11-letter words containing n, u, c
- croquignole — a small crisp cake
- crowdfunded — Simple past tense and past participle of crowdfund.
- crown court — In England and Wales, a Crown Court is a court in which criminal cases are tried by a judge and jury rather than by a magistrate.
- crucifixion — Crucifixion is a way of killing people which was common in the Roman Empire, in which they were tied or nailed to a cross and left to die.
- crumbliness — The state of being crumbly.
- crunch time — the critical moment
- crunchiness — The state of being crunchy.
- crustaceans — Plural form of crustacean.
- crux ansata — the ankh, an ancient Egyptian symbol
- cryosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in cryosurgery
- cuckoopints — Plural form of cuckoopint.
- cudgellings — beatings with a cudgel
- cuff button — the button for a shirt cuff.
- culminating — final; decisive
- culmination — Something, especially something important, that is the culmination of an activity, process, or series of events happens at the end of it.
- culminative — (of stress or tone accent) serving to indicate the number of independent words or the important points in an utterance by assigning prominence to one syllable in each word or close-knit group of words.
- cultishness — the quality of being cultish
- cultivating — Present participle of cultivate.
- cultivation — the planting, tending, improving, or harvesting of crops or plants
- culverineer — a soldier bearing a culverin
- cumbernauld — a town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire, northeast of Glasgow: developed as a new town since 1956. Pop: 49 664 (2001)
- cummerbunds — Plural form of cummerbund.
- cumulonimbi — Plural form of cumulonimbus.
- cunctatious — addicted to or prone to cunctation
- cunnilingus — Cunnilingus is oral sex which involves someone using their mouth to stimulate a woman's genitals.
- cunningness — skill employed in a shrewd or sly manner, as in deceiving; craftiness; guile.
- cunobelinus — also called Cymbeline. died ?42 ad, British ruler of the Catuvellauni tribe (?10–?42); founder of Colchester (?10)
- cupellation — the process of recovering precious metals from lead by melting the alloy in a cupel and oxidizing the lead by means of an air blast
- cupronickel — any ductile corrosion-resistant copper alloy containing up to 40 per cent nickel: used in coins, condenser tubes, turbine blades, etc
- curableness — The quality or state of being curable.
- curie point — the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic
- curiousness — eager to learn or know; inquisitive.
- curmudgeons — Plural form of curmudgeon.
- currant bun — a sweet bun containing currants
- currantworm — the larva of any of several insects, as a sawfly, Nematus ribesii (imported currantworm) which infests and feeds on the leaves and fruit of currants.
- currentness — the state or quality of being current; currency.
- cursiveness — the quality of being cursive
- cursoriness — The state of being cursory.
- curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.
- curtain rod — A curtain rod is a long, narrow pole on which you hang curtains.
- curtainless — without a curtain or curtains
- curtainwall — Storm shutters or other removable protection for all windows and doors in a residence or building against the effects of high winds, rain and flying objects during a hurricane. They can be made of a variety of materials such as aluminum panels, iron or even wood.
- curvilineal — (Of a line) Having bends; curved; curvilinear.
- curvilinear — consisting of, bounded by, or characterized by a curved line
- cushion cut — a variety of brilliant cut in which the girdle has the form of a square with rounded corners.
- cushionless — without a cushion
- cuspidation — decoration using cusps
- customizing — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- cut a melon — to declare an abnormally high dividend to shareholders
- cut and run — to make a rapid escape