8-letter words containing c, u, r, e, a
- carucage — the tax due on a carucate
- carucate — the area of land an oxen team could plough in a year
- caruncle — a fleshy outgrowth on the heads of certain birds, such as a cock's comb
- carve up — If you say that someone carves something up, you disapprove of the way they have divided it into small parts.
- carveout — A small company created from a larger one.
- causerie — an informal talk or conversational piece of writing
- celature — the art of embossing metal.
- cellular — Cellular means relating to the cells of animals or plants.
- centaurs — Classical Mythology. one of a race of monsters having the head, trunk, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
- centaury — any Eurasian plant of the genus Centaurium, esp C. erythraea, having purplish-pink flowers and formerly believed to have medicinal properties: family Gentianaceae
- cernauti — a city in SW Ukraine, on the Prut River: formerly in Romania.
- cerulean — a deep blue colour; azure
- chanteur — a male singer, especially one who sings in nightclubs and cabarets.
- chasseur — a member of a unit specially trained and equipped for swift deployment
- chauffer — a small portable heater or stove
- chearful — Archaic spelling of cheerful.
- claqueur — a member of a claque
- clear up — When you clear up or clear a place up, you tidy things and put them away.
- clearcut — Alternative spelling of clear cut.
- clearout — Alternative form of clear-out.
- cornuate — (medicine) Being or pertaining to a hornlike structure, as with a bicornuate uterus.
- couraged — Having a specified form or amount of courage.
- courages — the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc., without fear; bravery.
- courante — an old dance in quick triple time
- crateful — (informal) As much as a crate would hold.
- creature — You can refer to any living thing that is not a plant as a creature, especially when it is of an unknown or unfamiliar kind. People also refer to imaginary animals and beings as creatures.
- croupade — a type of horse leap in which the hind legs are drawn towards the belly
- cruciate — shaped or arranged like a cross
- crudware — /kruhd'weir/ Pejorative term for the hundreds of megabytes of low-quality freeware circulated by user's groups and BBSs in the micro-hobbyist world.
- crumenal — a purse
- crusaded — (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- crusader — A crusader for a cause is someone who does a lot in support of it.
- crusades — (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- crustate — having a crust or shell
- cubature — the determination of the cubic contents of something
- cue card — a card, unseen by the audience, carrying dialogue, lyrics, etc. as an aid to a television performer
- cultrate — shaped like a knife blade
- cumarone — a colourless insoluble aromatic liquid obtained from coal tar and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins. Formula: C 8H 6O
- cuprates — Plural form of cuprate.
- curacies — Plural form of curacy.
- curarine — an alkaloid extracted from curare, used as a muscle relaxant in surgery. Formula: C19H26ON2
- curarize — to paralyse or treat with curare
- curative — Something that has curative properties can cure people's illnesses.
- curbable — able to be curbed or restrained
- cure-all — A cure-all is something that is believed, usually wrongly, to be able to solve all the problems someone or something has, or to cure a wide range of illnesses.
- cut rate — a price, fare, or rate below the standard charge.
- cut-rate — Cut-rate goods or services are cheaper than usual.
- cutwater — the forward part of the stem of a vessel, which cuts through the water
- cyanuret — cyanide
- eboracum — ancient name of York, England.