8-letter words containing o, e, u
- courtney — a feminine and masculine name
- courtsey — Archaic spelling of curtsey.
- cousteau — Jacques Yves (ʒɑk iv). 1910–97, French underwater explorer
- couvades — a practice among some peoples, as the Basques of Spain, in which a man, immediately preceding the birth of his child, takes to his bed in an enactment of the birth experience and subjects himself to various taboos usually associated with pregnancy.
- cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
- cover-up — any action, stratagem, or other means of concealing or preventing investigation or exposure.
- covetous — A covetous person has a strong desire to possess something, especially something that belongs to another person.
- cowhouse — a shelter for cows; a byre or cowshed
- crocuses — Plural form of crocus.
- crouched — to stoop or bend low.
- croucher — Agent noun of crouch: one who crouches.
- crouches — Plural form of crouch.
- croupade — a type of horse leap in which the hind legs are drawn towards the belly
- croupier — A croupier is the person in charge of a gambling table in a casino, who collects the bets and pays money to the people who have won.
- crousely — in a crouse manner
- crustose — having a crustlike appearance
- cruzeiro — a former monetary unit of Brazil, replaced by the cruzeiro real
- cuckooed — Simple past tense and past participle of cuckoo.
- culloden — a moor near Inverness in N Scotland: site of a battle in 1746 in which government troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeated the Jacobites under Prince Charles Edward Stuart
- culottes — Culottes are knee-length women's trousers that look like a skirt.
- cumarone — a colourless insoluble aromatic liquid obtained from coal tar and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins. Formula: C 8H 6O
- cumulose — abounding in heaps or cumuli
- cunjevoi — an aroid plant, Alocasia macrorrhiza, of tropical Asia and Australia, cultivated for its edible rhizome
- cupolaed — having a cupola
- cupreous — of, consisting of, containing, or resembling copper; coppery
- cursored — Simple past tense and past participle of cursor.
- custodes — plural of custos.
- customed — accustomed; inured
- customer — You can use customer in expressions such as a cool customer or a tough customer to indicate what someone's behaviour or character is like.
- cyaneous — deep blue; cerulean.
- cynosure — a person or thing that attracts notice, esp because of its brilliance or beauty
- deal out — If someone deals out a punishment or harmful action, they punish or harm someone.
- debouche — an outlet, as for troops to debouch through
- debounce — To remove the small ripple of current that forms when a mechanical switch is pushed in an electrical circuit and makes a series of short contacts.
- deck out — If a person or thing is decked out with or in something, they are decorated with it or wearing it, usually for a special occasion.
- decolour — to deprive of colour, as by bleaching
- decorous — Decorous behaviour is very respectable, calm, and polite.
- decorums — Plural form of decorum.
- decouple — If two countries, organizations, or ideas that were connected in some way are decoupled, the connection between them is ended.
- decurion — a local councillor
- deductor — One who deducts tax.
- defusion — separation of the life instinct from the death instinct, a process often accompanying maturity.
- deloused — Simple past tense and past participle of delouse.
- delouser — a substance or device which removes lice from something
- delouses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of delouse.
- delusion — A delusion is a false idea.
- delusory — tending to delude; misleading; deceptive: a delusive reply.
- denounce — If you denounce a person or an action, you criticize them severely and publicly because you feel strongly that they are wrong or evil.
- desirous — If you are desirous of doing something or desirous of something, you want to do it very much or want it very much.
- detoured — Simple past tense and past participle of detour.