9-letter words containing ur
- centurium — A rejected name for fermium.
- chasseurs — Plural form of chasseur.
- chauffeur — The chauffeur of a rich or important person is the man or woman who is employed to look after their car and drive them around in it.
- chaussure — a term for any type of footwear
- cherbourg — a port in NW France, on the English Channel. Pop: 25 370 (1999)
- chevelure — the hazy or misty luminescence encircling a comet or star
- chirurgie — (archaic) surgery.
- churchill — a river in E Canada, rising in SE Labrador and flowing north and southeast over Churchill Falls, then east to the Atlantic. Length: about 1000 km (600 miles)
- churching — the act of bringing someone, esp a woman after childbirth, to church for special ceremonies
- churchism — adherence to the principles of an established church
- churchman — A churchman is the same as a clergyman.
- churchmen — Plural form of churchman.
- churchway — a road that leads to a church
- churidars — long tight-fitting trousers, worn by Indian men and women
- churn out — To churn out something means to produce large quantities of it very quickly.
- churnings — Plural form of churning.
- churnmilk — buttermilk
- churrasco — meat cooked over an open fire.
- cinctured — Simple past tense and past participle of cincture.
- cinctures — Plural form of cincture.
- clamoured — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clamourer — One who clamours.
- clangours — Plural form of clangour.
- claqueurs — Plural form of claqueur.
- co durham — County Durham
- cocklebur — any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium, having spiny burs: family Asteraceae (composites)
- cockspurs — Plural form of cockspur.
- coculture — to culture together
- cocurator — a fellow curator
- coenamour — to enamour jointly
- cofeature — a joint feature
- coiffured — Coiffured means the same as coiffed.
- coiffures — Plural form of coiffure.
- coinsurer — A coinsurer is a person or company whose policy covers the same risk as that of another person or company, and shares the loss.
- coinsures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coinsure.
- colour in — If you colour in a drawing, you give it different colours using crayons or paints.
- colourant — A colourant is a substance that is used to give something a particular colour.
- colourful — Something that is colourful has bright colours or a lot of different colours.
- colouring — The colouring of something is the colour or colours that it is.
- colourise — (UK) Alternative form of colorize (to add colour to).
- colourism — discrimination in which people are judged on the basis of their skin colour
- colourist — A colourist is someone such as an artist or a fashion designer who uses colours in an interesting and original way.
- colourize — to add colour electronically to (an old black-and-white film)
- colourman — a person who deals in paints
- colourway — one of several different combinations of colours in which a given pattern is printed on fabrics, wallpapers, etc
- comfiture — (obsolete) A confection, especially of preserved fruit.
- composure — Composure is the appearance or feeling of calm and the ability to control your feelings.
- concourse — A concourse is a wide hall in a public building, for example a hotel, airport, or station.
- concurred — to accord in opinion; agree: Do you concur with his statement?
- configure — If you configure a piece of computer equipment, you set it up so that it is ready for use.