9-letter words containing c, o, u, r, t
- courgette — Courgettes are long thin vegetables with dark green skin.
- courtelle — a synthetic acrylic fibre resembling wool
- courteous — Someone who is courteous is polite and respectful to other people.
- courtesan — In former times, a courtesan was a woman who had sexual relationships with rich and powerful men for money.
- courtesie — Obsolete spelling of courtesy.
- courtezan — Alternative spelling of courtesan.
- courtiers — a person who is often in attendance at the court of a king or other royal personage.
- courtlike — reminiscent of the court in style or manner; elegant; courtly
- courtling — a fawning or sycophantic member of a royal court
- courtroom — A courtroom is a room in which a legal court meets.
- courtship — Courtship is the activity of courting or the time during which a man and a woman are courting.
- courtside — the area closest to the court
- courtyard — A courtyard is an open area of ground which is surrounded by buildings or walls.
- couturier — A couturier is a person who designs, makes, and sells expensive, fashionable clothes for women.
- coventure — An international coproduction set up in the absence of any official treaty between the countries.
- coverture — the condition or status of a married woman considered as being under the protection and influence of her husband
- crank out — If you say that a company or person cranks out a quantity of similar things, you mean they produce them quickly, in the same way, and are usually implying that the things are not original or are of poor quality.
- crash out — If someone crashes out somewhere, they fall asleep where they are because they are very tired or drunk.
- craterous — of, relating to, or resembling a crater
- cretinous — If you describe someone as cretinous, you think they are very stupid.
- cromulent — (humorous) Fine, acceptable or normal; excellent, realistic, legitimate or authentic.
- crop-dust — to subject (a field) to crop-dusting.
- croquante — a crisp cake or pastry
- croqueted — Simple past tense and past participle of croquet.
- croquette — Croquettes are small amounts of mashed potato or meat rolled in breadcrumbs and fried.
- cross out — If you cross out words on a page, you draw a line through them, because they are wrong or because you want to change them.
- cross-cut — made or used for cutting crosswise.
- cross-out — a structure consisting essentially of an upright and a transverse piece, used to execute persons in ancient times.
- crosscuts — Plural form of crosscut.
- crotonbug — species of cockroach
- croustade — a hollowed pastry case or piece of cooked bread, potato, etc, in which food is served
- crowd out — If one thing crowds out another, it is so successful or common that the other thing does not have the opportunity to be successful or exist.
- cube root — The cube root of a number is another number that makes the first number when it is multiplied by itself twice. For example, the cube root of 8 is 2.
- culpatory — expressing blame
- 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.
- cupertino — a town in W California.
- curbstone — A curbstone is one of the stones that form a curb.
- curiosity — Curiosity is a desire to know about something.
- curly top — a disease of plants, especially beets, characterized by puckered or cupped leaves and stunting or distortion, caused by a virus, Ruga verrucosans.
- curtation — the discrepancy between the curtate distance and the true distance of a planet from the sun
- curvation — the action of curving or bending
- custodier — a custodian
- customary — Customary is used to describe things that people usually do in a particular society or in particular circumstances.
- customers — A person or organization that buys goods or services from a store or business.
- cut short — to stop abruptly before the end
- cuticolor — of the color of flesh.
- cutthroat — a person who cuts throats; murderer
- decocture — the essence or liquor resulting from decoction
- destructo — a person who causes havoc or destruction
- downcourt — to or into the opposite end of the court.