11-letter words containing t, o, u
- county fair — a competitive exhibition of farm products, livestock, etc., often held annually in the same place in the county.
- county farm — a farm maintained for the poor by a county.
- county home — a county poorhouse.
- county seat — A county seat is the same as a county town.
- county town — A county town is the most important town in a county, where the local government is.
- coup d'état — When there is a coup d'état, a group of people seize power in a country.
- coup d’état — When there is a coup d’état, a group of people seize power in a country.
- coupon rate — The coupon rate is the interest rate on a bond calculated on the number of coupons per year.
- coursemates — Plural form of coursemate.
- court dance — a dignified dance for performance at a court. Compare folk dance (def 1).
- court dress — the formal clothing worn at court
- court order — a command by a court
- courteously — having or showing good manners; polite.
- courtesy of — without charge, as a gesture of goodwill
- courthouses — Plural form of courthouse.
- courtierism — the characteristic practices or qualities of a courtier
- courtliness — polite, refined, or elegant: courtly manners.
- covermounts — Plural form of covermount.
- cow country — a region of cattle ranches, as rural areas of the southwestern U.S., especially Texas.
- craft union — a labour organization membership of which is restricted to workers in a specified trade or craft
- crapulosity — the quality of being crapulous or crapulent
- crazy about — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- credit hour — A credit hour is a credit that a school or college awards to students who have completed a course of study.
- crematorium — A crematorium is a building in which the bodies of dead people are burned.
- crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
- crest cloud — a stationary cloud parallel to and near the top of a mountain ridge. Compare cap cloud (def 1).
- crop duster — a pilot employed in crop-dusting from an airplane.
- cropdusting — the spreading of fungicide, etc on crops in the form of dust, often from an aircraft
- cross vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- cross-court — played across the court
- crowded out — full to capacity; full to bursting
- crown court — In England and Wales, a Crown Court is a court in which criminal cases are tried by a judge and jury rather than by a magistrate.
- crushworthy — (usually, of a, person) Suitable for a crush (infatuation): attractive.
- crustaceous — forming, resembling, or possessing a surrounding crust or shell
- cry out for — If you say that something cries out for a particular thing or action, you mean that it needs that thing or action very much.
- cryocautery — Cautery by the application of extreme cold.
- cuckoo spit — a white frothy mass on the stems and leaves of many plants, produced by froghopper larvae (cuckoo spit insects), which feed on the plant juices
- cuckoo-spit — Also called frog spit. a frothy secretion found on plants, exuded by the young of certain insects, as the froghoppers, and serving as a protective covering.
- cuckoopints — Plural form of cuckoopint.
- cuff button — the button for a shirt cuff.
- cuitlacoche — corn smut.
- culmination — Something, especially something important, that is the culmination of an activity, process, or series of events happens at the end of it.
- cultivation — the planting, tending, improving, or harvesting of crops or plants
- cultivators — Plural form of cultivator.
- culturology — a branch of anthropology concerned with the study of cultural institutions as distinct from the people who are involved in them.
- culturomics — the study of human culture and cultural trends over time by means of quantitative analysis of words and phrases in a very large corpus of digitized texts: Culturomics can pinpoint periods of accelerated language change.
- cunctatious — addicted to or prone to cunctation
- cupellation — the process of recovering precious metals from lead by melting the alloy in a cupel and oxidizing the lead by means of an air blast
- curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
- curie point — the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic