11-letter words containing c, u, t, e
- cauliculate — having a caulicle
- causalities — the relation of cause and effect: The result is the same, however differently the causality is interpreted.
- causatively — acting as a cause; producing (often followed by of): a causative agency; an event causative of war.
- causticness — The state or quality of being caustic.
- cauterizing — Present participle of cauterize.
- celebutante — a young woman from a wealthy background who becomes a celebrity
- cellularity — pertaining to or characterized by cellules or cells, especially minute compartments or cavities.
- census data — the data generated by an official census
- centaurette — (fantasy) A female centaur.
- center jump — a jump ball between the centers of the opposing teams, held in the circle at the center of the court, as at the beginning of each period.
- centerpunch — to mark with a center punch.
- centrifugal — acting, moving, or tending to move away from a centre
- centrifuged — an apparatus that rotates at high speed and by centrifugal force separates substances of different densities, as milk and cream.
- centrifuges — Plural form of centrifuge.
- centuriator — a historian who compiles work by centuries, esp one of the writers of the Magdeburg Centuries
- ceteosaurus — a large dinosaur of the Jurassic period
- champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
- chapultepec — a rocky hill in Mexico City: captured (Sept., 1847) in an American assault led by Gen. Winfield Scott in the Mexican War
- charcuterie — cooked cold meats
- chart house — a room or deckhouse for storing and working with charts, navigational instruments, etc.
- chartaceous — of the nature of paper; papery
- chartbuster — A popular singer or group that makes a best-selling recording.
- chateauguay — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, on the St. Lawrence.
- chateauroux — a town in central France: 10th-century castle (Château-Raoul). Pop: 46 386 (2009)
- cheque stub — the part of a cheque that is retained as a record of its purpose
- chicken out — If someone chickens out of something they were intending to do, they decide not to do it because they are afraid.
- chilled out — relaxed
- choukoutien — Wade-Giles. Zhoukoudian.
- chucker-out — a person employed at a club, pub, disco, etc, to throw out drunks or troublemakers and stop those considered undesirable from entering
- chug report — (humour) From "chug" - to drink heavily. A bug report whose the submitter is thought to have had one too many. Not as bad as a drug report.
- church rate — (formerly in England and Ireland) a compulsory assessment imposed on the parishioners' holdings of houses or land in order to repair the parish church and maintain its services.
- church text — a heavy typeface in Gothic style
- cineritious — See cinereous.
- cinquecento — the 16th century, esp in reference to Italian art, architecture, or literature
- circuitries — Plural form of circuitry.
- circulative — Promoting circulation; circulating.
- circumflect — to emphasize with a circumflex accent
- circumspect — If you are circumspect, you are cautious in what you do and say and do not take risks.
- circumvents — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumvent.
- clapped out — (of machinery or appliances) worn-out; dilapidated.
- clapped-out — If you describe a person or a machine as clapped-out, you mean that they are old and no longer able to work properly.
- cleaned out — free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress.
- clenbuterol — a drug prescribed for breathing disorders
- close quote — (used by a speaker to indicate the end of a quotation.)
- close up/to — If you look at something close up or close to, you look at it when you are very near to it.
- club-footed — a congenitally deformed or distorted foot.
- cluster cup — aecium.
- cluster fly — a dipterous fly, Pollenia rudis, that tends to gather in large numbers in attics in the autumn: family Calliphoridae. The larvae are parasitic in earthworms
- cluster leg — a leg having the form of a cluster of columns or shafts.
- coadventure — adventure in which two or more share.