8-letter words containing u, n, c
- churinga — a sacred amulet of the native Australians
- churners — Plural form of churner.
- churning — Churning water is moving about violently.
- churring — to make a characteristic shrill, trilling sound, as a grasshopper.
- chutneys — Plural form of chutney.
- cicinnus — a scorpioid cyme
- cincture — something that encircles or surrounds, esp a belt, girdle, or border
- cingular — ring-shaped; girdle-like
- cingulum — a girdle-like part, such as the ridge round the base of a tooth or the band of fibres connecting parts of the cerebrum
- cinquain — a stanza of five lines
- circinus — a small faint constellation in the S hemisphere close to Centaurus and the Southern Cross
- cislunar — of or relating to the space between the earth and the moon
- clangour — a loud resonant often-repeated noise
- claudine — a female given name, form of Claudia.
- clausing — (shipping) present participle of clause.
- clean up — If you clean up a mess or clean up a place where there is a mess, you make things tidy and free of dirt again.
- clean-up — free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress.
- cleanout — the removal of something from a place
- cleanups — Plural form of cleanup.
- cleburne — a city in N Texas, near Fort Worth.
- clinique — Archaic spelling of clinic.
- clouding — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- clouting — Present participle of clout.
- clubbing — Clubbing is the activity of going to night clubs.
- clubhand — congenital deformity of the hand
- clubland — A city's clubland is the area that contains all the best nightclubs.
- clucking — Present participle of cluck.
- clumping — a small, close group or cluster, especially of trees or other plants.
- clunkers — Plural form of clunker.
- clunking — a hard hit, especially on the head.
- cocoanut — the large, hard-shelled seed of the coconut palm, lined with a white edible meat, and containing a milky liquid.
- coconuts — Plural form of coconut.
- coendure — to endure together
- coenurus — an encysted larval form of the tapeworm Multiceps, containing many encapsulated heads. In sheep it can cause the gid, and when eaten by dogs it develops into several adult forms
- cofusion — Alternative form of co-fusion.
- cognatus — (legal) A person connected through cognation.
- coinsure — to take out coinsurance
- cokernut — coconut.
- cola nut — any of the seeds of the cola tree, which contain caffeine and theobromine and are used medicinally and in the manufacture of soft drinks
- columnal — of, like, or relating to a column
- columnar — shaped like a column.
- columnea — any plant belonging to the genus Columnea, a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Gesneriaceae, with bright red, yellow, or orange tubular flowers and glossy leaves
- columned — Having columns.
- comenius — John Amos, Czech name Jan Amos Komensky. 1592–1670, Czech educational reformer
- commaund — Obsolete form of command.
- communal — Communal means relating to particular groups in a country or society.
- communed — Simple past tense and past participle of commune.
- communer — a person who participates in the Eucharist
- communes — Plural form of commune.
- comnenus — an important Byzantine family from which the imperial dynasties of Constantinople (1057–59; 1081–1185) and Trebizond (1204–1461) derived