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8-letter words containing r, a, n

  • coumarin — a white vanilla-scented crystalline ester, used in perfumes and flavourings and as an anticoagulant. Formula: C9H6O2
  • courante — an old dance in quick triple time
  • courland — a region of Latvia, between the Gulf of Riga and the Lithuanian border
  • cournand — André (Frederic). 1895–1988, US physician, born in France: shared the 1956 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine for his work on heart catheterization
  • crabbing — Informal. an ill-tempered or grouchy person.
  • crack on — If you crack on with something, you continue doing it, especially with more effort than before, or as quickly as possible.
  • cracking — You use cracking to describe something you think is very good or exciting.
  • cracknel — a type of hard plain biscuit
  • cradling — a framework of iron or wood, esp as used in the construction of a ceiling
  • crafting — an art, trade, or occupation requiring special skill, especially manual skill: the craft of a mason.
  • cragsman — a rock climber
  • cragsmen — Plural form of cragsman.
  • cramdown — (legal) A court settlement in bankruptcy in which creditors receive less than they were owed.
  • cramming — intensive study, esp in order to pass an exam
  • cramping — cramp iron.
  • crampons — Plural form of crampon.
  • crampoon — Alternative form of crampon (attachment for a shoe).
  • crandallPrudence, 1803–90, U.S. educator and civil-rights activist.
  • cranefly — A cranefly is a harmless flying insect with long legs.
  • cranford — a township in NE New Jersey.
  • craniate — having a skull or cranium
  • crank in — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
  • crank up — If you crank up a machine or device, you start it.
  • crank-up — an act or instance of cranking up.
  • crankier — Comparative form of cranky.
  • crankily — In a cranky manner.
  • cranking — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
  • crankish — mildly eccentric
  • crankous — fretful; cranky
  • crankpin — a short cylindrical bearing surface fitted between two arms of a crank and set parallel to the main shaft of the crankshaft
  • crannied — full of crannies or chinks
  • crannies — Plural form of cranny.
  • crannoge — Alt form crannog.
  • crannogs — Plural form of crannog.
  • cranston — city in R.I.: suburb of Providence: pop. 79,000
  • cranwell — a village in E England, in Lincolnshire: Royal Air Force College (1920)
  • crapping — (in craps) a losing throw, in which the total on the two dice is 2, 3, or 12.
  • crashing — (intensifier) (esp in the phrase a crashing bore)
  • cratonic — Of or pertaining to the craton.
  • cravened — Simple past tense and past participle of craven.
  • cravenly — In a craven manner.
  • cravings — great or eager desire; yearning.
  • crawling — a defect in freshly applied paint or varnish characterized by bare patches and ridging
  • crayoned — Simple past tense and past participle of crayon.
  • creaking — Present participle of creak.
  • creaming — the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
  • creasing — Present participle of crease.
  • creatine — an important metabolite involved in many biochemical reactions and present in many types of living cells
  • creating — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
  • creation — In many religions, creation is the making of the universe, Earth, and creatures by God.
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