11-letter words containing a, r, c, t
- crepitating — Present participle of crepitate.
- crepitation — the act of crepitating
- crescentade — a religious crusade or war fought under the flag of Turkey
- crestfallen — If you look crestfallen, you look sad and disappointed about something.
- cretan bull — a savage bull, captured on Crete by Hercules and allowed to roam near Marathon in Greece until captured by Theseus.
- cri du chat — cat's cry syndrome.
- cricket bat — a specially shaped, carved wooden bat used to play cricket
- criminalist — a person who collects and analyses forensic evidence from the scene of a crime
- criminality — the state or quality of being criminal
- crimination — An accusation of wrongdoing, a recrimination.
- criminative — involving crimination; accusatory.
- criminatory — Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing.
- crithomancy — a form of divination in which grain or meal used in a sacrifice is analysed
- criticality — the state of being critical
- criticaster — a lowly or petty critic
- cross ratio — a ratio relating four points in the real or complex plane.
- cross vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- cross-match — to test the compatibility of (a donor's and recipient's blood) by checking that the red cells of each do not agglutinate in the other's serum
- cross-party — Cross-party activities involve two or more political parties. A cross-party group consists of members from two or more political parties.
- cross-patch — a bad-tempered or irritable person.
- cross-react — to participate in a cross-reaction.
- cross-staff — an instrument for measuring the angle of elevation of heavenly bodies, consisting of a calibrated staff with another shorter staff perpendicular to and sliding on it.
- cross-trade — cross (def 26).
- cross-train — to train (a worker, athlete, etc.) to be proficient at different, usually related, skills, tasks, jobs, etc.
- crown agent — a member of a board appointed by the Minister for Overseas Development to provide financial, commercial, and professional services for a number of overseas governments and international bodies
- crown graft — a type of graft in which the scion is inserted at the crown of the stock
- crown roast — a roast consisting of ribs of lamb or pork arranged in a crown shape
- crustaceans — Plural form of crustacean.
- crustaceous — forming, resembling, or possessing a surrounding crust or shell
- crux ansata — the ankh, an ancient Egyptian symbol
- cry quarter — to beg for mercy
- cryocautery — Cautery by the application of extreme cold.
- cryohydrate — a crystalline substance containing water and a salt in definite proportions at low temperatures: a eutectic crystallizing below the freezing point of water
- cryotherapy — medical treatment in which all or part of the body is subjected to cold temperatures, as by means of ice packs
- cryptarithm — a type of mathematical puzzle in which the digits of an equation have been substituted by letters
- cryptically — mysterious in meaning; puzzling; ambiguous: a cryptic message.
- cryptogamic — Of, relating to, or denoting cryptogams.
- cryptograms — Plural form of cryptogram.
- cryptograph — something written in code or cipher
- cryptomeria — a coniferous tree, Cryptomeria japonica, of China and Japan, with curved needle-like leaves and small round cones: family Taxodiaceae
- cryptomonad — any of various protozoalike algae of the phylum Cryptophyta usually having two flagella, common in both marine and freshwater environments where they appear along the shore as algal blooms, some also occurring as intestinal parasites.
- crystal set — an early form of radio receiver having a crystal detector to demodulate the radio signals but no amplifier, therefore requiring earphones
- crystal tea — a bog shrub, Ledum palustre, of the heath family, found from the North Temperate Zone to the Arctic Circle, having leaves that are rust-colored and hairy beneath with rolled margins, and dense clusters of white flowers.
- crystalised — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalise.
- crystalized — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalize.
- crystalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crystalize.
- crystallike — a clear, transparent mineral or glass resembling ice.
- crystalline — A crystalline substance is in the form of crystals or contains crystals.
- crystallise — to form into crystals; cause to assume crystalline form.
- crystallite — any of the minute rudimentary or imperfect crystals occurring in many glassy rocks