10-letter words containing o, e, u
- bush house — a shed or hut in the bush or a garden
- bute house — a house in Charlotte Square, Edinburgh: official residence of the First Minister of Scotland
- butterwort — a plant of the genus Pinguicula, esp P. vulgaris, that grows in wet places and has violet-blue spurred flowers and fleshy greasy glandular leaves on which insects are trapped and digested: family Lentibulariaceae
- button ear — a dog's ear that folds forward completely.
- buttonhole — A buttonhole is a hole that you push a button through in order to fasten a shirt, coat, or other piece of clothing.
- buttonless — having no button or buttons.
- buy-to-let — of or relating to the practice of buying a property to let to tenants rather than to live in onself
- byssaceous — consisting of fine threads
- cable buoy — a buoy marking or supporting part of a submerged cable.
- cactaceous — belonging to the Cactaceae, the cactus family of plants.
- cadaverous — If you describe someone as cadaverous, you mean they are extremely thin and pale.
- cafetorium — a room, usually in a school or other educational institution, which serves both as a cafeteria and an auditorium
- cake flour — finely ground wheat flour.
- calcaneous — Misspelling of calcaneus.
- calcareous — of, containing, or resembling calcium carbonate; chalky
- call house — a house or apartment used by prostitutes for arranging or keeping assignations.
- camouflage — Camouflage consists of things such as leaves, branches, or brown and green paint, which are used to make it difficult for an enemy to see military forces and equipment.
- camoufleur — a person who camouflages military equipment
- cancel out — If one thing cancels out another thing, the two things have opposite effects, so that when they are combined no real effect is produced.
- cancellous — having a porous or spongelike structure
- cantaloupe — A cantaloupe is a type of melon.
- canteloube — (Marie) Joseph (French ʒozɛf). 1879–1957, French composer, best known for his Chants d'Auvergne (1923–30)
- caquetoire — cacqueteuse.
- carburetor — A carburetor is the part of an engine, usually in a car, in which air and gasoline are mixed together to form a vapor which can be burned.
- cartouches — Plural form of cartouche.
- catalogued — a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.
- cataloguer — One who catalogues.
- catalogues — Plural form of catalogue.
- cautioners — Plural form of cautioner.
- cefuroxime — (pharmaceutical drug) A second-generation cephalosporin antibiotic.
- celebrious — (obsolete) famous.
- celeritous — (rare) Swift, speedy, fast.
- cellulosic — of or made from cellulose
- censorious — If you describe someone as censorious, you do not like the way they strongly disapprove of and criticize someone else's behaviour.
- centurions — Plural form of centurion.
- ceratosaur — a carnivorous, swift-running North American theropod dinosaur of the genus Ceratosaurus and closely related genera, of the Jurassic Period, having a large skull with a short horn between the nostrils and a bony knob in front of each eye, and reaching a length of 20 feet (6.1 meter).
- ceriferous — producing or bearing wax
- ceruminous — earwax.
- charthouse — the compartment on a ship or boat where charts are kept
- cheekpouch — (in animals such as the chipmunk) a dilatation of the cheek forming a bag
- chequebook — a book containing detachable blank cheques and issued by a bank or building society to holders of cheque accounts
- cherubicon — the hymn sung during the Great Entrance by the choir, which represents the cherubim.
- chirurgeon — surgeon
- choke-full — chock-full.
- cholagogue — a drug or other substance that promotes the flow of bile from the gall bladder into the duodenum
- chondrules — Plural form of chondrule.
- chop-house — a restaurant specializing in chop, steaks, and the like.
- chophouses — Plural form of chophouse.
- chopped-up — cut into pieces
- choreutics — a system that analyzes form in movement, developed by Rudolf von Laban (1879–1958), Hungarian choreographer and dance theorist.