9-letter words containing e, c, u
- casualise — make (a regular employee) into a casual worker
- casualize — If a business casualizes its employees or casualizes their labour, it replaces employees with permanent contracts and full rights with employees with temporary contracts and few rights.
- 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.
- 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.
- cauchemar — a nightmare
- cauldrife — susceptible to cold; chilly
- caulfield — Patrick (Joseph). 1936–2005, British painter and printmaker
- cauquenes — a city in central Chile.
- causative — Causative factors are ones which are responsible for causing something.
- causeless — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- causeries — Plural form of causerie.
- causeways — Plural form of causeway.
- cautelous — crafty or cunning
- cauterant — caustic; cauterizing
- cauteries — Plural form of cautery.
- cauterise — to burn with a hot iron, electric current, fire, or a caustic, especially for curative purposes; treat with a cautery.
- cauterism — the application of burning, searing, or cautery
- cauterize — If a doctor cauterizes a wound, he or she burns it with heat or with a chemical in order to close it up and prevent it from becoming infected.
- cautioned — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- cautioner — A person who cautions.
- cavaedium — atrium (def 1a).
- cavernous — A cavernous room or building is very large inside, and so it reminds you of a cave.
- cd burner — A CD burner is the same as a CD writer.
- ceanothus — any shrub of the North American rhamnaceous genus Ceanothus: grown for their ornamental, often blue, flower clusters
- ceausescu — Nicolae (ˌnɪkɒˈlaɪ). 1918–89, Romanian statesman; chairman of the state council (1967–89) and president of Romania (1974–89): deposed and executed
- ceintures — cincture (defs 1, 2).
- cellarous — of, relating to or resembling a cellar
- cellhouse — a prison building containing separate cells, each usually intended for one or two prisoners.
- cellulase — any enzyme that converts cellulose to the disaccharide cellobiose
- cellulate — cellular.
- cellulite — Cellulite is lumpy fat which people may get under their skin, especially on their thighs.
- celluloid — You can use celluloid to refer to films and the cinema.
- cellulose — Cellulose is a substance that exists in the cell walls of plants and is used to make paper, plastic, and various fabrics and fibres.
- cellulous — consisting of or filled with cells
- celsitude — the position or stance of dignity or loftiness
- censuring — strong or vehement expression of disapproval: The newspapers were unanimous in their censure of the tax proposal.
- centaurea — any of a genus (Centaurea) of annual and perennial plants of the composite family, having egg-shaped flower heads, including the star thistles and the bachelor's buttons
- centauric — characterized by an integration of mind and body for consciousness above the ego-self
- centaurus — a conspicuous extensive constellation in the S hemisphere, close to the Southern Cross, that contains two first magnitude stars, Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri, and the globular cluster Omega Centauri
- centumvir — one of a body of judges responsible for presiding over civil court cases
- centurial — of or relating to a Roman century
- centuried — existing for an indefinite number of centuries.
- centuries — Plural form of century.
- centurion — A centurion was an officer in the Roman army.
- centurium — A rejected name for fermium.
- cepaceous — having an onion-like smell or taste
- cephalous — having a head
- ceraceous — waxlike or waxy
- cerastium — any of a genus of plants belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae