10-letter words containing u, n, c
- chaucerian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer
- chauvinism — Chauvinism is a strong, unreasonable belief that your own country is more important and morally better than other people's.
- chauvinist — a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
- chelyuskin — Capenorthernmost point of Asia, on the Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia
- chen duxiu — 1879–1942, Chinese intellectual, journalist, and cofounder of the Chinese Communist Party.
- chequering — Present participle of chequer.
- cherubicon — the hymn sung during the Great Entrance by the choir, which represents the cherubim.
- chin music — bowling or pitching aimed at the batsman or batter's head
- china blue — a bright greenish blue.
- chinch bug — a black-and-white tropical American heteropterous insect, Blissus leucopterus, that is very destructive to grasses and cereals in the US: family Lygaeidae
- 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.
- chinquapin — a dwarf chestnut tree, Castanea pumila, of the eastern US, yielding edible nuts
- chipmunked — Simple past tense and past participle of chipmunk.
- chirruping — Present participle of chirrup.
- chirurgeon — surgeon
- chirurgion — Alternative form of chirurgeon; archaic spelling of surgeon.
- chiungchou — Qiongzhou.
- chondrules — Plural form of chondrule.
- chow hound — a person who eats food in large quantities or with great gusto; glutton.
- chrononaut — (science fiction, dated) A time-traveller.
- chuang-tzu — Also, Chwang-tse. (Chuang Chow) flourished 4th century b.c, Chinese mystic and philosopher.
- chubbiness — round and plump: a chubby child; a chubby face.
- chuckwagon — A wagon equipped with food and cooking utensils, as on a ranch or in a lumber camp.
- chuffiness — the quality of being chuffy; boorishness
- chumminess — friendly; intimate; sociable.
- chundering — vomit.
- chunderous — nauseating
- chunkiness — The state of being chunky.
- chuntering — to grumble or grouse mildly or tediously.
- churnalism — a type of journalism that relies on reusing existing material such as press releases and wire service reports instead of original research, esp as a result of an increased demand for news content
- chuttering — Present participle of chutter.
- cienfuegos — a port in S Cuba, on Cienfuegos Bay. Pop: 147 000 (2005 est)
- ciguatoxin — a toxin found in seafood
- cincturing — Present participle of cincture.
- cinerarium — a place for keeping the ashes of the dead after cremation
- cingulated — Having a cingulum.
- cinquefoil — any plant of the N temperate rosaceous genus Potentilla, typically having five-lobed compound leaves
- circannual — noting or pertaining to a biological activity or cycle that recurs yearly.
- circuiting — Present participle of circuit.
- circuition — (archaic) The act of going round; a circuit, an encircling.
- circumvent — If someone circumvents a rule or restriction, they avoid having to obey the rule or restriction, in a clever and perhaps dishonest way.
- citrulline — an amino acid that occurs in watermelons and is an intermediate in the formation of urea. Formula: NH2CONH(CH2)3CHNH2COOH
- clamouring — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clangorous — a loud, resonant sound; clang.
- clarenceux — the second King-of-Arms in England
- claudicant — (medicine) limping.
- 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)
- clioquinol — An antifungal and antiprotozoal hydroxyquinoline drug, neurotoxic in large doses.
- clothbound — (of a book) bound in stiff boards covered in cloth
- cloud nine — a condition of great joy or bliss; euphoric state