11-letter words containing u, t, r, n
- countersunk — driven or sunk into an enlarged hole
- counterterm — Antithesis.
- countertops — Plural form of countertop.
- counterturn — a turn in an opposing or contrary direction.
- countertype — an opposite type
- countervail — to act or act against with equal power or force
- countervair — (heraldry) A heraldic fur resembling vair, except in the arrangement of the patches or figures.
- counterview — an opposite or opposing view
- counterword — a word widely used in a sense much looser than its original meaning, such as tremendous or awful
- counterwork — work done in opposition to other work
- countrified — You use countrified to describe something that seems or looks like something in the country, rather than in a town.
- countryfied — countrified
- countryfolk — people living or raised in the country; rustics.
- countrymade — (in India) Describing a weapon manufactured illegally in a cottage industry.
- countryseat — a house or estate in the country
- countryside — The countryside is land which is away from towns and cities.
- countrywide — Something that happens or exists countrywide happens or exists throughout the whole of a particular country.
- county fair — a competitive exhibition of farm products, livestock, etc., often held annually in the same place in the county.
- county farm — a farm maintained for the poor by a county.
- coupon rate — The coupon rate is the interest rate on a bond calculated on the number of coupons per year.
- court dance — a dignified dance for performance at a court. Compare folk dance (def 1).
- courtliness — polite, refined, or elegant: courtly manners.
- covermounts — Plural form of covermount.
- cow country — a region of cattle ranches, as rural areas of the southwestern U.S., especially Texas.
- craft union — a labour organization membership of which is restricted to workers in a specified trade or craft
- crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
- cretan bull — a savage bull, captured on Crete by Hercules and allowed to roam near Marathon in Greece until captured by Theseus.
- crinkle-cut — (of chips or crisps) having a striated or furrowed surface
- cropdusting — the spreading of fungicide, etc on crops in the form of dust, often from an aircraft
- 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.
- crunch time — the critical moment
- crustaceans — Plural form of crustacean.
- crux ansata — the ankh, an ancient Egyptian symbol
- curie point — the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic
- currant bun — a sweet bun containing currants
- 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.
- currentness — the state or quality of being current; currency.
- curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.
- curtain rod — A curtain rod is a long, narrow pole on which you hang curtains.
- curtainless — without a curtain or curtains
- curtainwall — Storm shutters or other removable protection for all windows and doors in a residence or building against the effects of high winds, rain and flying objects during a hurricane. They can be made of a variety of materials such as aluminum panels, iron or even wood.
- cut and run — to make a rapid escape
- cut corners — to do something in the easiest and shortest way, esp at the expense of high standards
- cut-and-try — marked by a procedure of trial and error; empirical: Many scientific advances are achieved with a cut-and-try approach.
- day-neutral — (of plants) having an ability to mature and bloom that is not affected by day length
- debt burden — A debt burden is a large amount of money that one country or organization owes to another and which they find very difficult to repay.
- declinature — the act of refusing politely
- 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