8-letter words containing s, u, c, e
- crusader — A crusader for a cause is someone who does a lot in support of it.
- crusades — (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- crushers — Plural form of crusher.
- crustate — having a crust or shell
- crustose — having a crustlike appearance
- crutches — Plural form of crutch.
- cu-seeme — (communications) /see`-yoo-see'-mee/ ("CU" from Cornell University) A shareware personal computer-based videoconferencing program for use over the Internet, developed at Cornell University, starting in 1992. CU-SeeMe allows for direct audiovisual connections between clients, or, like irc, it can support multi-user converencing via servers (here called "reflectors") to distribute the video and audio signals between multiple clients. CU-SeeMe was the first videoconferencing tool available at a reasonable price (in this case, free) to users of personal computers. Compare with multicast backbone.
- cubicles — A small partitioned-off area of a room, for example one containing a bed in a dwelling or one containing a desk in an office.
- cudweeds — Plural form of cudweed.
- cuffless — having no cuff or cuffs
- cuisines — Plural form of cuisine.
- culchies — Plural form of culchie.
- culdesac — Alternative spelling of cul-de-sac.
- culottes — Culottes are knee-length women's trousers that look like a skirt.
- cultures — the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
- culverts — Plural form of culvert.
- cumulose — abounding in heaps or cumuli
- cup size — a measurement of the parts of a bra that actually hold the breasts
- cupcakes — Plural form of cupcake.
- cuprates — Plural form of cuprate.
- cupreous — of, consisting of, containing, or resembling copper; coppery
- curacies — Plural form of curacy.
- curbless — with no curb or restraint
- curbside — at the curb or on the sidewalk adjacent to the street
- cureless — a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.
- curettes — Plural form of curette.
- currents — Plural form of current.
- curriers — Plural form of currier.
- cursedly — In a cursed manner; miserably.
- curseful — (archaic) horrendous, horrific.
- cursives — Plural form of cursive.
- cursored — Simple past tense and past participle of cursor.
- curtises — Benjamin Robbins, 1809–74, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1851–57; resigned in dissent over Dred Scott case.
- curtness — rudely brief in speech or abrupt in manner.
- curtsied — a respectful bow made by women and girls, consisting of bending the knees and lowering the body.
- curtsies — a respectful bow made by women and girls, consisting of bending the knees and lowering the body.
- cuscuses — Plural form of cuscus.
- cushiest — Superlative form of cushy.
- cusk-eel — any of several eellike, marine fishes of the family Ophidiidae, having the ventral fins located under the throat and so modified as to resemble barbels.
- cuspated — Ending in a point.
- cusplike — Resembling or characteristic of a cusp.
- custodes — plural of custos.
- customed — accustomed; inured
- customer — You can use customer in expressions such as a cool customer or a tough customer to indicate what someone's behaviour or character is like.
- cuteness — attractive, especially in a dainty way; pleasingly pretty: a cute child; a cute little apartment.
- cuticles — Plural form of cuticle.
- cutlines — Plural form of cutline.
- cutpurse — a thief who stole purses by cutting them from the belts to which they were attached
- cutscene — (in computer games) a scene that develops the story line and is often shown on completion of a certain level, or when the player’s character dies.
- cuttiest — cut short; short; stubby.