11-letter words containing l, u, c, r
- culturalism — A belief system that emphasizes the role of culture.
- culturalize — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- culture gap — a divide between two social groups that have different cultures
- culture war — conflict of values
- cultureless — Devoid of culture.
- culturology — a branch of anthropology concerned with the study of cultural institutions as distinct from the people who are involved in them.
- culturomics — the study of human culture and cultural trends over time by means of quantitative analysis of words and phrases in a very large corpus of digitized texts: Culturomics can pinpoint periods of accelerated language change.
- culver city — a city in SW California, W of Los Angeles.
- culver hole — a hole for receiving a timber.
- culverineer — a soldier bearing a culverin
- cumbernauld — a town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire, northeast of Glasgow: developed as a new town since 1956. Pop: 49 664 (2001)
- cupronickel — any ductile corrosion-resistant copper alloy containing up to 40 per cent nickel: used in coins, condenser tubes, turbine blades, etc
- curableness — The quality or state of being curable.
- curialistic — of or relating to curialism or curialists
- curie's law — the principle that the magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic substance is inversely proportional to its thermodynamic temperature
- currer bell — Anne ("Acton Bell") 1820–49, English novelist.
- curriculums — Plural form of curriculum.
- curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.
- curtainless — without a curtain or curtains
- curtainwall — Storm shutters or other removable protection for all windows and doors in a residence or building against the effects of high winds, rain and flying objects during a hurricane. They can be made of a variety of materials such as aluminum panels, iron or even wood.
- curvilineal — (Of a line) Having bends; curved; curvilinear.
- curvilinear — consisting of, bounded by, or characterized by a curved line
- customarily — according to custom; usually
- dauerschlaf — a form of therapy, now rarely used, that involves the use of drugs to induce long periods of deep sleep.
- declinature — the act of refusing politely
- decluttered — Simple past tense and past participle of declutter.
- deculturate — to cause the loss or abandonment of culture or cultural characteristics of (a people, society, etc.).
- decursively — in a decursive manner
- dextrocular — favoring the right eye, rather than the left, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to sinistrocular).
- direct rule — Direct rule is a system in which a central government rules an area which has had its own parliament or law-making organization in the past.
- disclosures — Plural form of disclosure.
- discolorous — (botany, of leaves) Having upper and lower surfaces of different colours.
- discoloured — (British) alternative spelling of discolored.
- disgraceful — bringing or deserving disgrace; shameful; dishonorable; disreputable.
- distractful — (archaic) distracting.
- disulphuric — pyrosulphuric
- diurnal arc — the portion of the diurnal circle that is above the horizon at a given point.
- diverticula — a blind, tubular sac or process branching off from a canal or cavity, especially an abnormal, saclike herniation of the mucosal layer through the muscular wall of the colon.
- diverticuli — Misspelling of diverticula.
- double-crop — to raise two consecutive crops on the same land within a single growing season.
- doublecross — To betray someone by leading them into trap after having gained their trust and led them to believe that they were actually being aided.
- douroucouli — a small, nocturnal South American monkey of the genus Aotus, having large, owllike eyes: in danger of extinction.
- dracunculus — A fish, the dragonet.
- drill chuck — a chuck for holding a drill bit.
- dulcimerist — Someone who plays the dulcimer.
- duplicators — Plural form of duplicator.
- duplicature — a folding or doubling of a part on itself, as a membrane.
- early music — music of the medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque periods, especially revived and played on period instruments; European music after ancient music and before the classical music era, from the beginning of the Middle Ages to about 1750.
- edulcorated — Simple past tense and past participle of edulcorate.
- edulcorator — a device that supplies small quantities of a liquid to a mixture