10-letter words containing u, d, c
- cracked up — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- cranked up — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crassitude — gross ignorance or stupidity.
- crenulated — minutely crenate, as the margin of certain leaves.
- cropduster — an aeroplane used to spray crops with fertilizer or insecticide
- croustades — Plural form of croustade.
- crowd surf — to engage in crowd surfing.
- crowd-surf — to engage in crowd surfing.
- cruddiness — The quality of being cruddy.
- crude tank — A crude tank is a large vessel for crude oil.
- cuadrillas — Plural form of cuadrilla.
- cuckolding — Present participle of cuckold.
- cuckoldize — to make (a married man) into a cuckold
- cucullated — hooded; hood-shaped
- cuddlesome — cuddly (sense 1)
- cuddliness — The condition of being cuddly.
- cuddly toy — a soft toy, such as a teddy bear
- cudgelling — a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
- cul-de-sac — A cul-de-sac is a short road which is closed off at one end.
- culdoscope — an endoscope used in a medical examination of the ovary, uterus, etc., inserted through the upper vaginal wall into the pelvic cavity
- culdoscopy — Endoscopy of the female pelvic organs by way of the vagina.
- culminated — Simple past tense and past participle of culminate.
- cultivated — If you describe someone as cultivated, you mean they are well educated and have good manners.
- cumberland — (until 1974) a county of NW England, now part of Cumbria
- cummerbund — A cummerbund is a wide piece of cloth worn round the waist as part of a man's evening dress.
- cup-holder — a device for holding a cup upright, esp in a motor vehicle
- cupidinous — having a great desire or cupidity
- cupidities — Plural form of cupidity.
- curmudgeon — If you call someone a curmudgeon, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- curse word — a profane or obscene word, especially as used in anger or for emphasis.
- cursedness — The state or quality of being cursed.
- cuspidated — Alternative form of cuspidate.
- cussedness — cursed.
- custodians — Plural form of custodian.
- customised — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- customized — modified according to a customer's individual requirements
- 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
- cynopodous — (of some mammals, such as dogs) having claws that do not retract
- dachshunds — Plural form of dachshund.
- damascenus — Johannes [joh-han-eez,, -is] /dʒoʊˈhæn iz,, -ɪs/ (Show IPA), John of Damascus, Saint.
- dampcourse — a horizontal layer of impervious material in a brick wall, fairly close to the ground, to stop moisture rising
- dark cloud — grey clouds threatening rain
- daunomycin — an anthracycline drug that is used as a medication in the treatment of some forms of cancer
- de quincey — Thomas. 1785–1859, English critic and essayist, noted particularly for his Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1821)
- debauchees — Plural form of debauchee.
- debauchery — You use debauchery to refer to the drinking of alcohol or to sexual activity if you disapprove of it or regard it as excessive.
- debauching — Present participle of debauch.
- debouching — Present participle of debouche.
- decamerous — having ten sections or partitions