10-letter words containing c, r, u, i, a
- myocardium — the muscular substance of the heart.
- naturistic — Pertaining to naturism (doctrine attributing everything to nature).
- naviculare — a small boat-shaped bone of the wrist or foot
- naviculars — Plural form of navicular.
- nicaraguan — a republic in Central America. 57,143 sq. mi. (148,000 sq. km). Capital: Managua.
- noncrucial — Not crucial.
- nuclearism — a political philosophy maintaining that nuclear weapons are the best means of assuring peace and of attaining political goals.
- nuclearize — to equip with nuclear weapons; give nuclear capability to: a fear that armed forces on both sides would become nuclearized.
- nudibranch — a shell-less, marine snail of the suborder Nudibranchia, having external, often branched respiratory appendages on the back and sides.
- nunciature — the office or the term of service of a nuncio.
- oceanarium — a large saltwater aquarium for the display and observation of fish and other marine life.
- orbiculate — orbicular; rounded.
- orichalcum — a brass rich in zinc, prepared by the ancients.
- pancratium — (in ancient Greece) an athletic contest combining wrestling and boxing.
- pannicular — a layer of tissue, especially a subcutaneous layer of fat.
- parachutic — involving a parachute
- paramecium — any ciliated freshwater protozoan of the genus Paramecium, having an oval body and a long, deep oral groove.
- paris club — an informal group of representatives from IMF member nations whose governments or central banks have lent money to governments of other countries
- paroecious — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
- part music — music, especially vocal music, with parts for two or more independent performers.
- particular — of or relating to a single or specific person, thing, group, class, occasion, etc., rather than to others or all; special rather than general: one's particular interests in books.
- pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
- peculiarly — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- per curiam — by the court
- picaresque — pertaining to, characteristic of, or characterized by a form of prose fiction, originally developed in Spain, in which the adventures of an engagingly roguish hero are described in a series of usually humorous or satiric episodes that often depict, in realistic detail, the everyday life of the common people: picaresque novel; picaresque hero.
- pickup arm — tone arm.
- picturable — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
- precarious — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- precaution — a measure taken in advance to avert possible evil or to secure good results.
- predacious — predatory; rapacious.
- procacious — insolent
- procambium — the meristem from which vascular bundles are developed.
- pubic hair — hair growing in genital area
- public bar — (in a tavern or pub) the common section of a bar or barroom, not as exclusive, as quiet, or as comfortably furnished as the saloon section.
- punic wars — three wars (264–241 bc, 218–201 bc, and 149–146 bc), in which Rome crushed Carthaginian power, destroying Carthage itself
- purchasing — buying
- quadrantic — Of, pertaining to, or affecting a quadrant.
- quadratics — a quadratic polynomial or equation.
- quadriceps — a large muscle in front of the thigh, the action of which extends the leg or bends the hip joint.
- quadricone — a quadric surface swept out by a straight line that passes through a fixed point such that no straight line can intersect it at more than two points
- quadrisect — to divide (something) into four equal parts.
- quartzitic — Of, relating to, or containing quartzite.
- quick draw — a game or competition in which the winner is the quickest person to draw a handgun from a holster and sometimes to fire it and hit a target.
- quickwater — the part of a river or other stream having a strong current.
- quinacrine — an alkaloid, C 2 3 H 3 0 ClN 3 O, similar in its properties to pamaquine, used in the treatment of malaria.
- race music — blues-based music or jazz by and for African Americans in the 1920s and 1930s, when it was regarded as a distinctive, separate market by the music industry; early jazz or rhythm-and-blues.
- radiculose — having small roots or rhizoids
- rain cloud — a cloud or a mass of clouds that yields rain.
- rain-cloud — a cloud or a mass of clouds that yields rain.
- reacquaint — to make more or less familiar, aware, or conversant (usually followed by with): to acquaint the mayor with our plan.