7-letter words containing e, t, c, r
- creatic — of or relating to flesh or meat
- creatin — Alternative form of creatine.
- creator — The creator of something is the person who made it or invented it.
- creatur — Obsolete spelling of creature.
- credent — believing or believable
- credits — a list of those responsible for the production of a film or television programme
- crémant — (of wine) moderately sparkling
- cremate — When someone is cremated, their dead body is burned, usually as part of a funeral service.
- crenate — having a scalloped margin, as certain leaves
- cresset — a metal basket mounted on a pole in which oil or pitch was burned for illumination
- crested — A crested bird is a bird that has a crest on its head.
- creston — a ridge on a hill that curves downwards at the ends
- cretins — Plural form of cretin.
- cretism — a lie or falsehood
- cretons — a spread of shredded pork cooked with onions in pork fat
- crewcut — very short haircut
- cricket — Cricket is an outdoor game played between two teams. Players try to score points, called runs, by hitting a ball with a wooden bat.
- crinate — having hair; hairy
- crinite — covered with soft hairs or tufts
- cristae — a crest or ridge.
- critter — A critter is a living creature.
- crochet — Crochet is a way of making cloth out of cotton or wool by using a needle with a small hook at the end.
- crocket — a carved ornament in the form of a curled leaf or cusp, used in Gothic architecture
- crofter — In Scotland, a crofter is a person who lives on a croft or small farm.
- croquet — Croquet is a game played on grass in which the players use long wooden sticks called mallets to hit balls through metal arches.
- crotone — a town in S Italy, on the coast of Calabria: founded in about 700 bc by the Achaeans; chemical works and zinc-smelting. Pop: 60 010 (2001)
- crownet — a coronet.
- crudest — in a raw or unprepared state; unrefined or natural: crude sugar.
- cruelty — Cruelty is behaviour that deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
- crufted — cruft
- crumpet — Crumpets are round, flat pieces of a substance like bread or batter with small holes in them. You toast them and eat them with butter.
- crusted — If something is crusted with a substance, it is covered with a hard or thick layer of that substance.
- crutzen — Paul, born 1933, Dutch meteorologist and chemist: Nobel Prize 1995.
- culters — Plural form of culter.
- culture — Culture consists of activities such as the arts and philosophy, which are considered to be important for the development of civilization and of people's minds.
- culvert — A culvert is a water pipe or sewer that crosses under a road or railway.
- cuprate — (inorganic chemistry) Any of several non-stoichiometric compounds, of general formula XYCumOn, many of which are superconductors.
- cuprite — a red secondary mineral consisting of cuprous oxide in cubic crystalline form: a source of copper. Formula: Cu2O
- curated — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- curates — Plural form of curate.
- curette — a surgical instrument for removing dead tissue, growths, etc, from the walls of certain body cavities
- current — A current is a steady and continuous flowing movement of some of the water in a river, lake, or sea.
- curtate — shortened
- curtesy — the tenure that a widower holds over the property of his deceased wife
- curtsey — A small bow, generally performed by a woman or a girl, where she crosses one calf of her leg behind the other and briefly bends her knees and lowers her body in deference.
- curvate — curved in form
- curvets — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of curvet.
- custrel — a servant or attendant to a knight or man-at-arms
- cutlers — Plural form of cutler.
- cutlery — Cutlery consists of the knives, forks, and spoons that you eat your food with.