8-letter words containing r, u, c
- crucifer — any plant of the family Brassicaceae (formerly Cruciferae), having a corolla of four petals arranged like a cross and a fruit called a siliqua. The family includes the brassicas, mustard, cress, and wallflower
- crucifix — A crucifix is a cross with a figure of Christ on it.
- crudites — Crudités are pieces of raw vegetable, often served before a meal.
- crudware — /kruhd'weir/ Pejorative term for the hundreds of megabytes of low-quality freeware circulated by user's groups and BBSs in the micro-hobbyist world.
- cruelest — willfully or knowingly causing pain or distress to others.
- cruelled — Simple past tense and past participle of cruel.
- crueller — Comparative form of cruel.
- crueltie — Obsolete spelling of cruelty.
- cruisers — Plural form of cruiser.
- cruising — Present participle of cruise.
- crullers — Plural form of cruller.
- crumbing — Present participle of crumb.
- crumbled — Simple past tense and past participle of crumble.
- crumbles — Plural form of crumble.
- crumenal — a purse
- crumhorn — a medieval woodwind instrument of bass pitch, consisting of an almost cylindrical tube curving upwards and blown through a double reed covered by a pierced cap
- crummier — Also, crumby. Slang. dirty and run-down; shabby; seedy: a crummy fleabag of a hotel. of little or no value; cheap; worthless: crummy furniture that falls apart after a month of use. wretchedly inadequate; miserable; lousy: They pay crummy salaries.
- crummies — a cow with crooked horns.
- crumpets — Plural form of crumpet.
- crumpled — creased
- crumples — to press or crush into irregular folds or into a compact mass; bend out of shape; rumple; wrinkle.
- crunched — Simple past tense and past participle of crunch.
- cruncher — the critical or decisive thing
- crunches — Plural form of crunch.
- crunkest — a type of hip-hop originating in the southern U.S. and characterized by heavy bass and call-and-response vocals.
- crunking — Present participle of crunk.
- crunodal — of or relating to a crunode
- cruppers — Plural form of crupper.
- crusaded — (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- crusader — A crusader for a cause is someone who does a lot in support of it.
- crusades — (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- crushers — Plural form of crusher.
- crushing — A crushing defeat, burden, or disappointment is a very great or severe one.
- 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.
- cruzeiro — a former monetary unit of Brazil, replaced by the cruzeiro real
- cry foul — If you cry foul, you claim that someone, especially an opponent or rival, has acted illegally or unfairly.
- cryonaut — a person whose dead body has been preserved by the technique of cryonics.
- cubature — the determination of the cubic contents of something
- cubiform — having the shape of a cube
- cucumber — A cucumber is a long thin vegetable with a hard green skin and wet transparent flesh. It is eaten raw in salads.
- cucurbit — any creeping flowering plant of the mainly tropical and subtropical family Cucurbitaceae, which includes the pumpkin, cucumber, squashes, and gourds
- cuddlier — suitable for or inviting cuddling: a cuddly teddy bear.
- cudgeler — One who beats with a cudgel.
- cudgerie — a large tropical rutaceous tree, Flindersia schottina, having light-coloured wood
- 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)