10-letter words containing n, r, s
- craftiness — skillful in underhand or evil schemes; cunning; deceitful; sly.
- cragginess — The state of being craggy.
- cranesbill — any of various plants of the genus Geranium, having pink or purple flowers and long slender beaked fruits: family Geraniaceae
- crankcases — Plural form of crankcase.
- crankiness — ill-tempered; grouchy; cross: I'm always cranky when I don't get enough sleep.
- crankshaft — A crankshaft is the main shaft of an internal combustion engine.
- crappiness — extremely bad, unpleasant, or inferior; lousy: crappy weather.
- crash-land — If a pilot crash-lands an aircraft, or if it crash-lands, it lands more quickly and less safely than usual, for example when there is something wrong with the aircraft, and it cannot land normally.
- crashingly — extremely; exceedingly
- cravenness — cowardly; contemptibly timid; pusillanimous.
- creakiness — The state of being creaky.
- creaminess — containing cream.
- creepiness — having or causing a creeping sensation of the skin, as from horror or fear: a creepy ghost story.
- cremations — Plural form of cremation.
- crescendos — Plural form of crescendo.
- crescented — having the shape of a crescent
- crescentic — a shape resembling a segment of a ring tapering to points at the ends.
- cresta run — high-speed tobogganing down a steep narrow passage
- crevassing — Present participle of crevasse.
- crimsoning — Present participle of crimson.
- crinolines — Plural form of crinoline.
- criosphinx — a sphinx with the head of a ram instead of a human.
- crispation — the act of curling or state of being curled
- crispiness — The state of being crispy.
- crispinian — Saint, See under Crispin, Saint.
- criterions — Plural form of criterion.
- croissants — Plural form of croissant.
- crooknecks — Plural form of crookneck.
- cross vine — a woody bignoniaceous vine, Bignonia capreolata, of the southeastern US, having large trumpet-shaped reddish flowers
- cross wind — a wind blowing across the course or path of a ship, aircraft, etc.
- cross-link — a chemical bond, atom, or group of atoms that connects two adjacent chains of atoms in a large molecule such as a polymer or protein
- cross-town — going across or following a route across a town
- cross-vein — a transverse vein that connects adjacent longitudinal veins in the wing of an insect.
- cross-vine — a climbing or creeping woody vine, Bignonia capreolata, of the bignonia family, having yellow-red trumpet-shaped flowers and a stem that shows a crosslike arrangement in cross section.
- crossandra — any shrub of the free-flowering mostly African genus Crossandra, grown in greenhouses for their large yellow, lilac, or orange flowers: family Acanthaceae
- crossbands — Plural form of crossband.
- crossbones — a representation of two thighbones placed across each other, usually under that of a skull, used as a symbol of death or danger
- crosslines — Plural form of crossline.
- crosswinds — Plural form of crosswind.
- croupiness — the condition of being afflicted with croup
- crown lens — a lens made of optical crown, esp the optical-crown part of a compound achromatic lens
- crown post — any vertical member in a roof truss, especially a king post.
- crown rust — a disease of oats and other grasses, characterized by the formation, on the leaves, of orange or black spores, caused by a rust fungus, Puccinia coronata.
- cruddiness — The quality of being cruddy.
- cruikshank — George. 1792–1878, English illustrator and caricaturist
- crumblings — any pieces of matter which have crumbled or fallen from a larger part
- crumminess — the state or quality of being crummy
- crumplings — crumpling or folding actions
- crunchings — any actions in which things are crunched
- crush zone — The crush zone is the part of a vehicle's bodywork that is designed to absorb the energy in a crash, reducing the amount that is felt by passengers inside the vehicle.