8-letter words containing r, u, c
- colubrid — any snake of the family Colubridae, including many harmless snakes, such as the grass snake and whip snakes, and some venomous types
- columnar — shaped like a column.
- communer — a person who participates in the Eucharist
- commuter — a person who travels to work over an appreciable distance, usually from the suburbs to the centre of a city
- computer — a device, usually electronic, that processes data according to a set of instructions. The digital computer stores data in discrete units and performs arithmetical and logical operations at very high speed. The analog computer has no memory and is slower than the digital computer but has a continuous rather than a discrete input. The hybrid computer combines some of the advantages of digital and analog computers
- computor — (obsolete) A person who calculates or computes.
- conarium — the pineal gland
- concours — a contest, esp the concours d'élégance
- conducer — to lead or contribute to a result (usually followed by to or toward): qualities that conduce to success.
- confuser — One who or that which confuses.
- confuter — A person who confutes.
- conjured — Simple past tense and past participle of conjure.
- conjurer — A conjurer is a person who entertains people by doing magic tricks.
- conjures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conjure.
- conjuror — a person who practises conjuring, esp for people's entertainment
- conquers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conquer.
- construe — If something is construed in a particular way, its nature or meaning is interpreted in that way.
- consular — Consular means involving or relating to a consul or the work of a consul.
- consumer — A consumer is a person who buys things or uses services.
- contours — the shape or surface, esp of a curving form
- controul — Archaic spelling of control.
- conurban — of or relating to a conurbation
- conurbia — conurbations considered collectively
- copurify — (of a compound) to purify, and be purified by, another compound
- coquetry — flirtation
- corallum — the skeleton of any zoophyte, esp that of a coral colony
- corduroy — Corduroy is thick cotton cloth with parallel raised lines on the outside.
- coremium — the spore-producing organ of certain fungi that consists of conidiophores
- corneous — horny; hornlike
- cornhusk — the outer protective covering of an ear of maize; the chaff
- cornuate — (medicine) Being or pertaining to a hornlike structure, as with a bicornuate uterus.
- cornuted — having horns
- coromuel — a cooling westerly breeze that flows in from the Pacific over the La Paz region of the southern Baja California peninsula of Mexico.
- coronium — a hypothetical element whose existence was proposed in the 19th century to explain a green line seen in the solar coronal spectrum; this is now known to be highly-ionized iron and nickel
- corrupts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corrupt.
- corundum — a white, grey, blue, green, red, yellow, or brown mineral, found in metamorphosed shales and limestones, in veins, and in some igneous rocks. It is used as an abrasive and as gemstone; the red variety is ruby, the blue is sapphire. Composition: aluminium oxide. Formula: Al2O3. Crystal structure: hexagonal (rhombohedral)
- costumer — A costumer is the same as a costumier.
- cothurni — a grave and elevated style of acting; tragic acting; tragedy.
- coturnix — any of several quails of the genus Coturnix of the family Phasianidae
- coughers — Plural form of cougher.
- coumarin — a white vanilla-scented crystalline ester, used in perfumes and flavourings and as an anticoagulant. Formula: C9H6O2
- coumarou — a tall leguminous tree, Coumarouna odorata, of tropical America
- counter- — Counter- is used to form words which refer to actions or activities that are intended to prevent other actions or activities or that respond to them.
- counters — Plural form of counter.
- counthry — Irish eye dialect spelling of country.
- countrey — Archaic spelling of country.
- countrie — Obsolete spelling of country.
- couperin — François (frɑ̃swa). 1668–1733, French composer, noted for his harpsichord suites and organ music
- couperus — Louis [loo-ee] /luˈi/ (Show IPA), 1863–1923, Dutch novelist.
- couplers — Plural form of coupler.