8-letter words containing a, n, c, r
- cracking — You use cracking to describe something you think is very good or exciting.
- cracknel — a type of hard plain biscuit
- cradling — a framework of iron or wood, esp as used in the construction of a ceiling
- crafting — an art, trade, or occupation requiring special skill, especially manual skill: the craft of a mason.
- cragsman — a rock climber
- cragsmen — Plural form of cragsman.
- cramdown — (legal) A court settlement in bankruptcy in which creditors receive less than they were owed.
- cramming — intensive study, esp in order to pass an exam
- cramping — cramp iron.
- crampons — Plural form of crampon.
- crampoon — Alternative form of crampon (attachment for a shoe).
- crandall — Prudence, 1803–90, U.S. educator and civil-rights activist.
- cranefly — A cranefly is a harmless flying insect with long legs.
- cranford — a township in NE New Jersey.
- craniate — having a skull or cranium
- crank in — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crank up — If you crank up a machine or device, you start it.
- crank-up — an act or instance of cranking up.
- crankier — Comparative form of cranky.
- crankily — In a cranky manner.
- cranking — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crankish — mildly eccentric
- crankous — fretful; cranky
- crankpin — a short cylindrical bearing surface fitted between two arms of a crank and set parallel to the main shaft of the crankshaft
- crannied — full of crannies or chinks
- crannies — Plural form of cranny.
- crannoge — Alt form crannog.
- crannogs — Plural form of crannog.
- cranston — city in R.I.: suburb of Providence: pop. 79,000
- cranwell — a village in E England, in Lincolnshire: Royal Air Force College (1920)
- crapping — (in craps) a losing throw, in which the total on the two dice is 2, 3, or 12.
- crashing — (intensifier) (esp in the phrase a crashing bore)
- cratonic — Of or pertaining to the craton.
- cravened — Simple past tense and past participle of craven.
- cravenly — In a craven manner.
- cravings — great or eager desire; yearning.
- crawling — a defect in freshly applied paint or varnish characterized by bare patches and ridging
- crayoned — Simple past tense and past participle of crayon.
- creaking — Present participle of creak.
- creaming — the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- creasing — Present participle of crease.
- creatine — an important metabolite involved in many biochemical reactions and present in many types of living cells
- creating — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
- creation — In many religions, creation is the making of the universe, Earth, and creatures by God.
- credenda — doctrines to be believed; matters of faith
- credenza — a type of buffet or sideboard
- cremains — A dead person's cremains are their remains after their body has been cremated.
- crenated — Crenate.
- crenshaw — a hybrid variety of melon with yellow skin and pale pink flesh
- crepance — an injury to the hind leg of a horse caused by its being struck by the shoe of the other hind foot