11-letter words containing c, r, e, u, t
- cryocautery — Cautery by the application of extreme cold.
- culebra cut — former name of Gaillard Cut.
- cult figure — a person who inspires devotion in a particular group of people
- culturalize — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- culture gap — a divide between two social groups that have different cultures
- culture war — conflict of values
- cultureless — Devoid of culture.
- culver city — a city in SW California, W of Los Angeles.
- curb market — curb (def 5).
- curb weight — the weight of an automotive vehicle including fuel, coolant, and lubricants but excluding occupants and cargo.
- curie point — the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic
- curiosities — Plural form of curiosity.
- currentness — the state or quality of being current; currency.
- curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.
- curtainless — without a curtain or curtains
- custard pie — Custard pies are artificial pies which people sometimes throw at each other as a joke.
- custard-pie — characteristic of a type of slapstick comedy in which a performer throws a pie in another's face: popular especially in the era of vaudeville and early silent films.
- customaries — Plural form of customary.
- cut a caper — to skip or jump playfully
- cut corners — to do something in the easiest and shortest way, esp at the expense of high standards
- cutter deck — the blade housing on a power mower.
- cysticercus — an encysted larval form of many tapeworms, consisting of a head (scolex) inverted in a fluid-filled bladder
- daisycutter — Alternative form of daisy cutter.
- declinature — the act of refusing politely
- decluttered — Simple past tense and past participle of declutter.
- deconstruct — In philosophy and literary criticism, to deconstruct an idea or text means to show the contradictions in its meaning, and to show how it does not fully explain what it claims to explain.
- decrepitude — Decrepitude is the state of being very old and in poor condition.
- deculturate — to cause the loss or abandonment of culture or cultural characteristics of (a people, society, etc.).
- decumbiture — the act of lying recumbent and, in particular, as a sick patient in bed
- decurionate — the post or position of a decurion
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- destructing — serving or designed to destroy: a destruct mechanism on a missile.
- destruction — Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
- destructive — Something that is destructive causes or is capable of causing great damage, harm, or injury.
- destructors — Plural form of destructor.
- destructure — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
- deuce court — the receiver's right-hand service court, into which the ball is served when the score is deuce.
- deutschmark — the former standard monetary unit of Germany, divided into 100 pfennigs; replaced by the euro in 2002: until 1990 the standard monetary unit of West Germany
- dextrocular — favoring the right eye, rather than the left, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to sinistrocular).
- direct rule — Direct rule is a system in which a central government rules an area which has had its own parliament or law-making organization in the past.
- discounters — Plural form of discounter.
- discourtesy — lack or breach of courtesy; incivility; rudeness.
- disjuncture — the act of disjoining or the state of being disjoined; disjunction.
- distincture — distinctness
- disturbance — the act of disturbing.
- diverticula — a blind, tubular sac or process branching off from a canal or cavity, especially an abnormal, saclike herniation of the mucosal layer through the muscular wall of the colon.
- diverticuli — Misspelling of diverticula.
- 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.
- documenters — Plural form of documenter.
- dulcimerist — Someone who plays the dulcimer.