11-letter words containing a, y, u, r
- chaleur bay — an inlet of the Gulf of St. Lawrence between NE New Brunswick and SE Quebec, in SE Canada: rich fishing ground. About 85 miles (135 km) long; 15–25 miles (24–40 km) wide.
- chou pastry — cream puff paste.
- church army — a voluntary Anglican organization founded in 1882 to assist the parish clergy
- churchyards — Plural form of churchyard.
- circularity — having the form of a circle; round: a circular tower.
- circulatory — Circulatory means relating to the circulation of blood in the body.
- clamorously — full of, marked by, or of the nature of clamor.
- cloud layer — a continuous or fragmented distribution of clouds all sharing the same cloud base.
- columnarity — the fact or quality of being columnar
- concubinary — of, relating to, or living in concubinage.
- cotylosaurs — Plural form of cotylosaur.
- counterplay — a positive or aggressive action by the defending side, esp in chess
- countrymade — (in India) Describing a weapon manufactured illegally in a cottage industry.
- countryseat — a house or estate in the country
- county fair — a competitive exhibition of farm products, livestock, etc., often held annually in the same place in the county.
- county farm — a farm maintained for the poor by a county.
- crapulosity — the quality of being crapulous or crapulent
- crapulously — In a crapulous manner.
- crazy about — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- crazy house — an asylum for people with psychiatric disorders
- crazy quilt — If you describe something as a crazy quilt of other things, you mean that it is a mixture of those things without any pattern or order.
- cry quarter — to beg for mercy
- cryocautery — Cautery by the application of extreme cold.
- curry favor — to try to win favor by flattery, fawning, etc.
- customarily — according to custom; usually
- cut-and-try — marked by a procedure of trial and error; empirical: Many scientific advances are achieved with a cut-and-try approach.
- cutty grass — a species of sedge, Cyperus ustulatus, of New Zealand with sharp leaves
- cyano group — the univalent group CN; cyanogen.
- cyperaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Cyperaceae, a family of grasslike flowering plants with solid triangular stems, including the sedges, bulrush, cotton grass, and certain rushes. Some are grown as water plants or as ornamental grasses; and Cyperus papyrus is the papyrus plant
- daisycutter — Alternative form of daisy cutter.
- dandy brush — a brush with stiff, short bristles that is used for grooming animals, especially horses.
- dandy-brush — a stiff brush used for grooming a horse
- dangerously — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
- day cruiser — a motorboat too small to have any accommodations for sleeping.
- day nursery — A day nursery is a place where children who are too young to go to school can be left all day while their parents are at work.
- day surgery — a system in which a patient comes into hospital for a surgical procedure, has the operation, recovers and is released from hospital in the course of a single day
- day-neutral — (of plants) having an ability to mature and bloom that is not affected by day length
- degustatory — tasty; having a pleasant flavour
- delusionary — having false or unrealistic beliefs or opinions: Senators who think they will get agreement on a comprehensive tax bill are delusional.
- demagoguery — the methods, practices, or rhetoric of a demagogue
- demy quarto — a book size, 113⁄4 by 85⁄8 inches
- denumerably — In a denumerable manner.
- deuterogamy — a marriage after the death or divorce of the first spouse
- dilutionary — causing, involving, or relating to the dilution of company stocks
- divulgatory — to make publicly known; publish.
- documentary — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- dry as dust — dull and boring: a dry-as-dust biography.
- dry measure — the system of units of capacity ordinarily used in measuring dry commodities, as grain or fruit. In the U.S. 2 pints = 1 quart (1.101 liters); 8 quarts = 1 peck (8.810 liters); 4 pecks = 1 bushel (35.24 liters). In Great Britain 2 pints = 1 quart (1.136 liters); 4 quarts = 1 gallon (4.546 liters); 8 quarts = 1 peck (9.092 liters); 4 pecks = 1 bushel (36.37 liters); 8 bushels = 1 quarter (291.0 liters).
- dry-as-dust — dull and boring: a dry-as-dust biography.
- dusky shark — a blue-gray shark, Carcharinus obscurus, of warm Atlantic and eastern Pacific seas, reaching a length of 12 feet (3.7 meters).