8-letter words containing u, r, l, e
- burghley — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. 1520–98, English statesman: chief adviser to Elizabeth I; secretary of state (1558–72) and Lord High Treasurer (1572–98)
- burlecue — burlesque (def 3).
- burleigh — Burghley
- burleson — a city in N Texas.
- burletta — a type of comic opera
- burnable — able to be burned
- burpless — a belch; eructation.
- caesural — Prosody. a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan.
- carefull — Obsolete spelling of careful.
- carousel — At an airport, a carousel is a moving surface from which passengers can collect their luggage.
- caruncle — a fleshy outgrowth on the heads of certain birds, such as a cock's comb
- celature — the art of embossing metal.
- cellular — Cellular means relating to the cells of animals or plants.
- cerulean — a deep blue colour; azure
- cerulein — a bright blue dyestuff obtained from indigo
- chearful — Archaic spelling of cheerful.
- cheerful — Someone who is cheerful is happy and shows this in their behaviour.
- chuckler — Someone who chuckles.
- circulet — Obsolete form of circlet.
- ciseleur — a person who is expert in ciselure
- ciselure — the art or process of chasing metal
- claqueur — a member of a claque
- clear up — When you clear up or clear a place up, you tidy things and put them away.
- clearcut — Alternative spelling of clear cut.
- clearout — Alternative form of clear-out.
- cleburne — a city in N Texas, near Fort Worth.
- cleruchy — (in the ancient world) a special type of Athenian colony, in which settlers (cleruchs) retained their Athenian citizenship and the community remained a political dependency of Athens
- closures — Plural form of closure.
- clotures — Plural form of cloture.
- cloudier — full of or overcast by clouds: a cloudy sky.
- clubbers — Plural form of clubber.
- clumpier — Comparative form of clumpy.
- clumsier — Comparative form of clumsy.
- clunkers — Plural form of clunker.
- clusters — Plural form of cluster.
- clustery — Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters.
- clutcher — to seize with or as with the hands or claws; snatch: The bird swooped down and clutched its prey with its claws.
- cluttery — full of clutter
- colluder — to act together through a secret understanding, especially with evil or harmful intent.
- coloured — Something that is coloured a particular colour is that colour.
- colourer — a person or thing that colours
- coromuel — a cooling westerly breeze that flows in from the Pacific over the La Paz region of the southern Baja California peninsula of Mexico.
- couplers — Plural form of coupler.
- courtlet — a small court or courtyard
- crateful — (informal) As much as a crate would hold.
- crimeful — criminal; filled with crime
- crousely — in a crouse manner
- crucible — A crucible is a pot in which metals or other substances can be melted or heated up to very high temperatures.
- cruelest — willfully or knowingly causing pain or distress to others.
- cruelled — Simple past tense and past participle of cruel.