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11-letter words containing t, e, u

  • ceteosaurus — a large dinosaur of the Jurassic period
  • champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
  • chapultepec — a rocky hill in Mexico City: captured (Sept., 1847) in an American assault led by Gen. Winfield Scott in the Mexican War
  • charcuterie — cooked cold meats
  • chart house — a room or deckhouse for storing and working with charts, navigational instruments, etc.
  • chartaceous — of the nature of paper; papery
  • chartbuster — A popular singer or group that makes a best-selling recording.
  • chateauguay — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, on the St. Lawrence.
  • chateauroux — a town in central France: 10th-century castle (Château-Raoul). Pop: 46 386 (2009)
  • cheque stub — the part of a cheque that is retained as a record of its purpose
  • chicken out — If someone chickens out of something they were intending to do, they decide not to do it because they are afraid.
  • chilled out — relaxed
  • choukoutien — Wade-Giles. Zhoukoudian.
  • chucker-out — a person employed at a club, pub, disco, etc, to throw out drunks or troublemakers and stop those considered undesirable from entering
  • chug report — (humour)   From "chug" - to drink heavily. A bug report whose the submitter is thought to have had one too many. Not as bad as a drug report.
  • church rate — (formerly in England and Ireland) a compulsory assessment imposed on the parishioners' holdings of houses or land in order to repair the parish church and maintain its services.
  • church text — a heavy typeface in Gothic style
  • cineritious — See cinereous.
  • cinquecento — the 16th century, esp in reference to Italian art, architecture, or literature
  • circuitries — Plural form of circuitry.
  • circulative — Promoting circulation; circulating.
  • circumflect — to emphasize with a circumflex accent
  • circumspect — If you are circumspect, you are cautious in what you do and say and do not take risks.
  • circumvents — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumvent.
  • clapped out — (of machinery or appliances) worn-out; dilapidated.
  • clapped-out — If you describe a person or a machine as clapped-out, you mean that they are old and no longer able to work properly.
  • cleaned out — free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress.
  • clenbuterol — a drug prescribed for breathing disorders
  • close quote — (used by a speaker to indicate the end of a quotation.)
  • close up/to — If you look at something close up or close to, you look at it when you are very near to it.
  • club-footed — a congenitally deformed or distorted foot.
  • cluster cup — aecium.
  • cluster fly — a dipterous fly, Pollenia rudis, that tends to gather in large numbers in attics in the autumn: family Calliphoridae. The larvae are parasitic in earthworms
  • cluster leg — a leg having the form of a cluster of columns or shafts.
  • coadventure — adventure in which two or more share.
  • coagulative — Obsolete. coagulated.
  • coal cutter — a machine for undercutting a coal seam
  • cobalt blue — any greenish-blue pigment containing cobalt aluminate, usually made by heating cobaltous sulphate, aluminium oxide, and phosphoric acid together
  • coconut ice — a sweetmeat made from desiccated coconut and sugar
  • cocultivate — to cultivate jointly
  • coeducation — instruction in schools, colleges, etc, attended by both sexes
  • coevolution — the evolution of complementary adaptations in two or more species of organisms because of a special relationship that exists between them, as in insect-pollinated plants and their insect pollinators
  • coexecutrix — a joint executrix.
  • coextrusion — simultaneous extrusion of two or more different yet compatible metals or plastics through the same die.
  • colatitudes — Plural form of colatitude.
  • cold turkey — Cold turkey is the unpleasant physical reaction that people experience when they suddenly stop taking a drug that they have become addicted to.
  • cold-turkey — to withdraw from (an addictive substance or a habit) abruptly and completely.
  • colporteurs — Plural form of colporteur.
  • columniated — having columns or arranged in columns
  • combustible — A combustible material or gas catches fire and burns easily.
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