10-letter words containing u, n, a, c, e
- blue crane — the great blue heron.
- 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.
- buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
- buck naked — Someone who is buck naked is not wearing any clothes at all.
- calcaneous — Misspelling of calcaneus.
- calendulas — Plural form of calendula.
- calumniate — to slander
- 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.
- cane sugar — the sucrose obtained from sugar cane, which is identical to that obtained from sugar beet
- canecutter — any of several species of large cottontails inhabiting swamps or marshes.
- cannelured — a groove or fluting around the cylindrical part of a bullet.
- cannelures — Plural form of cannelure.
- cannulated — Simple past tense and past participle of cannulate.
- cantaloupe — A cantaloupe is a type of melon.
- canteloube — (Marie) Joseph (French ʒozɛf). 1879–1957, French composer, best known for his Chants d'Auvergne (1923–30)
- canterbury — a late 18th-century low wooden stand with partitions for holding cutlery and plates: often mounted on casters
- carbuncled — infected with a carbuncle.
- carbuncles — Plural form of carbuncle.
- cardueline — of or relating to the passerine subfamily Carduelinae, including the goldfinches, siskins, canaries and crossbills.
- carmustine — a toxic nitrosurea, C 5 H 9 Cl 2 N 3 O 2 , used in the treatment of a wide range of tumors.
- cashew nut — edible nut
- castle nut — a hexagonal nut with six slots in the head, two of which take a locking pin to hold it firmly in position
- casualness — happening by chance; fortuitous: a casual meeting.
- catechumen — a person, esp in the early Church, undergoing instruction prior to baptism
- catenulate — (of certain spores) formed in a row or chain
- cattle run — a barnyard or fenced area adjacent to a barn used as a limited grazing area or exercise lot for cattle.
- caulescent — having a stem clearly visible above the ground
- cautioners — Plural form of cautioner.
- censurable — deserving censure, condemnation, or blame
- centauress — A female centaur; a she-centaur.
- centaurian — resembling or of the nature of a centaur
- centauries — Plural form of centaury.
- chain rule — a theorem that may be used in the differentiation of the function of a function. It states that du/dx = (du/dy)(dy/dx), where y is a function of x and u a function of y
- chanteuses — Plural form of chanteuse.
- chaucerian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer
- china blue — a bright greenish blue.
- chine nual — (documentation) /sheen'yu-*l/ (MIT) The LISP Machine Manual, so called because the title was wrapped around the cover so only those letters showed on the front.
- cinerarium — a place for keeping the ashes of the dead after cremation
- cingulated — Having a cingulum.
- clarenceux — the second King-of-Arms in England
- clemenceau — Georges Eugène Benjamin (ʒɔrʒ œʒɛn bɛ̃ʒamɛ̃). 1841–1929, French statesman; prime minister of France (1906–09; 1917–20); negotiated the Treaty of Versailles (1919)
- cluny lace — a strong heavy silk and cotton bobbin lace made at Cluny or elsewhere
- coetaneous — of the same age or period
- columnated — Architecture. a rigid, relatively slender, upright support, composed of relatively few pieces. a decorative pillar, most often composed of stone and typically having a cylindrical or polygonal shaft with a capital and usually a base.
- comeupance — Alternative form of comeuppance.
- concentual — (rare) Harmonious, in harmony.
- conceptual — Conceptual means related to ideas and concepts formed in the mind.