Culʹminate (3 syl.).

Come to a crisis. The passage of a celestial body over the meridian at the upper transit is called its culmination. (Latin, culmen, the top.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Cudgels
Cue
Cuffy
Cui bono?
Cuirass
Cuishes
Cul de Sac (French)
Culdees
Cullis
Cully
Culminate
Culross Girdles
Culver
Culverin
Culverkeys
Cum Grano Salis
Cum Hoc, Propter Hoc
Cumberland Poet (The)
Cummer
Cunctator [the delayer]
Cuneiform Letters