5-letter words containing c, u, r
- cured — (of food) treated by salting, smoking, or drying in order to preserve it
- curer — A healer.
- cures — Plural form of cure.
- curet — a spoon-shaped surgical instrument for the removal of tissue from the walls of body cavities
- curia — the papal court and government of the Roman Catholic Church
- curie — Marie (mari). 1867–1934, French physicist and chemist, born in Poland: discovered with her husband Pierre the radioactivity of thorium, and discovered and isolated radium and polonium. She shared a Nobel prize for physics (1903) with her husband and Henri Becquerel, and was awarded a Nobel prize for chemistry (1911)
- curio — A curio is an object such as a small ornament which is unusual and fairly rare.
- curli — curled hairlike processes on the surface of the bacterium Escherichia coli by means of which the bacterium adheres to and infects wounds
- curls — Plural form of curl.
- curly — Curly hair is full of curls.
- curns — a grain.
- curny — granular
- currs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of curr.
- curry — Curry is a dish composed of meat and vegetables, or just vegetables, in a sauce containing hot spices. It is usually eaten with rice and is one of the main dishes of India.
- curse — If you curse, you use rude or offensive language, usually because you are angry about something.
- curst — a simple past tense and past participle of curse.
- curts — a male given name, form of Curtis.
- curve — A curve is a smooth, gradually bending line, for example part of the edge of a circle.
- curvy — If someone describes a woman as curvy, they think she is attractive because of the curves of her body.
- cuter — attractive, especially in a dainty way; pleasingly pretty: a cute child; a cute little apartment.
- cyrus — known as Cyrus the Great or Cyrus the Elder. died ?529 bc, king of Persia and founder of the Persian empire
- duroc — one of an American breed of hardy red hogs having drooping ears.
- ecrus — very light brown in color, as raw silk, unbleached linen, etc.
- encur — Alternative form of incur.
- eruca — (zoology) An insect in the larval state; a caterpillar; a larva.
- eruct — Emit stomach gas noisily through the mouth; belch.
- furca — A forked appendage or projection in an arthropod, in particular.
- incur — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
- jucar — a river in E Spain, flowing S to the Mediterranean Sea near Valencia. About 316 miles (509 km) long.
- lucre — monetary reward or gain; money.
- lurch — Archaic. the act of lurking or state of watchfulness.
- mucor — any phycomycetous fungus of the genus Mucor, that forms a furry coating on foodstuffs and dead and decaying vegetable matter.
- mucro — a short point projecting abruptly, as at the end of a leaf.
- occur — to happen; take place; come to pass: When did the accident occur?
- orcus — the ancient Roman god of the underworld, identified with the Greek Pluto, or Hades.
- pucer — of a dark or brownish purple.
- recur — to occur again, as an event, experience, etc.
- recut — to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger.
- ruche — a strip of pleated lace, net, muslin, or other material for trimming or finishing a dress, as at the collar or sleeves.
- runch — the white charlock
- runic — consisting of or set down in runes: runic inscriptions.
- scour — to range over, as in a search: They scoured the countryside for the lost child.
- scrub — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
- scrum — a Rugby play in which, typically, three members of each team line up opposite one another with a group of two and a group of three players behind them, making an eight-person, three-two-three formation on each side; the ball is then rolled between the opposing front lines, the players of which stand with arms around a teammate's waist, meeting the opponent shoulder to shoulder, and attempt to kick the ball backward to a teammate.
- scurf — the scales or small shreds of epidermis that are continually exfoliated from the skin.
- sucre — Antonio José de [ahn-taw-nyaw haw-se th e] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ hɔˈsɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1830, Venezuelan general and South American liberator: 1st president of Bolivia 1826–28.
- truce — a suspension of hostilities for a specified period of time by mutual agreement of the warring parties; cease-fire; armistice.
- truck — a shuffling jitterbug step.
- turco — (formerly) an Algerian serving in the light infantry of the French army
- ugric — a branch of the Uralic family of languages, consisting of Hungarian and two languages, Khanty and Mansi, spoken in western Siberia.