10-letter words containing r, u, c, t
- courantyne — a river in N South America, rising in S Guyana and flowing north to the Atlantic, forming the boundary between Guyana and Surinam. Length: 765 km (475 miles)
- courgettes — Plural form of courgette.
- coursemate — One who is taking the same academic course.
- court card — (in a pack of playing cards) a king, queen, or jack of any suit
- court case — a legal action
- court hand — a style of handwriting formerly used in English law courts
- court roll — the register of land holdings, etc, of a manorial court
- court shoe — Court shoes are women's shoes that do not cover the top part of the foot and are usually made of plain leather with no design.
- court tomb — a type of Neolithic trapezoidal burial mound having a semicircular forecourt at one end and bounded by large standing stones, common in the British Isles.
- courtcraft — the artifices and intrigues of a royal court
- courtesans — Plural form of courtesan.
- courtesies — excellence of manners or social conduct; polite behavior.
- courthouse — A courthouse is a building in which a court of law meets.
- courtierly — of a courtier
- courtliest — Superlative form of courtly.
- courtrooms — Plural form of courtroom.
- courtships — Plural form of courtship.
- courtyards — Plural form of courtyard.
- couturiere — a female dressmaker or dress designer
- couturiers — Plural form of couturier.
- couverture — Chocolate made with extra cocoa butter to give a high gloss, used for covering sweets and cakes.
- covermount — A covermount is a small gift attached to the front cover of a magazine.
- covertures — Plural form of coverture.
- crassitude — gross ignorance or stupidity.
- creaturely — creatural.
- crenulated — minutely crenate, as the margin of certain leaves.
- cresta run — high-speed tobogganing down a steep narrow passage
- cretaceous — consisting of or resembling chalk
- crispature — the state of being crisped or crispate
- critiquing — an article or essay criticizing a literary or other work; detailed evaluation; review.
- cropduster — an aeroplane used to spray crops with fertilizer or insecticide
- croquettes — Plural form of croquette.
- crosscourt — (in racket games) directed to the diagonally opposite side of the court.
- croton bug — a small, winged cockroach (Blattella germanica); German cockroach
- croustades — Plural form of croustade.
- crown rust — a disease of oats and other grasses, characterized by the formation, on the leaves, of orange or black spores, caused by a rust fungus, Puccinia coronata.
- cruciality — involving an extremely important decision or result; decisive; critical: a crucial experiment.
- cruciating — Present participle of cruciate.
- cruciation — (obsolete) torture; torment.
- crude tank — A crude tank is a large vessel for crude oil.
- crumbcloth — a cloth placed under a dining table to protect the carpet from crumbs and other material
- crunchtime — the tense, critical phase of an activity
- crustacean — A crustacean is an animal with a hard shell and several pairs of legs, which usually lives in water. Crabs, lobsters, and shrimps are crustaceans.
- crustation — the action of forming a crust
- crustiness — The state of being crusty.
- crutchings — the wool clipped from a sheep's hindquarters
- cub master — a man who organizes a pack of cub scouts
- cuchifrito — a small piece of pork, pig's stomach, etc. dipped in batter and deep-fried
- cucurbital — of or relating to the genus Cucurbitaceae
- culbertson — Ely (ˈiːlaɪ). 1891–1955, US authority on contract bridge