8-letter words containing c, i, r
- brick up — If you brick up a hole, you close it with a wall of bricks.
- brickbat — Brickbats are very critical or insulting remarks which are made in public about someone or something.
- bricking — the falsification of evidence in order to bring a criminal charge
- bricktop — a person having red or reddish-brown hair.
- brisance — the shattering effect or power of an explosion or explosive
- britches — breeches (sense 2)
- britpack — a group of young and successful British actors, directors, artists, etc
- broccoli — Broccoli is a vegetable with green stalks and green or purple tops.
- bromidic — ordinary; dull
- bronchia — the ramifications or branches of the bronchi.
- bucrania — (in classical architecture) an ornament, especially on a frieze, having the form of the skull of an ox.
- bursicon — a hormone, produced by the insect brain, that regulates processes associated with ecdysis, such as darkening of the cuticle
- c ration — a canned ration used in the field in WWII
- c-interp — An interpreter for a small subset of C, originally part of a communications package.
- c-refine — A preprocessor for C and languages with similar syntax by Lutz Prechelt <[email protected]>. C-Refine allows symbolic naming of code fragments so as to redistribute complexity and provide running commentary. Version 3.0 is available from comp.sources.reviewed archives. It is highly portable and has been ported to Unix, MS-DOS, Atari, Amiga.
- cabrilla — any of various serranid food fishes, esp Epinephelus analogus, occurring in warm seas around Florida and the Caribbean
- cabrillo — Juan Rodríguez [rod-ree-ges] /rɒdˈri gɛs/ (Show IPA), (Joao Rodrigues Cabrilho) 1499?–1543, Spanish explorer, born in Portugal: discovered California.
- cabriole — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
- cadherin — (protein) Any of a class of transmembrane proteins important in maintaining tissue structure.
- caesuric — caesural
- cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
- cagliari — a port in Italy, the capital of Sardinia, on the S coast. Pop: 164 249 (2001)
- cairenes — (sometimes lowercase) of or relating to Cairo, Egypt.
- calabria — a region of SW Italy: mostly mountainous and subject to earthquakes. Chief town: Reggio di Calabria. Pop: 2 007 392 (2003 est). Area: 15 080 sq km (5822 sq miles)
- calamari — Calamari is squid that has been prepared for eating, usually by cutting it into rings, dipping it in a mixture of flour, milk and eggs, and frying it.
- calciner — a person or thing that calcines.
- caldaria — Plural form of caldarium.
- calibers — Plural form of caliber.
- calibres — Plural form of calibre.
- calipers — Usually, calipers. an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs.
- callgirl — Alternative spelling of call girl.
- calliper — an instrument for measuring internal or external dimensions, consisting of two steel legs hinged together
- calories — Thermodynamics. Also called gram calorie, small calorie. an amount of heat exactly equal to 4.1840 joules. Abbreviation: cal. (usually initial capital letter) kilocalorie. Abbreviation: Cal.
- calorist — a believer in caloric theory
- calorize — to coat (a ferrous metal) by spraying with aluminium powder and then heating
- calvaria — the top part of the skull of vertebrates
- cam-pier — of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.
- cambrian — of, denoting, or formed in the first 65 million years of the Palaeozoic era, during which marine invertebrates, esp trilobites, flourished
- cambrick — Obsolete form of cambric.
- camisard — any French Protestant, living in the region of the Cévennes Mountains, who carried on a revolt against Louis XIV in the early part of the 18th century.
- campfire — A campfire is a fire that you light out of doors when you are camping.
- camphire — henna
- canaigre — a dock, Rumex hymenosepalus, of the southern US, the root of which yields a substance used in tanning
- canaries — Plural form of canary.
- cancrine — resembling a crab
- cancroid — resembling a cancerous growth
- canister — A canister is a strong metal container. It is used to hold gases or chemical substances.
- canotier — a fabric constructed in a twill weave, used in the manufacture of yachting clothes.
- cantoris — (in antiphonal music) to be sung by the cantorial side of a choir
- cantrips — Plural form of cantrip.