11-letter words containing u, r, o, c
- crown court — In England and Wales, a Crown Court is a court in which criminal cases are tried by a judge and jury rather than by a magistrate.
- cruciferous — of, relating to, or belonging to the plant family Cruciferae
- crucifixion — Crucifixion is a way of killing people which was common in the Roman Empire, in which they were tied or nailed to a cross and left to die.
- crushworthy — (usually, of a, person) Suitable for a crush (infatuation): attractive.
- crustaceous — forming, resembling, or possessing a surrounding crust or shell
- cry out for — If you say that something cries out for a particular thing or action, you mean that it needs that thing or action very much.
- cryocautery — Cautery by the application of extreme cold.
- cryosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in cryosurgery
- cryosurgery — surgery involving the local destruction of tissues by quick freezing for therapeutic benefit
- culmiferous — (of grasses) having a hollow jointed stem
- cultivators — Plural form of cultivator.
- culturology — a branch of anthropology concerned with the study of cultural institutions as distinct from the people who are involved in them.
- culturomics — the study of human culture and cultural trends over time by means of quantitative analysis of words and phrases in a very large corpus of digitized texts: Culturomics can pinpoint periods of accelerated language change.
- culver hole — a hole for receiving a timber.
- cupriferous — (of a substance such as an ore) containing or yielding copper
- cupronickel — any ductile corrosion-resistant copper alloy containing up to 40 per cent nickel: used in coins, condenser tubes, turbine blades, etc
- curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
- curie point — the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic
- curiosities — Plural form of curiosity.
- curiousness — eager to learn or know; inquisitive.
- curmudgeons — Plural form of curmudgeon.
- currantworm — the larva of any of several insects, as a sawfly, Nematus ribesii (imported currantworm) which infests and feeds on the leaves and fruit of currants.
- curry favor — to try to win favor by flattery, fawning, etc.
- currycombed — Simple past tense and past participle of currycomb.
- cursoriness — The state of being cursory.
- curtain rod — A curtain rod is a long, narrow pole on which you hang curtains.
- customaries — Plural form of customary.
- customarily — according to custom; usually
- cut corners — to do something in the easiest and shortest way, esp at the expense of high standards
- cut throats — a person who cuts the throat of another; a murderer.
- cut through — to penetrate or go through by cutting
- cyano group — the univalent group CN; cyanogen.
- cyperaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Cyperaceae, a family of grasslike flowering plants with solid triangular stems, including the sedges, bulrush, cotton grass, and certain rushes. Some are grown as water plants or as ornamental grasses; and Cyperus papyrus is the papyrus plant
- damp course — A damp course is a layer of waterproof material which is put into the bottom of the outside wall of a building to prevent moisture from rising.
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
- deconstruct — In philosophy and literary criticism, to deconstruct an idea or text means to show the contradictions in its meaning, and to show how it does not fully explain what it claims to explain.
- decurionate — the post or position of a decurion
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- destruction — Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
- destructors — Plural form of destructor.
- deuce court — the receiver's right-hand service court, into which the ball is served when the score is deuce.
- dextrocular — favoring the right eye, rather than the left, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to sinistrocular).
- diascordium — a herbal medicine, no longer in use, containing among other ingredients the herb scordium and opium
- dick around — to spend time wastefully or unprofitably
- disclosures — Plural form of disclosure.
- discolorous — (botany, of leaves) Having upper and lower surfaces of different colours.
- discoloured — (British) alternative spelling of discolored.
- discounters — Plural form of discounter.
- discouraged — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- discourager — One who discourages.