10-letter words containing a, c, i, u
- calumnious — of or using calumny
- camp it up — If a performer camps it up, they deliberately perform in an exaggerated and often amusing way.
- campuswide — Throughout a campus.
- canaliculi — a small canal or tubular passage, as in bone.
- candaulism — A practice or in which a man exposes his female partner, or images of her, to other people for their pleasure.
- capacitous — Having the legal capacity to do something.
- capillatus — (of a cumulonimbus cloud) having a cirriform upper portion that resembles an anvil or a disorderly mass of hair.
- capitellum — an enlarged knoblike structure at the end of a bone that forms an articulation with another bone; capitulum
- capitulant — a person who capitulates
- capitulary — any of the collections of ordinances promulgated by the Frankish kings (8th–10th centuries ad)
- capitulate — If you capitulate, you stop resisting and do what someone else wants you to do.
- cappuccino — Cappuccino is coffee which is made using milk and has froth and sometimes powdered chocolate on top.
- capricious — Someone who is capricious often changes their mind unexpectedly.
- capsorubin — (organic compound) A di-hydroxy, keto carotenoid, which, together with capsanthin, constitutes the red pigment of paprika.
- capsulised — Simple past tense and past participle of capsulise.
- capsulized — Simple past tense and past participle of capsulize.
- capsulizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capsulize.
- captiously — In a captious manner.
- caquetoire — cacqueteuse.
- carburized — Simple past tense and past participle of carburize.
- cardueline — of or relating to the passerine subfamily Carduelinae, including the goldfinches, siskins, canaries and crossbills.
- caricatura — a caricature
- caricature — A caricature of someone is a drawing or description of them that exaggerates their appearance or behaviour in a humorous or critical way.
- carmustine — a toxic nitrosurea, C 5 H 9 Cl 2 N 3 O 2 , used in the treatment of a wide range of tumors.
- carthusian — a member of an austere monastic order founded by Saint Bruno in 1084 near Grenoble, France
- cash audit — an audit confined to cash transactions for a prescribed period, for the purpose of determining the amount of cash on hand or on deposit in a bank.
- 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.
- casuarinas — Plural form of casuarina.
- catapultic — of or resembling a catapult
- catholicus — catholicos.
- caucussing — the act of holding a private, often secret meeting of members of a political party prior to an election or general party meeting
- caudal fin — the tail fin of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates, used for propulsion during locomotion
- cauliflory — the production of flowers on the trunk, branches, etc, of a woody plant, as opposed to the ends of the twigs
- causations — Plural form of causation.
- causatives — Plural form of causative.
- cause list — a list of cases awaiting a hearing
- causticity — capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue.
- cauterised — Simple past tense and past participle of cauterise.
- cauterized — Simple past tense and past participle of cauterize.
- cauterizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cauterize.
- cautionary — A cautionary story or a cautionary note to a story is one that is intended to give a warning to people.
- cautioners — Plural form of cautioner.
- cautioning — Present participle of caution.
- cautiously — showing, using, or characterized by caution: a cautious man; To be cautious is often to show wisdom.
- cavaquinho — A small, four-stringed guitar resembling a ukulele, popular in Brazil and Portugal.
- centaurian — resembling or of the nature of a centaur
- centauries — Plural form of centaury.
- chain pump — a pump consisting of buckets, plates, or the like, rising upon a chain within a cylinder for raising liquids entering the cylinder at the bottom.
- chain rule — a theorem that may be used in the differentiation of the function of a function. It states that du/dx = (du/dy)(dy/dx), where y is a function of x and u a function of y
- chairbound — unable to walk; dependent on a wheelchair for mobility