10-letter words containing d, r, u
- cloud over — If the sky clouds over, it becomes covered with clouds.
- cloud rack — a group of moving clouds
- cloudberry — a creeping Eurasian herbaceous rosaceous plant, Rubus chamaemorus, with white flowers and orange berry-like fruits (drupelets)
- cloudburst — A cloudburst is a sudden, very heavy fall of rain.
- co-founder — a person who founds or establishes something with another.
- co-produce — to produce (a film, play, television programme, etc) with another person
- coadjutors — Plural form of coadjutor.
- coastguard — A coastguard is an official who watches the sea near a coast in order to get help for sailors when they need it and to stop illegal activities.
- coauthored — one of two or more joint authors.
- cofounders — a person who founds or establishes something with another.
- collarstud — a stud that is used to attach a removable collar to a shirt
- colourbred — (of an animal) bred to be a particular colour
- come round — to be restored to life or consciousness
- come under — If you come under attack or pressure, for example, people attack you or put pressure on you.
- communards — Plural form of communard.
- compounder — A person who mixes or combines ingredients in order to produce an animal feed, medicine, or other substance.
- conductors — a person who conducts; a leader, guide, director, or manager.
- conductour — Obsolete form of conductor.
- configured — Simple past tense and past participle of configure.
- confounder — to perplex or amaze, especially by a sudden disturbance or surprise; bewilder; confuse: The complicated directions confounded him.
- conga drum — a large tubular bass drum, used chiefly in Latin American and funk music and played with the hands
- conundrums — Plural form of conundrum.
- coproduced — to produce (a motion picture, play, etc.) in collaboration with others.
- coproducer — a joint producer
- cordonbleu — any of several small African finches of the genus Uraeginthus, having pale blue and buff plumage and commonly kept as cage birds.
- coreid bug — leaf-footed bug.
- corrugated — Corrugated metal or cardboard has been folded into a series of small parallel folds to make it stronger.
- coruscated — Simple past tense and past participle of coruscate.
- cough drop — a lozenge to relieve a cough
- counterbid — A counterbid is a bid that is made in response to a bid from another person or group, offering the seller more advantages.
- court card — (in a pack of playing cards) a king, queen, or jack of any suit
- court hand — a style of handwriting formerly used in English law courts
- courtyards — Plural form of courtyard.
- cracked up — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- cranked up — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crassitude — gross ignorance or stupidity.
- crenulated — minutely crenate, as the margin of certain leaves.
- cropduster — an aeroplane used to spray crops with fertilizer or insecticide
- croustades — Plural form of croustade.
- crowd surf — to engage in crowd surfing.
- crowd-surf — to engage in crowd surfing.
- cruddiness — The quality of being cruddy.
- crude tank — A crude tank is a large vessel for crude oil.
- cuadrillas — Plural form of cuadrilla.
- cumberland — (until 1974) a county of NW England, now part of Cumbria
- cummerbund — A cummerbund is a wide piece of cloth worn round the waist as part of a man's evening dress.
- cup-holder — a device for holding a cup upright, esp in a motor vehicle
- curmudgeon — If you call someone a curmudgeon, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- curse word — a profane or obscene word, especially as used in anger or for emphasis.
- cursedness — The state or quality of being cursed.