9-letter words containing a, c, r, s
- crisphead — a variety of lettuce with a dense cabbage-like head and mild crunchy leaves
- cristobal — seaport in Panama, at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal: part of the city of Colón
- criterias — (nonstandard, proscribed) Plural form of criteria.
- criticals — Plural form of critical.
- crocosmia — any plant of the cormous S. African genus Crocosmia, including the plant known to gardeners as montbretia: family Iridaceae
- croissant — Croissants are small, sweet bread rolls in the shape of a crescent that are eaten for breakfast.
- cross sea — a sea with a choppy surface produced by the intersection of waves from different storms.
- crossable — able to be crossed
- crossband — (in furniture) a layer of wood beneath, and with its grain at right angles to, the veneer
- crossbars — Plural form of crossbar.
- crossbeam — A crossbeam is a long, thick bar of wood, metal, or concrete that is placed between two walls or other structures, especially in order to support the roof of a building.
- crossfall — the camber of a road
- crosshair — either of the two fine mutually perpendicular lines or wires that cross in the focal plane of a theodolite, gunsight, or other optical instrument and are used to define the line of sight
- crosshead — a subsection or paragraph heading printed within the body of the text
- crossjack — a square sail on a ship's mizzenmast
- crossrail — a horizontal slat forming part of the back of a chair.
- crossroad — a road that crosses another road
- crosstabs — Simple language for statistical analysis of tabular data. "User's Manual for the CROSSTABS System", Cambridge Computer Assoc (Feb 1977).
- crosstalk — unwanted signals in one channel of a communications system as a result of a transfer of energy from one or more other channels
- crosswalk — A crosswalk is a place where pedestrians can cross a street and where drivers must stop to let them cross.
- crossways — crosswise.
- crotalism — a type of poisoning caused by ingestion of plants of the genus Crotalaria
- croustade — a hollowed pastry case or piece of cooked bread, potato, etc, in which food is served
- crown saw — a hollow cylinder with cutting teeth forming a rotary saw for trepanning
- cruiseway — a canal used for recreational purposes
- crusaders — (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- crusading — campaigning
- crusadoes — Plural form of crusado.
- crush bar — a bar at a theatre for serving drinks during the intervals of a play
- crushable — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- crustacea — a collective term for members of the Crustacea class of (mainly aquatic) mandibulate arthropods, characterized by their usually chitinous exoskeletons
- crybabies — Plural form of crybaby.
- cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.
- cryostats — Plural form of cryostat.
- crystall- — crystallo-
- cubatures — Plural form of cubature.
- cuirassed — Wearing a cuirass.
- cuirasses — Plural form of cuirass.
- cuisinart — a brand of food processor
- cultivars — Plural form of cultivar.
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- curassows — Plural form of curassow.
- curatress — A female curator.
- curialism — the doctrine and methods of the ultramontane party in the Roman Catholic Church
- curialist — a member or supporter of the papal curia
- cursorial — adapted for running
- customary — Customary is used to describe things that people usually do in a particular society or in particular circumstances.
- custumary — Obsolete form of customary.
- cut-grass — any grass (esp. Leersia oryzoides) having tiny hooks along the edges of the blades that cause scratches on the human skin
- cutwaters — Plural form of cutwater.