8-letter words containing s, u, c
- cost-cut — to reduce the cost of: to cost-cut expenditures.
- costumal — Pertaining to costume or dress.
- costumed — Simple past tense and past participle of costume.
- costumer — A costumer is the same as a costumier.
- costumes — Plural form of costume.
- costumey — resembling a costume and therefore unrealistic
- cottabus — (in ancient Greece) a game that was popular among young men at drinking parties and which involved throwing wine into a vessel while uttering the name of a beloved
- coughers — Plural form of cougher.
- couldest — Alternative form of couldst.
- coulisse — a timber member grooved to take a sliding panel, such as a sluicegate, portcullis, or stage flat
- coulombs — Plural form of coulomb.
- councils — Plural form of council.
- counsell — Obsolete spelling of counsel.
- counsels — Plural form of counsel.
- counters — Plural form of counter.
- countess — A countess is a woman who has the same rank as a count or earl, or who is married to a count or earl.
- countest — to check over (the separate units or groups of a collection) one by one to determine the total number; add up; enumerate: He counted his tickets and found he had ten.
- counties — Plural form of county.
- couperus — Louis [loo-ee] /luˈi/ (Show IPA), 1863–1923, Dutch novelist.
- couplers — Plural form of coupler.
- couplets — Plural form of couplet.
- courages — the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc., without fear; bravery.
- couriers — Plural form of courier.
- coursers — Plural form of courser.
- coursing — Coursing is a sport in which rabbits or hares are hunted with dogs.
- courters — Plural form of courter.
- courtest — (archaic) Archaic second-person singular form of court.
- courtesy — Courtesy is politeness, respect, and consideration for others.
- courtsey — Archaic spelling of curtsey.
- couscous — Couscous is a type of food that is made from crushed steamed wheat, or a dish consisting of this food served with a spicy stew. It is traditionally eaten in North Africa.
- cousinly — like or befitting a cousin.
- cousinry — a collection of cousins
- cousteau — Jacques Yves (ʒɑk iv). 1910–97, French underwater explorer
- couvades — a practice among some peoples, as the Basques of Spain, in which a man, immediately preceding the birth of his child, takes to his bed in an enactment of the birth experience and subjects himself to various taboos usually associated with pregnancy.
- covetous — A covetous person has a strong desire to possess something, especially something that belongs to another person.
- covinous — deceitful; fraudulent; collusive
- cowhouse — a shelter for cows; a byre or cowshed
- cpu wars — /C-P-U worz/ A 1979 large-format comic by Chas Andres chronicling the attempts of the brainwashed androids of IPM (Impossible to Program Machines) to conquer and destroy the peaceful denizens of HEC (Human Engineered Computers). This rather transparent allegory featured many references to ADVENT and the immortal line "Eat flaming death, minicomputer mongrels!" (uttered, of course, by an IPM stormtrooper). It is alleged that the author subsequently received a letter of appreciation on IBM company stationery from the head of IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratories (then, as now, one of the few islands of true hackerdom in the IBM archipelago). The lower loop of the B in the IBM logo, it is said, had been carefully whited out. See eat flaming death.
- crankous — fretful; cranky
- crepitus — a crackling chest sound heard in pneumonia and other lung diseases
- crocuses — Plural form of crocus.
- cross up — to confuse or disorder
- cross-up — a structure consisting essentially of an upright and a transverse piece, used to execute persons in ancient times.
- crosscut — cut at right angles or obliquely to the major axis
- crouches — Plural form of crouch.
- croupous — (medicine) Relating to or resembling croup; especially, attended with the formation of a deposit or membrane like that found in membranous croup.
- crousely — in a crouse manner
- croutons — Plural form of crouton.
- crudites — Crudités are pieces of raw vegetable, often served before a meal.
- cruelest — willfully or knowingly causing pain or distress to others.