7-letter words containing c, r, o, u
- retouch — to improve with new touches, highlights, or the like; touch up or rework, as a painting or makeup.
- rhoecus — flourished 6th century b.c, Greek sculptor and architect.
- ricoeur — Paul (pɔl) 1913–2005, French philosopher, noted for his work on theories of interpretation. His books include Philosophy of the Will (3 vols, 1950–60), Freud and Philosophy (1965), and The Living Metaphor (1975)
- rock up — to arrive late or unannounced
- roebuck — a male roe deer.
- roscius — Quintus [kwin-tuh s] /ˈkwɪn təs/ (Show IPA), c126–c62 b.c, Roman actor.
- rubicon — a river in N Italy flowing E into the Adriatic. 15 miles (24 km) long: in crossing this ancient boundary between Cisalpine Gaul and Italy, to march against Pompey in 49 b.c., Julius Caesar made a major military commitment.
- ruction — a disturbance, quarrel, or row.
- ruddock — robin (def 1).
- runcorn — a town in NW England, in Halton unitary authority, N Cheshire, on the Manchester Ship Canal: port and industrial centre; designated a new town in 1964. Pop: 60 072 (2001)
- sarcous — consisting of or pertaining to flesh or skeletal muscle.
- scoured — to range over, as in a search: They scoured the countryside for the lost child.
- scourer — a person who scours or ranges about.
- scourge — a whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture.
- scourie — a young seagull
- scouter — a person who scouts.
- scrotum — the pouch of skin that contains the testes.
- scrouge — to crowd or press
- sourced — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
- sources — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
- sourock — a Scots name for the sorrel plant
- succory — chicory.
- succour — help; relief; aid; assistance.
- sucrose — a crystalline disaccharide, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 , the sugar obtained from the sugarcane, the sugar beet, and sorghum, and forming the greater part of maple sugar; sugar.
- surcoat — a garment worn over medieval armor, often embroidered with heraldic arms.
- toucher — to put the hand, finger, etc., on or into contact with (something) to feel it: He touched the iron cautiously.
- touraco — any of several large, brightly colored birds of the family Musophagidae, of Africa, having a helmetlike crest.
- trochus — (in ancient Greece and Rome) a hoop or wheel, as used in play or exercise
- trounce — to beat severely; thrash.
- turbo c — (language) Borland's C compiler for IBM PCs. Turbo C, version 1.0, was introduced by Borland in 1987. It offered the first integrated edit-compile-run development environment for C on IBM PCs. It ran in 384KB of memory. It allowed inline assembly, supported all memory models, and offered optimisations for speed, size, constant folding, and jump elimination. Version 1.5 shipped on five 360 KB diskettes of uncompressed files, and came with sample C programs, including a stripped down spreadsheet called mcalc. Turbo C 2.0 has a debugger, a fast assembler, and an extensive graphics library. Turbo C has been largely supplanted by Turbo C++, introduced circa September, 1990 for both MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows.
- turlock — a town in central California.
- uncover — to lay bare; disclose; reveal.
- uncross — to change from a crossed position, as the legs.
- uncrown — to deprive or divest of a crown.
- unfrock — to deprive (a monk, priest, minister, etc.) of ecclesiastical rank, authority, and function; depose.
- unicorn — a mythical creature resembling a horse, with a single horn in the center of its forehead: often symbolic of chastity or purity.
- upcourt — away from one's own basket
- vocular — vocal or vocalic
- voucher — a person or thing that vouches.