10-letter words containing n, u
- copulation — sexual intercourse.
- coq au vin — chicken stewed with red wine, onions, etc
- coquetting — to coquet.
- cordonbleu — any of several small African finches of the genus Uraeginthus, having pale blue and buff plumage and commonly kept as cage birds.
- coriolanus — Gaius Marcius (ˈɡaɪəs ˈmɑːsɪəs). 5th century bc, a legendary Roman general, who allegedly led an army against Rome but was dissuaded from conquering it by his mother and wife
- corn flour — flour made from corn
- corn shuck — the husk of an ear of maize
- corn sugar — a dextrose made from cornstarch
- corn syrup — syrup prepared from maize
- cornaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Cornaceae, a family of temperate plants, mostly trees and shrubs, including dogwood, cornel, and spotted laurel
- cornhusker — a person or machine that strips cornhusks from ears of maize
- corniculum — a small horn or corniform part
- cornucopia — A cornucopia of things is a large number of different things.
- coroutines — Plural form of coroutine.
- corpulence — fatness or stoutness of body; obesity
- corpulency — Alternative form of corpulence.
- corrupting — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- corruption — Corruption is dishonesty and illegal behaviour by people in positions of authority or power.
- cosmonauts — Plural form of cosmonaut.
- cotton bud — A cotton bud is a small stick with a ball of cotton wool at each end, which people use, for example, for applying make-up.
- cotton gum — a tall tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) with cottony leaves, found in swamps of the SE U.S.
- coulterneb — The puffin.
- councillor — A councillor is a member of a local council.
- councilman — A councilman is a man who is a member of a local council.
- councilmen — Plural form of councilman.
- councilors — Plural form of councilor.
- counselees — Plural form of counselee.
- counseling — Counseling is advice which a therapist or other expert gives to someone about a particular problem.
- counselled — advice; opinion or instruction given in directing the judgment or conduct of another.
- counsellee — a person who is being counselled
- counseller — Archaic spelling of counsellor.
- counsellor — A counsellor is a person whose job is to give advice to people who need it, especially advice on their personal problems.
- counselors — Plural form of counselor.
- counselour — Alternative form of counselor.
- count down — to check over (the separate units or groups of a collection) one by one to determine the total number; add up; enumerate: He counted his tickets and found he had ten.
- count noun — A count noun is a noun such as 'bird', 'chair', or 'year' which has a singular and a plural form and is always used after a determiner in the singular.
- count upon — depend on, rely on
- countdowns — Plural form of countdown.
- counteract — To counteract something means to reduce its effect by doing something that produces an opposite effect.
- counterair — (military) Attacking the air force of an opposing power.
- counterbid — A counterbid is a bid that is made in response to a bid from another person or group, offering the seller more advantages.
- counterbug — (humour) A bug used as a relpy to refute another person's bug report, as in "counterargument".
- countercry — a cry responding to another cry
- countering — in the wrong way; contrary to the right course; in the reverse or opposite direction.
- counterion — an ion that has the opposite charge to that of another ion within the same solution
- counterman — a man who works on a lunch counter or behind the counter of a cafe
- countermen — Plural form of counterman.
- counterpin — bedspread.
- counterspy — a spy working against or investigating enemy espionage
- countersue — to sue (a plaintiff) in response or opposition to a preceding lawsuit