11-letter words containing s, c, u
- covarrubias — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), 1904–57, Mexican caricaturist, illustrator, and painter.
- covermounts — Plural form of covermount.
- cowpunchers — Plural form of cowpuncher.
- crab cactus — Christmas cactus
- crack house — a house or flat where drugs are dealt and used
- cram course — an intensive course of study designed to review or teach material needed for a specific purpose or, often, material previously taught but not mastered.
- craniopagus — the condition of Siamese twins joined at the head
- crapulosity — the quality of being crapulous or crapulent
- crapulously — In a crapulous manner.
- crash truck — an emergency vehicle based at an airport.
- crazy house — an asylum for people with psychiatric disorders
- cream sauce — a white sauce made from cream, butter, etc
- credulously — In a credulous manner; believably.
- creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
- crepuscular — Crepuscular means relating to twilight.
- crepusculum — Crepuscule; twilight; dusk.
- crest cloud — a stationary cloud parallel to and near the top of a mountain ridge. Compare cap cloud (def 1).
- crime squad — (in Britain) a division of the police which identifies and prevents major crimes, esp those crossing regional or national boundaries
- crimebuster — (chiefly, US, informal) A person, especially a law enforcement officer, who is particularly effective in thwarting criminal activity and in bringing criminals to justice.
- crinigerous — having hair; hairy
- crocus sack — a burlap bag.
- crop duster — a pilot employed in crop-dusting from an airplane.
- cropdusting — the spreading of fungicide, etc on crops in the form of dust, often from an aircraft
- cross vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- cross-court — played across the court
- crossruffed — Simple past tense and past participle of crossruff.
- crowdsource — to outsource work to an unspecified group of people, typically by making an appeal to the general public on the internet
- cruciferous — of, relating to, or belonging to the plant family Cruciferae
- crude steel — unrefined steel
- cruise ship — A cruise ship is a large ship which takes people from place to place on a cruise holiday, and on which entertainment, food, and drink are provided.
- crumbliness — The state of being crumbly.
- crunchiness — The state of being crunchy.
- crushworthy — (usually, of a, person) Suitable for a crush (infatuation): attractive.
- crustaceans — Plural form of crustacean.
- crustaceous — forming, resembling, or possessing a surrounding crust or shell
- crux ansata — the ankh, an ancient Egyptian symbol
- cryosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in cryosurgery
- cryosurgery — surgery involving the local destruction of tissues by quick freezing for therapeutic benefit
- cuckoo spit — a white frothy mass on the stems and leaves of many plants, produced by froghopper larvae (cuckoo spit insects), which feed on the plant juices
- cuckoo wasp — any of several small, metallic-green or -blue wasps of the family Chrysididae that deposit their eggs in nests of other wasps.
- cuckoo-spit — Also called frog spit. a frothy secretion found on plants, exuded by the young of certain insects, as the froghoppers, and serving as a protective covering.
- cuckoopints — Plural form of cuckoopint.
- cudgellings — beatings with a cudgel
- cued speech — a method of communication in which a speaker uses a system of manual cues to aid a lipreader by clarifying potentially ambiguous mouth movements with hand gestures.
- cuirassiers — Plural form of cuirassier.
- culdoscopes — Plural form of culdoscope.
- culmicolous — (of a fungus) growing on grass culms.
- culmiferous — (of grasses) having a hollow jointed stem
- cultishness — the quality of being cultish
- cultivators — Plural form of cultivator.