8-letter words containing c, u, r, e, n
- courtney — a feminine and masculine name
- crumenal — a purse
- crunched — Simple past tense and past participle of crunch.
- cruncher — the critical or decisive thing
- crunches — Plural form of crunch.
- crunkest — a type of hip-hop originating in the southern U.S. and characterized by heavy bass and call-and-response vocals.
- culverin — a long-range medium to heavy cannon used during the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries
- cumarone — a colourless insoluble aromatic liquid obtained from coal tar and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins. Formula: C 8H 6O
- curarine — an alkaloid extracted from curare, used as a muscle relaxant in surgery. Formula: C19H26ON2
- currency — The money used in a particular country is referred to as its currency.
- currents — Plural form of current.
- curtness — rudely brief in speech or abrupt in manner.
- cyanuret — cyanide
- cynosure — a person or thing that attracts notice, esp because of its brilliance or beauty
- decurion — a local councillor
- echiuran — spoonworm
- enacture — an enactment
- encarpus — a decoration of fruit or flowers on a frieze
- encolour — to give a colour to
- encolure — The neck of a horse.
- encumber — Restrict or burden (someone or something) in such a way that free action or movement is difficult.
- enuretic — Pertaining to, or afflicted by, enuresis; tending to wet the bed.
- eructing — Present participle of eruct.
- etruscan — a member of an ancient people of central Italy whose civilization influenced the Romans, who had suppressed them by about 200 bc
- euchring — Present participle of euchre.
- frounced — Simple past tense and past participle of frounce.
- furnaced — (in combinations) having a particular type or number of furnaces.
- furnaces — Plural form of furnace.
- furuncle — boil2 .
- guernica — Basque town in northern Spain: bombed and destroyed in 1937 by German planes helping the insurgents in the Spanish Civil War.
- gun crew — the sailors and petty officers in charge of a gun on a ship.
- hurcheon — a hedgehog.
- incisure — a notch, as in a bone or other structure.
- incumber — encumber.
- incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
- incurved — Turned inwards.
- inducers — Plural form of inducer.
- insecure — subject to fears, doubts, etc.; not self-confident or assured: an insecure person.
- intercur — (obsolete, intransitive) To intervene; to come or occur in the meantime.
- intercut — to cut from one type of shot to another, as from a long shot to a closeup.
- juncture — a point of time, especially one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances: At this juncture, we must decide whether to stay or to walk out.
- kerchunk — A sudden heavy blow or thump.
- knuckler — a slow pitch that moves erratically toward home plate, usually delivered by holding the ball between the thumb and the knuckles of the first joints of the first two or three fingers.
- launcher — a person or thing that launches.
- laurence — a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- lincture — A linctus; medicine taken by licking with the tongue.
- manicure — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- nacreous — of or relating to nacre.
- neuritic — inflammation of a nerve.
- neurotic — pertaining to the nerves or to nerve disease; neural: no longer in technical use.