8-letter words containing n, a, t, u, c
- curating — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- curation — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- currants — Plural form of currant.
- curranty — full of currants
- curtains — death or ruin; the end
- cut nail — a nail having a tapering rectangular form with a blunt point, made by cutting from a thin rolled sheet of iron or steel.
- cyanuret — cyanide
- ducatoon — a former silver coin of the Netherlands, used through the 17th and 18th centuries: equal to three gulden.
- dutchman — a native or inhabitant of the Netherlands.
- enacture — an enactment
- enchaunt — Obsolete form of enchant.
- etruscan — a member of an ancient people of central Italy whose civilization influenced the Romans, who had suppressed them by about 200 bc
- evacuant — A medicine that induces some kind of bodily discharge, such as an emetic, a sudorific, or especially a laxative.
- excubant — keeping watch; on guard
- incubate — to sit upon (eggs) for the purpose of hatching.
- lunatics — Plural form of lunatic.
- muntjacs — Plural form of muntjac.
- nautches — Plural form of nautch.
- nautical — of or relating to sailors, ships, or navigation: nautical terms.
- navy cut — tobacco finely cut from a block
- neumatic — any of various symbols representing from one to four notes, used in the musical notation of the Middle Ages but now employed solely in the notation of Gregorian chant in the liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church.
- noctuary — a journal of what happens in the night
- nocturia — a condition in which one often wakes up during the night to urinate.
- nucleate — having a nucleus.
- nugacity — triviality; insignificance.
- nut case — a deranged person; lunatic.
- nuthatch — any of numerous small, short-tailed, sharp-beaked birds of the family Sittidae that creep on trees and feed on small nuts and insects.
- nycturia — a condition in which one often wakes up during the night to urinate.
- occupant — a person, family, group, or organization that lives in, occupies, or has quarters or space in or on something: the occupant of a taxicab; the occupants of the building.
- oceanaut — aquanaut.
- osculant — united by certain common characteristics.
- outdance — to move one's feet or body, or both, rhythmically in a pattern of steps, especially to the accompaniment of music.
- outrance — the utmost extremity.
- punctate — marked with points or dots; having minute spots or depressions.
- punctual — strictly observant of an appointed or regular time; not late; prompt.
- quantico — a U.S. Marine Corps base and development and education command in NE Virginia, NE of Fredericksburg on the Potomac River.
- quantics — Plural form of quantic.
- recusant — refusing to submit, comply, etc.
- saturnic — having or affected with lead-poisoning
- sultanic — the sovereign of an Islamic country.
- taciturn — inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in conversation.
- taichung — a city in and the provincial capital of Taiwan, in the W part.
- teucrian — of or relating to the ancient Trojans.
- toucanet — any of several small South and Central American toucans, especially of the genus Aulacorhynchus.
- truchman — an interpreter
- truckman — a truckdriver.
- truncate — to shorten by cutting off a part; cut short: Truncate detailed explanations.
- tsunamic — an unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or undersea volcanic eruption.
- tunicate — Zoology. any sessile marine chordate of the subphylum Tunicata (Urochordata), having a saclike body enclosed in a thick membrane or tunic and two openings or siphons for the ingress and egress of water.
- turcoman — Turkoman.