10-letter words containing r, u, c, t
- cultivator — A cultivator is a tool or machine which is used to break up the earth or to remove weeds, for example in a garden or field.
- cultriform — (botany, zoology) Shaped like a pruning knife; cultrate.
- culturable — able to be cultivated or cultured
- culturally — of or relating to culture or cultivation.
- culvertage — the forfeiture of a person's property, thereby reducing him to the status of a villain
- cumberment — an obstruction or hindrance
- cunctatory — prone to delaying
- curability — capable of being cured.
- curateship — the office or position of a curate
- curatorial — Curatorial means relating to curators and their work.
- curbstones — Plural form of curbstone.
- curettages — Plural form of curettage.
- curiousest — (non-standard) Superlative form of curious.
- curiousity — Misspelling of curiosity.
- curtailing — Present participle of curtail.
- curtain-up — the moment when the curtain is raised and a play or similar show begins
- curtaining — Present participle of curtain.
- curtilages — Plural form of curtilage.
- curtmantle — ("Henry the Saint") 973–1024, king of Germany 1002–24 and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1014–24.
- curtseying — Present participle of curtsey.
- curvatures — Plural form of curvature.
- curvetting — Present participle of curvet.
- custom car — a car that is built to the buyer's own specifications
- customizer — a person who customizes
- cut across — If an issue or problem cuts across the division between two or more groups of people, it affects or matters to people in all the groups.
- cut flower — any pretty flower cut for a floral arrangement.
- cut square — a stamp cut from the envelope on which it has been printed so as to leave a square margin.
- cut-throat — If you describe a situation as cut-throat, you mean that the people or companies involved all want success and do not care if they harm each other in getting it.
- cutis vera — cutis.
- cutter bar — Also called sickle bar. (in a mower, binder, or combine) a bar with triangular guards along which a knife or blade runs.
- cutthroats — Plural form of cutthroat.
- cutty sark — a three-masted merchant clipper built in Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869, now kept as a museum ship at Greenwich, London; badly damaged by a fire in 2007; restored then reopened in 2012
- cystinuria — a condition in which excessive levels of cystine are present in the urine
- democritus — ?460–?370 bc, Greek philosopher who developed the atomist theory of matter of his teacher, Leucippus
- destructed — serving or designed to destroy: a destruct mechanism on a missile.
- destructor — a furnace or incinerator for the disposal of refuse, esp one that uses the resulting heat to generate power
- detruncate — to cut off a part of; truncate
- direct sum — a composition of two disjoint sets, as vector spaces, such that every element in the composition can be written uniquely as the sum of two elements, one from each of the given sets.
- discounter — a person who discounts.
- discursist — a person who engages in discourse
- disjunctor — a small body found in the spores of some fungi
- documenter — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- dog tucker — the meat of a sheep killed on a farm and used as dog food
- dracontium — (pharmacy, obsolete) The roots and rhizomes of skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus.
- drumsticks — Plural form of drumstick.
- dumbstruck — temporarily deprived of the power of speech, as by surprise or confusion; dumbfounded.
- dump truck — a usually open-topped truck having a body that can be tilted to discharge its contents, as sand or gravel, through an open tailgate.
- duplicator — a machine for making duplicates, as a mimeograph.
- dust cover — a cloth or plastic covering used to protect furniture or equipment, as during a period of nonuse.
- dutch barn — a farm building consisting of a steel frame and a curved roof