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.