7-letter words containing r, u
- c quark — the quark having electric charge 2/3 times the elementary charge and charm C = +1. It is more massive than the up, down, and strange quarks.
- cadbury — George. 1839–1922, British Quaker industrialist and philanthropist. He established, with his brother Richard Cadbury (1835–99), the chocolate-making company Cadbury Brothers and the garden village Bournville, near Birmingham, for their workers
- caesura — (in modern prosody) a pause, esp for sense, usually near the middle of a verse line
- camauro — a crimson velvet cap trimmed with ermine, worn by the pope on nonliturgical occasions.
- candiru — a tiny parasitic freshwater catfish of the Amazon region
- candour — Candour is the quality of speaking honestly and openly about things.
- canular — shaped like a cannula; tubular.
- capture — If you capture someone or something, you catch them, especially in a war.
- car rug — a floor covering for automobiles
- caracul — the black loosely curled fur obtained from the skins of newly born lambs of the karakul sheep
- cardbus — (hardware) The 32-bit version of the PCMCIA (PC Card) bus.
- cardecu — an old French coin worth a quarter of an écu
- carduus — a thistle, esp the species Carduus benedictus
- careful — If you are careful, you give serious attention to what you are doing, in order to avoid harm, damage, or mistakes. If you are careful to do something, you make sure that you do it.
- caribou — A caribou is a large north American deer.
- carious — (of teeth or bone) affected with caries; decayed
- carnous — carnose.
- carolus — any of several coins struck in the reign of a king called Charles, esp an English gold coin from the reign of Charles I
- carouse — If you say that people are carousing, you mean that they are behaving very noisily and drinking a lot of alcohol as they enjoy themselves.
- cartful — the amount a cart can hold
- caruaru — a city in E Brazil, W of Recife.
- castrum — (historical) Among the Ancient Romans, a building or plot of land used as a military defensive position.
- caulker — a person who caulks the seams of boats or the like.
- causers — Plural form of causer.
- cautery — the coagulation of blood or destruction of body tissue by cauterizing
- cauvery — a river in S India, rising in the Western Ghats and flowing southeast to the Bay of Bengal. Length: 765 km (475 miles)
- cb user — user of Citizens' Band
- censure — If you censure someone for something that they have done, you tell them that you strongly disapprove of it.
- centaur — In classical mythology, a centaur is a creature with the head, arms, and upper body of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
- centrum — the main part or body of a vertebra
- century — A century is a period of a hundred years that is used when stating a date. For example, the 19th century was the period from 1801 to 1900.
- cereous — resembling wax; wax-like
- cernuda — Luis (lwiʃ). 1902–63, Spanish poet. His major work is the autobiographical Reality and Desire (1936–64)
- cerumen — the soft brownish-yellow wax secreted by glands in the auditory canal of the external ear
- charqui — meat, esp beef, cut into strips and dried
- chaucer — Geoffrey. ?1340–1400, English poet, noted for his narrative skill, humour, and insight, particularly in his most famous work, The Canterbury Tales. He was influenced by the continental tradition of rhyming verse. His other works include Troilus and Criseyde, The Legende of Good Women, and The Parlement of Foules
- chaumer — the living quarters used by farm workers
- chequer — any of the marbles, pegs, or other pieces used in the game of Chinese chequers
- cherubs — Plural form of cherub.
- chetrum — a Bhutanese unit of money, worth one hundredth of a ngultrum
- chirrup — If a person or bird chirrups, they make short high-pitched sounds.
- chouser — a person who deceives, defrauds, or tricks
- chucker — a person who throws something
- chuddar — a large shawl or veil worn by Muslim or Hindu women that covers them from head to foot
- chuffer — chubby; fat.
- chugger — a charity worker who approaches people in the street to ask for financial support for the charity, esp regular support by direct debit
- chukars — Plural form of chukar.
- chukker — any of the periods of play, each lasting 7 or 71⁄2 minutes, into which a polo match is divided
- chunder — to vomit
- chunker — (programming) A program like Unix's "split" which breaks an input file into parts, usually of a pre-set size, e.g. the maximum size that can fit on a floppy. The parts can then be assembled with a dechunker, which is usually just the chunker in a different mode.