10-letter words containing c, r, a, p
- copperhead — a venomous reddish-brown snake, Agkistrodon contortrix, of the eastern US: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
- copperware — Articles made from copper.
- coprolalia — obsessive use of obscene or foul language
- coprophagy — feeding on dung, as certain beetles.
- copulatory — to engage in sexual intercourse.
- copy paper — paper specially prepared for the writing of advertising copy, newspaper copy, etc., usually having guidelines to indicate margins and the number of spaces per line.
- copyreader — a person who edits and prepares newspaper copy for publication; subeditor
- coral pink — a light to medium yellowish-pink color.
- corn plant — any of several treelike tropical plants of the genus Draecena, especially D. fragrans massangeana, widely cultivated as a houseplant.
- cornucopia — A cornucopia of things is a large number of different things.
- corpocracy — a corporate bureaucracy.
- corporally — of the human body; bodily; physical: corporal suffering.
- corporated — Simple past tense and past participle of corporate.
- corporates — Plural form of corporate.
- corporator — a member of a corporation
- coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus
- cospectral — (mathematics) isospectral.
- crab apple — A crab apple is a tree like an apple tree that produces small sour fruit.
- cracked up — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- cradle cap — a form of seborrhoea of the scalp common in young babies
- cramp ball — a hard round blackish ascomycetous fungus, Daldinia concentrica, characteristically found on the bark of ash trees and formerly carried to ward off cramp. The specific name refers to the concentric rings revealed if the fungus is sliced
- cramp iron — a piece of iron with bent ends for holding together building stones or the like.
- cranked up — 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.
- crappiness — extremely bad, unpleasant, or inferior; lousy: crappy weather.
- crapshoots — Plural form of crapshoot.
- crapulence — sickness caused by excess in drinking or eating
- crashproof — (of a vehicle) resistant to damage and as safe as possible for the occupants in the event of a crash.
- crawlspace — (in a building) an area accessible by crawling, having a clearance less than human height, for access to plumbing or wiring, storage, etc.
- cream pail — an open bowl of silver having a ladle or spoon for serving cream.
- cream puff — a shell of light pastry with a custard or cream filling
- creampuffs — Plural form of creampuff.
- crepe hair — artificial hair, usually plaited and made of wool or vegetable fibre, used in theatrical make-up
- crepitated — Simple past tense and past participle of crepitate.
- crepitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crepitate.
- crispation — the act of curling or state of being curled
- crispature — the state of being crisped or crispate
- crispbread — Crispbreads are thin dry biscuits made from wheat or rye. They are often eaten instead of bread by people who want to lose weight.
- crispinian — Saint, See under Crispin, Saint.
- crop-eared — having the ears or hair cut short
- crosspatch — a peevish bad-tempered person
- cryptogams — Plural form of cryptogam.
- cryptogamy — the state of being a cryptogam
- cryptogram — a secret symbol
- ctenophora — the phylum comprising the comb jellies.
- cupbearers — Plural form of cupbearer.
- curateship — the office or position of a curate
- curl paper — a strip of paper used to roll up and set a section of hair, usually wetted, into a curl
- curly palm — a feather palm, Howea belmoreana, of Lord Howe Island, having plumy leaves about 7 feet (2.1 meter) long.
- curtain-up — the moment when the curtain is raised and a play or similar show begins
- cyberspace — In computer technology, cyberspace refers to data banks and networks, considered as a place.