7-letter words containing p, u, c
- copihue — an evergreen climber, Lapageria rosea, that is found in southern Chile and has red flowers and edible fruit
- copious — A copious amount of something is a large amount of it.
- copulae — Plural form of copula.
- copular — (grammar) Being or relating to a copula.
- copulas — Plural form of copula.
- 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.
- cosy up — to seek to become intimate or to ingratiate oneself (with someone)
- coupage — The blending (or 'cutting') of wine.
- coupled — being one of the partners in a permanent sexual relationship
- coupler — a link or rod transmitting power between two rotating mechanisms or a rotating part and a reciprocating part
- couples — Combine.
- 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.
- coupons — Plural form of coupon.
- coupure — a trench or palisade made by a besieged force behind a breach in their defences
- coverup — an attempt to keep blunders, crimes, etc. from being disclosed
- cozy up — snugly warm and comfortable: a cozy little house.
- crackup — a cracking up
- crap up — Vulgar. excrement. an act of defecation.
- crapaud — a frog or toad
- crapula — Sickness or indisposition caused by excessive eating or drinking.
- crop up — If something crops up, it appears or happens, usually unexpectedly.
- cropful — the quantity that can be held in a bird's crop
- cropout — A horse that has spotted coloration but whose sire and dam were both solid-coloured.
- croupon — a type of high quality leather obtained from the rear section of the hide
- crumped — Simple past tense and past participle of crump.
- crumpet — Crumpets are round, flat pieces of a substance like bread or batter with small holes in them. You toast them and eat them with butter.
- crumple — If you crumple something such as paper or cloth, or if it crumples, it is squashed and becomes full of untidy creases and folds.
- crumply — easily crumpled
- crupper — a strap from the back of a saddle that passes under the horse's tail to prevent the saddle from slipping forwards
- cudlipp — Hugh, Baron. 1913–98, British newspaper editor, a pioneer of tabloid journalism: editorial director of the Daily Mirror (1952–63)
- culprit — When you are talking about a crime or something wrong that has been done, you can refer to the person who did it as the culprit.
- cup tie — In sports, especially football, a cup tie is a match between two teams who are taking part in a competition in which the prize is a cup.
- cupcake — Cupcakes are small iced cakes for one person.
- cupfuls — Plural form of cupful.
- cupgall — a cup-shaped gall found on oak leaves
- cuphead — a hemispherical bolt-head
- cupless — Without a cup.
- cuplike — Resembling a cup.
- cupolar — relating to or resembling a cupola
- cupolas — Plural form of cupola.
- cupping — the process of applying a cupping glass to the skin
- cuprate — (inorganic chemistry) Any of several non-stoichiometric compounds, of general formula XYCumOn, many of which are superconductors.
- cuprite — a red secondary mineral consisting of cuprous oxide in cubic crystalline form: a source of copper. Formula: Cu2O
- cuprous — of or containing copper in the monovalent state
- cupsful — Plural form of cupful.
- cupular — shaped like a cupule.
- cupulas — Plural form of cupula.
- cupules — Plural form of cupule.
- curl up — to adopt a reclining position with the legs close to the body and the back rounded
- cuspate — having a cusp or cusps