8-letter words containing c, r, e, u
- captures — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- carburet — to combine or mix (a gas) with carbon or carbon compounds
- carefull — Obsolete spelling of careful.
- carneous — fleshy
- caroused — Simple past tense and past participle of carouse.
- carousel — At an airport, a carousel is a moving surface from which passengers can collect their luggage.
- carouser — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
- carouses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of carouse.
- carpeaux — Jean Baptiste [zhahn ba-teest] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), 1827–75, French sculptor.
- carucage — the tax due on a carucate
- carucate — the area of land an oxen team could plough in a year
- caruncle — a fleshy outgrowth on the heads of certain birds, such as a cock's comb
- carve up — If you say that someone carves something up, you disapprove of the way they have divided it into small parts.
- carveout — A small company created from a larger one.
- causerie — an informal talk or conversational piece of writing
- ceinture — cincture (defs 1, 2).
- celature — the art of embossing metal.
- cellular — Cellular means relating to the cells of animals or plants.
- censured — strong or vehement expression of disapproval: The newspapers were unanimous in their censure of the tax proposal.
- censurer — strong or vehement expression of disapproval: The newspapers were unanimous in their censure of the tax proposal.
- censures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of censure.
- centaurs — Classical Mythology. one of a race of monsters having the head, trunk, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
- centaury — any Eurasian plant of the genus Centaurium, esp C. erythraea, having purplish-pink flowers and formerly believed to have medicinal properties: family Gentianaceae
- cepstrum — (mathematics) The Fourier transform of the logarithm of a spectrum; used especially in voice analysis.
- cerberus — a dog, usually represented as having three heads, that guarded the entrance to Hades
- cerebrum — the anterior portion of the brain of vertebrates, consisting of two lateral hemispheres joined by a thick band of fibres: the dominant part of the brain in man, associated with intellectual function, emotion, and personality
- cereuses — Plural form of cereus.
- cernauti — a city in SW Ukraine, on the Prut River: formerly in Romania.
- cernuous — (of some flowers or buds) drooping
- cerulean — a deep blue colour; azure
- cerulein — a bright blue dyestuff obtained from indigo
- cervicum — the flexible region between the prothorax and head in insects
- chanteur — a male singer, especially one who sings in nightclubs and cabarets.
- chasseur — a member of a unit specially trained and equipped for swift deployment
- chauffer — a small portable heater or stove
- chearful — Archaic spelling of cheerful.
- cheer up — When you cheer up or when something cheers you up, you stop feeling depressed and become more cheerful.
- cheerful — Someone who is cheerful is happy and shows this in their behaviour.
- chemurgy — the branch of chemistry concerned with the industrial use of organic raw materials, esp materials of agricultural origin
- chequers — an estate and country house in S England, in central Buckinghamshire: the official country residence of the British prime minister
- cherubic — If someone looks cherubic, they look sweet and innocent like a cherub.
- cherubim — a celestial being. Gen. 3:24; Ezek. 1, 10.
- cherubin — Obsolete form of cherub.
- choregus — the producer or financier of a dramatist's works in Ancient Greece
- chorused — Music. a group of persons singing in unison. (in an opera, oratorio, etc.) such a group singing choral parts in connection with soloists or individual singers. a piece of music for singing in unison. a part of a song that recurs at intervals, usually following each verse; refrain.
- choruses — Plural form of chorus.
- chubbier — Comparative form of chubby.
- chubster — An overweight person.
- chuckers — woodchuck.
- chuckler — Someone who chuckles.