11-letter words containing s, c, u, t
- capitulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capitulate.
- capsulation — enclosed in or formed into a capsule.
- capsulotomy — (surgery) incision into a capsule, especially into the lens of the eye when removing cataracts.
- carburetors — Plural form of carburetor.
- carefullest — Superlative form of careful.
- caricatures — a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn.
- carnaptious — ill-tempered or cantankerous
- cartularies — Plural form of cartulary.
- castellanus — (of a cloud) having small turrets.
- castellatus — (formerly) castellanus.
- casuistical — Casuistic.
- catacaustic — (of a caustic curve or surface) formed by reflected light rays
- catadromous — (of fishes such as the eel) migrating down rivers to the sea in order to breed
- catafalques — Plural form of catafalque.
- cataloguers — Plural form of cataloguer.
- cataractous — of or relating to cataracts
- catechumens — Plural form of catechumen.
- cattywampus — catawampus
- causability — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- causalities — the relation of cause and effect: The result is the same, however differently the causality is interpreted.
- causational — the action of causing or producing.
- causatively — acting as a cause; producing (often followed by of): a causative agency; an event causative of war.
- caustically — capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue.
- causticness — The state or quality of being caustic.
- census data — the data generated by an official census
- centrifuges — Plural form of centrifuge.
- ceteosaurus — a large dinosaur of the Jurassic period
- champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
- chart house — a room or deckhouse for storing and working with charts, navigational instruments, etc.
- chart music — songs that feature in the music charts
- chartaceous — of the nature of paper; papery
- chartbuster — A popular singer or group that makes a best-selling recording.
- chauvinists — zealous and aggressive patriotism or blind enthusiasm for military glory.
- cheque stub — the part of a cheque that is retained as a record of its purpose
- chin cactus — any of various globular cacti of the genus Gymnocalycium, native to South America, having white or pinkish flowers and a chinlike protrusion below each cluster of spines.
- chou pastry — cream puff paste.
- chula vista — city in SW Calif.: suburb of San Diego: pop. 174,000
- cincinnatus — Lucius Quinctius (ˈluːsɪəs ˈkwɪŋktɪəs). ?519–438 bc, Roman general and statesman, regarded as a model of simple virtue; dictator of Rome during two crises (458; 439), retiring to his farm after each one
- cineritious — See cinereous.
- circuitries — Plural form of circuitry.
- circulators — Plural form of circulator.
- circumburst — (physics, astronomy) Surrounding a burst.
- circumspect — If you are circumspect, you are cautious in what you do and say and do not take risks.
- circumvents — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumvent.
- civic trust — a charitable organization in Britain which aims to improve the quality of new and historic buildings and public spaces, and to help improve the general quality of urban life.
- cladanthous — pleurocarpous.
- close quote — (used by a speaker to indicate the end of a quotation.)
- close up/to — If you look at something close up or close to, you look at it when you are very near to it.
- clostridium — any anaerobic typically rod-shaped bacterium of the genus Clostridium, occurring mainly in soil, but also in the intestines of humans and animals: family Bacillaceae. The genus includes the species causing botulism and tetanus
- cloudbursts — Plural form of cloudburst.