9-letter words containing r, o, t, a, u
- coauthors — Plural form of coauthor.
- cocurator — a fellow curator
- cofeature — a joint feature
- cointreau — a colourless liqueur with orange flavouring
- colourant — A colourant is a substance that is used to give something a particular colour.
- connature — the state or quality of sharing a common nature or character
- construal — an act of construing
- corrugate — to fold or be folded into alternate furrows and ridges
- coruscant — giving off flashes of light
- coruscate — to emit flashes of light; sparkle
- cothurnal — relating to the cothurnus or to tragedy
- coticular — of or relating to whetstones
- courantes — Plural form of courante.
- courtesan — In former times, a courtesan was a woman who had sexual relationships with rich and powerful men for money.
- courtezan — Alternative spelling of courtesan.
- courtyard — A courtyard is an open area of ground which is surrounded by buildings or walls.
- crank out — If you say that a company or person cranks out a quantity of similar things, you mean they produce them quickly, in the same way, and are usually implying that the things are not original or are of poor quality.
- crash out — If someone crashes out somewhere, they fall asleep where they are because they are very tired or drunk.
- craterous — of, relating to, or resembling a crater
- croquante — a crisp cake or pastry
- croustade — a hollowed pastry case or piece of cooked bread, potato, etc, in which food is served
- culpatory — expressing blame
- cunctator — (Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus"Cunctator") 275–203 b.c, Roman statesman and general: defeated Hannibal's army by harassment without risking a pitched battle.
- curtation — the discrepancy between the curtate distance and the true distance of a planet from the sun
- curvation — the action of curving or bending
- customary — Customary is used to describe things that people usually do in a particular society or in particular circumstances.
- cutthroat — a person who cuts throats; murderer
- damourite — (mineral) A kind of muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
- dartmouth — a port in SW England, in S Devon: Royal Naval College (1905). Pop: 5512 (2001)
- drawn-out — long-drawn-out.
- droitural — pertaining to right of ownership as distinguished from right of possession.
- dulcorate — (obsolete, transitive) To sweeten; to make less acrimonious.
- dumbarton — Also, Dunbarton [duhn-bahr-tn] /dʌnˈbɑr tn/ (Show IPA). Also called Dumbartonshire [duhm-bahr-tn-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈbɑr tnˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in W Scotland.
- dunbarton — former county of W Scotland
- durations — Plural form of duration.
- educators — Plural form of educator.
- educatory — educative.
- emulators — Plural form of emulator.
- entourage — A group of people attending or surrounding an important person.
- epuration — purification
- eucaryote — Alternative spelling of eukaryote.
- eukaryote — An organism consisting of a cell or cells in which the genetic material is DNA in the form of chromosomes contained within a distinct nucleus. Eukaryotes include all living organisms other than the eubacteria and archaebacteria.
- europanet — A combination of pan-European backbone services run by DANTE.
- eurotrash — fashionable Europeans, traveling or living abroad, of a type regarded variously as pretentious, shallow, irresponsible, parasitic, etc.
- evaluator — Agent noun of evaluate; one who evaluates.
- fabulator — a person who fabulates, a story-teller
- farm-toun — a farmhouse together with its outbuildings
- favourite — a person or thing regarded with special favor or preference: That song is an old favorite of mine.
- feudatory — a person who holds lands by feudal tenure; a feudal vassal.
- fioritura — the ornamentation of a melody, often extemporized by the performer, as in Italian opera during the 18th century.