7-letter words containing a, c, r, u
- caruaru — a city in E Brazil, W of Recife.
- castrum — (historical) Among the Ancient Romans, a building or plot of land used as a military defensive position.
- caulker — a person who caulks the seams of boats or the like.
- causers — Plural form of causer.
- cautery — the coagulation of blood or destruction of body tissue by cauterizing
- cauvery — a river in S India, rising in the Western Ghats and flowing southeast to the Bay of Bengal. Length: 765 km (475 miles)
- centaur — In classical mythology, a centaur is a creature with the head, arms, and upper body of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
- cernuda — Luis (lwiʃ). 1902–63, Spanish poet. His major work is the autobiographical Reality and Desire (1936–64)
- charqui — meat, esp beef, cut into strips and dried
- chaucer — Geoffrey. ?1340–1400, English poet, noted for his narrative skill, humour, and insight, particularly in his most famous work, The Canterbury Tales. He was influenced by the continental tradition of rhyming verse. His other works include Troilus and Criseyde, The Legende of Good Women, and The Parlement of Foules
- chaumer — the living quarters used by farm workers
- chuddar — a large shawl or veil worn by Muslim or Hindu women that covers them from head to foot
- chukars — Plural form of chukar.
- churban — the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, first by the Babylonians in 587 bc and again by the Romans in 70 ad
- clamour — If people are clamouring for something, they are demanding it in a noisy or angry way.
- clurman — Harold (Edgar) 1901–80, U.S. theatrical director, author, and critic.
- copular — (grammar) Being or relating to a copula.
- corbeau — a blackish green colour
- cornual — a horn, especially a bony part that resembles a horn.
- corumba — a city in W Brazil.
- corunna — La Coruña
- cougars — A large American wild cat with a plain tawny to grayish coat, found from Canada to Patagonia.
- courage — Courage is the quality shown by someone who decides to do something difficult or dangerous, even though they may be afraid.
- courant — a courante
- courlan — limpkin
- crackup — a cracking up
- cranium — Your cranium is the round part of your skull that contains your brain.
- crap up — Vulgar. excrement. an act of defecation.
- crapaud — a frog or toad
- crapula — Sickness or indisposition caused by excessive eating or drinking.
- crassus — Marcus Licinius (ˈmɑːkəs lɪˈsɪnɪəs). ?115–53 bc, Roman general; member of the first triumvirate with Caesar and Pompey
- crathur — (Ireland, obsolete) creature.
- craturs — Plural form of cratur.
- craunch — crunch
- creatur — Obsolete spelling of creature.
- crucial — If you describe something as crucial, you mean it is extremely important.
- crucian — a European cyprinid fish, Carassius carassius, with a dark-green back, a golden-yellow undersurface, and reddish dorsal and tail fins: an aquarium fish
- crusade — A crusade is a long and determined attempt to achieve something for a cause that you feel strongly about.
- crusado — a former gold or silver coin of Portugal bearing on its reverse the figure of a cross
- crustal — of or relating to the earth's crust
- cruzado — a former standard monetary unit of Brazil, replaced by the cruzeiro
- cudbear — a purple dye prepared from lichens
- cuirass — a piece of armour, of leather or metal covering the chest and back
- cumarin — a fragrant crystalline substance, C 9 H 6 O 2 , obtained from the tonka bean, sweet clover, and certain other plants or prepared synthetically, used chiefly in soaps and perfumery.
- cumbria — (since 1974) a county of NW England comprising the former counties of Westmorland and Cumberland together with N Lancashire: includes the Lake District mountain area and surrounding coastal lowlands with the Pennine uplands in the extreme east. Administrative centre: Carlisle. Pop: 489 800 (2003 est). Area: 6810 sq km (2629 sq miles)
- cupolar — relating to or resembling a cupola
- cuprate — (inorganic chemistry) Any of several non-stoichiometric compounds, of general formula XYCumOn, many of which are superconductors.
- cupular — shaped like a cupule.
- curable — If a disease or illness is curable, it can be cured.
- curably — In a curable manner.