10-letter words containing u, r, t
- colorature — (music) An elaborate melody, particularly in vocal music and especially in operatic singing of the 18th and 19th centuries, with runs, trills, leaps, etc.
- colostrous — containing colostrum
- colourcast — a colour television broadcast
- colourfast — A fabric that is colourfast has a colour that will not get paler when the fabric is washed or worn.
- colporteur — a hawker of books, esp bibles
- combustors — Plural form of combustor.
- come-outer — an outspoken or very active supporter of a cause, especially a reformer or a social activist.
- comminutor — a machine that pulverizes solids, as in waste treatment.
- commixture — a mixture
- commutator — a device used to reverse the direction of flow of an electric current
- compacture — an act of joining or bringing into proximity
- composture — compost or manure
- computator — a person who computes or calculates
- concurrent — Concurrent events or situations happen at the same time.
- conductors — a person who conducts; a leader, guide, director, or manager.
- conductour — Obsolete form of conductor.
- conjecture — A conjecture is a conclusion that is based on information that is not certain or complete.
- conjurator — a person who, through oath, is bound to others, esp a member of a group plotting a conspiracy
- connatural — having a similar nature or origin
- consortium — A consortium is a group of people or firms who have agreed to co-operate with each other.
- constructs — Plural form of construct.
- construing — to give the meaning or intention of; explain; interpret.
- consultory — consultative
- contexture — the fact, process, or manner of weaving or of being woven together
- contouring — Present participle of contour.
- contrecoup — an injury, esp to the brain, that occurs at the opposite side of the body from that which was struck
- contribute — If you contribute to something, you say or do things to help to make it successful.
- copulatory — to engage in sexual intercourse.
- copycutter — an employee of a newspaper who separates copy into takes to facilitate printing.
- corbel out — to support on corbels
- coroutines — Plural form of coroutine.
- corrugated — Corrugated metal or cardboard has been folded into a series of small parallel folds to make it stronger.
- corrugates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corrugate.
- corrugator — a muscle whose contraction causes wrinkling of the brow
- corrupting — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- corruption — Corruption is dishonesty and illegal behaviour by people in positions of authority or power.
- corruptive — tending to corrupt or produce corruption
- corruscate — Dated form of coruscate.
- coruscated — Simple past tense and past participle of coruscate.
- costumiers — Plural form of costumier.
- cotylosaur — any of various members of the extinct order of primitive and massive reptiles known as Cotylosauria, which lived between the Carboniferous and Triassic ages
- 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.
- coulterneb — The puffin.
- counteract — To counteract something means to reduce its effect by doing something that produces an opposite effect.
- counterair — (military) Attacking the air force of an opposing power.
- counterbid — A counterbid is a bid that is made in response to a bid from another person or group, offering the seller more advantages.
- counterbug — (humour) A bug used as a relpy to refute another person's bug report, as in "counterargument".
- countercry — a cry responding to another cry
- countering — in the wrong way; contrary to the right course; in the reverse or opposite direction.