11-letter words containing u, n, r, e, c
- cretan bull — a savage bull, captured on Crete by Hercules and allowed to roam near Marathon in Greece until captured by Theseus.
- crinigerous — having hair; hairy
- crinkle-cut — (of chips or crisps) having a striated or furrowed surface
- croquignole — a small crisp cake
- crowdfunded — Simple past tense and past participle of crowdfund.
- crumbliness — The state of being crumbly.
- crunch time — the critical moment
- crunchiness — The state of being crunchy.
- crustaceans — Plural form of crustacean.
- cryosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in cryosurgery
- culverineer — a soldier bearing a culverin
- cumbernauld — a town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire, northeast of Glasgow: developed as a new town since 1956. Pop: 49 664 (2001)
- cummerbunds — Plural form of cummerbund.
- cupronickel — any ductile corrosion-resistant copper alloy containing up to 40 per cent nickel: used in coins, condenser tubes, turbine blades, etc
- curableness — The quality or state of being curable.
- curie point — the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic
- curiousness — eager to learn or know; inquisitive.
- curmudgeons — Plural form of curmudgeon.
- currentness — the state or quality of being current; currency.
- cursiveness — the quality of being cursive
- cursoriness — The state of being cursory.
- curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.
- curtainless — without a curtain or curtains
- curvilineal — (Of a line) Having bends; curved; curvilinear.
- curvilinear — consisting of, bounded by, or characterized by a curved line
- cut corners — to do something in the easiest and shortest way, esp at the expense of high standards
- cypherpunks — Plural form of cypherpunk.
- declinature — the act of refusing politely
- deconstruct — In philosophy and literary criticism, to deconstruct an idea or text means to show the contradictions in its meaning, and to show how it does not fully explain what it claims to explain.
- decurionate — the post or position of a decurion
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- destructing — serving or designed to destroy: a destruct mechanism on a missile.
- destruction — Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
- discounters — Plural form of discounter.
- disencumber — to free from a burden or other encumbrance; disburden.
- disjuncture — the act of disjoining or the state of being disjoined; disjunction.
- distincture — distinctness
- disturbance — the act of disturbing.
- documentary — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- documenters — Plural form of documenter.
- druckenness — the state of being drunk
- ecoconsumer — A consumer who makes purchasing decisions partly or largely on the basis of ecological issues.
- emparlaunce — an act of parleying or conferring
- emunctories — Plural form of emunctory.
- encapturing — Present participle of encapture.
- encountered — Simple past tense and past participle of encounter.
- encounterer — One who encounters; an opponent or antagonist.
- encouraging — Giving someone support or confidence; supportive.
- encrustment — an outer layer of crust
- enculturate — (transitive) To subject to enculturation.