10-letter words containing c, a, r, o, u
- colourfast — A fabric that is colourfast has a colour that will not get paler when the fabric is washed or worn.
- colourwash — a coloured distemper
- columbaria — Irregular plural form of columbarium.
- columellar — (biology, anatomy) Of or pertaining to a columella.
- commeasure — to coincide with in degree, extent, quality, etc
- communards — Plural form of communard.
- commutator — a device used to reverse the direction of flow of an electric current
- compacture — an act of joining or bringing into proximity
- computator — a person who computes or calculates
- confabular — of or relating to confabulation
- conga drum — a large tubular bass drum, used chiefly in Latin American and funk music and played with the hands
- conjurator — a person who, through oath, is bound to others, esp a member of a group plotting a conspiracy
- connatural — having a similar nature or origin
- copulatory — to engage in sexual intercourse.
- coriaceous — of or resembling leather
- 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
- crackhouse — a place where cocaine in the form of crack is bought, sold, and smoked.
- cretaceous — consisting of or resembling chalk
- croustades — Plural form of croustade.
- cruciation — (obsolete) torture; torment.
- crustation — the action of forming a crust
- cuckoo ray — a fish, Raja naevus
- cultivator — A cultivator is a tool or machine which is used to break up the earth or to remove weeds, for example in a garden or field.