12-letter words containing r, u, c, t
- butter icing — a mixture of butter and icing sugar used for filling or topping cakes
- butter sauce — a sauce made of melted butter, often diluted with water, sometimes thickened with flour or egg yolk, or both, and seasoned with lemon juice.
- butterscotch — Butterscotch is a hard yellowish-brown sweet made from butter and sugar boiled together.
- butyric acid — type of acid
- c beautifier — (cb) A Unix tool for reformatting C source code.
- cacao butter — cocoa butter
- cafe curtain — a short curtain suspended directly downward from a series of rings sliding on a horizontal rod so as to cover the lower and sometimes upper portions of a window.
- calreticulin — (protein) A multifunctional protein that binds calcium ions.
- calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
- calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
- camper truck — a pickup truck having a camper mounted on the truck body.
- cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
- canterburies — Plural form of canterbury.
- capitularies — Plural form of capitulary.
- capitulatory — the act of capitulating.
- car industry — the industry concerned with the manufacture and selling of automobiles
- card counter — a casino player who memorizes or records which cards have been played in previous hands in order to calculate the odds on receiving winning cards or combinations from those remaining to be dealt, the practice often being held as illegal.
- caricaturing — a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn.
- caricaturist — A caricaturist is a person who shows other people in an exaggerated way in order to be humorous or critical, especially in drawings or cartoons.
- carry a tune — to be able to sing in tune
- carunculated — Alternative form of carunculate.
- carvel-built — (of a vessel) having a hull with planks made flush at the seams
- caster sugar — Caster sugar is white sugar that has been ground into fine grains. It is used in cooking.
- castor sugar — finely ground or powdered sugar.
- cat squirrel — the gray squirrel, as distinguished from the fox squirrel.
- cater-cousin — a close friend
- caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
- cattle guard — A cattle guard is the same as a cattle grid.
- cattle truck — a railway wagon designed for carrying livestock
- cattleduffer — a cattle thief.
- caught short — having a sudden need to urinate or defecate
- cell culture — the growing of cells in a laboratory under controlled conditions
- census taker — a person who gathers information for a census.
- census tract — a standard area in certain large American cities used by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for purposes of population enumeration.
- center punch — a steel punch for marking a spot where a hole is to be drilled
- centre court — the main court of a tennis complex, esp at Wimbledon
- centre punch — a small steel tool with a conical tip used to punch a small indentation at the location of the centre of a hole to be drilled
- centrifugate — the denser of the centrifuged materials.
- centrifuging — an apparatus that rotates at high speed and by centrifugal force separates substances of different densities, as milk and cream.
- centumvirate — the office of the centumviri
- centuriation — the process or act of dividing land into centuries or equal areas undertaken by the Romans
- cerium metal — any of a subgroup of rare-earth metals, of which the terbium and yttrium metals comprise the other two subgroups.
- chaetiferous — having bristles
- chaff-cutter — a machine used to chop up hay and straw to make it into chaff for feeding to cattle
- chandragupta — Greek name Sandracottos. died ?297 bc, ruler of N India, who founded the Maurya dynasty (325) and defeated Seleucus (?305)
- chapterhouse — the building attached to a cathedral, collegiate church, or religious house in which the chapter meets
- characterful — If you describe something as characterful, you mean that it is pleasant and interesting.
- charcuteries — Plural form of charcuterie.
- chartbusters — Plural form of chartbuster.
- charterhouse — a Carthusian monastery