9-letter words containing c, a, r
- cream tea — In Britain, a cream tea is an afternoon meal that consists of tea to drink and small cakes called scones that are eaten with jam and cream. Cream teas are served in places such as tea shops.
- creamcups — a Californian papaveraceous plant, Platystemon californicus, with small cream-coloured or yellow flowers on long flower stalks
- creamiest — Superlative form of creamy.
- creamlaid — (of laid paper) cream-coloured and of a ribbed appearance
- creamlike — Resembling cream.
- creampuff — puff pastry filled with cream
- creamware — a type of earthenware with a deep cream body developed about 1720 and widely produced
- creamwove — (of wove paper) cream-coloured and even-surfaced
- crease up — If someone or something makes you crease up or creases you up, they make you laugh a lot.
- creatable — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
- creations — The action or process of bringing something into existence.
- creatives — Plural form of creative.
- creatress — A female creator.
- creatural — of, relating to, or of the nature of a creature.
- creatures — Plural form of creature.
- credenzas — Plural form of credenza.
- creek war — an uprising in 1813–14 of the Creek Indians against settlers in Alabama: frontier militia from Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi under Andrew Jackson helped defeat the Creek, who ceded two-thirds of their land to the U.S.
- cremaster — the muscle which raises and lowers the testicles
- cremating — Present participle of cremate.
- cremation — to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite.
- crematory — A crematory is the same as a crematorium.
- cremocarp — any fruit consisting of two united carpels which hang from a supporting axis
- crenation — any of the rounded teeth or the notches between them on a crenate structure
- crenature — a rounded projection, as on the margin of a leaf, etc.
- crenelate — to furnish with battlements or crenels, or with squared notches
- crenulate — having a margin very finely notched with rounded projections, as certain leaves
- crepitant — to make a crackling sound; crackle.
- crepitate — to make a rattling or crackling sound; rattle or crackle
- crevassed — containing deep cracks or fissures
- crevasses — Plural form of crevasse.
- crew pram — concurrent read, exclusive write PRAM.
- crewmates — Plural form of crewmate.
- crewwoman — A female crewmember.
- crib-wall — a supporting wall constructed by laying cribs at right angles to each other, as in cribwork
- cribellar — of or relating to the cribellum of a spider
- crimeware — (computing) Software that performs or facilitates illegal activities.
- crimewave — a period of increased criminal activity
- criminals — Plural form of criminal.
- criminate — to charge with a crime; accuse
- crinoidal — (zoology) Relating to, consisting of, or containing crinoids.
- crispated — Crispate.
- 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
- criterial — of or relating to criteria
- 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.
- crookback — a hunchback
- croquante — a crisp cake or pastry