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10-letter words containing s, u, c, i

  • autonomics — the study of self-regulating systems for process control
  • autoscopic — of or relating to an out-of-body experience
  • avaricious — An avaricious person is very greedy for money or possessions.
  • ayurvedics — a therapeutic system based on the Ayurveda
  • back issue — A back issue of a magazine or newspaper is one that was published some time ago and is not the most recent.
  • bardacious — bodacious.
  • benedictus — a short canticle beginning Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini in Latin and Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord in English
  • berlusconi — Silvio (ˈsilvjo). born 1936, Italian politician and media tycoon: prime minister of Italy (1994–95, 2001–06, 2008–11); convicted of tax fraud and expelled from the Italian Senate in 2013
  • bi-curious — considering experimenting with bisexuality
  • bicapsular — (of plants) having two capsules or one capsule with two chambers
  • bile ducts — a large duct that transports bile from the liver to the duodenum, having in humans and many other vertebrates a side branch to a gallbladder for bile storage.
  • binoculars — Binoculars consist of two small telescopes joined together side by side, which you look through in order to look at things that are a long way away.
  • blue dicks — a plant, Dichelostemma pulchellum, of the amaryllis family, common on the western coast of the U.S., having headlike clusters of blue flowers.
  • buchmanism — the principles or the international movement of Moral Re-Armament or of the Oxford Group, or belief in or adherence to them.
  • bucky bits — /buh'kee bits/ 1. Obsolete. The bits produced by the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard (octal 200 and 400 respectively), resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set. The MIT AI TV (Knight) keyboards extended this with TOP and separate left and right CONTROL and META keys, resulting in a 12-bit character set; later, LISP Machines added such keys as SUPER, HYPER, and GREEK (see space-cadet keyboard). 2. By extension, bits associated with "extra" shift keys on any keyboard, e.g. the ALT on an IBM PC or command and option keys on a Macintosh. It has long been rumored that "bucky bits" were named after Buckminster Fuller during a period when he was consulting at Stanford. Actually, bucky bits were invented by Niklaus Wirth when *he* was at Stanford in 1964--65; he first suggested the idea of an EDIT key to set the 8th bit of an otherwise 7 bit ASCII character. It seems that, unknown to Wirth, certain Stanford hackers had privately nicknamed him "Bucky" after a prominent portion of his dental anatomy, and this nickname transferred to the bit. Bucky-bit commands were used in a number of editors written at Stanford, including most notably TV-EDIT and NLS. The term spread to MIT and CMU early and is now in general use. Ironically, Wirth himself remained unaware of its derivation for nearly 30 years, until GLS dug up this history in early 1993! See double bucky, quadruple bucky.
  • buff stick — a small stick covered with leather or the like, used in polishing.
  • bumsucking — obsequious behaviour; toadying
  • c terminus — the carboxyl end of a protein molecule.
  • cacuminous — (of a tree) having a pointed or a pyramidal top
  • calamitous — If you describe an event or situation as calamitous, you mean it is very unfortunate or serious.
  • calcifuges — Plural form of calcifuge.
  • caliginous — dark; dim
  • calixtus i — Saint, a.d. c160–222, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 218–222.
  • calumnious — of or using calumny
  • campuswide — Throughout a campus.
  • candaulism — A practice or in which a man exposes his female partner, or images of her, to other people for their pleasure.
  • capacitous — Having the legal capacity to do something.
  • capillatus — (of a cumulonimbus cloud) having a cirriform upper portion that resembles an anvil or a disorderly mass of hair.
  • capricious — Someone who is capricious often changes their mind unexpectedly.
  • capsorubin — (organic compound) A di-hydroxy, keto carotenoid, which, together with capsanthin, constitutes the red pigment of paprika.
  • capsulised — Simple past tense and past participle of capsulise.
  • capsulized — Simple past tense and past participle of capsulize.
  • capsulizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capsulize.
  • captiously — In a captious manner.
  • carmustine — a toxic nitrosurea, C 5 H 9 Cl 2 N 3 O 2 , used in the treatment of a wide range of tumors.
  • carthusian — a member of an austere monastic order founded by Saint Bruno in 1084 near Grenoble, France
  • cash audit — an audit confined to cash transactions for a prescribed period, for the purpose of determining the amount of cash on hand or on deposit in a bank.
  • casualties — Military. a member of the armed forces lost to service through death, wounds, sickness, capture, or because his or her whereabouts or condition cannot be determined. casualties, loss in numerical strength through any cause, as death, wounds, sickness, capture, or desertion.
  • casuarinas — Plural form of casuarina.
  • catholicus — catholicos.
  • caucussing — the act of holding a private, often secret meeting of members of a political party prior to an election or general party meeting
  • causations — Plural form of causation.
  • causatives — Plural form of causative.
  • cause list — a list of cases awaiting a hearing
  • causticity — capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue.
  • cauterised — Simple past tense and past participle of cauterise.
  • cauterizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cauterize.
  • cautioners — Plural form of cautioner.
  • cautiously — showing, using, or characterized by caution: a cautious man; To be cautious is often to show wisdom.
  • celebrious — (obsolete) famous.
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