14-letter words containing i, c, e, r
- crack the whip — to assert one's authority, esp to put people under pressure to work harder
- cranial suture — a type of immovable joint between the bones of the skull
- craniocerebral — relating to both the cranium and the cerebrum
- crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
- creatureliness — creatural.
- credentialling — the practice of analysing the credentials of an individual or organization
- credit account — a credit system by means of which customers may obtain goods and services before payment
- credit balance — the amount of money that a client of a financial institution has in his or her account, in securities, etc
- credit charges — the charges applied by credit card companies to customers buying goods on credit
- credit control — (in a business) the practice of maximizing revenue by making sure that customers are a good credit risk
- credit history — a record of how promptly a person pays back loans, credits, etc, over time
- credit manager — a person employed in a business firm to administer credit service to its customers, especially to evaluate the extension and amount of credit to be granted.
- credit squeeze — the control of credit facilities as an instrument of economic policy, associated with restrictions on bank loans and overdrafts, raised interest rates, etc
- creditableness — The state or quality of being creditable.
- creeping jesus — an obsequious or servile person
- creme anglaise — a custardlike cream sauce, often flavored with vanilla, served with fresh fruit, rich chocolate desserts, etc.
- cremnitz white — lead white.
- crepe de chine — a very thin crepe of silk or a similar light fabric
- crepe marocain — a crepe fabric made of silk, wool, or rayon, or a combination of these fibers, and distinguished by a strong rib effect, used in the manufacture of dresses and women's suits; a heavy Canton crepe.
- crested lizard — a long-tailed iguanid lizard, Dipsosaurus dorsalis, of arid areas in the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico, having a row of enlarged scales down the back.
- cribbage board — a board, with pegs and holes, used for scoring at cribbage
- cricoarytenoid — A muscle connecting the cricoid cartilage and arytenoid cartilage.
- crime fighting — the series of measures and actions taken by the forces of the law to combat crime
- crimean gothic — a form of the Gothic language that survived in the Crimea after the extinction of Gothic elsewhere in Europe, known only from a list of words and phrases recorded in the 16th century.
- crimen injuria — an action that injures the dignity of another person, esp use of racially offensive language
- crimson clover — an annual clover (Trifolium incarnatum) with elongated heads of deep-red flowers, often grown in the S U.S. as a cover or green-manure crop
- critical angle — the smallest possible angle of incidence for which light rays are totally reflected at an interface between substances of different refractive index
- critical speed — Critical speed is the speed at which unwanted vibration happens when a vessel is rotating.
- critical state — the state of a substance in which two of its phases have the same temperature, pressure, and volume
- critical value — the value of the random variable at the boundary between the acceptance region and the rejection region in the testing of a hypothesis.
- crocodile bird — an African courser, Pluvianus aegyptius, that lives close to rivers and is thought to feed on insects parasitic on crocodiles
- crocodile clip — a clasp with serrated interlocking edges used for making electrical connections
- cross reaction — an immunologic reaction between a given antigen and an antibody or lymphokine that is specific for a different antigen resembling the first one.
- cross relation — the simultaneous or successive occurrence of a note and its chromatic alteration, as C and C57395, in different voices; false relation
- cross trainers — training shoes for doing cross training
- cross-addicted — addicted to two or more substances simultaneously.
- cross-breeding — the process of causing animals to mate with another species, or of causing plants to reproduce with another species
- cross-compiler — a compiler able to create executable code for a platform different from the one the compiler is run on
- cross-dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
- cross-dressing — the wearing of clothes normally associated with the opposite sex
- cross-indexing — to provide with cross references or with a cross-referenced index.
- cross-ply tire — bias-ply tire.
- cross-question — If you cross-question someone, you ask them a lot of questions about something.
- cross-reaction — an immunologic reaction between a given antigen and an antibody or lymphokine that is specific for a different antigen resembling the first one.
- crosssectional — Misspelling of cross-sectional.
- crown imperial — a liliaceous garden plant, Fritillaria imperialis, with a cluster of leaves and orange bell-shaped flowers at the top of the stem
- crown princess — A Crown Princess is a princess who is the wife of a Crown Prince, or will be queen of her country when the present king or queen dies.
- crucible steel — a high-quality steel made by melting wrought iron, charcoal, and other additives in a crucible
- cruciverbalism — the compilation of crosswords
- cruciverbalist — a crossword puzzle enthusiast