9-letter words containing c, u, r, e, a
- calembour — a pun
- calenture — a mild fever of tropical climates, similar in its symptoms to sunstroke
- cancerous — Cancerous cells or growths are cells or growths that are the result of cancer.
- canefruit — a fruit, such as the raspberry, which grows on woody-stemmed plants
- cankerous — having cankers
- cannelure — a groove or fluting, esp one around the cylindrical part of a bullet
- capernaum — a ruined town in N Israel, on the NW shore of the Sea of Galilee: closely associated with Jesus Christ during his ministry
- capturers — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- carbenium — (organic chemistry, informal) Any carbocation.
- carbuncle — A carbuncle is a large swelling under the skin.
- carbunkle — Misspelling of carbuncle.
- carburate — carburet.
- carburize — to increase the carbon content of (the surface of a low-carbon steel) so that the surface can be hardened by heat treatment
- carefully — cautious in one's actions: Be careful when you cross the street.
- carousels — A merry-go-round.
- carpellum — (botany) A carpel.
- carrefour — a public square, esp one at the intersection of several roads
- carrousel — carousel
- cartouche — a carved or cast ornamental tablet or panel in the form of a scroll, sometimes having an inscription
- caruncles — Plural form of caruncle.
- carve out — to make or create (a career)
- carve-out — to cut (a solid material) so as to form something: to carve a piece of pine.
- castoreum — the oil secreted from the beaver which is used as bait by trappers
- caterwaul — If a person or animal caterwauls, they make a loud, high, unpleasant noise like the noise that cats make when they fight.
- cauchemar — a nightmare
- cauldrife — susceptible to cold; chilly
- causeries — Plural form of causerie.
- cauterant — caustic; cauterizing
- cauteries — Plural form of cautery.
- cauterise — to burn with a hot iron, electric current, fire, or a caustic, especially for curative purposes; treat with a cautery.
- cauterism — the application of burning, searing, or cautery
- cauterize — If a doctor cauterizes a wound, he or she burns it with heat or with a chemical in order to close it up and prevent it from becoming infected.
- cautioner — A person who cautions.
- cavernous — A cavernous room or building is very large inside, and so it reminds you of a cave.
- cellarous — of, relating to or resembling a cellar
- centaurea — any of a genus (Centaurea) of annual and perennial plants of the composite family, having egg-shaped flower heads, including the star thistles and the bachelor's buttons
- centauric — characterized by an integration of mind and body for consciousness above the ego-self
- centaurus — a conspicuous extensive constellation in the S hemisphere, close to the Southern Cross, that contains two first magnitude stars, Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri, and the globular cluster Omega Centauri
- centurial — of or relating to a Roman century
- ceraceous — waxlike or waxy
- cerastium — any of a genus of plants belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae
- ceratodus — any of various extinct lungfish constituting the genus Ceratodus, common in Cretaceous and Triassic times
- charge up — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- chargeful — onerous; expensive
- chargeous — (obsolete) burdensome.
- charmeuse — a lightweight fabric with a satin-like finish
- chartreux — a breed of sturdy cat with short dense woolly fur
- chartulae — charta (def 2).
- chasseurs — Plural form of chasseur.
- chauffeur — The chauffeur of a rich or important person is the man or woman who is employed to look after their car and drive them around in it.