11-letter words containing d, r
- crack hardy — to disguise one's discomfort, etc; put on a bold front
- cracked gas — Cracked gas is gas from a refining process, which is often compressed afterwards.
- cradle roof — a roof having trusses the undersides of which form an arch.
- cradleboard — a wooden frame worn on the back, used by North American Indian women for carrying an infant.
- craggedness — the quality of being cragged
- crampedness — confined or severely limited in space: cramped closets.
- crank-sided — lopsided; askew.
- crankhandle — a handle for starting a motor
- crap around — Vulgar. excrement. an act of defecation.
- credentials — Someone's credentials are their previous achievements, training, and general background, which indicate that they are qualified to do something.
- credibility — If someone or something has credibility, people believe in them and trust them.
- credit card — A credit card is a plastic card that you use to buy goods on credit. Compare charge card.
- credit hour — A credit hour is a credit that a school or college awards to students who have completed a course of study.
- credit line — A person or company's credit line is the amount of credit that they are allowed, for example, by a credit card company or a bank.
- credit memo — A credit memo is an official written acknowledgement that money is owed back to a customer.
- credit note — A credit note is a piece of paper that a shop gives you when you return goods that you have bought from it. It states that you are entitled to take goods of the same value without paying for them.
- credit risk — a person or institution judged to be unlikely to be able to repay a loan
- credit side — the side of a balance sheet showing income and assets
- credit slip — A credit slip is the same as a credit note.
- credit swap — A credit swap is a kind of insurance against credit risk where a third party agrees to pay a lender if the loan defaults, in exchange for receiving payments from the lender.
- credulously — In a credulous manner; believably.
- crenellated — In a castle, a crenellated wall has gaps in the top or openings through which to fire at attackers.
- crescendoed — Music. a gradual, steady increase in loudness or force. a musical passage characterized by such an increase. the performance of a crescendo passage: The crescendo by the violins is too abrupt.
- crescendoes — Plural form of crescendo.
- crescentade — a religious crusade or war fought under the flag of Turkey
- crest cloud — a stationary cloud parallel to and near the top of a mountain ridge. Compare cap cloud (def 1).
- crested tit — a small European songbird, Parus cristatus, that has a greyish-brown plumage with a prominent speckled black-and-white crest: family Paridae (tits)
- cri du chat — cat's cry syndrome.
- crime squad — (in Britain) a division of the police which identifies and prevents major crimes, esp those crossing regional or national boundaries
- crispbreads — Plural form of crispbread.
- crocidolite — a blue fibrous amphibole mineral consisting of sodium iron silicate: a variety of asbestos used in cement products and pressure piping
- crocodilian — any large predatory reptile of the order Crocodilia, which includes the crocodiles, alligators, and caymans. They live in or near water and have a long broad snout, powerful jaws, a four-chambered heart, and socketed teeth
- crookbacked — Hunchbacked.
- crookedness — The state of being crooked.
- crop duster — a pilot employed in crop-dusting from an airplane.
- cropdusting — the spreading of fungicide, etc on crops in the form of dust, often from an aircraft
- cross-breed — If one species of animal or plant cross-breeds with another, they reproduce, and new or different animals or plants are produced. You can also say that someone cross-breeds something such as an animal or plant.
- cross-dress — If someone cross-dresses, they wear the clothes of the opposite sex, especially for sexual pleasure.
- cross-heads — Printing. a title or heading filling a line or group of lines the full width of the column.
- cross-index — a note or notes referring the reader to other material
- cross-nodal — having to do with interaction between the senses
- cross-slide — the part of a lathe or planing machine on which the tool post is mounted and across which it slides at right angles to the bed of the lathe
- cross-trade — cross (def 26).
- crossbanded — (of a handrail) having the grain of the veneer run across that of the rail
- crossbarred — having a crossbar or crossbars
- crossbedded — having layers of rock oblique or transverse to the main beds of stratified rock
- crossbreeds — Plural form of crossbreed.
- crossfaders — Plural form of crossfader.
- crosslegged — Alternative spelling of cross-legged.
- crossruffed — Simple past tense and past participle of crossruff.