15-letter words containing ur
- canterbury bell — a campanulaceous biennial European plant, Campanula medium, widely cultivated for its blue, violet, or white flowers
- canterbury lamb — New Zealand lamb exported chilled or frozen to the United Kingdom
- capital surplus — any surplus of a business firm not derived from direct earnings or profits
- cardinal humour — any of the four bodily fluids (blood, phlegm, choler or yellow bile, melancholy or black bile) formerly thought to determine emotional and physical disposition
- carriage return — a mechanism on a typewriter that causes the carriage to return to the left side of the paper
- casual labourer — a person who is employed on a temporary, rather than a permanent or regular basis
- catholic church — any of several Churches claiming to have maintained continuity with the ancient and undivided Church
- caustic surface — a surface that envelopes the light rays reflected or refracted by a curved surface
- channel surfing — to change from one channel on a television set to another with great or unusual frequency, especially by using a remote control.
- channel-surfing — Channel-surfing is the same as channel-hopping.
- chanson d'amour — love song.
- charcoal burner — (formerly) a person whose work was making charcoal by burning
- charcoal-burner — a device that burns charcoal, as a stove or brazier.
- children's hour — a play (1934) by Lillian Hellman.
- chintz curtains — curtains made of chintz
- church calendar — ecclesiastical calendar (def 2).
- church militant — those Christians on earth who are engaged in a continuous war against evil and the enemies of Christ.
- church register — parish register.
- church slavonic — Old Church Slavonic, esp as preserved in the liturgical use of the Orthodox church
- church-calendar — a calendar based on the lunisolar cycle, used by many Christian churches in determining the dates for the movable feasts.
- churchill falls — a waterfall in E Canada, in SW Labrador on the Churchill River: site of one of the largest hydroelectric power projects in the world. Height: 75 m (245 ft)
- churrigueresque — of or relating to a style of baroque architecture of Spain in the late 17th and early 18th centuries
- class structure — social hierarchy
- closed fracture — simple fracture.
- coffee-coloured — having the colour of coffee; dark brown; light brown
- colour contrast — the change in the appearance of a colour surrounded by another colour; for example, grey looks bluish if surrounded by yellow
- colour sergeant — a sergeant who carries the regimental, battalion, or national colours, as in a colour guard
- colour-reversal — (of film or photographic paper) designed to produce a positive image directly from a positive subject
- colouristically — in a colouristic manner
- colourpoint cat — a cat with increased pigmentation of cooler points of the body, such as ears, feet, tail, nose, and scrotum (in males)
- combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
- common currency — If you say that an idea or belief has become common currency, you mean it is widely used and accepted.
- compton-burnett — Dame Ivy. 1884–1969, English novelist. Her novels include Men and Wives (1931) and Mother and Son (1955)
- concurrent lisp — (language) A concurrent version of Lisp. Sugimoto et al implemented an interpreter on a "large scale computer" and were planning to implement it on multiple microprocessors.
- concurrent user — one of several simultaneous users of a computing resource such as a computer program or file
- configurability — The property of being configurable.
- configurational — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
- conjuring trick — A conjuring trick is a trick in which something is made to appear or disappear as if by magic.
- connoisseurship — a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in an art, particularly one of the fine arts, or in matters of taste: a connoisseur of modern art.
- contour curtain — a curtain having lines attached to several points for drawing up into folds of various shapes.
- contour feather — any of the feathers that cover the body of an adult bird, apart from the wings and tail, and determine its shape
- control surface — a movable surface, such as a rudder, elevator, aileron, etc, that controls an aircraft or rocket
- copper-coloured — of a reddish-brown colour
- core curriculum — a group of subjects that all students in a certain type of school or of a certain age must study
- corkscrew curls — locks of hair curled to hang in a spiral shape
- counter-culture — Counter-culture is a set of values, ideas, and ways of behaving that are completely different from those of the rest of society.
- counter-measure — A counter-measure is an action that you take in order to weaken the effect of another action or a situation, or to make it harmless.
- countercultural — of or relating to a counterculture
- countercultures — Plural form of counterculture.
- countercurrents — Plural form of countercurrent.