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11-letter words containing i, r, e, c, u

  • courtliness — polite, refined, or elegant: courtly manners.
  • credit hour — A credit hour is a credit that a school or college awards to students who have completed a course of study.
  • crematorium — A crematorium is a building in which the bodies of dead people are burned.
  • crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
  • crime squad — (in Britain) a division of the police which identifies and prevents major crimes, esp those crossing regional or national boundaries
  • crimebuster — (chiefly, US, informal) A person, especially a law enforcement officer, who is particularly effective in thwarting criminal activity and in bringing criminals to justice.
  • crinigerous — having hair; hairy
  • crinkle-cut — (of chips or crisps) having a striated or furrowed surface
  • croquignole — a small crisp cake
  • cruciferous — of, relating to, or belonging to the plant family Cruciferae
  • cruciverbal — of or relating to crosswords
  • cruise ship — A cruise ship is a large ship which takes people from place to place on a cruise holiday, and on which entertainment, food, and drink are provided.
  • crumbliness — The state of being crumbly.
  • crunch time — the critical moment
  • crunchiness — The state of being crunchy.
  • cuirassiers — Plural form of cuirassier.
  • culmiferous — (of grasses) having a hollow jointed stem
  • cult figure — a person who inspires devotion in a particular group of people
  • culturalize — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
  • culver city — a city in SW California, W of Los Angeles.
  • culverineer — a soldier bearing a culverin
  • cupriferous — (of a substance such as an ore) containing or yielding copper
  • cupronickel — any ductile corrosion-resistant copper alloy containing up to 40 per cent nickel: used in coins, condenser tubes, turbine blades, etc
  • curb weight — the weight of an automotive vehicle including fuel, coolant, and lubricants but excluding occupants and cargo.
  • curia regis — (in Norman England) the king's court, which performed all functions of government
  • curie point — the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic
  • curie's law — the principle that the magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic substance is inversely proportional to its thermodynamic temperature
  • curiosities — Plural form of curiosity.
  • curiousness — eager to learn or know; inquisitive.
  • cursiveness — the quality of being cursive
  • cursoriness — The state of being cursory.
  • curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.
  • curtainless — without a curtain or curtains
  • curvilineal — (Of a line) Having bends; curved; curvilinear.
  • curvilinear — consisting of, bounded by, or characterized by a curved line
  • custard pie — Custard pies are artificial pies which people sometimes throw at each other as a joke.
  • custard-pie — characteristic of a type of slapstick comedy in which a performer throws a pie in another's face: popular especially in the era of vaudeville and early silent films.
  • customaries — Plural form of customary.
  • cypripedium — any orchid of the genus Cypripedium, having large flowers with an inflated pouchlike lip
  • cysticercus — an encysted larval form of many tapeworms, consisting of a head (scolex) inverted in a fluid-filled bladder
  • daisycutter — Alternative form of daisy cutter.
  • day cruiser — a motorboat too small to have any accommodations for sleeping.
  • decarburize — decarbonize
  • declinature — the act of refusing politely
  • decrepitude — Decrepitude is the state of being very old and in poor condition.
  • decumbiture — the act of lying recumbent and, in particular, as a sick patient in bed
  • decurionate — the post or position of a decurion
  • decursively — in a decursive manner
  • decurvation — the act of curving downwards
  • destructing — serving or designed to destroy: a destruct mechanism on a missile.
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