8-letter words containing r, u, c, t
- croutons — Plural form of crouton.
- cruciate — shaped or arranged like a cross
- crudites — Crudités are pieces of raw vegetable, often served before a meal.
- cruelest — willfully or knowingly causing pain or distress to others.
- crueltie — Obsolete spelling of cruelty.
- crumpets — Plural form of crumpet.
- crunkest — a type of hip-hop originating in the southern U.S. and characterized by heavy bass and call-and-response vocals.
- crustate — having a crust or shell
- crustily — In a crusty manner.
- crusting — Present participle of crust.
- crustose — having a crustlike appearance
- crutched — Simple past tense and past participle of crutch.
- crutches — Plural form of crutch.
- cryonaut — a person whose dead body has been preserved by the technique of cryonics.
- cubature — the determination of the cubic contents of something
- cucurbit — any creeping flowering plant of the mainly tropical and subtropical family Cucurbitaceae, which includes the pumpkin, cucumber, squashes, and gourds
- cudworth — Ralph. 1617–88, English philosopher and theologian. His works include True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678) and A Treatise concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (1731)
- culprits — Plural form of culprit.
- cultivar — a variety of a plant that was produced from a natural species and is maintained by cultivation
- cultrate — shaped like a knife blade
- cultural — Cultural means relating to a particular society and its ideas, customs, and art.
- cultured — If you describe someone as cultured, you mean that they have good manners, are well educated, and know a lot about the arts.
- cultures — the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
- culverts — Plural form of culvert.
- cuprates — Plural form of cuprate.
- curating — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- curation — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- curative — Something that has curative properties can cure people's illnesses.
- curators — Plural form of curator.
- curatory — the office of a curator
- curatrix — a woman in charge of a museum, art gallery, or similar institution
- curb cut — a small ramp or slope from a sidewalk to a roadway to ease passage for people in wheelchairs, bicyclists, etc.
- curetted — to scrape with a curette.
- curettes — Plural form of curette.
- curitiba — a city in SE Brazil, capital of Paraná state: seat of the University of Paraná (1946). Pop: 2 871 000 (2005 est)
- currants — Plural form of currant.
- curranty — full of currants
- currents — Plural form of current.
- cursitor — (in the Court of Chancery) a clerk or officer
- curtails — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of curtail.
- curtains — death or ruin; the end
- curtalax — cutlass.
- curtises — Benjamin Robbins, 1809–74, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1851–57; resigned in dissent over Dred Scott case.
- curtness — rudely brief in speech or abrupt in manner.
- curtsied — a respectful bow made by women and girls, consisting of bending the knees and lowering the body.
- curtsies — a respectful bow made by women and girls, consisting of bending the knees and lowering the body.
- curveted — Simple past tense and past participle of curvet.
- curvette — cuvette (def 1).
- curvital — of or relating to curvature, esp in geometry
- custardy — resembling custard