6-letter words containing s, c, u
- crocus — Crocuses are small white, yellow, or purple flowers that are grown in parks and gardens in the early spring.
- cronus — a Titan, son of Uranus (sky) and Gaea (earth), who ruled the world until his son Zeus dethroned him
- croups — Plural form of croup.
- crouse — lively, confident, or saucy
- cruces — crux
- crucis — genitive of Crux.
- crucks — Plural form of cruck.
- crudes — Plural form of crude.
- cruels — Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.
- cruets — Plural form of cruet.
- cruise — A cruise is a holiday during which you travel on a ship or boat and visit a number of places.
- cruisy — (of music) suitable to listen to when driving leisurely.
- crumbs — an expression of dismay or surprise
- crumps — Plural form of crump.
- cruses — an earthen pot, bottle, etc., for liquids.
- cruset — a goldsmith's crucible
- crusoe — Robinson, Robinson Crusoe.
- crusta — a hard outer layer, esp in anatomy or pathology
- crusts — Plural form of crust.
- crusty — Crusty bread has a hard, crisp outside.
- cruxes — Plural form of crux.
- cubebs — Plural form of cubeb.
- cubics — Plural form of cubic.
- cubism — Cubism is a style of art, begun in the early twentieth century, in which objects are represented as if they could be seen from several different positions at the same time, using many lines and geometric shapes.
- cubist — A Cubist is an artist who painted in the style of Cubism.
- cubits — Plural form of cubit, an ancient unit of measurement.
- cueist — a person skilled in cue sports; a snooker, billiards, or pool player
- cuesta — a long low ridge with a steep scarp slope and a gentle back slope, formed by the differential erosion of strata of differing hardness
- cuevas — José Luis [hoh-zey lwees;; Spanish haw-se lwees] /hoʊˈzeɪ lwis;; Spanish hɔˈsɛ lwis/ (Show IPA), born 1934, Mexican painter, graphic artist, and illustrator.
- cuisse — a piece of armour for the thigh
- cullis — a gutter in or at the eaves of a roof
- cultus — a cult, esp. a religious cult
- cuneus — a small wedge-shaped area of the cerebral cortex
- cupels — Plural form of cupel.
- cupids — Plural form of cupid.
- cuppas — Plural form of cuppa.
- curers — Plural form of curer.
- curies — Plural form of curie.
- curios — any unusual article, object of art, etc., valued as a curiosity.
- cursal — of or belonging to a set course or rotation, esp of a canon or prebendary in certain churches
- cursed — If you are cursed with something, you are very unlucky in having it.
- curser — the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc.
- curses — an expression of disappointment or dismay
- cursor — On a computer screen, the cursor is a small shape that indicates where anything that is typed by the user will appear.
- cursus — a Neolithic earthwork enclosure comprising parallel banks
- curtis — a masculine name: dim. Curt
- curtsy — If a woman or a girl curtsies, she lowers her body briefly, bending her knees and sometimes holding her skirt with both hands, as a way of showing respect for an important person.
- curves — Plural form of curve.
- cusack — Cyril (James). 1910–93, Irish actor
- cuscus — any of several large nocturnal phalangers of the genus Phalanger, of N Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands, having dense fur, prehensile tails, large eyes, and a yellow nose