9-letter words containing r, u, c, t
- curly top — a disease of plants, especially beets, characterized by puckered or cupped leaves and stunting or distortion, caused by a virus, Ruga verrucosans.
- currently — at the presenttime; now: She is currently working as a lab technician.
- curtailed — to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.
- curtailer — One who curtails.
- curtained — A curtained window, door, or other opening has a curtain hanging across it.
- curtal ax — a cutlass
- curtalaxe — a cutlass
- curtation — the discrepancy between the curtate distance and the true distance of a planet from the sun
- curtilage — the enclosed area of land adjacent to a dwelling house
- curtseyed — Simple past tense and past participle of curtsey.
- curtsying — Present participle of curtsey.
- curvation — the action of curving or bending
- curvative — (of leaves) having curved edges
- curvature — The curvature of something is its curved shape, especially when this shape is part of the circumference of a circle.
- curveting — Present participle of curvet.
- curvetted — Simple past tense and past participle of curvet.
- custodier — a custodian
- customary — Customary is used to describe things that people usually do in a particular society or in particular circumstances.
- customers — A person or organization that buys goods or services from a store or business.
- custumary — Obsolete form of customary.
- cut a rug — a thick fabric for covering part of a floor, often woven of wool and often having an oblong shape with a border design. Compare carpet.
- cut short — to stop abruptly before the end
- cut-grass — any grass (esp. Leersia oryzoides) having tiny hooks along the edges of the blades that cause scratches on the human skin
- cut-price — Cut-price goods or services are cheaper than usual.
- cut-rater — a person or company that offers goods or services at cut-rate prices.
- cutcherry — (formerly, in India) government offices and law courts collectively
- cuticolor — of the color of flesh.
- cuticular — Of or pertaining to the cuticle.
- cutleries — cutting instruments collectively, especially knives for cutting food.
- cutpurses — Plural form of cutpurse.
- cutthroat — a person who cuts throats; murderer
- cutwaters — Plural form of cutwater.
- cyanurate — a salt or ester derived from cyanide
- cybernaut — a person who is an expert in or uses the internet a lot
- declutter — to simplify or get rid of mess, disorder, complications, etc, from
- decocture — the essence or liquor resulting from decoction
- deculture — to deculturate.
- decurrent — extending down the stem, esp (of a leaf) having the base of the blade extending down the stem as two wings
- decurtate — Shortened, curtailed.
- depicture — (transitive) To make a picture of; to paint or depict.
- destructo — a person who causes havoc or destruction
- destructs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of destruct.
- deutscher — Isaac, 1907–1967, English journalist and author, born in Poland.
- dictature — dictatorship
- diuretics — Plural form of diuretic.
- downcourt — to or into the opposite end of the court.
- drumstick — a stick for beating a drum.
- dulcorate — (obsolete, transitive) To sweeten; to make less acrimonious.
- dumptruck — a small truck used on building sites, having a load-bearing container at the front that can be tipped up to unload the contents
- duricrust — a hard crust that forms on or in soil in semiarid climates owing to cementation of soil particles. Compare caliche, hardpan (defs 1, 2).