10-letter words containing u, m, r
- compacture — an act of joining or bringing into proximity
- composture — compost or manure
- composures — Plural form of composure.
- compounder — A person who mixes or combines ingredients in order to produce an animal feed, medicine, or other substance.
- compu$erve — (Or "CompuSpend", "Compu$pend") A pejorative name for CompuServe Information Service (CI$) drawing attention to perceived high charges.
- compulsory — If something is compulsory, you must do it or accept it, because it is the law or because someone in a position of authority says you must.
- compursion — the act of contracting the mouth into a small rounded shape
- compuserve — CompuServe Information Service
- computator — a person who computes or calculates
- conga drum — a large tubular bass drum, used chiefly in Latin American and funk music and played with the hands
- consortium — A consortium is a group of people or firms who have agreed to co-operate with each other.
- conundrums — Plural form of conundrum.
- corniculum — a small horn or corniform part
- costumiers — Plural form of costumier.
- coulometer — an electrolytic cell for measuring the magnitude of an electric charge by determining the total amount of decomposition resulting from the passage of the charge through the cell
- coulometry — a method used in quantitative analysis, whereby the amount of a substance set free or deposited during electrolysis is determined by measuring the number of coulombs that passed through the electrolyte.
- coumarilic — coumaric
- counterman — a man who works on a lunch counter or behind the counter of a cafe
- countermen — Plural form of counterman.
- countryman — Your countrymen are people from your own country.
- countrymen — a native or inhabitant of one's own country.
- coursemate — One who is taking the same academic course.
- court tomb — a type of Neolithic trapezoidal burial mound having a semicircular forecourt at one end and bounded by large standing stones, common in the British Isles.
- courtrooms — Plural form of courtroom.
- covermount — A covermount is a small gift attached to the front cover of a magazine.
- cream puff — a shell of light pastry with a custard or cream filling
- creampuffs — Plural form of creampuff.
- creepmouse — an informal tickling game played with small children
- crumbcloth — a cloth placed under a dining table to protect the carpet from crumbs and other material
- crumblings — any pieces of matter which have crumbled or fallen from a larger part
- crumminess — the state or quality of being crummy
- crumplings — crumpling or folding actions
- crunchtime — the tense, critical phase of an activity
- cub master — a man who organizes a pack of cub scouts
- cuculiform — of, relating to, or belonging to the order Cuculiformes, which includes the cuckoos
- cucumiform — shaped like a cucumber
- culiciform — resembling a gnat
- cultriform — (botany, zoology) Shaped like a pruning knife; cultrate.
- cumberland — (until 1974) a county of NW England, now part of Cumbria
- cumberless — unencumbered
- cumberment — an obstruction or hindrance
- cumbersome — Something that is cumbersome is large and heavy and therefore difficult to carry, wear, or handle.
- cumbrously — In a cumbrous manner.
- cummerbund — A cummerbund is a wide piece of cloth worn round the waist as part of a man's evening dress.
- cumuliform — resembling a cumulus cloud
- cuneiforms — Plural form of cuneiform.
- curly palm — a feather palm, Howea belmoreana, of Lord Howe Island, having plumy leaves about 7 feet (2.1 meter) long.
- curmudgeon — If you call someone a curmudgeon, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- curmurring — a low rumbling or murmuring sound
- curriculum — A curriculum is all the different courses of study that are taught in a school, college, or university.