10-letter words containing ua
- bicornuate — Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
- biquadrate — the fourth power
- bivouacked — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
- blackguard — an unprincipled contemptible person; scoundrel
- bomb squad — a squad or force of police officers or others trained to disarm bombs and other explosive devices.
- bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
- bytesexual — (jargon) /bi:t" sek"shu-*l/ An adjective used to describe hardware, denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either big-endian or little-endian format (depending, presumably, on a mode bit somewhere). See also NUXI problem.
- cabanatuan — city in SC Luzon, in the Philippines: pop. 173,000
- casualness — happening by chance; fortuitous: a casual meeting.
- casualties — Military. a member of the armed forces lost to service through death, wounds, sickness, capture, or because his or her whereabouts or condition cannot be determined. casualties, loss in numerical strength through any cause, as death, wounds, sickness, capture, or desertion.
- casualwear — clothing designed for wear on informal occasions.
- casuarinas — Plural form of casuarina.
- chautauqua — (in the US, formerly) a summer school or educational meeting held in the summer
- chi-square — an inferential statistic common in survey research
- chihuahuas — Plural form of chihuahua.
- 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
- chiricahua — a member of an Apache Indian group, formerly located in the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, now living primarily in Oklahoma and New Mexico.
- chuang-tzu — Also, Chwang-tse. (Chuang Chow) flourished 4th century b.c, Chinese mystic and philosopher.
- ciguatoxin — a toxin found in seafood
- circannual — noting or pertaining to a biological activity or cycle that recurs yearly.
- coastguard — A coastguard is an official who watches the sea near a coast in order to get help for sailors when they need it and to stop illegal activities.
- coequality — The condition of being coequal.
- colliquant — capable of liquefaction or dissolution
- colliquate — to melt or cause to melt
- concentual — (rare) Harmonious, in harmony.
- conceptual — Conceptual means related to ideas and concepts formed in the mind.
- consensual — A consensual approach, view, or decision is one that is based on general agreement among all the members of a group.
- consentual — involving or carried out by mutual consent: a consentual divorce.
- contactual — the act or state of touching; a touching or meeting, as of two things or people.
- contextual — A contextual issue or account relates to the context of something.
- continuall — Obsolete spelling of continual.
- continuant — a speech sound, such as (l), (r), (f), or (s), in which the closure of the vocal tract is incomplete, allowing the continuous passage of the breath
- continuate — continuous
- conventual — of, belonging to, or characteristic of a convent
- cuadrillas — Plural form of cuadrilla.
- cut square — a stamp cut from the envelope on which it has been printed so as to leave a square margin.
- demiquaver — a sixteenth note; semiquaver.
- demisexual — (of humans) Sexually attracted to people only after a strong emotional bond has been formed.
- desquamate — (esp of the skin in certain diseases) to peel or come off in scales
- devaluated — Simple past tense and past participle of devaluate.
- devaluates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devaluate.
- diaskeuast — a person who revises, edits, or interpolates
- disqualify — to deprive of qualification or fitness; render unfit; incapacitate.
- dissuading — to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from): She dissuaded him from leaving home.
- dissuasion — an act or instance of dissuading.
- dissuasive — tending or liable to dissuade.
- dissuasory — dissuasive
- down quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 0.005 to 0.015 GeV/c2, a negative charge that is 1⁄3 the charge of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
- dressguard — an attachment for a wheel or cycle that prevents damage or the dirtying of clothes