10-letter words containing a, c, u, r
- coriolanus — Gaius Marcius (ˈɡaɪəs ˈmɑːsɪəs). 5th century bc, a legendary Roman general, who allegedly led an army against Rome but was dissuaded from conquering it by his mother and wife
- corn sugar — a dextrose made from cornstarch
- cornaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Cornaceae, a family of temperate plants, mostly trees and shrubs, including dogwood, cornel, and spotted laurel
- cornucopia — A cornucopia of things is a large number of different things.
- corrugated — Corrugated metal or cardboard has been folded into a series of small parallel folds to make it stronger.
- corrugates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corrugate.
- corrugator — a muscle whose contraction causes wrinkling of the brow
- corruscate — Dated form of coruscate.
- coruscated — Simple past tense and past participle of coruscate.
- coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus
- cotylosaur — any of various members of the extinct order of primitive and massive reptiles known as Cotylosauria, which lived between the Carboniferous and Triassic ages
- coumarilic — coumaric
- counteract — To counteract something means to reduce its effect by doing something that produces an opposite effect.
- counterair — (military) Attacking the air force of an opposing power.
- counterman — a man who works on a lunch counter or behind the counter of a cafe
- counterwar — War waged in response to another war.
- countryman — Your countrymen are people from your own country.
- courageous — Someone who is courageous shows courage.
- courantyne — a river in N South America, rising in S Guyana and flowing north to the Atlantic, forming the boundary between Guyana and Surinam. Length: 765 km (475 miles)
- coursemate — One who is taking the same academic course.
- courseware — computer software designed to be used in an educational course
- court card — (in a pack of playing cards) a king, queen, or jack of any suit
- court case — a legal action
- court hand — a style of handwriting formerly used in English law courts
- courtcraft — the artifices and intrigues of a royal court
- courtesans — Plural form of courtesan.
- courtyards — Plural form of courtyard.
- crab louse — a parasitic louse, Pthirus (or Phthirus) pubis, that infests the pubic region in humans
- cracked up — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- crackhouse — a place where cocaine in the form of crack is bought, sold, and smoked.
- craigfluke — a common name for the grey sole fish Glyptocephalus cynoglossus
- cranked up — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crannequin — a portable device for bending a crossbow.
- crapulence — sickness caused by excess in drinking or eating
- craquelure — a network of fine cracks on old paintings caused by the deterioration of pigment or varnish
- crassitude — gross ignorance or stupidity.
- cream puff — a shell of light pastry with a custard or cream filling
- creampuffs — Plural form of creampuff.
- creaturely — creatural.
- crenulated — minutely crenate, as the margin of certain leaves.
- cresta run — high-speed tobogganing down a steep narrow passage
- cretaceous — consisting of or resembling chalk
- crispature — the state of being crisped or crispate
- croustades — Plural form of croustade.
- cruciality — involving an extremely important decision or result; decisive; critical: a crucial experiment.
- cruciating — Present participle of cruciate.
- cruciation — (obsolete) torture; torment.
- crude tank — A crude tank is a large vessel for crude oil.
- cruikshank — George. 1792–1878, English illustrator and caricaturist
- cruise car — an automobile used by police officers, equipped with a radiotelephone for communicating with police headquarters.