9-letter words containing c, s, r
- cricetids — Plural form of cricetid.
- crimeless — free from crime; innocent
- criminals — Plural form of criminal.
- criminous — criminal
- crimsoned — Simple past tense and past participle of crimson.
- crinosity — Hairiness.
- cripplers — Plural form of crippler.
- crispated — Crispate.
- crisphead — a variety of lettuce with a dense cabbage-like head and mild crunchy leaves
- crispness — (especially of food) hard but easily breakable; brittle: crisp toast.
- cristobal — seaport in Panama, at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal: part of the city of Colón
- cristophe — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), ("Henri I"I) 1767–1820, Haitian revolutionary general, born in Grenada: king 1811–20.
- criterias — (nonstandard, proscribed) Plural form of criteria.
- criticals — Plural form of critical.
- criticise — criticize
- criticism — the analysis or evaluation of a work of art, literature, etc
- critiques — Plural form of critique.
- crockpots — Plural form of crockpot.
- crocosmia — any plant of the cormous S. African genus Crocosmia, including the plant known to gardeners as montbretia: family Iridaceae
- croisette — a projection at a corner of a door or window architrave.
- croissant — Croissants are small, sweet bread rolls in the shape of a crescent that are eaten for breakfast.
- cromlechs — Plural form of cromlech.
- crop-dust — to subject (a field) to crop-dusting.
- cross fox — a red fox in the color phase in which the fur is reddish brown with a dark stripe down the back and another over the shoulders.
- cross off — If you cross off words on a list, you decide that they no longer belong on the list, and often you draw a line through them to indicate this.
- cross out — If you cross out words on a page, you draw a line through them, because they are wrong or because you want to change them.
- cross sea — a sea with a choppy surface produced by the intersection of waves from different storms.
- cross-cut — made or used for cutting crosswise.
- cross-eye — a turning inwards towards the nose of one or both eyes, caused by abnormal alignment
- cross-out — a structure consisting essentially of an upright and a transverse piece, used to execute persons in ancient times.
- cross-ply — (of a motor tyre) having the fabric cords in the outer casing running diagonally to stiffen the sidewalls
- crossable — able to be crossed
- crossband — (in furniture) a layer of wood beneath, and with its grain at right angles to, the veneer
- crossbars — Plural form of crossbar.
- crossbeam — A crossbeam is a long, thick bar of wood, metal, or concrete that is placed between two walls or other structures, especially in order to support the roof of a building.
- crossbill — any of various widely distributed finches of the genus Loxia, such as L. curvirostra, that occur in coniferous woods and have a bill with crossed mandible tips for feeding on conifer seeds
- crossbite — a dental condition in which the lower teeth are in front of the upper teeth
- crossbows — Plural form of crossbow.
- crossbred — (of plants or animals) produced as a result of crossbreeding
- crossbuck — (in the US) a white cross-shaped road sign used at railway crossings
- crosscuts — Plural form of crosscut.
- crossed-h — a constant used in quantum mechanics, equal to the Planck constant divided by 2π. It has a value of 1.054571596±0.000000078 × 10 −34 joule seconds
- crossette — a lateral extension in a corner of the architrave of a window or door
- crossfall — the camber of a road
- crossfire — Crossfire is gunfire, for example in a battle, that comes from two or more different directions and passes through the same area.
- crossfish — a starfish
- crossfoot — Accounting. to total figures horizontally across columns instead of vertically.
- crosshair — either of the two fine mutually perpendicular lines or wires that cross in the focal plane of a theodolite, gunsight, or other optical instrument and are used to define the line of sight
- crosshead — a subsection or paragraph heading printed within the body of the text
- crossings — Plural form of crossing.