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.