7-letter words containing a, r, e, c
- crammed — If a place is crammed with things or people, it is full of them, so that there is hardly room for anything or anyone else.
- crammer — A crammer is a school, teacher, or book which prepares students for an exam by teaching them a lot in a short time.
- cramped — A cramped room or building is not big enough for the people or things in it.
- cramper — a spiked metal plate used as a brace for the feet in throwing the stone
- crampet — a cramp iron
- cranage — the use of a crane
- cranked — 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.
- cranker — a crank vessel.
- crankle — a bend or twist
- cranmer — Thomas. 1489–1556, the first Protestant archbishop of Canterbury (1533–56) and principal author of the Book of Common Prayer. He was burnt as a heretic by Mary I
- crapped — (in craps) a losing throw, in which the total on the two dice is 2, 3, or 12.
- crapper — a toilet
- crappie — either of two North American freshwater percoid food and game fishes, Pomoxis nigromaculatus (black crappie) or P. annularis (white crappie): family Centrarchidae (sunfishes, etc)
- crapple — (obsolete) A claw.
- craptex — /krap'tekh/ (University of York, England) Term of abuse used to describe TeX and LaTeX when they don't work (when used by TeXhackers), or all the time (by everyone else). The non-TeX enthusiasts generally dislike it because it is more verbose than other formatters (e.g. troff) and because (particularly if the standard Computer Modern fonts are used) it generates vast output files. See religious issues.
- crashed — to make a loud, clattering noise, as of something dashed to pieces.
- crasher — to make a loud, clattering noise, as of something dashed to pieces.
- crashes — Plural form of crash.
- crasser — Comparative form of crass.
- craters — Plural form of crater.
- cravens — Plural form of craven.
- crawled — Simple past tense and past participle of crawl.
- crawler — A crawler is a computer program that visits websites and collects information when you do an Internet search.
- crawley — a town in S England, in NE West Sussex: designated a new town in 1956. Pop: 100 547 (2001)
- crazier — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- crazies — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- creaked — Simple past tense and past participle of creak.
- creamed — the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- creamer — Creamer is a white powder that is used in tea and coffee instead of milk.
- creance — a long fine cord used to restrain a hawk or falcon during training
- creased — marked by creases and wrinkles
- creaser — A tool or attachment for making creases or guidelines.
- creases — Plural form of crease.
- created — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
- creates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of create.
- creatic — of or relating to flesh or meat
- creatin — Alternative form of creatine.
- creator — The creator of something is the person who made it or invented it.
- creatur — Obsolete spelling of creature.
- creedal — any system, doctrine, or formula of religious belief, as of a denomination.
- crémant — (of wine) moderately sparkling
- cremate — When someone is cremated, their dead body is burned, usually as part of a funeral service.
- cremona — a city in N Italy, in Lombardy on the River Po: noted for the manufacture of fine violins in the 16th–18th centuries. Pop: 70 887 (2001)
- crenate — having a scalloped margin, as certain leaves
- crescas — Hasdai [khahs-dahy] /ˈxɑs daɪ/ (Show IPA), 1340–1412? Jewish philosopher and theologian, born in Spain.
- crewman — A crewman is a member of a crew.
- crimean — of or relating to the Crimea or its inhabitants
- crinate — having hair; hairy
- cristae — a crest or ridge.
- croaked — Simple past tense and past participle of croak.