11-letter words containing ur
- caricatures — a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn.
- cat burglar — A cat burglar is a thief who steals from houses or other buildings by climbing up walls and entering through windows or through the roof.
- centaurette — (fantasy) A female centaur.
- centuriator — a historian who compiles work by centuries, esp one of the writers of the Magdeburg Centuries
- ceteosaurus — a large dinosaur of the Jurassic period
- chaleur bay — an inlet of the Gulf of St. Lawrence between NE New Brunswick and SE Quebec, in SE Canada: rich fishing ground. About 85 miles (135 km) long; 15–25 miles (24–40 km) wide.
- chancellour — Archaic form of chancellor.
- chateauroux — a town in central France: 10th-century castle (Château-Raoul). Pop: 46 386 (2009)
- chauffeured — driven by a chauffeur
- chiaroscuro — Chiaroscuro is the use of light and shade in a picture, or the effect produced by light and shade in a place.
- chiliburger — a hamburger served with a topping of chili con carne.
- chimichurri — an Argentinian sauce of parsley, oregano, red chilies, lemon zest, vinegar, and olive oil, often served with grilled meat.
- chirurgeons — Plural form of chirurgeon.
- chirurgical — relating to, carrying out or expert in surgery
- church army — a voluntary Anglican organization founded in 1882 to assist the parish clergy
- church book — any of various books commonly used by a church, as a service book or a parish register.
- church hall — a building near to or attached to a church suitable for social gatherings
- church mode — a mode belonging to a codified system of modes in use in Gregorian chant and in other music to c1600.
- church rate — (formerly in England and Ireland) a compulsory assessment imposed on the parishioners' holdings of houses or land in order to repair the parish church and maintain its services.
- church text — a heavy typeface in Gothic style
- churchgoers — a person who goes to church, especially habitually.
- churchgoing — a person who goes to church, especially habitually.
- churchwards — in the direction of the church
- churchwoman — a female practising member of a church
- churchwomen — Plural form of churchwoman.
- churchyards — Plural form of churchyard.
- churn drill — a portable drill rig using a bit fashioned on a massive steel cylinder that is alternately lifted and dropped to drill a hole in earth and rock.
- circumburst — (physics, astronomy) Surrounding a burst.
- civil court — a court of law in which civil cases are tried and determined. See also civil law (def 1).
- cloudbursts — Plural form of cloudburst.
- coadventure — adventure in which two or more share.
- coat armour — a coat of arms
- coelurosaur — any of various small to very large bipedal carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs belonging to the suborder Theropoda, active in the Triassic and Cretaceous periods; Tyrannosaurus was a coelurosaur, and birds are thought to have evolved from small coelurosaurs
- coffee hour — an informal gathering of people at which coffee and refreshments are served.
- coinsurance — a method of insurance by which property is insured for a certain percentage of its value by a commercial insurance policy while the owner assumes liability for the remainder
- cold turkey — Cold turkey is the unpleasant physical reaction that people experience when they suddenly stop taking a drug that they have become addicted to.
- cold-turkey — to withdraw from (an addictive substance or a habit) abruptly and completely.
- coloraturas — Plural form of coloratura.
- colour code — a system of easily distinguishable colours, as for the identification of electrical wires or resistors
- colour film — a film for use in cameras that produces coloured pictures
- colour line — the social separation of racial groups within a community (esp in the phrase to cross the colour line)
- colouration — (British spelling) alternative spelling of coloration.
- colourblind — Alternative form of colour blind.
- colourbreed — to breed (animals or plants) to be a particular colour
- colourfully — Alternative spelling of colorfully.
- colourpoint — a breed of domestic cat
- colporteurs — Plural form of colporteur.
- commissural — Of or pertaining to a commissure.
- commissures — Plural form of commissure.
- compressure — the act of compressing.