11-letter words containing r, a, u, s
- contrarious — (of people or animals) perverse or obstinate
- cornucopias — Plural form of cornucopia.
- coronavirus — a type of airborne virus accounting for 10-30% of all colds
- corpuscular — Biology. an unattached cell, especially of a kind that floats freely, as a blood or lymph cell.
- corrugators — Plural form of corrugator.
- coruscating — A coruscating speech or performance is lively, intelligent, and impressive.
- coruscation — a gleam or flash of light
- cotransduce — to cause (genes) to undergo cotransduction
- cotylosaurs — Plural form of cotylosaur.
- couch grass — a grass, Agropyron repens, with a yellowish-white creeping underground stem by which it spreads quickly: a troublesome weed
- couch-grass — any of various grasses, especially Agropyron repens, known chiefly as troublesome weeds and characterized by creeping rootstocks that spread rapidly.
- counteracts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of counteract.
- counterbase — a double bass
- countersank — Simple past form of countersink.
- counterseal — a smaller seal on the reverse of the main seal
- countryseat — a house or estate in the country
- coursemates — Plural form of coursemate.
- covarrubias — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), 1904–57, Mexican caricaturist, illustrator, and painter.
- crab cactus — Christmas cactus
- crack house — a house or flat where drugs are dealt and used
- cram course — an intensive course of study designed to review or teach material needed for a specific purpose or, often, material previously taught but not mastered.
- craniopagus — the condition of Siamese twins joined at the head
- crapulosity — the quality of being crapulous or crapulent
- crapulously — In a crapulous manner.
- crash truck — an emergency vehicle based at an airport.
- crazy house — an asylum for people with psychiatric disorders
- cream sauce — a white sauce made from cream, butter, etc
- creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
- crepuscular — Crepuscular means relating to twilight.
- crime squad — (in Britain) a division of the police which identifies and prevents major crimes, esp those crossing regional or national boundaries
- crocus sack — a burlap bag.
- cross vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- crustaceans — Plural form of crustacean.
- crustaceous — forming, resembling, or possessing a surrounding crust or shell
- crux ansata — the ankh, an ancient Egyptian symbol
- cuirassiers — Plural form of cuirassier.
- cultivators — Plural form of cultivator.
- culturalism — A belief system that emphasizes the role of culture.
- curableness — The quality or state of being curable.
- curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
- curia regis — (in Norman England) the king's court, which performed all functions of government
- 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
- curtainless — without a curtain or curtains
- custard cup — a heat-resistant porcelain or glass cup in which an individual custard is baked.
- 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.
- customarily — according to custom; usually
- cut throats — a person who cuts the throat of another; a murderer.