10-letter words containing d, e, u
- commutated — to reverse the direction of (a current or currents), as by a commutator.
- compendium — A compendium is a short but detailed collection of information, usually in a book.
- compounded — If something is compounded of different things, it is a mixture of those things.
- compounder — A person who mixes or combines ingredients in order to produce an animal feed, medicine, or other substance.
- conductive — A conductive substance is able to conduct things such as heat and electricity.
- configured — Simple past tense and past participle of configure.
- confounded — bewildered; confused
- confounder — to perplex or amaze, especially by a sudden disturbance or surprise; bewilder; confuse: The complicated directions confounded him.
- confuddled — Simple past tense and past participle of confuddle.
- confusedly — to perplex or bewilder: The flood of questions confused me.
- confuzzled — Simple past tense and past participle of confuzzle.
- conjugated — (of a molecule, compound, or substance) containing two or more double bonds alternating with single bonds
- consuetude — an established custom or usage, esp one having legal force
- consumedly — (intensifier)
- convoluted — If you describe a sentence, idea, or system as convoluted, you mean that it is complicated and difficult to understand.
- cooled-out — moderately cold; neither warm nor cold: a rather cool evening.
- coproduced — to produce (a motion picture, play, etc.) in collaboration with others.
- coproducer — a joint producer
- cordonbleu — any of several small African finches of the genus Uraeginthus, having pale blue and buff plumage and commonly kept as cage birds.
- coreid bug — leaf-footed bug.
- corrugated — Corrugated metal or cardboard has been folded into a series of small parallel folds to make it stronger.
- coruscated — Simple past tense and past participle of coruscate.
- counselled — advice; opinion or instruction given in directing the judgment or conduct of another.
- counterbid — A counterbid is a bid that is made in response to a bid from another person or group, offering the seller more advantages.
- countywide — Occurring or extending throughout a county.
- cracked up — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- cranked up — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crassitude — gross ignorance or stupidity.
- crenulated — minutely crenate, as the margin of certain leaves.
- cropduster — an aeroplane used to spray crops with fertilizer or insecticide
- croustades — Plural form of croustade.
- cruddiness — The quality of being cruddy.
- crude tank — A crude tank is a large vessel for crude oil.
- cuckoldize — to make (a married man) into a cuckold
- cucullated — hooded; hood-shaped
- cuddlesome — cuddly (sense 1)
- cuddliness — The condition of being cuddly.
- cudgelling — a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
- cul-de-sac — A cul-de-sac is a short road which is closed off at one end.
- culdoscope — an endoscope used in a medical examination of the ovary, uterus, etc., inserted through the upper vaginal wall into the pelvic cavity
- culminated — Simple past tense and past participle of culminate.
- cultivated — If you describe someone as cultivated, you mean they are well educated and have good manners.
- cumberland — (until 1974) a county of NW England, now part of Cumbria
- cummerbund — A cummerbund is a wide piece of cloth worn round the waist as part of a man's evening dress.
- cup-holder — a device for holding a cup upright, esp in a motor vehicle
- cupidities — Plural form of cupidity.
- curmudgeon — If you call someone a curmudgeon, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- curse word — a profane or obscene word, especially as used in anger or for emphasis.
- cursedness — The state or quality of being cursed.
- cuspidated — Alternative form of cuspidate.