8-letter words containing t, o, u, c
- factotum — a person, as a handyman or servant, employed to do all kinds of work around the house.
- fictious — (obsolete) Fictitious.
- foucault — Jean Bernard Léon [zhahn ber-nar ley-awn] /ʒɑ̃ bɛrˈnar leɪˈɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1819–68, French physicist.
- foucquet — Jean or Jehan [both French zhahn] /both French ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), c1420–c80, French painter.
- fructose — Chemistry, Pharmacology. a yellowish to white, crystalline, water-soluble, levorotatory ketose sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , sweeter than sucrose, occurring in invert sugar, honey, and a great many fruits: used in foodstuffs and in medicine chiefly in solution as an intravenous nutrient.
- function — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- functors — Plural form of functor.
- fur coat — overcoat covered with animal fur
- futtocks — Plural form of futtock.
- go dutch — of, relating to, or characteristic of the natives or inhabitants of the Netherlands or their country or language.
- goncourt — Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de [ed-mawn lwee ahn-twan y-oh duh] /ɛdˈmɔ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈtwan üˈoʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1822–96, and his brother Jules Alfred Huot de [zhyl al-fred] /ʒyl alˈfrɛd/ (Show IPA) 1830–70, French art critics, novelists, and historians: collaborators until the death of Jules.
- gonoduct — a duct leading from a gonad to the exterior, through which gametes pass
- gunstock — the stock or support in which the barrel of a shoulder weapon is fixed.
- hochhuth — Rolf (rɔlf). born 1931, German dramatist. His best-known works are the controversial documentary drama The Representative (1963), on the papacy's attitude to the Jews in World War II, Soldiers (1967), German Love Story (1980), and Wessis in Weimar (1992)
- housecat — a domesticated cat kept as a pet.
- in touch — If you get in touch with someone, you contact them by writing to them or telephoning them. If you are, keep, or stay in touch with them, you write, phone, or visit each other regularly.
- inductor — Also called inductance. Electricity. a coil used to introduce inductance into an electric circuit.
- junction — an act of joining; combining.
- kick out — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- kick-out — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- knockout — Informal. a person or thing overwhelmingly attractive, appealing, or successful.
- lacteous — milky; of the color of milk.
- lawcourt — a court of law
- leukotic — any of several diseases occurring chiefly in chickens, involving proliferation of the leukocytes and characterized by paralysis, blindness, formation of tumors in the internal organs, and bone calcification.
- linocuts — Plural form of linocut.
- lock nut — a nut specially constructed to prevent its coming loose, usually having a means of providing extra friction between itself and the screw.
- lock out — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- locknuts — Plural form of locknut.
- lockouts — Plural form of lockout.
- loculate — having one or more locules.
- locustal — of or relating to locusts
- locution — a particular form of expression; a word, phrase, expression, or idiom, especially as used by a particular person, group, etc.
- locutory — locutorium.
- luck out — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- micronut — (climbing) A small nut (piece of metal jammed into the rockface to protect a climb).
- miscount — an erroneous counting; miscalculation.
- mistouch — To touch inappropriately, wrongly or by mistake.
- muck out — clear out: animal's living quarters
- mucosity — The state of being mucous.
- muticous — Botany. having no pointed process or awn; awnless.
- neurotic — pertaining to the nerves or to nerve disease; neural: no longer in technical use.
- noctuary — a journal of what happens in the night
- noctuids — Plural form of noctuid.
- noctules — Plural form of noctule.
- noctuoid — a member of the family of moths Noctuidae
- nocturia — a condition in which one often wakes up during the night to urinate.
- nocturne — a piece appropriate to the night or evening.
- nocturns — Plural form of nocturn.
- noncount — (of a noun) not countable.
- not much — very little