8-letter words containing o, u
- consular — Consular means involving or relating to a consul or the work of a consul.
- consulta — an official meeting or consultation
- consults — Plural form of consult.
- consumed — If you are consumed with a feeling or idea, it affects you very strongly indeed.
- consumer — A consumer is a person who buys things or uses services.
- consumes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of consume.
- consumpt — expenditure on goods and services for personal use
- continua — a continuous extent, series, or whole.
- continue — If someone or something continues to do something, they keep doing it and do not stop.
- continuo — a shortened form of basso continuo
- contours — the shape or surface, esp of a curving form
- controul — Archaic spelling of control.
- contused — Simple past tense and past participle of contuse.
- contuses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contuse.
- conurban — of or relating to a conurbation
- conurbia — conurbations considered collectively
- convulse — If someone convulses or if they are convulsed by or with something, their body moves suddenly in an uncontrolled way.
- cookouts — Plural form of cookout.
- cool guy — man: likeable
- cool out — to relax and cool down
- cool-out — moderately cold; neither warm nor cold: a rather cool evening.
- copiague — a town on SW Long Island, in SE New York.
- copulate — If one animal or person copulates with another, they have sex. You can also say that two animals or people copulate.
- copurify — (of a compound) to purify, and be purified by, another compound
- coquelin — Beˈnoit Consˈtant (bəˈnwa kɔ̃̃ˈstɑ̃) ; bənwȧˈ kōnstänˈ) 1841-1909; Fr. actor
- coquetry — flirtation
- coquette — A coquette is a woman who behaves in a coquettish way.
- coquilla — a coquilla nut
- coquille — any dish, esp seafood, served in a scallop shell
- coquinas — Plural form of coquina.
- corallum — the skeleton of any zoophyte, esp that of a coral colony
- corduroy — Corduroy is thick cotton cloth with parallel raised lines on the outside.
- coremium — the spore-producing organ of certain fungi that consists of conidiophores
- corneous — horny; hornlike
- cornhusk — the outer protective covering of an ear of maize; the chaff
- cornuate — (medicine) Being or pertaining to a hornlike structure, as with a bicornuate uterus.
- cornuted — having horns
- coromuel — a cooling westerly breeze that flows in from the Pacific over the La Paz region of the southern Baja California peninsula of Mexico.
- coronium — a hypothetical element whose existence was proposed in the 19th century to explain a green line seen in the solar coronal spectrum; this is now known to be highly-ionized iron and nickel
- corrupts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corrupt.
- corundum — a white, grey, blue, green, red, yellow, or brown mineral, found in metamorphosed shales and limestones, in veins, and in some igneous rocks. It is used as an abrasive and as gemstone; the red variety is ruby, the blue is sapphire. Composition: aluminium oxide. Formula: Al2O3. Crystal structure: hexagonal (rhombohedral)
- cost-cut — to reduce the cost of: to cost-cut expenditures.
- costumal — Pertaining to costume or dress.
- costumed — Simple past tense and past participle of costume.
- costumer — A costumer is the same as a costumier.
- costumes — Plural form of costume.
- costumey — resembling a costume and therefore unrealistic
- cothurni — a grave and elevated style of acting; tragic acting; tragedy.
- cotquean — a coarse woman
- cottabus — (in ancient Greece) a game that was popular among young men at drinking parties and which involved throwing wine into a vessel while uttering the name of a beloved