13-letter words containing o, c, u, r
- coup de grace — A coup de grace is an action or event which finally destroys something, for example an institution, which has been gradually growing weaker.
- court hearing — an official meeting held in court
- court martial — A court martial is a trial in a military court of a member of the armed forces who is charged with breaking a military law.
- court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
- court plaster — a plaster, composed of isinglass on silk, formerly used to cover superficial wounds
- court-martial — a court consisting of military or naval personnel appointed by a commander to try charges of offenses by soldiers, sailors, etc., against military or naval law.
- courteousness — having or showing good manners; polite.
- courtesy call — a formal visit
- courtesy card — a privilege card
- cousin-german — the child of one's aunt or uncle
- cover-mounted — Cover-mounted items such as cassettes, videos and CDs are attached to the front of a magazine as free gifts.
- crapulousness — The state or quality of being crapulous.
- crassulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Crassulaceae, a family of herbaceous or shrubby flowering plants with fleshy succulent leaves, including the houseleeks and stonecrops
- credulousness — willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible.
- creosote bush — a shrub, Larrea (or Covillea) tridentata of the western US and Mexico, that has resinous leaves with an odour resembling creosote, and can live for many thousands of years: family Zygophyllaceae
- criminousness — the quality or state of being criminous
- croquembouche — a French dessert consisting of a cone-shaped mound of small cream puffs glazed with caramelized sugar
- cross product — a vector perpendicular to two given vectors, u and v, and having magnitude equal to the product of the magnitudes of the two given vectors multiplied by the sine of the angle between the two given vectors, usually represented by u × v.
- cross-buttock — a wrestling throw in which the hips are used as a fulcrum to throw an opponent
- cross-country — Cross-country is the sport of running, riding, or skiing across open countryside rather than along roads or around a running track.
- cross-current — A cross-current is a current in a river or sea that flows across another current.
- cross-cutting — linking traditionally separate or independent parties or interests
- cross-purpose — a contrary aim or purpose
- cross-utilize — to make use of in an additional or different way.
- crosscultural — Alternative spelling of cross-cultural.
- crosscurrents — Plural form of crosscurrent.
- crosscut file — a file having two intersecting rows of teeth
- crowd surfing — the practice of being passed over the top of a crowd of people such as an audience at a pop concert
- crowd trouble — bad behaviour by fans at a sports match
- crowdsourcing — Crowdsourcing is the practice of getting ideas or help on a project from a large number of people, usually through the Internet.
- crumple zones — parts of a motor vehicle, at the front and the rear, that are designed to crumple in a collision, thereby absorbing the impact
- crustaceology — The branch of zoology dealing with crustaceans.
- cruzeiro real — a former monetary unit of Brazil, which was replaced by the real
- cuckoo shrike — any Old World tropical songbird of the family Campephagidae, typically having a strong notched bill, long rounded tail, and pointed wings
- cuckoo wrasse — a fish, Labrus mixtus
- cuckoo-shrike — any of numerous Old World passerine birds of the family Campephagidae, certain species of which superficially resemble cuckoos and have hooked bills like shrikes.
- cuckooflowers — Plural form of cuckooflower.
- cucumber root — Indian cucumber root.
- culloden moor — a moor in NE Scotland, near Inverness: site of the battle that ended the Jacobite Rebellion 1746.
- culture shock — Culture shock is a feeling of anxiety, loneliness, and confusion that people sometimes experience when they first arrive in another country.
- culver's root — a tall North American scrophulariaceous plant, Veronicastrum virginicum, having spikes of small white or purple flowers
- cup and cover — a turning used in Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture and resembling a goblet with a domed cover.
- cupboard love — a show of love inspired only by some selfish or greedy motive
- cupid's arrow — one of the arrows that Cupid is supposed to fire from his bow, which cause the person struck to fall in love
- cuprotitanium — (metallurgy) An alloy of copper and titanium obtained by reducing a mixture of copper and rutile.
- curling irons — a metal scissor-like device that is heated, so that strands of hair may be twined around it in order to form curls
- curling stone — a large, heavy, ellipsoidal stone or a similar object made of iron, usually having one rough side and one smooth side with a hole in the center of each for screwing in a handle by which the stone is released, for use in the game of curling.
- curling tongs — a metal scissor-like device that is heated, so that strands of hair may be twined around it in order to form curls
- currant borer — the larva of a clearwing moth, Ramosia tipuliformis, that bores into the stems of currants.
- currency bond — a bond payable in legal tender.