9-letter words containing t, o, u, c
- checkouts — Plural form of checkout.
- chill out — To chill out means to relax after you have done something tiring or stressful.
- chitinous — a nitrogen-containing polysaccharide, related chemically to cellulose, that forms a semitransparent horny substance and is a principal constituent of the exoskeleton, or outer covering, of insects, crustaceans, and arachnids.
- choluteca — a city in S Honduras.
- choreutic — of or belonging to a chorus.
- chuck out — If you chuck something out, you throw it away, because you do not need it or cannot use it.
- chukotian — a group of genetically related languages spoken on the Chukchi and Kamchatka peninsulas in eastern Siberia, including Chukchi, Kamchadal, and Koryak.
- churn out — To churn out something means to produce large quantities of it very quickly.
- clafoutis — a French baked pudding
- clean out — If you clean out something such as a cupboard, room, or container, you take everything out of it and clean the inside of it thoroughly.
- clear out — If you tell someone to clear out of a place or to clear out, you are telling them rather rudely to leave the place.
- clock out — Clock out means the same as clock off.
- close out — to terminate (a client's or other account) on which the margin is inadequate or exhausted, usually by sale of securities to realize cash
- closeouts — Plural form of closeout.
- closetful — a quantity that may be contained in a closet
- cloudiest — Superlative form of cloudy.
- clouterly — clumsy
- club foot — If someone has a club foot, they are born with a badly twisted foot.
- club root — a disease of plants of the cabbage family, caused by a slime mold (Plasmodiophora brassicae) and characterized by swellings of the roots
- club-foot — a knoblike foot formed from the end of a cabriole leg as a continuation of its lines: less flat than a pad foot but otherwise similar.
- co-author — The co-authors of a book, play, or report are the people who have written it together.
- coadjutor — a bishop appointed as assistant to a diocesan bishop
- coadunate — united; joined together
- coagulant — a substance that aids or produces coagulation
- coagulate — When a liquid coagulates, it becomes very thick.
- coauthors — Plural form of coauthor.
- cobaltous — of or containing cobalt in the divalent state
- cocoanuts — Plural form of cocoanut.
- coculture — to culture together
- cocurator — a fellow curator
- coeducate — Alternative spelling of co-educate.
- cofeature — a joint feature
- cointreau — a colourless liqueur with orange flavouring
- cold cuts — Cold cuts are thin slices of cooked meat which are served cold.
- cold shut — A cold shut is a fault in the surface of a piece of metal caused by two streams of molten metal not joining properly when the piece is being cast.
- collutory — mouthwash.
- colostrum — the thin milky secretion from the nipples that precedes and follows true lactation. It consists largely of serum and white blood cells
- colourant — A colourant is a substance that is used to give something a particular colour.
- colourist — A colourist is someone such as an artist or a fashion designer who uses colours in an interesting and original way.
- columbate — any salt of columbic acid
- columbite — a black mineral consisting of a niobium oxide of iron and manganese in orthorhombic crystalline form: occurs in coarse granite, often with tantalite, and is an ore of niobium. Formula: (Fe, Mn)(Nb)2O6
- columnist — A columnist is a journalist who regularly writes a particular kind of article in a newspaper or magazine.
- comatulid — any of a group of crinoid echinoderms, including the feather stars, in which the adults are free-swimming
- combretum — any tree or shrub belonging to the genus Combretum, native mainly to tropical and subtropical Africa and producing attractive flowers
- combusted — Simple past tense and past participle of combust.
- combustor — the combustion system of a jet engine or ramjet, comprising the combustion chamber, the fuel injection apparatus, and the igniter
- come true — If a dream, wish, or prediction comes true, it actually happens.
- comfiture — (obsolete) A confection, especially of preserved fruit.
- comitatus — a retinue of warriors serving a leader, esp in pre-Christian Germanic cultures, such as Anglo-Saxon England and Viking Age Scandinavia
- comminute — to break (a bone) into several small fragments