10-letter words containing o, u, n
- cancellous — having a porous or spongelike structure
- cannot but — You use cannot but, could not but, and cannot help but when you want to emphasize that you believe something must be true and that there is no possibility of anything else being the case.
- canonsburg — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- canorously — In a canorous manner.
- 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)
- cappuccino — Cappuccino is coffee which is made using milk and has froth and sometimes powdered chocolate on top.
- capsorubin — (organic compound) A di-hydroxy, keto carotenoid, which, together with capsanthin, constitutes the red pigment of paprika.
- cash bonus — an extra amount of money given to someone for doing something good, over and above the amount that is normally paid for that achievement
- cat around — to search promiscuously for sexual partners; be promiscuous
- catamounts — Plural form of catamount.
- causations — Plural form of causation.
- cautionary — A cautionary story or a cautionary note to a story is one that is intended to give a warning to people.
- cautioners — Plural form of cautioner.
- cautioning — Present participle of caution.
- cavaquinho — A small, four-stringed guitar resembling a ukulele, popular in Brazil and Portugal.
- 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.
- ceruminous — earwax.
- chairbound — unable to walk; dependent on a wheelchair for mobility
- charmonium — an elementary particle that contains an antiquark and a charm quark
- cherubicon — the hymn sung during the Great Entrance by the choir, which represents the cherubim.
- chirurgeon — surgeon
- chirurgion — Alternative form of chirurgeon; archaic spelling of surgeon.
- chiungchou — Qiongzhou.
- chondrules — Plural form of chondrule.
- chow hound — a person who eats food in large quantities or with great gusto; glutton.
- chrononaut — (science fiction, dated) A time-traveller.
- chuckwagon — A wagon equipped with food and cooking utensils, as on a ranch or in a lumber camp.
- chunderous — nauseating
- cienfuegos — a port in S Cuba, on Cienfuegos Bay. Pop: 147 000 (2005 est)
- ciguatoxin — a toxin found in seafood
- cinquefoil — any plant of the N temperate rosaceous genus Potentilla, typically having five-lobed compound leaves
- circuition — (archaic) The act of going round; a circuit, an encircling.
- clamouring — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clangorous — a loud, resonant sound; clang.
- clioquinol — An antifungal and antiprotozoal hydroxyquinoline drug, neurotoxic in large doses.
- clothbound — (of a book) bound in stiff boards covered in cloth
- cloud nine — a condition of great joy or bliss; euphoric state
- cloudiness — full of or overcast by clouds: a cloudy sky.
- co-founder — a person who founds or establishes something with another.
- co-routine — a section of a computer program similar to but differing from a subroutine in that it can be left and re-entered at any point
- co-venture — a business project or enterprise undertaken jointly by two or more companies, each sharing in the capitalization and in any profits or losses.
- coadjutant — cooperating
- coadjuvant — Cooperating.
- coagulants — Plural form of coagulant.
- coatimundi — The ring-tailed coati, Nasua nasua, a south American carnivore.
- coccineous — bright red
- coenosteum — the calcareous skeleton of a hydrocoral or a coral colony
- coetaneous — of the same age or period