8-letter words containing ut
- commuted — to change (a prison sentence or other penalty) to a less severe one: The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
- commuter — a person who travels to work over an appreciable distance, usually from the suburbs to the centre of a city
- commutes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commute.
- computed — Calculate or reckon (a figure or amount).
- computer — a device, usually electronic, that processes data according to a set of instructions. The digital computer stores data in discrete units and performs arithmetical and logical operations at very high speed. The analog computer has no memory and is slower than the digital computer but has a continuous rather than a discrete input. The hybrid computer combines some of the advantages of digital and analog computers
- computes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compute.
- computor — (obsolete) A person who calculates or computes.
- confuted — Simple past tense and past participle of confute.
- confuter — A person who confutes.
- confutes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confute.
- conk out — If something such as a machine or a vehicle conks out, it stops working or breaks down.
- conk-out — to break or fail, as a machine or engine (often followed by out): The engine conked out halfway there.
- conneaut — a city in NE Ohio.
- cookouts — Plural form of cookout.
- cool out — to relax and cool down
- cool-out — moderately cold; neither warm nor cold: a rather cool evening.
- cornuted — having horns
- cost-cut — to reduce the cost of: to cost-cut expenditures.
- crap out — to make a losing throw in craps
- crew cut — A crew cut is a man's hairstyle in which his hair is cut very short.
- crop out — (of a formation of rock strata) to appear or be exposed at the surface of the ground; outcrop
- crosscut — cut at right angles or obliquely to the major axis
- croutons — Plural form of crouton.
- crutched — Simple past tense and past participle of crutch.
- crutches — Plural form of crutch.
- cryonaut — a person whose dead body has been preserved by the technique of cryonics.
- curb cut — a small ramp or slope from a sidewalk to a roadway to ease passage for people in wheelchairs, bicyclists, etc.
- cut back — If you cut back something such as expenditure or cut back on it, you reduce it.
- cut dead — to snub completely
- cut down — If you cut down on something or cut down something, you use or do less of it.
- cut drop — a drop scene cut to reveal part of the upstage area.
- cut nail — a nail having a tapering rectangular form with a blunt point, made by cutting from a thin rolled sheet of iron or steel.
- cut plug — compressed chewing tobacco in a portion-sized cake.
- cut rate — a price, fare, or rate below the standard charge.
- cut time — alla breve
- cut-offs — Cut-offs are short pants made by cutting part of the legs off old pants.
- cut-pile — having a pile with yarns that are cut instead of looped: a cut-pile carpet.
- cut-rate — Cut-rate goods or services are cheaper than usual.
- cutaways — Plural form of cutaway.
- cutbacks — Plural form of cutback.
- cuteness — attractive, especially in a dainty way; pleasingly pretty: a cute child; a cute little apartment.
- cutglass — Made of cut glass.
- cutgrass — the general name for any grass of the genus Leersia, native to the Americas and Eurasia
- cuthbert — Saint. ?635–87 ad, English monk; bishop of Lindisfarne. Feast day: March 20
- cuticles — Plural form of cuticle.
- cuticula — cuticle
- cutinize — to become or cause to become covered or impregnated with cutin
- cutlines — Plural form of cutline.
- cutpurse — a thief who stole purses by cutting them from the belts to which they were attached
- cutscene — (in computer games) a scene that develops the story line and is often shown on completion of a certain level, or when the player’s character dies.