8-letter words containing e, c, r, u
- curbable — able to be curbed or restrained
- curbless — with no curb or restraint
- curbside — at the curb or on the sidewalk adjacent to the street
- 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.
- cureless — a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.
- curetted — to scrape with a curette.
- curettes — Plural form of curette.
- curlicue — Curlicues are decorative twists and curls, usually carved or made with a pen.
- curlycue — an ornamental, fancy curl or twist, as in a signature.
- currency — The money used in a particular country is referred to as its currency.
- currents — Plural form of current.
- curricle — a two-wheeled open carriage drawn by two horses side by side
- curriers — Plural form of currier.
- curriery — the trade, work, or place of occupation of a currier
- cursedly — In a cursed manner; miserably.
- curseful — (archaic) horrendous, horrific.
- cursives — Plural form of cursive.
- cursored — Simple past tense and past participle of cursor.
- curtises — Benjamin Robbins, 1809–74, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1851–57; resigned in dissent over Dred Scott case.
- curtness — rudely brief in speech or abrupt in manner.
- curtsied — a respectful bow made by women and girls, consisting of bending the knees and lowering the body.
- curtsies — a respectful bow made by women and girls, consisting of bending the knees and lowering the body.
- curveted — Simple past tense and past participle of curvet.
- curvette — cuvette (def 1).
- customer — You can use customer in expressions such as a cool customer or a tough customer to indicate what someone's behaviour or character is like.
- cut rate — a price, fare, or rate below the standard charge.
- cut-rate — Cut-rate goods or services are cheaper than usual.
- cuthbert — Saint. ?635–87 ad, English monk; bishop of Lindisfarne. Feast day: March 20
- cutpurse — a thief who stole purses by cutting them from the belts to which they were attached
- cutwater — the forward part of the stem of a vessel, which cuts through the water
- cyanuret — cyanide
- cynosure — a person or thing that attracts notice, esp because of its brilliance or beauty
- decolour — to deprive of colour, as by bleaching
- decorous — Decorous behaviour is very respectable, calm, and polite.
- decorums — Plural form of decorum.
- decretum — the name given to various collections of canon law, esp that made by the monk Gratian in the 12th century, which forms the first part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
- decurion — a local councillor
- decurved — bent or curved downwards
- deductor — One who deducts tax.
- delbruck — Max. 1906–81, US molecular biologist, born in Germany. Noted for his work on bacteriophages, he shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1969
- destruct — to destroy (one's own missile or rocket) for safety
- deuteric — of, pertaining to, or resulting from the metasomatic changes taking place in igneous rock or magma as it solidifies
- discoure — Obsolete form of discover.
- discured — Simple past tense and past participle of discure.
- diuretic — increasing the volume of the urine excreted, as by a medicinal substance.
- douceurs — Plural form of douceur.
- dulcimer — Also called hammered dulcimer, hammer dulcimer. a trapezoidal zither with metal strings that are struck with light hammers.
- durocher — Leo Ernest ("The Lip") 1905–91, U.S. baseball player and manager.
- eboracum — ancient name of York, England.
- echiuran — spoonworm