9-letter words containing e, c, r, u
- cuneiform — wedge-shaped
- cupbearer — an attendant who fills and serves wine cups, as in a royal household
- cupertino — a town in W California.
- cupferron — a salt ammonium compound (N-nitrosophenylhydroxylamine) used as a reagent in metal ion complexation
- cupflower — any of various plants belonging to the genus Nierembergia, of the nightshade family, having showy tubular or bell-shaped flowers.
- cupholder — a competitor who has won or successfully defended a specific cup, trophy, championship, etc.; champion.
- cupressus — any tree of the genus Cupressus
- curandera — (in Hispanic America) a female healer or shaman
- curandero — a male healer or shaman in Hispanic-America
- curarized — Simple past tense and past participle of curarize.
- curatress — A female curator.
- curbsides — Plural form of curbside.
- curbstone — A curbstone is one of the stones that form a curb.
- curettage — the process of using a curette
- curetting — to scrape with a curette.
- curiouser — (nonstandard) Comparative form of curious.
- curlicued — Simple past tense and past participle of curlicue.
- curlicues — Plural form of curlicue.
- curliness — The state of being curly.
- curlpaper — a strip of paper used to roll up and set a section of hair, usually wetted, into a curl
- curly-cue — an ornamental, fancy curl or twist, as in a signature.
- curlyhead — a person whose hair is curly.
- currently — at the presenttime; now: She is currently working as a lab technician.
- curricles — Plural form of curricle.
- curseperl — A curses library for Perl by the author of Perl, Larry Wall <[email protected]>. It comes with Perl.
- cursively — In a cursive manner.
- curtailed — to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.
- curtailer — One who curtails.
- curtained — A curtained window, door, or other opening has a curtain hanging across it.
- curtalaxe — a cutlass
- curtilage — the enclosed area of land adjacent to a dwelling house
- curtseyed — Simple past tense and past participle of curtsey.
- curvative — (of leaves) having curved edges
- curvature — The curvature of something is its curved shape, especially when this shape is part of the circumference of a circle.
- curveball — a ball pitched in a curving path so as to make it more difficult to hit
- curvesome — (dated) curvy.
- curveting — Present participle of curvet.
- curvetted — Simple past tense and past participle of curvet.
- curviness — The state or condition of being curvy.
- custodier — a custodian
- customers — A person or organization that buys goods or services from a store or business.
- cut-price — Cut-price goods or services are cheaper than usual.
- cut-rater — a person or company that offers goods or services at cut-rate prices.
- cutcherry — (formerly, in India) government offices and law courts collectively
- cutleries — cutting instruments collectively, especially knives for cutting food.
- cutpurses — Plural form of cutpurse.
- cutwaters — Plural form of cutwater.
- cyanurate — a salt or ester derived from cyanide
- cybercrud — (jargon) /si:'ber-kruhd/ 1. (Coined by Ted Nelson) Obfuscatory tech-talk. Verbiage with a high MEGO factor. The computer equivalent of bureaucratese. 2. Incomprehensible stuff embedded in e-mail. First there were the "Received" headers that show how mail flows through systems, then MIME (Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions) headers and part boundaries, and now huge blocks of hex for PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail) or PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) digital signatures and certificates of authenticity. This stuff all has a purpose and good user interfaces should hide it, but all too often users are forced to wade through it.
- cybernaut — a person who is an expert in or uses the internet a lot