8-letter words containing o, u
- 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
- cumbrous — cumbersome
- cumulose — abounding in heaps or cumuli
- cumulous — resembling or consisting of cumulus clouds
- cuniform — Alternative spelling of cuneiform.
- cunjevoi — an aroid plant, Alocasia macrorrhiza, of tropical Asia and Australia, cultivated for its edible rhizome
- cupboard — A cupboard is a piece of furniture that has one or two doors, usually contains shelves, and is used to store things. In British English, cupboard refers to all kinds of furniture like this. In American English, closet is usually used instead to refer to larger pieces of furniture.
- cupolaed — having a cupola
- cupreous — of, consisting of, containing, or resembling copper; coppery
- curassow — any gallinaceous ground-nesting bird of the family Cracidae, of S North, Central, and South America. Curassows have long legs and tails and, typically, a distinctive crest of curled feathers
- curation — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- curators — Plural form of curator.
- curatory — the office of a curator
- curculio — any of various American weevils, esp Conotrachelus nenuphar (plum curculio), a pest of fruit trees
- cursitor — (in the Court of Chancery) a clerk or officer
- cursored — Simple past tense and past participle of cursor.
- cushions — Plural form of cushion.
- cushiony — soft and comfortable like a cushion.
- cuspidor — spittoon
- cussword — a swearword
- custodes — plural of custos.
- custodia — (rare) pyx (container for the host).
- 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.
- cut down — If you cut down on something or cut down something, you use or do less of it.
- cut drop — a drop scene cut to reveal part of the upstage area.
- cut-offs — Cut-offs are short pants made by cutting part of the legs off old pants.
- cutworms — Plural form of cutworm.
- cyaneous — deep blue; cerulean.
- cynosure — a person or thing that attracts notice, esp because of its brilliance or beauty
- dan buoy — a small buoy used as a marker at sea
- dartrous — of or pertaining to dartre
- 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.