11-letter words containing c, u, r, e, a
- crazy house — an asylum for people with psychiatric disorders
- cream sauce — a white sauce made from cream, butter, etc
- crematorium — A crematorium is a building in which the bodies of dead people are burned.
- crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
- creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
- crepuscular — Crepuscular means relating to twilight.
- cretan bull — a savage bull, captured on Crete by Hercules and allowed to roam near Marathon in Greece until captured by Theseus.
- crime squad — (in Britain) a division of the police which identifies and prevents major crimes, esp those crossing regional or national boundaries
- cruciverbal — of or relating to crosswords
- crustaceans — Plural form of crustacean.
- crustaceous — forming, resembling, or possessing a surrounding crust or shell
- cry quarter — to beg for mercy
- cryocautery — Cautery by the application of extreme cold.
- cuirassiers — Plural form of cuirassier.
- culebra cut — former name of Gaillard Cut.
- culturalize — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- culture gap — a divide between two social groups that have different cultures
- culture war — conflict of values
- cumbernauld — a town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire, northeast of Glasgow: developed as a new town since 1956. Pop: 49 664 (2001)
- curableness — The quality or state of being curable.
- curb market — curb (def 5).
- curia regis — (in Norman England) the king's court, which performed all functions of government
- curie's law — the principle that the magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic substance is inversely proportional to its thermodynamic temperature
- curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.
- curtainless — without a curtain or curtains
- curvilineal — (Of a line) Having bends; curved; curvilinear.
- curvilinear — consisting of, bounded by, or characterized by a curved line
- 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.
- customaries — Plural form of customary.
- cut a caper — to skip or jump playfully
- cyperaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Cyperaceae, a family of grasslike flowering plants with solid triangular stems, including the sedges, bulrush, cotton grass, and certain rushes. Some are grown as water plants or as ornamental grasses; and Cyperus papyrus is the papyrus plant
- 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.
- day cruiser — a motorboat too small to have any accommodations for sleeping.
- decarburize — decarbonize
- declinature — the act of refusing politely
- deculturate — to cause the loss or abandonment of culture or cultural characteristics of (a people, society, etc.).
- decurionate — the post or position of a decurion
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- deutschmark — the former standard monetary unit of Germany, divided into 100 pfennigs; replaced by the euro in 2002: until 1990 the standard monetary unit of West Germany
- dextrocular — favoring the right eye, rather than the left, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to sinistrocular).
- discouraged — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- discourager — One who discourages.
- discourages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discourage.
- disgraceful — bringing or deserving disgrace; shameful; dishonorable; disreputable.
- disturbance — the act of disturbing.
- diverticula — a blind, tubular sac or process branching off from a canal or cavity, especially an abnormal, saclike herniation of the mucosal layer through the muscular wall of the colon.
- documentary — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.