11-letter words containing c, u, r, e, a
- glasscutter — a small hand tool that is specially designed for cutting sheets of glass, having a cutting wheel of steel or tungsten carbide and notches for snapping the glass
- goatsuckers — Plural form of goatsucker.
- granduncles — Plural form of granduncle.
- granulocyte — a circulating white blood cell having prominent granules in the cytoplasm and a nucleus of two or more lobes.
- grape juice — nectar of the grape
- grasscutter — a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
- great-uncle — a granduncle.
- guinea corn — durra.
- hair-curler — a cylindrical device, usually electronic and heated, used to curl the hair
- hardecanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- hardicanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- haruspicate — of or relating to a haruspex
- heartstruck — Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind.
- heat source — sth that generates warmth
- heavy crude — a type of crude oil that does not flow easily and has greater viscosity and specific density than other types of crude
- hederaceous — (rare) Of, pertaining to, or resembling ivy.
- hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
- herculaneum — an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: buried along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79; partially excavated.
- heuristical — Of or pertaining to heuristics.
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
- hierurgical — of or relating to sacred rites
- homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
- horn clause — (logic) A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
- house-craft — skill in domestic management
- hucksterage — the business of a huckster; peddling
- hue and cry — Early English Law. the pursuit of a felon or an offender with loud outcries or clamor to give an alarm.
- hurdle race — a race in which people have to jump over a number of obstacles while running
- hyperacuity — an extreme acuteness (of the senses)
- hyperacusis — (medicine) A heightened sensitivity to some sounds.
- hypercasual — Extremely casual.
- implicature — potential inference that is not logical entailment.
- include war — Excessive multi-leveled including within a discussion thread, a practice that tends to annoy readers. In a forum with high-traffic newsgroups, such as Usenet, this can lead to flames and the urge to start a kill file.
- increaseful — full of increase; fertile; fruitful
- incumbrance — encumbrance.
- inscrutable — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- insectarium — a place in which a collection of living insects is kept, as in a zoo.
- intercampus — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
- intercrural — of or relating to the leg or the hind limb.
- intercupola — the space between an inner and an outer dome.
- interocular — being, or situated, between the eyes.
- involucrate — having an involucre.
- irrecusable — not to be objected to or rejected.
- isoceraunic — representing, having, or indicating equality in the frequency or intensity of thunderstorms: isoceraunic line; isoceraunic map.
- isokeraunic — isoceraunic.
- judicatures — Plural form of judicature.
- judiciaries — Plural form of judiciary.
- keratoconus — a degenerative condition characterized by conical protrusion of the cornea and irregular astigmatism.
- la camargue — a delta region in S France, between the channels of the Grand and Petit Rhône: cattle, esp bulls for the Spanish bullrings, and horses are reared
- lack-luster — lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.
- lacquerware — Articles that have a decorative lacquer coating, viewed collectively.