6-letter words containing u, c, e
- courie — to nestle or snuggle
- course — Course is often used in the expression 'of course', or instead of 'of course' in informal spoken English. See of course.
- couter — a piece of armour designed to protect the elbow
- creusa — the bride of Jason, killed by the sorcery of the jealous Medea
- creuse — a department of central France, in Limousin region. Capital: Guéret. Pop: 122 713 (2003 est). Area: 5606 sq km (2186 sq miles)
- croupe — That part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks.
- crouse — lively, confident, or saucy
- croute — a small round of toasted bread on which a savoury mixture is served
- cruces — crux
- cruden — Alexander. 1701–70, Scottish bookseller and compiler of a well-known biblical concordance (1737)
- cruder — in a raw or unprepared state; unrefined or natural: crude sugar.
- crudes — Plural form of crude.
- cruell — Obsolete spelling of cruel.
- cruels — Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.
- cruets — Plural form of cruet.
- cruise — A cruise is a holiday during which you travel on a ship or boat and visit a number of places.
- cruive — a cabin or hovel
- cruize — Obsolete form of cruise.
- crumen — the suborbital gland in sheep, deer, or antelopes
- cruses — an earthen pot, bottle, etc., for liquids.
- cruset — a goldsmith's crucible
- crusoe — Robinson, Robinson Crusoe.
- cruxes — Plural form of crux.
- cubage — cubic content or volume
- cubane — a rare octahedral hydrocarbon formed by eight CH groups, each of which is situated at the corner of a cube. Formula: C8H8
- cubbed — Simple past tense and past participle of cub.
- cubebs — Plural form of cubeb.
- cudden — a coalfish
- cuddle — If you cuddle someone, you put your arms round them and hold them close as a way of showing your affection.
- cudgel — A cudgel is a thick, short stick that is used as a weapon.
- cue in — to add (dialogue, music, etc.) at a particular point in a script
- cueing — Present participle of cue.
- cueist — a person skilled in cue sports; a snooker, billiards, or pool player
- cuenca — a city in SW Ecuador: university (1868). Pop: 311 000 (2005 est)
- cuesta — a long low ridge with a steep scarp slope and a gentle back slope, formed by the differential erosion of strata of differing hardness
- cuevas — José Luis [hoh-zey lwees;; Spanish haw-se lwees] /hoʊˈzeɪ lwis;; Spanish hɔˈsɛ lwis/ (Show IPA), born 1934, Mexican painter, graphic artist, and illustrator.
- cuffed — a blow with the fist or the open hand; buffet.
- cuffee — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- cuffle — to scuffle
- cuirie — a hardened leather piece for protecting the breast, worn over mail.
- cuisse — a piece of armour for the thigh
- cuiter — to pamper or coddle
- culled — to choose; select; pick.
- cullen — William Douglas, Baron. born 1935, Scottish judge who conducted public inquiries into the Piper Alpha disaster (1990), the Dunblane school shootings (1996), and the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster (1999); led the tribunal which turned down the appeal (2002) of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi against his conviction for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing
- culler — a person employed to cull animals
- cullet — waste glass for melting down to be reused
- culmen — the summit
- culter — Alternative form of colter.
- culver — a dove or pigeon
- cumber — to obstruct or hinder