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13-letter words containing c, r, i, n, a

  • cranial nerve — any of the 12 paired nerves that have their origin in the brain and reach the periphery through natural openings in the skull
  • cranioscopist — a practitioner of cranioscopy
  • crape jasmine — a shrub, Tabernaemontana divaricata, native to India, having white flowers that are fragrant at night.
  • crash landing — aircraft: emergency descent
  • credentialing — Usually, credentials. evidence of authority, status, rights, entitlement to privileges, or the like, usually in written form: Only those with the proper credentials are admitted.
  • credentialism — a tendency to value formal qualifications, esp at the expense of competence and experience
  • credentialled — having credentials
  • credit agency — an agency that checks whether people are able to pay for goods and services they wish to buy on credit, and provides them with a credit rating
  • credit rating — Your credit rating is a judgment of how likely you are to pay money back if you borrow it or buy things on credit.
  • creep-grazing — a method of pasture management that allows young farm animals (esp lambs) to graze part of the pasture before the adults in the group
  • crenellations — the battlements on a building
  • crimean tatar — a member of a Turkic people who lived in the Crimea before emigration to Anatolia in the 18th and 19th centuries and deportations to Soviet central Asia after World War II.
  • criminal code — the body of laws regulating how crimes are to be punished
  • criminalising — Present participle of criminalise.
  • criminalities — Plural form of criminality.
  • criminalizing — Present participle of criminalize.
  • cringe-making — causing feelings of acute embarrassment or distaste
  • crinicultural — of or relating to hair growth
  • crop rotation — the system of growing a sequence of different crops on the same ground so as to maintain or increase its fertility
  • crop spraying — the spraying of crops with insecticide, fungicide, etc
  • cross-examine — When a lawyer cross-examines someone during a trial or hearing, he or she questions them about the evidence that they have already given.
  • cross-grained — (of timber) having the fibres arranged irregularly or in a direction that deviates from the axis of the piece
  • cross-trainer — a type of athletic shoe designed to be used in more than one type of activity.
  • crossectional — Of, pertaining to, or being a cross section.
  • crosshatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
  • crotonic acid — type of colourless acid
  • crowd on sail — to hoist as much sail as possible
  • cryogenically — in a cryogenic manner
  • cryptanalysis — the study of codes and ciphers; cryptography
  • cryptanalytic — Of or pertaining to cryptanalysis or cryptanalytics.
  • cryptoxanthin — a carotenoid pigment, C40H56O, in butter, eggs, and various plants, that can be converted into vitamin A in the body
  • crystallinity — of or like crystal; clear; transparent.
  • crystallizing — Present participle of crystallize.
  • cuprotitanium — (metallurgy) An alloy of copper and titanium obtained by reducing a mixture of copper and rutile.
  • current ratio — A current ratio is a measure of liquidity that is calculated by dividing current assets by current liabilities.
  • curvilinearly — In a curvilinear way.
  • customariness — The state or quality of being customary.
  • cut and dried — If you say that a situation or solution is cut and dried, you mean that it is clear and definite.
  • cut-and-dried — prepared or settled in advance; not needing much thought or discussion: a cut-and-dried decision.
  • cutting board — A cutting board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
  • cyanobacteria — a group of photosynthetic bacteria (phylum Cyanobacteria) containing a blue photosynthetic pigment
  • cyanuric acid — a white crystalline powder commonly used to stabilize chlorine in swimming pools. Formula C3H3N3O3
  • cyberchondria — unfounded anxiety concerning the state of one's health brought on by visiting health and medical websites
  • cybernetician — an expert in cybernetics
  • cyberslacking — (informal) Use of the Internet during work hours for unrelated tasks.
  • cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
  • cycloparaffin — any of a series of saturated alicyclic hydrocarbons of the general formula CnH2n, having a closed chain of three or more carbon atoms, as cyclohexane
  • cylinder head — the detachable metal casting that fits onto the top of a cylinder block. In an engine it contains part of the combustion chamber and in an overhead-valve four-stroke engine it houses the valves and their operating mechanisms
  • cylinder seal — a cylindrical seal of stone, clay, or precious stone decorated with linear designs, found in the Middle East and Balkans: dating from about 6000 bc
  • cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
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