13-letter words containing ur
- by its nature — If you say that something has a particular characteristic by its nature or by its very nature, you mean that things of that type always have that characteristic.
- by yourselves — if you are by yourselves, or all by yourselves, you are alone
- by-your-leave — a request for permission (esp in the phrase without so much as a by-your-leave)
- cafe curtains — short, straight curtains, esp. for covering the lower part of a window, hung from a rod by means of sliding rings
- call the turn — to predict successfully
- cape coloured — (formerly, in South Africa) a racial classification under apartheid for people of mixed ethnic origin
- car insurance — financial protection against loss as a result of an automobile accident or theft
- carburization — Impregnation or reaction with carbon, especially in the manufacture of steel.
- carillonneurs — Plural form of carillonneur.
- carte du jour — a menu listing dishes available on a particular day
- casual labour — people who are employed on a temporary, rather than a permanent or regular basis
- caustic curve — a curve formed by the intersection of a caustic surface with a plane
- cement slurry — Cement slurry is a mixture of Portland cement, water, and additives.
- centuries-old — hundreds of years old
- century plant — an agave, Agave americana, native to tropical America but naturalized elsewhere, having very large spiny greyish leaves and greenish flowers on a tall fleshy stalk. It blooms only once in its life, after 10 to 30 years (formerly thought to flower after a century)
- chain measure — measurement of distance using a chain 66 feet (20 meters) long, of which one link equals 7.9 inches (20.1 cm).
- cheeseburgers — Plural form of cheeseburger.
- chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
- cherry laurel — a Eurasian rosaceous evergreen shrub, Prunus laurocerasus, having glossy aromatic leaves, white flowers, and purplish-black fruits
- chiaroscurist — A painter who uses light and shade rather than colour to create the illusion of volume.
- chickenburger — A hot sandwich made of a patty of chicken in a bun, often with other ingredients.
- church father — any of the writers on Christian doctrine of the pre-Scholastic period
- church of god — any of numerous Protestant denominations that stress personal conversion, sanctification, the imminent return of Jesus Christ, baptism by immersion, and, among some, speaking in tongues.
- church parade — a parade by servicemen or members of a uniformed organization for the purposes of attending religious services
- church school — A church school is a school which has a special relationship with a particular branch of the Christian church, and where there is strong emphasis on worship and the teaching of religion.
- church slavic — a liturgical language used in Eastern Orthodox churches in Slavic countries since the 11th or 12th century, representing a development of Old Church Slavonic through contact with the national Slavic languages.
- churchmanship — The craft or skill of being a churchman. (from 17th c.).
- churchpersons — Plural form of churchperson.
- churchwardens — Plural form of churchwarden.
- churn molding — a molding decorated with chevrons.
- circuit court — a court with jurisdiction over several counties or districts within a state.
- clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- clare-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- closed source — intellectual property, esp computer source code, that is not made available to the general public by its creators
- co-curricular — related but only complementary to the official curriculum, as a civic or service activity outside the classroom.
- co-occurrence — the fact of two things happening at the same time
- coal measures — a series of coal-bearing rocks formed in the upper Carboniferous period; the uppermost series of the Carboniferous system
- cocktail hour — the interval before the evening meal during which cocktails and other alcoholic beverages are often served.
- coeur d'alene — a member of an Indian people in N Idaho around Coeur d'Alene Lake.
- coeur de lion — Richard I, meaning “lionhearted.”.
- colour camera — a camera that takes colour photographs
- colour filter — a thin layer of coloured gelatine, glass, etc, that transmits light of certain colours or wavelengths but considerably reduces the transmission of others
- colour scheme — In a room or house, the colour scheme is the way in which colours have been used to decorate it.
- colourisation — Alternative spelling of colorization.
- commeasurable — having the same measure or extent; commensurate.
- commensurable — having a common factor
- commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
- commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
- commensurates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commensurate.
- concurrencies — Plural form of concurrency.