11-letter words containing s, u, c, e, t
- courteously — having or showing good manners; polite.
- courtesy of — without charge, as a gesture of goodwill
- courthouses — Plural form of courthouse.
- courtierism — the characteristic practices or qualities of a courtier
- courtliness — polite, refined, or elegant: courtly manners.
- covermounts — Plural form of covermount.
- crest cloud — a stationary cloud parallel to and near the top of a mountain ridge. Compare cap cloud (def 1).
- 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.
- crop duster — a pilot employed in crop-dusting from an airplane.
- crude steel — unrefined steel
- crustaceans — Plural form of crustacean.
- crustaceous — forming, resembling, or possessing a surrounding crust or shell
- cultishness — the quality of being cultish
- cultureless — Devoid of culture.
- curiosities — Plural form of curiosity.
- currentness — the state or quality of being current; currency.
- curtainless — without a curtain or curtains
- custard pie — Custard pies are artificial pies which people sometimes throw at each other as a joke.
- custard-pie — characteristic of a type of slapstick comedy in which a performer throws a pie in another's face: popular especially in the era of vaudeville and early silent films.
- custom-made — If something is custom-made, it is made according to someone's special requirements.
- custom-make — to make according to the specifications of an individual buyer
- customaries — Plural form of customary.
- customhouse — a building or office where customs or duties are paid and ships are cleared for entering or leaving
- cut corners — to do something in the easiest and shortest way, esp at the expense of high standards
- cut sb dead — If you see someone you know and cut them dead, you ignore them.
- cutaneously — In a cutaneous way.
- cuts no ice — If you say that something cuts no ice with you, you mean that you are not impressed or influenced by it.
- cuttlebones — Plural form of cuttlebone.
- cysticercus — an encysted larval form of many tapeworms, consisting of a head (scolex) inverted in a fluid-filled bladder
- cystogenous — forming or secreting cysts
- daisycutter — Alternative form of daisy cutter.
- decapsulate — to remove a capsule from (a part or organ, esp the kidney)
- declivitous — fairly steep
- deconstruct — In philosophy and literary criticism, to deconstruct an idea or text means to show the contradictions in its meaning, and to show how it does not fully explain what it claims to explain.
- decussating — Present participle of decussate.
- decussation — a decussating or being decussated
- deductibles — Plural form of deductible.
- defunctness — The state or quality of being defunct.
- denunciates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denunciate.
- destructing — serving or designed to destroy: a destruct mechanism on a missile.
- destruction — Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
- destructive — Something that is destructive causes or is capable of causing great damage, harm, or injury.
- destructors — Plural form of destructor.
- destructure — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
- detumescent — characterized by detumescence
- deutschland — Germany
- deutschmark — the former standard monetary unit of Germany, divided into 100 pfennigs; replaced by the euro in 2002: until 1990 the standard monetary unit of West Germany
- discontinue — to put an end to; stop; terminate: to discontinue nuclear testing.
- discotheque — a nightclub for dancing to live or recorded music and often featuring sophisticated sound systems, elaborate lighting, and other effects.
- discounters — Plural form of discounter.