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11-letter words containing c, u, r, d

  • countersued — Simple past tense and past participle of countersue.
  • counterword — a word widely used in a sense much looser than its original meaning, such as tremendous or awful
  • countrified — You use countrified to describe something that seems or looks like something in the country, rather than in a town.
  • countryfied — countrified
  • countrymade — (in India) Describing a weapon manufactured illegally in a cottage industry.
  • countryside — The countryside is land which is away from towns and cities.
  • countrywide — Something that happens or exists countrywide happens or exists throughout the whole of a particular country.
  • court dance — a dignified dance for performance at a court. Compare folk dance (def 1).
  • court dress — the formal clothing worn at court
  • court order — a command by a court
  • crap around — Vulgar. excrement. an act of defecation.
  • credit hour — A credit hour is a credit that a school or college awards to students who have completed a course of study.
  • credulously — In a credulous manner; believably.
  • crest cloud — a stationary cloud parallel to and near the top of a mountain ridge. Compare cap cloud (def 1).
  • cri du chat — cat's cry syndrome.
  • crime squad — (in Britain) a division of the police which identifies and prevents major crimes, esp those crossing regional or national boundaries
  • crop duster — a pilot employed in crop-dusting from an airplane.
  • cropdusting — the spreading of fungicide, etc on crops in the form of dust, often from an aircraft
  • crossruffed — Simple past tense and past participle of crossruff.
  • crowded out — full to capacity; full to bursting
  • crowdfunded — Simple past tense and past participle of crowdfund.
  • crowdsource — to outsource work to an unspecified group of people, typically by making an appeal to the general public on the internet
  • crude steel — unrefined steel
  • cumbernauld — a town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire, northeast of Glasgow: developed as a new town since 1956. Pop: 49 664 (2001)
  • cummerbunds — Plural form of cummerbund.
  • curd cheese — a mild white cheese made from skimmed milk curds, smoother and fattier than cottage cheese
  • curmudgeons — Plural form of curmudgeon.
  • currycombed — Simple past tense and past participle of currycomb.
  • curtain rod — A curtain rod is a long, narrow pole on which you hang curtains.
  • custard cup — a heat-resistant porcelain or glass cup in which an individual custard is baked.
  • 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.
  • cut and run — to make a rapid escape
  • cut-and-try — marked by a procedure of trial and error; empirical: Many scientific advances are achieved with a cut-and-try approach.
  • cutter deck — the blade housing on a power mower.
  • cypripedium — any orchid of the genus Cypripedium, having large flowers with an inflated pouchlike lip
  • daisycutter — Alternative form of daisy cutter.
  • damp course — A damp course is a layer of waterproof material which is put into the bottom of the outside wall of a building to prevent moisture from rising.
  • dauerschlaf — a form of therapy, now rarely used, that involves the use of drugs to induce long periods of deep sleep.
  • dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
  • day cruiser — a motorboat too small to have any accommodations for sleeping.
  • decarburize — decarbonize
  • 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
  • decursively — in a decursive manner
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