10-letter words containing c, o, r, a
- crazy bone — funny bone
- crazy golf — a putting game in which the ball has to be played via various obstacles
- cream soda — a carbonated soft drink flavoured with vanilla
- creational — Of, or pertaining to creation.
- cremations — Plural form of cremation.
- crematoria — a crematory.
- cretaceous — consisting of or resembling chalk
- cribration — the action of sifting, esp (in pharmacy) to separate finer particles of a drug from coarser particles
- crinoidean — of or relating to the Crinoidea, an order of echinoderms
- crispation — the act of curling or state of being curled
- cro magnon — an Upper Paleolithic population of humans, regarded as the prototype of modern Homo sapiens in Europe. Skeletal remains found in an Aurignacian cave in southern France indicate that the Cro-Magnon had long heads, broad faces, and sunken eyes, and reached a height of approximately 5 feet 9 inches (175 cm).
- cro-magnon — belonging to a prehistoric, Caucasoid type of human who lived on the European continent, distinguished by tallness and erect stature, and by the use of stone and bone implements, principally of Aurignacian culture
- crocosmias — Plural form of crocosmia.
- croissants — Plural form of croissant.
- crop-eared — having the ears or hair cut short
- cross hair — Also called cross wire. one of the fine wires or fibers, strands of spider web, or the like, crossing in a focal plane of an optical instrument to center a target or object or to define a line of sight.
- cross rate — A cross rate is an exchange rate of two currencies expressed in a third different currency, such as the exchange rate between the euro and the yuan expressed in yen.
- cross talk — interference in one channel from another or others
- cross-fade — to fade in (one sound or picture source) as another is being faded out
- crossandra — any shrub of the free-flowering mostly African genus Crossandra, grown in greenhouses for their large yellow, lilac, or orange flowers: family Acanthaceae
- crossbands — Plural form of crossband.
- crossbeams — Plural form of crossbeam.
- crossclaim — a secondary claim brought by a defendant in a lawsuit on a co-defendant
- crossfader — (music) A device consisting of two volume controls which control separate records, allowing the DJ to change the source of the sound between the records.
- crosshairs — Also called cross wire. one of the fine wires or fibers, strands of spider web, or the like, crossing in a focal plane of an optical instrument to center a target or object or to define a line of sight.
- crosshatch — to shade or hatch (forms, figures, etc) with two or more sets of parallel lines that cross one another
- crossjacks — Plural form of crossjack.
- crossmatch — (pathology) To test that the blood of a donor and recipient are compatible.
- crosspatch — a peevish bad-tempered person
- crossroads — A crossroads is a place where two roads meet and cross each other.
- crosswalks — Plural form of crosswalk.
- crotalaria — a genus of plants and shrubs of the Fabaceae family with pods in which the seeds rattle
- croustades — Plural form of croustade.
- crown gall — a disease of peaches, apples, roses, grapes, etc., characterized by the formation of galls on the roots or stems usually at or below ground level, caused by a bacterium, Agrobacterium tumefaciens.
- crown land — (in the United Kingdom) land belonging to the Crown
- crown wart — a disease of alfalfa and clover, characterized by galls around the base of the stem, caused by several fungi of the genus Urophlyctis.
- crownbeard — any of various American composite plants constituting the genus Verbesina, having clustered, usually yellow flower heads.
- cruciation — (obsolete) torture; torment.
- crustation — the action of forming a crust
- cryostasis — the deep-freezing of human bodies or other organisms at death; cryonics.
- cryostatic — of or relating to a cryostat
- cryptogams — Plural form of cryptogam.
- cryptogamy — the state of being a cryptogam
- cryptogram — a secret symbol
- crystallo- — crystal
- ctenophora — the phylum comprising the comb jellies.
- cuckoo ray — a fish, Raja naevus
- cultivator — A cultivator is a tool or machine which is used to break up the earth or to remove weeds, for example in a garden or field.
- cunctatory — prone to delaying
- curatorial — Curatorial means relating to curators and their work.