9-letter words containing c, u, t
- butchered — a retail or wholesale dealer in meat.
- butcherer — a person who butchers
- butcherly — of or resembling a butcher
- butchness — the state of being butch
- buttercup — A buttercup is a small plant with bright yellow flowers.
- buttstock — the part of a gun behind the breech
- byproduct — A byproduct is something that is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
- cajeputol — cineole.
- cajuputol — a colorless, oily, slightly water-soluble liquid terpene ether, C 10 H 18 O, having a camphorlike odor and a pungent, spicy, cooling taste, found in eucalyptus, cajeput, and other essential oils: used in flavoring, perfumery, and medicine chiefly as an expectorant.
- calc-tufa — tufa (def 1).
- calc-tuff — Also called calcareous tufa, calc-tufa, calc-tuff. a porous limestone formed from calcium carbonate deposited by springs or the like. Compare travertine.
- calculate — If you calculate a number or amount, you discover it from information that you already have, by using arithmetic, mathematics, or a special machine.
- calenture — a mild fever of tropical climates, similar in its symptoms to sunstroke
- caliatour — a tropical dyewood, possibly red sandalwood
- camouflet — a type of bomb that is used during a siege to collapse an enemy's tunnel
- candlenut — a euphorbiaceous tree, Aleurites mollucana, of tropical Asia and Polynesia
- candytuft — either of two species of Iberis grown as annual garden plants for their umbels ("tufts") of white, red, or purplish flowers
- canefruit — a fruit, such as the raspberry, which grows on woody-stemmed plants
- cannulate — to insert a cannula into (a person)
- cantharus — a large two-handled pottery cup
- canulated — Simple past tense and past participle of canulate.
- canulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canulate.
- capitular — of or associated with a cathedral chapter
- capitulum — a racemose inflorescence in the form of a disc of sessile flowers, the youngest at the centre. It occurs in the daisy and related plants
- capsulate — within or formed into a capsule
- capturers — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- capturing — Present participle of capture.
- caratacus — died ?54 ad, British chieftain: led an unsuccessful resistance against the Romans (43–50)
- carburate — carburet.
- carry out — If you carry out a threat, task, or instruction, you do it or act according to it.
- carry-out — food: take-away
- cartonful — As much as a carton will hold.
- cartouche — a carved or cast ornamental tablet or panel in the form of a scroll, sometimes having an inscription
- cartulary — a collection of charters or records, esp relating to the title to an estate or monastery
- carve out — to make or create (a career)
- carve-out — to cut (a solid material) so as to form something: to carve a piece of pine.
- cassoulet — a stew originating from France, made from haricot beans and goose, duck, pork, etc
- castellum — a small fort, normally used as a watch tower
- castoreum — the oil secreted from the beaver which is used as bait by trappers
- casuistic — of or having to do with casuistry or casuists
- casuistry — Casuistry is the use of clever arguments to persuade or trick people.
- cat-built — (of a sailing vessel) having a bluff bow and straight stern without a figurehead.
- catalogue — A catalogue is a list of things such as the goods you can buy from a particular company, the objects in a museum, or the books in a library.
- catamount — any of various medium-sized felines, such as the puma or lynx
- catapults — Plural form of catapult.
- catch out — To catch someone out means to cause them to make a mistake that reveals that they are lying about something, do not know something, or cannot do something.
- catch-ups — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
- caterwaul — If a person or animal caterwauls, they make a loud, high, unpleasant noise like the noise that cats make when they fight.
- cathouses — Plural form of cathouse.
- causality — Causality is the relationship of cause and effect.