7-letter words containing c, o, u
- courbet — Gustave (ɡystav). 1819–77, French painter, a leader of the realist movement; noted for his depiction of contemporary life
- courche — (Scotland) A square piece of linen formerly worn by women instead of a cap; a kerchief.
- courier — A courier is a person who is paid to take letters and parcels direct from one place to another.
- courlan — limpkin
- coursed — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- courser — a person who courses hounds or dogs, esp greyhounds
- courses — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- coursey — (nautical) A space in the galley; a part of the hatches.
- courted — Law. a place where justice is administered. a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases. a session of a judicial assembly.
- courter — a person who courts; a suitor
- courtly — You use courtly to describe someone whose behaviour is very polite, often in a rather old-fashioned way.
- cousins — A child of one's uncle or aunt.
- couteau — a large two-edged knife used formerly as a weapon
- couther — known or acquainted with.
- couthie — sociable; friendly; congenial
- couture — Couture is the designing and making of expensive fashionable clothes, or the clothes themselves.
- couvade — a custom in certain cultures of treating the husband of a woman giving birth as if he were bearing the child
- coverup — an attempt to keep blunders, crimes, etc. from being disclosed
- cow gum — a colourless adhesive based on a natural rubber solution
- cozumel — an island off NE Quintana Roo state, on the Yucatán Peninsula, in SE Mexico: tourist resort.
- cozy up — snugly warm and comfortable: a cozy little house.
- croesus — died ?546 bc, the last king of Lydia (560–546), noted for his great wealth
- crop up — If something crops up, it appears or happens, usually unexpectedly.
- cropful — the quantity that can be held in a bird's crop
- cropout — A horse that has spotted coloration but whose sire and dam were both solid-coloured.
- croquet — Croquet is a game played on grass in which the players use long wooden sticks called mallets to hit balls through metal arches.
- croquis — a rough sketch of a live model
- croupon — a type of high quality leather obtained from the rear section of the hide
- crouton — Croutons are small pieces of toasted or fried bread that are added to soup just before you eat it.
- crunode — a point at which two branches of a curve intersect, each branch having a distinct tangent; node
- crusado — a former gold or silver coin of Portugal bearing on its reverse the figure of a cross
- cruzado — a former standard monetary unit of Brazil, replaced by the cruzeiro
- cry out — If you cry out, you call out loudly because you are frightened, unhappy, or in pain.
- cubhood — the condition of being a cub
- cuboids — Plural form of cuboid.
- cuckold — A cuckold is a man whose wife is having an affair with another man.
- cuckoos — Plural form of cuckoo.
- cullion — a despicable person
- culotte — a pair of culottes
- cumshot — (vulgar, slang) A sex act in pornographic films in which a man ejaculates onto his partner's body.
- cupolar — relating to or resembling a cupola
- cupolas — Plural form of cupola.
- cuprous — of or containing copper in the monovalent state
- cur dog — a worthless dog; mongrel.
- curacao — orange-flavoured liqueur
- curacoa — Dated form of cura\u00e7ao.
- curator — A curator is someone who is in charge of the objects or works of art in a museum or art gallery.
- curiosa — curiosities
- curious — eager to learn; inquisitive
- cursors — Plural form of cursor.