10-letter words containing c, r, o, u
- courtships — Plural form of courtship.
- courtyards — Plural form of courtyard.
- couturiere — a female dressmaker or dress designer
- couturiers — Plural form of couturier.
- couverture — Chocolate made with extra cocoa butter to give a high gloss, used for covering sweets and cakes.
- covermount — A covermount is a small gift attached to the front cover of a magazine.
- covertures — Plural form of coverture.
- cowpuncher — cowboy
- crab louse — a parasitic louse, Pthirus (or Phthirus) pubis, that infests the pubic region in humans
- crackhouse — a place where cocaine in the form of crack is bought, sold, and smoked.
- creepmouse — an informal tickling game played with small children
- cretaceous — consisting of or resembling chalk
- crevecoeur — Miˈchel Guilˈlaume Jean de (miˈʃɛl giˈjoʊm ʒɑ̃ də) ; mēshelˈ gēyōmˈ zhän də) (pseud. J. Hector St. John) 1735-1813; Am. essayist & agriculturist, born in France
- cropduster — an aeroplane used to spray crops with fertilizer or insecticide
- croquettes — Plural form of croquette.
- cross buck — an offensive play in which two running backs cross paths and charge into the line on opposite sides, one back receiving the ball from the quarterback and the other back faking possession.
- crosscourt — (in racket games) directed to the diagonally opposite side of the court.
- crossruffs — Plural form of crossruff.
- croton bug — a small, winged cockroach (Blattella germanica); German cockroach
- croupiness — the condition of being afflicted with croup
- croustades — Plural form of croustade.
- crowd surf — to engage in crowd surfing.
- crowd-surf — to engage in crowd surfing.
- crown rust — a disease of oats and other grasses, characterized by the formation, on the leaves, of orange or black spores, caused by a rust fungus, Puccinia coronata.
- cruciation — (obsolete) torture; torment.
- crumbcloth — a cloth placed under a dining table to protect the carpet from crumbs and other material
- crush zone — The crush zone is the part of a vehicle's bodywork that is designed to absorb the energy in a crash, reducing the amount that is felt by passengers inside the vehicle.
- crushproof — unable to be crushed or creased
- crustation — the action of forming a crust
- cryophorus — a glass tube with a bulb at each end which contains water and water vapour, used in physics to demonstrate freezing by evaporation
- cuchifrito — a small piece of pork, pig's stomach, etc. dipped in batter and deep-fried
- cuckoo ray — a fish, Raja naevus
- cuculiform — of, relating to, or belonging to the order Cuculiformes, which includes the cuckoos
- cucumiform — shaped like a cucumber
- culbertson — Ely (ˈiːlaɪ). 1891–1955, US authority on contract bridge
- culiciform — resembling a gnat
- cultivator — A cultivator is a tool or machine which is used to break up the earth or to remove weeds, for example in a garden or field.
- cultriform — (botany, zoology) Shaped like a pruning knife; cultrate.
- cumbersome — Something that is cumbersome is large and heavy and therefore difficult to carry, wear, or handle.
- cumbrously — In a cumbrous manner.
- cumuliform — resembling a cumulus cloud
- cunctatory — prone to delaying
- cuneiforms — Plural form of cuneiform.
- cup-holder — a device for holding a cup upright, esp in a motor vehicle
- curatorial — Curatorial means relating to curators and their work.
- curbstones — Plural form of curbstone.
- curiousest — (non-standard) Superlative form of curious.
- curiousity — Misspelling of curiosity.
- curmudgeon — If you call someone a curmudgeon, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- currawongs — Plural form of currawong.