10-letter words containing c, u, t
- buff stick — a small stick covered with leather or the like, used in polishing.
- buffet car — a railway coach where light refreshments are served
- buffy coat — a yellowish-white layer consisting of leukocytes that, upon centrifugation of blood, covers the red blood cells.
- burckhardt — Jacob Christoph. 1818–97, Swiss art and cultural historian; author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)
- 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.
- bust chops — Usually, chops. the jaw.
- by-product — A by-product is something which is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
- c terminus — the carboxyl end of a protein molecule.
- cabanatuan — city in SC Luzon, in the Philippines: pop. 173,000
- 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
- calamitous — If you describe an event or situation as calamitous, you mean it is very unfortunate or serious.
- 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.
- calculator — A calculator is a small electronic device that you use for making mathematical calculations.
- calixtus i — Saint, a.d. c160–222, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 218–222.
- callathump — a shivaree.
- callithump — a noisy band or parade
- calumniate — to slander
- calyculate — having a calycule
- camp it up — If a performer camps it up, they deliberately perform in an exaggerated and often amusing way.
- 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.
- candytufts — Plural form of candytuft.
- canecutter — any of several species of large cottontails inhabiting swamps or marshes.
- cannot but — You use cannot but, could not but, and cannot help but when you want to emphasize that you believe something must be true and that there is no possibility of anything else being the case.
- 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
- caoutchouc — rubber; esp. India rubber, or crude, natural rubber, obtained from latex
- capacitous — Having the legal capacity to do something.
- cape dutch — (in South Africa) a distinctive style of furniture or architecture
- capillatus — (of a cumulonimbus cloud) having a cirriform upper portion that resembles an anvil or a disorderly mass of hair.
- capitellum — an enlarged knoblike structure at the end of a bone that forms an articulation with another bone; capitulum
- capitulant — a person who capitulates
- capitulary — any of the collections of ordinances promulgated by the Frankish kings (8th–10th centuries ad)
- capitulate — If you capitulate, you stop resisting and do what someone else wants you to do.
- capsulated — Enclosed in a capsule.
- captiously — In a captious manner.
- capturable — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- caqueteuse — cacqueteuse.
- caquetoire — cacqueteuse.
- caractacus — flourished a.d. c50, British chieftain who opposed the Romans.
- carbureted — (of a vehicle or engine) having fuel supplied through a carburetor, rather than an injector.
- carburetor — A carburetor is the part of an engine, usually in a car, in which air and gasoline are mixed together to form a vapor which can be burned.
- cargo cult — a religious movement of the SW Pacific, characterized by expectation of the return of spirits in ships or aircraft carrying goods that will provide for the needs of the followers
- caricatura — a caricature
- caricature — A caricature of someone is a drawing or description of them that exaggerates their appearance or behaviour in a humorous or critical way.
- carmustine — a toxic nitrosurea, C 5 H 9 Cl 2 N 3 O 2 , used in the treatment of a wide range of tumors.