6-letter words containing r, u, c
- crusts — Plural form of crust.
- crusty — Crusty bread has a hard, crisp outside.
- crutch — A crutch is a stick whose top fits round or under the user's arm, which someone with an injured foot or leg uses to support their weight when walking.
- cruxes — Plural form of crux.
- cruyff — Johan (joːˈhɑn). 1947–2016, Dutch footballer and manager: played for Ajax and Barcelona; European Footballer of the Year (1971, 1973, 1974); capped 48 times for the Netherlands, scoring 33 goals. Noted for the Cruyff turn, a feint in which a player shapes to pass the ball but instead drags it behind the planted foot with the inside of the crossing foot, turns through 180 degrees, and moves away from his or her marker
- cruzan — a native or inhabitant of St. Croix.
- cry up — to praise highly; extol
- cuatro — a small guitar with four strings
- cuirie — a hardened leather piece for protecting the breast, worn over mail.
- cuiter — to pamper or coddle
- culler — a person employed to cull animals
- culter — Alternative form of colter.
- culver — a dove or pigeon
- cumber — to obstruct or hinder
- cumbre — Archaic form of cumber.
- cummer — a godmother
- cunard — Sir Samuel (1787–1865). Canadian shipping magnate, founder of the Cunard line
- cunner — a fish (Crenilabrus melops) of the wrasse family found in British coastal areas
- cupper — a person who performs the procedure of cupping.
- cupri- — containing copper with a valence of two; cupric
- cupric — of or containing copper in the divalent state
- cupro- — indicating copper
- cuprum — copper1 (def 1).
- curacy — the office or position of curate
- curagh — a coracle.
- curare — black resin obtained from certain tropical South American trees, esp Chondrodendron tomentosum, acting on the motor nerves to cause muscular paralysis: used medicinally as a muscle relaxant and by South American Indians as an arrow poison
- curari — Alternative form of curare.
- curate — A curate is a clergyman in the Anglican Church who helps the priest.
- curbed — Also, British, kerb. a rim, especially of joined stones or concrete, along a street or roadway, forming an edge for a sidewalk.
- curber — a person or thing that curbs or restrains something
- curded — Simple past tense and past participle of curd.
- curdle — If milk or eggs curdle or if you curdle them, they separate into different bits.
- curers — Plural form of curer.
- curfew — A curfew is a law stating that people must stay inside their houses after a particular time at night, for example during a war.
- curiae — Plural form of curia.
- curial — one of the political subdivisions of each of the three tribes of ancient Rome.
- curies — Plural form of curie.
- curing — the process of preserving food
- curios — any unusual article, object of art, etc., valued as a curiosity.
- curite — a red-orange radioactive mineral, the hydrated oxide of uranium and lead
- curium — a silvery-white metallic transuranic element artificially produced from plutonium. Symbol: Cm; atomic no: 96; half-life of most stable isotope, 247Cm: 1.6 x 107 years; valency: 3 and 4; relative density: 13.51 (calculated); melting pt: 1345±400°C
- curled — in a curved or spiral shape or position
- curler — Curlers are small plastic or metal tubes that women roll their hair round in order to make it curly.
- curlew — A curlew is a large brown bird with long legs and a long curved beak. Curlews live near water and have a very distinctive cry.
- curley — James M(ichael) 1874–1958, U.S. politician.
- curnow — (Thomas) Allen (Monro). 1911–2001, New Zealand poet and anthologist
- curple — The hindquarters or the rump of a horse, a strap under the girth of a horse's saddle to stop the saddle from kicking forward.
- curran — a currant
- curred — to make a low, purring sound, as a cat.
- currie — to cook or flavor (food) with curry powder or a similar combination of spices: to curry eggs.