10-letter words containing r, u, c, t
- charthouse — the compartment on a ship or boat where charts are kept
- chartreuse — either of two liqueurs, green or yellow, made from herbs and flowers
- chartulary — cartulary
- choreutics — a system that analyzes form in movement, developed by Rudolf von Laban (1879–1958), Hungarian choreographer and dance theorist.
- choucroute — a dish, resembling sauerkraut, that consists of cabbage that has been preserved by soaking in pickle
- chrononaut — (science fiction, dated) A time-traveller.
- chuntering — to grumble or grouse mildly or tediously.
- chuttering — Present participle of chutter.
- cincturing — Present participle of cincture.
- circle-out — a closed plane curve consisting of all points at a given distance from a point within it called the center. Equation: x 2 + y 2 = r 2 .
- circuiteer — someone who completes a circuit
- circuities — Plural form of circuity.
- circuiting — Present participle of circuit.
- circuition — (archaic) The act of going round; a circuit, an encircling.
- circuitous — A circuitous route is long and complicated rather than simple and direct.
- circulated — to move in a circle or circuit; move or pass through a circuit back to the starting point: Blood circulates throughout the body.
- circulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circulate.
- circulator — a person who moves from place to place.
- circumduct — (obsolete) To lead about or astray.
- circumvent — If someone circumvents a rule or restriction, they avoid having to obey the rule or restriction, in a clever and perhaps dishonest way.
- citrulline — an amino acid that occurs in watermelons and is an intermediate in the formation of urea. Formula: NH2CONH(CH2)3CHNH2COOH
- claret cup — an iced drink made of claret, brandy, lemon, sugar, and sometimes sherry, Curaçao, etc
- clay court — a tennis court with a playing surface topped by a layer of crushed shale, brick, or stone
- cloudburst — A cloudburst is a sudden, very heavy fall of rain.
- clubmaster — the manager of a gentlemen's club
- cluster 86 — (language) A distributed object-oriented language by L. Shang <[email protected]> of Nanjing University, ca. 1986. A cluster is a metatype. There are versions for MS-DOS and Unix.
- clustering — cluster
- cluttering — A speech disorder characterized by fast, jerky, or irregular speech, which often sounds like stuttering.
- co-routine — a section of a computer program similar to but differing from a subroutine in that it can be left and re-entered at any point
- co-venture — a business project or enterprise undertaken jointly by two or more companies, each sharing in the capitalization and in any profits or losses.
- coadjutors — Plural form of coadjutor.
- coagulator — a substance that produces or aids coagulation.
- coastguard — A coastguard is an official who watches the sea near a coast in order to get help for sailors when they need it and to stop illegal activities.
- coauthored — one of two or more joint authors.
- coexecutor — a person acting jointly with another or others as executor
- coiffurist — a person who styles hair, especially for women.
- collarstud — a stud that is used to attach a removable collar to a shirt
- collocutor — a person who talks or engages in conversation with another
- coloratura — Coloratura is very complicated and difficult music for a solo singer, especially in opera.
- colorature — (music) An elaborate melody, particularly in vocal music and especially in operatic singing of the 18th and 19th centuries, with runs, trills, leaps, etc.
- colostrous — containing colostrum
- colourcast — a colour television broadcast
- colourfast — A fabric that is colourfast has a colour that will not get paler when the fabric is washed or worn.
- colporteur — a hawker of books, esp bibles
- combustors — Plural form of combustor.
- come-outer — an outspoken or very active supporter of a cause, especially a reformer or a social activist.
- comminutor — a machine that pulverizes solids, as in waste treatment.
- commixture — a mixture
- commutator — a device used to reverse the direction of flow of an electric current
- compacture — an act of joining or bringing into proximity