8-letter words containing c, u, t, s, e
- cousteau — Jacques Yves (ʒɑk iv). 1910–97, French underwater explorer
- covetous — A covetous person has a strong desire to possess something, especially something that belongs to another person.
- crepitus — a crackling chest sound heard in pneumonia and other lung diseases
- crudites — Crudités are pieces of raw vegetable, often served before a meal.
- cruelest — willfully or knowingly causing pain or distress to others.
- crumpets — Plural form of crumpet.
- crunkest — a type of hip-hop originating in the southern U.S. and characterized by heavy bass and call-and-response vocals.
- crustate — having a crust or shell
- crustose — having a crustlike appearance
- crutches — Plural form of crutch.
- culottes — Culottes are knee-length women's trousers that look like a skirt.
- cultures — the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
- culverts — Plural form of culvert.
- cuprates — Plural form of cuprate.
- curettes — Plural form of curette.
- currents — Plural form of current.
- curtises — Benjamin Robbins, 1809–74, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1851–57; resigned in dissent over Dred Scott case.
- curtness — rudely brief in speech or abrupt in manner.
- curtsied — a respectful bow made by women and girls, consisting of bending the knees and lowering the body.
- curtsies — a respectful bow made by women and girls, consisting of bending the knees and lowering the body.
- cushiest — Superlative form of cushy.
- cuspated — Ending in a point.
- custodes — plural of custos.
- customed — accustomed; inured
- customer — You can use customer in expressions such as a cool customer or a tough customer to indicate what someone's behaviour or character is like.
- cuteness — attractive, especially in a dainty way; pleasingly pretty: a cute child; a cute little apartment.
- cuticles — Plural form of cuticle.
- cutlines — Plural form of cutline.
- cutpurse — a thief who stole purses by cutting them from the belts to which they were attached
- cutscene — (in computer games) a scene that develops the story line and is often shown on completion of a certain level, or when the player’s character dies.
- cuttiest — cut short; short; stubby.
- cuvettes — Plural form of cuvette.
- delectus — (obsolete) An elementary book for learners of Latin or Greek.
- destruct — to destroy (one's own missile or rocket) for safety
- ductless — any tube, canal, pipe, or conduit by which a fluid, air, or other substance is conducted or conveyed.
- dutches' — of, relating to, or characteristic of the natives or inhabitants of the Netherlands or their country or language.
- dutchess — Archaic spelling of duchess.
- educates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of educate.
- esculent — Fit to be eaten; edible.
- etruscan — a member of an ancient people of central Italy whose civilization influenced the Romans, who had suppressed them by about 200 bc
- eustatic — Of or pertaining to eustasy.
- eustelic — Of or possessing a eustele.
- executes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of execute.
- factures — Plural form of facture.
- fructose — Chemistry, Pharmacology. a yellowish to white, crystalline, water-soluble, levorotatory ketose sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , sweeter than sucrose, occurring in invert sugar, honey, and a great many fruits: used in foodstuffs and in medicine chiefly in solution as an intravenous nutrient.
- fuchsite — a bright green variety of muscovite having chromium in place of some of the aluminum.
- grutches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grutch.
- housecat — a domesticated cat kept as a pet.
- huckster — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
- jesuitic — of or relating to Jesuits or Jesuitism.