9-letter words containing c, r, o, s
- crossrail — a horizontal slat forming part of the back of a chair.
- crossroad — a road that crosses another road
- crossruff — the alternate trumping of each other's leads by two partners, or by declarer and dummy
- crosstabs — Simple language for statistical analysis of tabular data. "User's Manual for the CROSSTABS System", Cambridge Computer Assoc (Feb 1977).
- crosstalk — unwanted signals in one channel of a communications system as a result of a transfer of energy from one or more other channels
- crosstied — secured with crossties
- crossties — Plural form of crosstie.
- crosstown — A crosstown bus or route is one that crosses the main roads or transportation lines of a town or city.
- crosstree — either of a pair of wooden or metal braces on the head of a mast to support the topmast, etc
- crosswalk — A crosswalk is a place where pedestrians can cross a street and where drivers must stop to let them cross.
- crossways — crosswise.
- crosswind — A crosswind is a strong wind that blows across the direction that vehicles, boats, or aircraft are travelling in, and that makes it difficult for them to keep moving steadily forward.
- crosswire — Crosshair; reticle.
- crosswise — Crosswise means diagonally across something.
- crossword — A crossword or crossword puzzle is a word game in which you work out the answers and write them in the white squares of a pattern of small black and white squares.
- crosswort — a herbaceous perennial Eurasian rubiaceous plant, Galium cruciata, with pale yellow flowers and whorls of hairy leaves
- crotalism — a type of poisoning caused by ingestion of plants of the genus Crotalaria
- crotchets — Plural form of crotchet.
- crotonism — poisoning by ingestion of croton oil, characterized by burning of the mouth, severe diarrhea, and colic, with possible death from respiratory or circulatory failure.
- croupiers — Plural form of croupier.
- croustade — a hollowed pastry case or piece of cooked bread, potato, etc, in which food is served
- crowfoots — Plural form of crowfoot.
- crown saw — a hollow cylinder with cutting teeth forming a rotary saw for trepanning
- crownings — Plural form of crowning.
- crownless — Without a crown.
- crowsteps — Plural form of crowstep.
- crumhorns — Plural form of crumhorn.
- crusadoes — Plural form of crusado.
- cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.
- cryoscope — any instrument used to determine the freezing point of a substance
- cryoscopy — the determination of freezing points, esp for the determination of molecular weights by measuring the lowering of the freezing point of a solvent when a known quantity of solute is added
- cryosleep — (science fiction) A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep.
- cryostats — Plural form of cryostat.
- cs-prolog — Distributed logic language. "CS-Prolog on Multi-Transputer Systems", I. Futo et al, Microprocessors & Microsystems, March 1989.
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- curassows — Plural form of curassow.
- curbstone — A curbstone is one of the stones that form a curb.
- curculios — Plural form of curculio.
- curiosity — Curiosity is a desire to know about something.
- curiouser — (nonstandard) Comparative form of curious.
- curiously — eager to learn or know; inquisitive.
- cursorial — adapted for running
- cursorily — going rapidly over something, without noticing details; hasty; superficial: a cursory glance at a newspaper article.
- curvesome — (dated) curvy.
- cuspidors — Plural form of cuspidor.
- cusswords — Plural form of cussword.
- custodier — a custodian
- customary — Customary is used to describe things that people usually do in a particular society or in particular circumstances.
- customers — A person or organization that buys goods or services from a store or business.
- cut short — to stop abruptly before the end