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10-letter words containing u, c, a, t

  • culturally — of or relating to culture or cultivation.
  • culvertage — the forfeiture of a person's property, thereby reducing him to the status of a villain
  • cumulating — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
  • cumulation — the act of cumulating; accumulation.
  • cumulative — If a series of events have a cumulative effect, each event makes the effect greater.
  • cunctation — delay
  • cunctative — delay; tardiness.
  • cunctatory — prone to delaying
  • cup of tea — a favorite or well-suited thing, activity, etc.
  • curability — capable of being cured.
  • curateship — the office or position of a curate
  • curatorial — Curatorial means relating to curators and their work.
  • curettages — Plural form of curettage.
  • curtailing — Present participle of curtail.
  • curtain-up — the moment when the curtain is raised and a play or similar show begins
  • curtaining — Present participle of curtain.
  • curtilages — Plural form of curtilage.
  • curtmantle — ("Henry the Saint") 973–1024, king of Germany 1002–24 and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1014–24.
  • curvatures — Plural form of curvature.
  • cuspidated — Alternative form of cuspidate.
  • custodians — Plural form of custodian.
  • custom car — a car that is built to the buyer's own specifications
  • customable — subject to customs
  • cut a dash — If you say that someone cuts a dash, you mean that they have an attractively stylish appearance or a rather bold manner.
  • cut a deal — to come to an arrangement; make a deal
  • cut a tape — To write a software or document distribution on magnetic tape for shipment. Has nothing to do with physically cutting the medium! "Cutting a disk" has also been reported as live usage. Related slang usages are mainstream business's "cut a check", the recording industry's "cut a record", and the military's "cut an order". All of these usages reflect physical processes in obsolete recording and duplication technologies. The first stage in manufacturing an old-style vinyl record involved cutting grooves in a stamping die with a precision lathe. More mundanely, the dominant technology for mass duplication of paper documents in pre-photocopying days involved "cutting a stencil", punching away portions of the wax overlay on a silk screen. More directly, paper tape with holes punched in it was an important early storage medium.
  • cut across — If an issue or problem cuts across the division between two or more groups of people, it affects or matters to people in all the groups.
  • cut square — a stamp cut from the envelope on which it has been printed so as to leave a square margin.
  • cut-throat — If you describe a situation as cut-throat, you mean that the people or companies involved all want success and do not care if they harm each other in getting it.
  • cutability — the portion of saleable lean meat on a carcass
  • cutis vera — cutis.
  • cutter bar — Also called sickle bar. (in a mower, binder, or combine) a bar with triangular guards along which a knife or blade runs.
  • cutthroats — Plural form of cutthroat.
  • cutty sark — a three-masted merchant clipper built in Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869, now kept as a museum ship at Greenwich, London; badly damaged by a fire in 2007; restored then reopened in 2012
  • cystinuria — a condition in which excessive levels of cystine are present in the urine
  • decumulate — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
  • decussated — Simple past tense and past participle of decussate.
  • deductable — Alternative spelling of deductibletrue; that which can be deducted.
  • denunciate — to condemn; denounce
  • detruncate — to cut off a part of; truncate
  • diacaustic — (of a caustic curve or surface) formed by refracted light rays
  • diacoustic — relating to refracted sounds
  • diazeuctic — (of a tone) separating two tetrachords
  • dijudicate — to make a decision or judgment about a matter that is disputed by two parties
  • dilucidate — to elucidate
  • disculpate — (transitive) To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate.
  • discussant — a person who participates in a formal discussion or symposium and is responsible for a specific topic.
  • documental — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
  • double act — Two comedians or entertainers who perform together are referred to as a double act. Their performance can also be called a double act.
  • dracontium — (pharmacy, obsolete) The roots and rhizomes of skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus.
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