10-letter words containing u, c, e
- bluejacket — a sailor in the Navy
- blues-rock — a blend of rock-'n'-roll and blues.
- bounceable — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
- bounceback — the act or an instance of bouncing back, recovering, or recuperating: Fall sales have experienced a tremendous bounceback.
- bouncedown — an occasion of restarting play by the umpire bouncing the ball
- box cutter — a knife-like tool with a short retractable blade
- breadcrumb — Breadcrumbs are tiny pieces of dry bread. They are used in cooking.
- brockhouse — Bertram Neville, 1918–2003, Canadian physicist: Nobel Prize 1994.
- bruschetta — Bruschetta is a slice of toasted bread which is brushed with olive oil and usually covered with chopped tomatoes.
- bubble car — (in Britain, formerly) a small car, often having three wheels, with a transparent bubble-shaped top
- bubonocele — an incomplete hernia in the groin; partial inguinal hernia
- bucephalus — the favourite horse of Alexander the Great
- buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
- buck fever — nervous excitement felt by inexperienced hunters at the approach of game
- buck naked — Someone who is buck naked is not wearing any clothes at all.
- buck teeth — upper front teeth which stick out
- bucket out — to empty out with or as if with a bucket
- buckjumper — an untamed horse
- buckpasser — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
- buffet car — a railway coach where light refreshments are served
- bulbaceous — bulbous
- bullbucker — a foreman who supervises fallers and buckers.
- bumper car — A bumper car is a small electric car with a wide rubber bumper all round. People drive bumper cars around a special enclosure at a fairground.
- bunchberry — a dwarf variety of dogwood native to North America, Cornus canadensis, having red berries
- bur clover — any of several Eurasian legumes of the genus Medicago, as M. hispida, having yellow flowers and prickly, coiled, black pods, naturalized in North America.
- burchfield — Charles Ephraim, 1893–1967, U.S. painter.
- bureaucrat — Bureaucrats are officials who work in a large administrative system. You can refer to officials as bureaucrats especially if you disapprove of them because they seem to follow rules and procedures too strictly.
- byssaceous — consisting of fine threads
- c terminus — the carboxyl end of a protein molecule.
- cable buoy — a buoy marking or supporting part of a submerged cable.
- cactaceous — belonging to the Cactaceae, the cactus family of plants.
- cadaverous — If you describe someone as cadaverous, you mean they are extremely thin and pale.
- cafetorium — a room, usually in a school or other educational institution, which serves both as a cafeteria and an auditorium
- cake flour — finely ground wheat flour.
- calcaneous — Misspelling of calcaneus.
- calcareous — of, containing, or resembling calcium carbonate; chalky
- calcifuges — Plural form of calcifuge.
- calculable — Calculable amounts or consequences can be calculated.
- calculated — If something is calculated to have a particular effect, it is specially done or arranged in order to have that effect.
- calculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calculate.
- calendulas — Plural form of calendula.
- call house — a house or apartment used by prostitutes for arranging or keeping assignations.
- calumniate — to slander
- calyculate — having a calycule
- camouflage — Camouflage consists of things such as leaves, branches, or brown and green paint, which are used to make it difficult for an enemy to see military forces and equipment.
- camoufleur — a person who camouflages military equipment
- campuswide — Throughout a campus.
- cancel out — If one thing cancels out another thing, the two things have opposite effects, so that when they are combined no real effect is produced.
- cancellous — having a porous or spongelike structure
- candlenuts — Plural form of candlenut.