9-letter words containing r, e, t, u
- carburate — carburet.
- cartouche — a carved or cast ornamental tablet or panel in the form of a scroll, sometimes having an inscription
- carve out — to make or create (a career)
- carve-out — to cut (a solid material) so as to form something: to carve a piece of pine.
- castoreum — the oil secreted from the beaver which is used as bait by trappers
- caterwaul — If a person or animal caterwauls, they make a loud, high, unpleasant noise like the noise that cats make when they fight.
- cauterant — caustic; cauterizing
- cauteries — Plural form of cautery.
- cauterise — to burn with a hot iron, electric current, fire, or a caustic, especially for curative purposes; treat with a cautery.
- cauterism — the application of burning, searing, or cautery
- cauterize — If a doctor cauterizes a wound, he or she burns it with heat or with a chemical in order to close it up and prevent it from becoming infected.
- cautioner — A person who cautions.
- ceintures — cincture (defs 1, 2).
- centaurea — any of a genus (Centaurea) of annual and perennial plants of the composite family, having egg-shaped flower heads, including the star thistles and the bachelor's buttons
- centauric — characterized by an integration of mind and body for consciousness above the ego-self
- centaurus — a conspicuous extensive constellation in the S hemisphere, close to the Southern Cross, that contains two first magnitude stars, Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri, and the globular cluster Omega Centauri
- centumvir — one of a body of judges responsible for presiding over civil court cases
- centurial — of or relating to a Roman century
- centuried — existing for an indefinite number of centuries.
- centuries — Plural form of century.
- centurion — A centurion was an officer in the Roman army.
- centurium — A rejected name for fermium.
- cerastium — any of a genus of plants belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae
- ceratodus — any of various extinct lungfish constituting the genus Ceratodus, common in Cretaceous and Triassic times
- certitude — Certitude is the same as certainty.
- cerussite — a usually white mineral, found in veins. It is a source of lead. Composition: lead carbonate. Formula: PbCO3. Crystal structure: orthorhombic
- chartreux — a breed of sturdy cat with short dense woolly fur
- chartulae — charta (def 2).
- choreutic — of or belonging to a chorus.
- chuntered — Simple past tense and past participle of chunter.
- ciguatera — food poisoning caused by a ciguatoxin in seafood
- cinctured — Simple past tense and past participle of cincture.
- cinctures — Plural form of cincture.
- circuited — Simple past tense and past participle of circuit.
- circuiter — a person who travels a circuit.
- circulate — If a piece of writing circulates or is circulated, copies of it are passed round among a group of people.
- claritude — (obsolete) clarity; splendour.
- clear out — If you tell someone to clear out of a place or to clear out, you are telling them rather rudely to leave the place.
- clear-cut — Something that is clear-cut is easy to recognize and quite distinct.
- clouterly — clumsy
- clustered — If people or things are clustered somewhere, there is a group of them close together there.
- cluttered — filled with things or people in an untidy way
- clutterer — One who clutters.
- coculture — to culture together
- cofeature — a joint feature
- cointreau — a colourless liqueur with orange flavouring
- combretum — any tree or shrub belonging to the genus Combretum, native mainly to tropical and subtropical Africa and producing attractive flowers
- come true — If a dream, wish, or prediction comes true, it actually happens.
- comfiture — (obsolete) A confection, especially of preserved fruit.
- commuters — Plural form of commuter.