9-letter words containing a, u, r
- croquante — a crisp cake or pastry
- croustade — a hollowed pastry case or piece of cooked bread, potato, etc, in which food is served
- crucially — involving an extremely important decision or result; decisive; critical: a crucial experiment.
- cruiseway — a canal used for recreational purposes
- crusaders — (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- crusading — campaigning
- crusadoes — Plural form of crusado.
- crush bar — a bar at a theatre for serving drinks during the intervals of a play
- crushable — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- crustacea — a collective term for members of the Crustacea class of (mainly aquatic) mandibulate arthropods, characterized by their usually chitinous exoskeletons
- cruz alta — a city in S Brazil.
- cuadrilla — a small group, esp a matador's assistants
- cubatures — Plural form of cubature.
- cube farm — an office which is divided up by mid-height partitions to create separate work spaces
- cucaracha — a cockroach
- cuirassed — Wearing a cuirass.
- cuirasses — Plural form of cuirass.
- cuisinart — a brand of food processor
- culpatory — expressing blame
- cultivars — Plural form of cultivar.
- cultrated — Cultrate.
- culturati — the cultured elite of a society
- cumbrance — a burden, obstacle, or hindrance
- cunctator — (Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus"Cunctator") 275–203 b.c, Roman statesman and general: defeated Hannibal's army by harassment without risking a pitched battle.
- cunicular — a small conduit or burrow, as an underground drain or rabbit hole.
- cup coral — any of several species of coral in which the polyp forms and houses itself in a cup-shaped depression in the skeleton.
- cupbearer — an attendant who fills and serves wine cups, as in a royal household
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- cupboardy — (rare) Cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.
- curandera — (in Hispanic America) a female healer or shaman
- curandero — a male healer or shaman in Hispanic-America
- curarized — Simple past tense and past participle of curarize.
- curassows — Plural form of curassow.
- curatress — A female curator.
- curb ball — stoop ball played off a street curb.
- curd tart — a tart with a sweet filling in which curd is the main ingredient
- curettage — the process of using a curette
- curialism — the doctrine and methods of the ultramontane party in the Roman Catholic Church
- curialist — a member or supporter of the papal curia
- curlpaper — a strip of paper used to roll up and set a section of hair, usually wetted, into a curl
- curlyhead — a person whose hair is curly.
- currajong — kurrajong
- currawong — any Australian crowlike songbird of the genus Strepera, having black, grey, and white plumage: family Cracticidae
- curricula — the aggregate of courses of study given in a school, college, university, etc.: The school is adding more science courses to its curriculum.
- cursorial — adapted for running
- curtailed — to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.
- curtailer — One who curtails.
- curtained — A curtained window, door, or other opening has a curtain hanging across it.
- curtal ax — a cutlass
- curtalaxe — a cutlass