11-letter words containing a, c, i, t, u
- continuants — Plural form of continuant.
- continuator — a person who continues something, esp the work of someone else
- contrarious — (of people or animals) perverse or obstinate
- contumacity — the quality of being contumacious
- conurbation — A conurbation consists of a large city together with the smaller towns around it.
- corbiculate — having corbiculae or pollen baskets
- corniculate — having horns or hornlike projections
- corrugating — Present participle of corrugate.
- corrugation — a corrugating or being corrugated
- coruscating — A coruscating speech or performance is lively, intelligent, and impressive.
- coruscation — a gleam or flash of light
- cosmonautic — Of or related to cosmonauts or cosmonautics.
- cougar bait — a younger man who is often pursued by older women seeking a sexual relationship: We all agreed he was prime cougar bait.
- council tax — In Britain, council tax is a tax that you pay to your local authority in order to pay for local services such as schools, libraries, and rubbish collection. The amount of council tax that you pay depends on the value of the house or flat where you live.
- counterraid — a retaliatory raid on an enemy
- countervail — to act or act against with equal power or force
- countervair — (heraldry) A heraldic fur resembling vair, except in the arrangement of the patches or figures.
- county fair — a competitive exhibition of farm products, livestock, etc., often held annually in the same place in the county.
- craft union — a labour organization membership of which is restricted to workers in a specified trade or craft
- crapulosity — the quality of being crapulous or crapulent
- crazy quilt — If you describe something as a crazy quilt of other things, you mean that it is a mixture of those things without any pattern or order.
- crematorium — A crematorium is a building in which the bodies of dead people are burned.
- crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
- cri du chat — cat's cry syndrome.
- cuitlacoche — corn smut.
- culminating — final; decisive
- culmination — Something, especially something important, that is the culmination of an activity, process, or series of events happens at the end of it.
- culminative — (of stress or tone accent) serving to indicate the number of independent words or the important points in an utterance by assigning prominence to one syllable in each word or close-knit group of words.
- culpability — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.
- cultivating — Present participle of cultivate.
- cultivation — the planting, tending, improving, or harvesting of crops or plants
- cultivators — Plural form of cultivator.
- culturalism — A belief system that emphasizes the role of culture.
- culturalize — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- cunctatious — addicted to or prone to cunctation
- cupellation — the process of recovering precious metals from lead by melting the alloy in a cupel and oxidizing the lead by means of an air blast
- curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
- curialistic — of or relating to curialism or curialists
- curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.
- curtain rod — A curtain rod is a long, narrow pole on which you hang curtains.
- curtainless — without a curtain or curtains
- curtainwall — Storm shutters or other removable protection for all windows and doors in a residence or building against the effects of high winds, rain and flying objects during a hurricane. They can be made of a variety of materials such as aluminum panels, iron or even wood.
- cuspidation — decoration using cusps
- custard pie — Custard pies are artificial pies which people sometimes throw at each other as a joke.
- custard-pie — characteristic of a type of slapstick comedy in which a performer throws a pie in another's face: popular especially in the era of vaudeville and early silent films.
- customaries — Plural form of customary.
- customarily — according to custom; usually
- cutlassfish — any of a family (Trichiuridae) of very long, thin percoid fishes with a wide mouth and sharp, pointed teeth, found near the surface in tropical seas
- daisycutter — Alternative form of daisy cutter.
- declinature — the act of refusing politely