that it makes you feel very embarrassed.
  • tone colour — the quality of a musical sound that is conditioned or distinguished by the upper partials or overtones present in it
  • touch judge — one of the two linesmen in rugby
  • touch paper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
  • touch plate — a pewter plate belonging to a guild of pewterers and bearing samples of the touchmarks of all pewterers belonging to the guild.
  • touch-ready — (of software) ready to work on touch-screen computers and devices
  • touchscreen — a touch-sensitive display screen on a computer or other electronic device: touching different portions of the screen with a finger or stylus will cause the device to take actions determined by a computer program.
  • trabeculate — Anatomy, Botany. a structural part resembling a small beam or crossbar.
  • tract house — a house forming part of a real-estate development, usually having a plan and appearance common to some or all of the houses in the development.
  • traducement — to speak maliciously and falsely of; slander; defame: to traduce someone's character.
  • translucent — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.
  • treacherous — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
  • treachetour — a traitor
  • tricoloured — having three colours
  • trout-perch — any of a family (Percopsidae) of North American freshwater bony fishes having spiny and fleshy fins, esp., a species (Percopsis omiscomaycus) of Canada and the E U.S.
  • truckdriver — a person who drives a truck.
  • truckle bed — a low bed moving on casters, usually pushed under another bed when not in use.
  • truckmaster — an officer in charge of trade with Native Americans, esp among the early settlers
  • truculently — fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
  • true course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the geographical meridian.
  • true fresco — fresco (def 1).
  • true-fresco — fresco (def 1).
  • truncheoned — the club carried by a police officer; billy.
  • truncheoner — someone who carries a truncheon
  • tuberaceous — belonging or relating to the order of fungi Tuberaceae, or specifically the truffle genus (Tuber)
  • tuberculate — Also, tuberculated, tuberculose. having tubercles.
  • tuberculize — to infect or become infected with tuberculosis
  • tuberculoid — resembling a tubercle.
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