6-letter words starting with cu
- cu-bop — music of the 1940s in which Cuban rhythms are combined with bop
- cuando — a river in central Angola, flowing SE to the Zambezi River. 457 miles (731 km) long.
- cuanza — a river in central Angola, flowing NW and W to the Atlantic Ocean. 500 miles (805 km) long.
- cuatro — a small guitar with four strings
- cubage — cubic content or volume
- cubane — a rare octahedral hydrocarbon formed by eight CH groups, each of which is situated at the corner of a cube. Formula: C8H8
- cubbed — Simple past tense and past participle of cub.
- cubebs — Plural form of cubeb.
- cubica — a fine unglazed shalloon-like fabric
- cubics — Plural form of cubic.
- cubing — a solid bounded by six equal squares, the angle between any two adjacent faces being a right angle.
- cubism — Cubism is a style of art, begun in the early twentieth century, in which objects are represented as if they could be seen from several different positions at the same time, using many lines and geometric shapes.
- cubist — A Cubist is an artist who painted in the style of Cubism.
- cubits — Plural form of cubit, an ancient unit of measurement.
- cuboid — A cuboid is a solid object with two square surfaces and four rectangular surfaces. Each surface of a cuboid is the same size as the one opposite to it.
- cucina — style of cooking; cuisine
- cuckoo — A cuckoo is a bird that has a call of two quick notes, and lays its eggs in other birds' nests.
- cucuta — a city in E Colombia: commercial centre of a coffee-producing region. Pop: 883 000 (2005 est)
- cudahy — a city in SE Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.
- cudden — a coalfish
- cuddle — If you cuddle someone, you put your arms round them and hold them close as a way of showing your affection.
- cuddly — A cuddly person or animal makes you want to cuddle them.
- cudgel — A cudgel is a thick, short stick that is used as a weapon.
- cue in — to add (dialogue, music, etc.) at a particular point in a script
- cueing — Present participle of cue.
- cueist — a person skilled in cue sports; a snooker, billiards, or pool player
- cuenca — a city in SW Ecuador: university (1868). Pop: 311 000 (2005 est)
- cuesta — a long low ridge with a steep scarp slope and a gentle back slope, formed by the differential erosion of strata of differing hardness
- cuevas — José Luis [hoh-zey lwees;; Spanish haw-se lwees] /hoʊˈzeɪ lwis;; Spanish hɔˈsɛ lwis/ (Show IPA), born 1934, Mexican painter, graphic artist, and illustrator.
- cuffed — a blow with the fist or the open hand; buffet.
- cuffee — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- cuffin — a man; chap
- cuffle — to scuffle
- cui-ui — a freshwater sucker, Chasmistes cujus, of Nevada, having a thin-lipped mouth.
- cuiaba — a port in W Brazil, capital of Mato Grosso state, on the Cuiabá River. Pop: 777 000 (2005 est)
- cuirie — a hardened leather piece for protecting the breast, worn over mail.
- cuisse — a piece of armour for the thigh
- cuiter — to pamper or coddle
- culham — a village in S central England, in Oxfordshire: site of the UK centre for thermonuclear reactor research and of the Joint European Torus (JET) programme
- culion — an island of the Philippines, in the W part of the group, N of Palawan. 150 sq. mi. (389 sq. km).
- cullay — the soapbark tree (Quillaja saponaria)
- culled — to choose; select; pick.
- cullen — William Douglas, Baron. born 1935, Scottish judge who conducted public inquiries into the Piper Alpha disaster (1990), the Dunblane school shootings (1996), and the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster (1999); led the tribunal which turned down the appeal (2002) of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi against his conviction for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing
- culler — a person employed to cull animals
- cullet — waste glass for melting down to be reused
- cullin — (protein) Any of a family of proteins that have a role in protein degradation and ubiquitinylation.
- cullis — a gutter in or at the eaves of a roof
- cullud — Eye dialect of coloured.
- culmen — the summit
- cultch — old shells, stones, etc., forming a spawning bed for oysters
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