7-letter words containing o, u, t
- cocytus — the river of wailing, a tributary of the Acheron in Hades
- combust — (of a star or planet) invisible for a period between 24 and 30 days each year due to its proximity to the sun
- commute — If you commute, you travel a long distance every day between your home and your place of work.
- compute — To compute a quantity or number means to calculate it.
- conatus — an effort or striving of natural impulse
- conduct — When you conduct an activity or task, you organize it and carry it out.
- conduit — A conduit is a small tunnel, pipe, or channel through which water or electrical wires go.
- confute — to prove (a person or thing) wrong, invalid, or mistaken; disprove
- conkout — a situation where a car, machine, computer, etc, ceases to work
- consult — If you consult an expert or someone senior to you or consult with them, you ask them for their opinion and advice about what you should do or their permission to do something.
- contour — You can refer to the general shape or outline of an object as its contours.
- contund — to pummel or bruise (a person)
- contuse — to injure (the body) without breaking the skin; bruise
- cookout — A cookout is the same as a barbecue.
- cop out — If you say that someone is copping out, you mean they are avoiding doing something they should do.
- cop-out — an act or instance of copping out; reneging; evasion: The governor's platform was a cop-out.
- coquets — Plural form of coquet.
- coquito — a Chilean palm tree, Jubaea spectabilis, yielding edible nuts and a syrup
- cornute — having or resembling cornua; hornlike
- cornuto — a cuckold
- corrupt — Someone who is corrupt behaves in a way that is morally wrong, especially by doing dishonest or illegal things in return for money or power.
- costume — An actor's or performer's costume is the set of clothes they wear while they are performing.
- cothurn — A buskin anciently worn by tragic actors on the stage.
- cotonou — the chief port and official capital of Benin, on the Bight of Benin. Pop: 891 000 (2005 est)
- cottbus — an industrial city in E Germany, in Brandenburg on the Spree River. Pop: 107 549 (2003 est)
- couldnt — (informal, nonstandard) Alternative form of couldn't.
- couldst — can1
- coulter — a blade or sharp-edged disc attached to a plough so that it cuts through the soil vertically in advance of the ploughshare
- counted — Simple past tense and past participle of count.
- counter — In a place such as a shop or café, a counter is a long narrow table or flat surface at which customers are served.
- country — A country is one of the political units which the world is divided into, covering a particular area of land.
- couplet — A couplet is two lines of poetry which come next to each other, especially two lines that rhyme with each other and are the same length.
- courant — a courante
- courbet — Gustave (ɡystav). 1819–77, French painter, a leader of the realist movement; noted for his depiction of contemporary life
- courted — Law. a place where justice is administered. a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases. a session of a judicial assembly.
- courter — a person who courts; a suitor
- courtly — You use courtly to describe someone whose behaviour is very polite, often in a rather old-fashioned way.
- couteau — a large two-edged knife used formerly as a weapon
- couther — known or acquainted with.
- couthie — sociable; friendly; congenial
- couture — Couture is the designing and making of expensive fashionable clothes, or the clothes themselves.
- cropout — A horse that has spotted coloration but whose sire and dam were both solid-coloured.
- croquet — Croquet is a game played on grass in which the players use long wooden sticks called mallets to hit balls through metal arches.
- crouton — Croutons are small pieces of toasted or fried bread that are added to soup just before you eat it.
- cry out — If you cry out, you call out loudly because you are frightened, unhappy, or in pain.
- culotte — a pair of culottes
- cumshot — (vulgar, slang) A sex act in pornographic films in which a man ejaculates onto his partner's body.
- curator — A curator is someone who is in charge of the objects or works of art in a museum or art gallery.
- custode — a custodian
- custody — Custody is the legal right to keep and look after a child, especially the right given to a child's mother or father when they get divorced.