7-letter words containing i, u, r
- crucify — If someone is crucified, they are killed by being tied or nailed to a cross and left to die.
- crudity — the condition or quality of being crude
- cruised — Simple past tense and past participle of cruise.
- cruiser — A cruiser is a motor boat which has an area for people to live or sleep in.
- cruises — Plural form of cruise.
- cruisey — Alternative spelling of cruisy.
- cruizie — an oil lamp
- crummie — a cow, espy one with crooked or crumpled horns
- crusily — (in heraldry) decorated with small crosses
- cuirass — a piece of armour, of leather or metal covering the chest and back
- culprit — When you are talking about a crime or something wrong that has been done, you can refer to the person who did it as the culprit.
- cumarin — a fragrant crystalline substance, C 9 H 6 O 2 , obtained from the tonka bean, sweet clover, and certain other plants or prepared synthetically, used chiefly in soaps and perfumery.
- cumbria — (since 1974) a county of NW England comprising the former counties of Westmorland and Cumberland together with N Lancashire: includes the Lake District mountain area and surrounding coastal lowlands with the Pennine uplands in the extreme east. Administrative centre: Carlisle. Pop: 489 800 (2003 est). Area: 6810 sq km (2629 sq miles)
- cuprite — a red secondary mineral consisting of cuprous oxide in cubic crystalline form: a source of copper. Formula: Cu2O
- curbing — material for a curb
- curding — Often, curds. a substance consisting mainly of casein and the like, obtained from milk by coagulation, and used as food or made into cheese.
- curiosa — curiosities
- curious — eager to learn; inquisitive
- curlier — Comparative form of curly.
- curlily — in a curly manner
- curling — a game played on ice, esp in Scotland and Canada, in which heavy stones with handles (curling stones) are slid towards a target (tee)
- curried — Curried meat or vegetables have been flavoured with hot spices.
- currier — a person who curries leather
- curries — Plural form of curry.
- curring — to make a low, purring sound, as a cat.
- currish — of or like a cur; rude or bad-tempered
- cursing — the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc.
- cursive — of or relating to handwriting in which letters are formed and joined in a rapid flowing style
- curtail — If you curtail something, you reduce or limit it.
- curtain — Curtains are large pieces of material which you hang from the top of a window.
- curtiss — Glenn Hammond1878-1930; U.S. aviator & pioneer in aircraft construction
- curtius — Ernst [ernst] /ɛrnst/ (Show IPA), 1814–96, German archaeologist and historian.
- curvier — curved.
- curving — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- curvity — the state of being curved or bent
- cushier — Comparative form of cushy.
- cuttier — cut short; short; stubby.
- daturic — relating to the plants that belong to the genus Datura
- daumier — Honoré (ɔnɔre). 1808–79, French painter and lithographer, noted particularly for his political and social caricatures
- dhurrie — a coarse cotton or wool rug woven in India in a flat weave and in various designs
- diluter — (chemistry) A device that adds a measured amount of sample to a measured amount of diluent.
- dilutor — a device that dilutes something, such as a fitting on a garden hose or part of an industrial machine
- diquark — a low-energy configuration of two quarks attracted to one another by virtue of having antisymmetric colours and spins
- direful — dreadful; awful; terrible.
- discure — (obsolete) To discover; to reveal.
- disrupt — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- disturb — to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
- disturn — (obsolete) To turn aside.
- diuerse — Obsolete spelling of diverse.
- diurnal — of or relating to a day or each day; daily.