These are the meanings of the letters UERCA when you unscramble them.
- Acre (n.)
A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English.
- Acre (n.)
Any field of arable or pasture land.
- Care (n.)
A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.
- Care (n.)
Attention or heed; caution; regard; heedfulness; watchfulness; as, take care; have a care.
- Care (n.)
Charge, oversight, or management, implying responsibility for safety and prosperity.
- Care (n.)
The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
- Care (n.)
To be anxious or solicitous; to be concerned; to have regard or interest; -- sometimes followed by an objective of measure.
- Cure (n.)
A curate; a pardon.
- Cure (n.)
Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
- Cure (n.)
Care, heed, or attention.
- Cure (n.)
Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative.
- Cure (n.)
Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.
- Cure (n.)
Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure.
- Cure (v. i.)
To become healed.
- Cure (v. i.)
To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
- Cure (v. i.)
To restore health; to effect a cure.
- Cure (v. t.)
To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient.
- Cure (v. t.)
To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.
- Cure (v. t.)
To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.
- Cure (v. t.)
To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady.
- Ecru (a.)
Having the color or appearance of unbleached stuff, as silk, linen, or the like.
- Race (n.)
A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc.
- Race (n.)
A progress; a course; a movement or progression.
- Race (n.)
A root.
- Race (n.)
A strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or passage for such a current; a powerful current or heavy sea, sometimes produced by the meeting of two tides; as, the Portland Race; the Race of Alderney.
- Race (n.)
A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed.
- Race (n.)
Company; herd; breed.
- Race (n.)
Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
- Race (n.)
Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running.
- Race (n.)
Hence, characteristic quality or disposition.
- Race (n.)
Hence: The act or process of running in competition; a contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating, rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the running of horses; as, he attended the races.
- Race (n.)
Peculiar flavor, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavor; smack.
- Race (n.)
The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race.
- Race (n.)
The descendants of a common ancestor; a family, tribe, people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the same stock; a lineage; a breed.
- Race (v. i.)
To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port.
- Race (v. i.)
To run too fast at times, as a marine engine or screw, when the screw is lifted out of water by the action of a heavy sea.
- Race (v. t.)
To cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as, to race horses.
- Race (v. t.)
To raze.
- Race (v. t.)
To run a race with.
- Urea (a.)
A very soluble crystalline body which is the chief constituent of the urine in mammals and some other animals. It is also present in small quantity in blood, serous fluids, lymph, the liver, etc.