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15-letter words containing e, c, r, u

  • country kitchen — a large kitchen with ample areas for food preparation and eating.
  • country western — country music
  • coup de theatre — a dramatic turn of events, esp in a play
  • couples therapy — a counseling procedure that attempts to improve the adaptation and adjustment of two people who form a conjugal unit.
  • coureur de bois — a French Canadian woodsman or Métis who traded with Native Americans for furs
  • courier service — a special delivery service
  • course of study — an extended period of organized study, often leading to a qualification
  • court of appeal — A Court of Appeal is a court which deals with appeals against legal judgments.
  • court of arches — the court of appeal of the Province of Canterbury, formerly held under the arches of Bow Church
  • court of equity — a court having jurisdiction in equity or administering justice in accordance with the principles of equity.
  • court of record — a court which has a permanent record of its proceedings maintained
  • courting couple — a pair of lovers
  • coxsackie virus — any of various viruses that occur in the intestinal tract of man and cause diseases, some of which resemble poliomyelitis
  • cpu info center — (processor)   An old website at the University of California at Berkeley describing many different computers and their performance.
  • cracked residue — Cracked residue is the substance that is left when hydrocarbons in fuel have decomposed during thermal or catalytic cracking.
  • cranberry gourd — a South American vine, Abobra tenuifolia, of the gourd family, having deeply lobed, ovate leaves and bearing a berrylike scarlet fruit.
  • cranberry juice — the juice of cranberries
  • cranberry sauce — a sauce made from cranberries, often eaten with turkey
  • credit-crunched — adversely affected by a credit crunch
  • creeping fescue — red fescue.
  • crepuscular ray — a twilight ray of sunlight shining through breaks in high clouds and illuminating dust particles in the air.
  • cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
  • critical volume — the volume occupied by one mole or unit mass of a substance in its critical state
  • critter cuisine — food consisting of the flesh of insects, eaten as a delicacy in some parts of the world
  • croix de guerre — a French military decoration awarded for gallantry in battle: established 1915
  • croque-monsieur — a sandwich filled with ham and cheese, either dipped in egg batter or buttered on the outside, and toasted or grilled
  • crossover value — the percentage of offspring showing recombination among the total offspring of a given cross. It indicates the amount of crossing over that has occurred and therefore the relative positions of the genes on the chromosomes
  • crude oil berth — A crude oil berth is a place at a port for ships carrying crude oil.
  • crude tank yard — A crude tank yard is a place where tanks of crude oil are stored.
  • crush-resistant — not being easily creased
  • crustaceologist — One who studies crustaceology.
  • cry blue murder — to make an outcry
  • crystal counter — an instrument for detecting and measuring the intensity of high-energy radiation, in which particles collide with a crystal and momentarily increase its conductivity
  • crystal nucleus — the tiny crystal that forms at the onset of crystallization
  • crystalliferous — producing or containing crystals
  • cucumber beetle — any leaf beetle of the genus Diabrotica and related genera that feeds on cucumbers and other plants of the gourd family and is a vector of cucurbit wilt.
  • cucumber mosaic — a viral disease of cucumbers and many other plants, characterized by a mosaic pattern and distortion of leaves and fruits.
  • cuisine minceur — a style of cooking, originating in France, that limits the use of starch, sugar, butter, and cream traditionally used in French cookery
  • cultural cringe — the perception that one's own culture is inferior to that of another group or country
  • culture complex — a group of culture traits all interrelated and dominated by one essential trait: Nationalism is a culture complex.
  • culture jamming — a form of political and social activism which, by means of fake adverts, hoax news stories, pastiches of company logos and product labels, computer hacking, etc, draws attention to and at the same time subverts the power of the media, governments, and large corporations to control and distort the information that they give to the public in order to promote consumerism, militarism, etc
  • culture pattern — a group of interrelated culture traits of some continuity.
  • culture vulture — a person considered to be excessively, and often pretentiously, interested in the arts
  • culture-shocked — a state of bewilderment and distress experienced by an individual who is suddenly exposed to a new, strange, or foreign social and cultural environment.
  • curate's-eggish — good in parts
  • curia rhaetorum — a city in E Switzerland, capital of Graubünden canton. Pop: 32 989 (2000)
  • curie-weiss law — the principle that the magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic substance is inversely proportional to the difference between its temperature and its Curie point
  • curiosity value — value arising from rarity or strangeness rather than intrinsic worth
  • curl one's hair — to form into coils or ringlets, as the hair.
  • currency market — a market in which banks and traders purchase and sell foreign currencies
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