6-letter words containing u, c, e
- celure — an ornamented canopy, as for a bed or dais.
- census — A census is an official survey of the population of a country that is carried out in order to find out how many people live there and to obtain details of such things as people's ages and jobs.
- centum — denoting or belonging to the Indo-European languages in which original velar stops (k) were not palatalized, namely languages of the Hellenic, Italic, Celtic, Germanic, Anatolian, and Tocharian branches
- cercus — one of a pair of sensory appendages at the tip of the abdomen of some insects and other arthropods
- cereus — any tropical American cactus of the genus Cereus, esp C. jamacaru of N Brazil, which grows to a height of 13 metres (40 feet)
- cerium — a malleable ductile steel-grey element of the lanthanide series of metals, used in lighter flints and as a reducing agent in metallurgy. Symbol: Ce; atomic no: 58; atomic wt: 140.115; valency: 3 or 4; relative density: 6.770; melting pt: 798°C; boiling pt: 3443°C
- cerous — of or containing cerium in the trivalent state
- cerule — (poetic) Cerulean.
- ceruse — white lead
- cesium — a soft, silver-white, ductile, metallic chemical element, one of the alkali metals and the most electropositive of all the elements: it ignites in air, reacts vigorously with water, and is used in photoelectric cells: symbol, Cs; at. no., 55: a radioactive isotope (cesium-137) with a half-life of 30.17 years is a fission product and is used in cancer research, radiation therapy, etc.
- cestui — the person (who)
- cestus — the girdle of Aphrodite (Venus) decorated to cause amorousness
- cesura — caesura
- cetura — Keturah.
- cheque — A cheque is a printed form on which you write an amount of money and who it is to be paid to. Your bank then pays the money to that person from your account.
- chequy — divided into several rows of squares of two alternating tinctures: a fess checky, or and azure.
- cherub — A cherub is a kind of angel that is represented in art as a naked child with wings.
- cherup — Archaic form of chirrup.
- choque — Obsolete form of shock.
- chouse — a person who deceives, defrauds, or tricks
- chutes — Plural form of chute.
- cinque — the number five in cards, dice, etc
- cirque — a semicircular or crescent-shaped basin with steep sides and a gently sloping floor formed in mountainous regions by the erosive action of a glacier
- claque — a group of people hired to applaud
- claude — Albert. 1898–1983, US cell biologist, born in Belgium: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1974) for work on microsomes and mitochondria
- clause — A clause is a section of a legal document.
- cletus — Anacletus.
- clique — If you describe a group of people as a clique, you mean that they spend a lot of time together and seem unfriendly towards people who are not in the group.
- cloque — fabric with an embossed surface
- clouet — François (frɑ̃swa), ?1515–72, and his father, Jean (ʒɑ̃), ?1485–?1540, French portrait painters
- cludge — (slang, UK dialectal) A toilet.
- clunge — (UK, vulgar, slang, mostly, internet) vagina.
- coetus — Rare spelling of coitus.
- cohune — a tropical American feather palm, Attalea (or Orbignya) cohune, whose large oily nuts yield an oil similar to coconut oil
- coleus — any plant of the Old World genus Coleus: cultivated for their variegated leaves, typically marked with red, yellow, or white: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
- colure — either of two great circles on the celestial sphere, one of which passes through the celestial poles and the equinoxes and the other through the poles and the solstices
- comune — The smallest civil administrative unit in Italy.
- conque — Alternative spelling of conch.
- conure — any of various small American parrots of the genus Aratinga and related genera
- coquet — to behave flirtatiously
- coteau — a hillside
- couche — (of a shield) tilted
- coulde — Obsolete spelling of could.
- coulee — a flow of molten lava
- couped — (heraldry) cut off smoothly, as distinguished from erased; -- used especially for the head or limb of an animal.
- coupee — (in dance) a movement where the dancer stands on one foot while the other performs a backward or forward movement as a sort of salutation
- couper — a dealer
- coupes — Plural form of coupe.
- couple — If you refer to a couple of people or things, you mean two or approximately two of them, although the exact number is not important or you are not sure of it.
- cource — Misspelling of course.