11-letter words containing cur
- incuriosity — The quality or state of lacking curiosity.
- incuriously — In an incurious manner.
- incurrences — Plural form of incurrence.
- incurvating — Present participle of incurvate.
- incurvation — curved, especially inward.
- light curve — a graph showing variations in brightness of celestial objects over time.
- manicurists — Plural form of manicurist.
- marie curie — Irène [French ee-ren] /French iˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), Joliot-Curie, Irène.
- mercurially — In a mercurial manner.
- mercury arc — a bluish-green electric arc that has passed through a mercury-vapor cathode.
- microcuries — Plural form of microcurie.
- millicuries — Plural form of millicurie.
- net curtain — Net curtains are curtains made of thin cloth that people hang across their windows to stop people outside seeing into their houses in the daytime.
- non-current — passing in time; belonging to the time actually passing: the current month.
- non-cursive — (of handwriting) in flowing strokes with the letters joined together.
- obscuration — the act of obscuring.
- obscurement — The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured.
- obscureness — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- obscurities — Plural form of obscurity.
- occurrences — the action, fact, or instance of occurring.
- overcurious — Excessively curious.
- overcurrent — a current of a magnitude that is greater than a limiting value, as the value at which a fuse melts.
- peano curve — a curve that passes through every point of a two-dimensional region.
- pococurante — a careless or indifferent person.
- procuration — the act of obtaining or getting; procurement.
- procuratory — Roman History. any of various imperial officials with fiscal or administrative powers.
- procurement — the act of procuring, or obtaining or getting by effort, care, or the use of special means: The organ procurement procedure is very complicated.
- recurrently — that recurs; occurring or appearing again, especially repeatedly or periodically.
- recurringly — occurring or appearing again.
- recursively — pertaining to or using a rule or procedure that can be applied repeatedly.
- red currant — any of various currant shrubs of the genus Ribes, bearing an edible, red fruit.
- red mercury — a supposedly radioactive substance that could be used in a bomb made from nuclear waste, widely believed to be part of a confidence trick in which gangsters sold useless material to terrorists in the early 1990s
- reoccurring — to happen; take place; come to pass: When did the accident occur?
- rip current — undertow (def 1).
- roman curia — the judicial and executive organizations of the papal see comprising the government of the Catholic Church.
- secure unit — A secure unit is a building or part of a building where dangerous prisoners or violent psychiatric patients are kept.
- subcurative — of a dosage which is not strong enough to have a curing effect
- sugar-cured — (especially of ham or bacon) cured in a mixture of sugar, salt, and sodium nitrate or sodium nitrite.
- the curtain — the end of a scene of a play, opera, etc, marked by the fall or closing of the curtain
- toe-curling — If you describe something as toe-curling, you mean that it makes you feel very embarrassed.
- uncurtailed — to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.
- yield curve — finance: a graph showing yield of securities with different maturity dates