11-letter words containing l, e, c, t, u
- butter clam — any of a genus (Saxidomus) of large, edible clams found along the Pacific coast of North America
- cafe brulot — black coffee flavored with sugar, lemon and orange rinds, cloves, cinnamon, and brandy, ignited and allowed to flame briefly.
- calculative — the act or process of calculating; computation.
- calumniated — Simple past tense and past participle of calumniate.
- calumniates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calumniate.
- campanulate — (esp of flower corollas) shaped like a bell
- cantaloupes — Plural form of cantaloupe.
- capitulated — Simple past tense and past participle of capitulate.
- capitulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capitulate.
- carefullest — Superlative form of careful.
- cartularies — Plural form of cartulary.
- carunculate — having a caruncle.
- carvelbuilt — Alternative form of carvel-built.
- castellanus — (of a cloud) having small turrets.
- castellatus — (formerly) castellanus.
- catafalques — Plural form of catafalque.
- cataloguers — Plural form of cataloguer.
- cataloguize — to make a list of; catalogue
- catapultier — a person who fires a catapult
- caterwauled — Simple past tense and past participle of caterwaul.
- caterwauler — to utter long wailing cries, as cats in rutting time.
- cattle grub — the larva or adult of a warble fly, especially Hypoderma lineatum, a common pest of cattle in North America.
- cauliculate — having a caulicle
- causalities — the relation of cause and effect: The result is the same, however differently the causality is interpreted.
- causatively — acting as a cause; producing (often followed by of): a causative agency; an event causative of war.
- celebutante — a young woman from a wealthy background who becomes a celebrity
- cellularity — pertaining to or characterized by cellules or cells, especially minute compartments or cavities.
- centrifugal — acting, moving, or tending to move away from a centre
- chapultepec — a rocky hill in Mexico City: captured (Sept., 1847) in an American assault led by Gen. Winfield Scott in the Mexican War
- chilled out — relaxed
- circulative — Promoting circulation; circulating.
- circumflect — to emphasize with a circumflex accent
- clapped out — (of machinery or appliances) worn-out; dilapidated.
- clapped-out — If you describe a person or a machine as clapped-out, you mean that they are old and no longer able to work properly.
- cleaned out — free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress.
- clenbuterol — a drug prescribed for breathing disorders
- close quote — (used by a speaker to indicate the end of a quotation.)
- close up/to — If you look at something close up or close to, you look at it when you are very near to it.
- club-footed — a congenitally deformed or distorted foot.
- cluster cup — aecium.
- cluster fly — a dipterous fly, Pollenia rudis, that tends to gather in large numbers in attics in the autumn: family Calliphoridae. The larvae are parasitic in earthworms
- cluster leg — a leg having the form of a cluster of columns or shafts.
- coagulative — Obsolete. coagulated.
- coal cutter — a machine for undercutting a coal seam
- cobalt blue — any greenish-blue pigment containing cobalt aluminate, usually made by heating cobaltous sulphate, aluminium oxide, and phosphoric acid together
- cocultivate — to cultivate jointly
- coevolution — the evolution of complementary adaptations in two or more species of organisms because of a special relationship that exists between them, as in insect-pollinated plants and their insect pollinators
- colatitudes — Plural form of colatitude.
- cold turkey — Cold turkey is the unpleasant physical reaction that people experience when they suddenly stop taking a drug that they have become addicted to.
- cold-turkey — to withdraw from (an addictive substance or a habit) abruptly and completely.