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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.
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