11-letter words containing n, s, r
- 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
- crestfallen — If you look crestfallen, you look sad and disappointed about something.
- crime scene — A crime scene is a place that is being investigated by the police because a crime has taken place there.
- criminalese — the jargon of criminals
- criminalise — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of criminalize.
- criminalist — a person who collects and analyses forensic evidence from the scene of a crime
- crinigerous — having hair; hairy
- crinkliness — The state or quality of being crinkly.
- criticising — to censure or find fault with.
- crochetings — a collection of crochet-work
- crookedness — The state of being crooked.
- cropdusting — the spreading of fungicide, etc on crops in the form of dust, often from an aircraft
- cross-bench — a seat in Parliament occupied by a neutral or independent member
- cross-index — a note or notes referring the reader to other material
- cross-nodal — having to do with interaction between the senses
- cross-train — to train (a worker, athlete, etc.) to be proficient at different, usually related, skills, tasks, jobs, etc.
- crossbanded — (of a handrail) having the grain of the veneer run across that of the rail
- crossbowman — (in medieval warfare) a soldier armed with a crossbow.
- crossbowmen — Plural form of crossbowman.
- crow's nest — On a ship, the crow's nest is a small platform high up on the mast, where a person can go to look in all directions.
- crow's-nest — Nautical. a platform or shelter for a lookout at or near the top of a mast.
- crowd scene — (in a film, play, or television programme) a scene in which a crowd appears
- crowdedness — The state or quality of being crowded.
- crown daisy — a garden plant, Chrysanthemum coronarium, of the composite family, native to southern Europe, having numerous yellowish-white flower heads.
- crown glass — an old form of window glass made by blowing a globe and spinning it until it formed a flat disc
- crown roast — a roast consisting of ribs of lamb or pork arranged in a crown shape
- crownpieces — Plural form of crownpiece.
- crumbliness — The state of being crumbly.
- crunchiness — The state of being crunchy.
- crustaceans — Plural form of crustacean.
- crux ansata — the ankh, an ancient Egyptian symbol
- cryokinesis — The psychic ability to control and create ice and cold temperatures.
- cryosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in cryosurgery
- crystalline — A crystalline substance is in the form of crystals or contains crystals.
- ctenophores — Plural form of ctenophore.
- cummerbunds — Plural form of cummerbund.
- curableness — The quality or state of being curable.
- curiousness — eager to learn or know; inquisitive.
- curmudgeons — Plural form of curmudgeon.
- currentness — the state or quality of being current; currency.
- cursiveness — the quality of being cursive
- cursoriness — The state of being cursory.
- curtainless — without a curtain or curtains
- cut corners — to do something in the easiest and shortest way, esp at the expense of high standards
- cybernetics — Cybernetics is science which involves studying the way electronic machines and human brains work, and developing machines that do things or think like people.
- cycloserine — an antibiotic effective in the treatment of tuberculosis
- cyclosporin — a substance, synthesized by certain soil fungi, that suppresses the immune response by disabling helper T cells, used to minimize rejection of foreign tissue transplants.
- cylindroids — Plural form of cylindroid.