11-letter words containing r, a, s, c
- credit swap — A credit swap is a kind of insurance against credit risk where a third party agrees to pay a lender if the loan defaults, in exchange for receiving payments from the lender.
- creepypasta — (Internet slang) Frightening urban legends and short stories circulated on the Internet.
- crematories — Plural form of crematory.
- creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
- crepuscular — Crepuscular means relating to twilight.
- crescentade — a religious crusade or war fought under the flag of Turkey
- crescograph — an instrument for measuring plant growth
- crestfallen — If you look crestfallen, you look sad and disappointed about something.
- crime squad — (in Britain) a division of the police which identifies and prevents major crimes, esp those crossing regional or national boundaries
- 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
- crispbreads — Plural form of crispbread.
- criticaster — a lowly or petty critic
- crocus sack — a burlap bag.
- croker sack — a bag made of burlap or similar material
- cross hairs — crossed lines, as of fine hair or cobweb, mounted in the optical system of a telescopic gun sight, surveyor's level, etc., to assist in precise aiming or centering of the instrument
- cross ratio — a ratio relating four points in the real or complex plane.
- cross vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- cross-heads — Printing. a title or heading filling a line or group of lines the full width of the column.
- cross-match — to test the compatibility of (a donor's and recipient's blood) by checking that the red cells of each do not agglutinate in the other's serum
- cross-nodal — having to do with interaction between the senses
- cross-party — Cross-party activities involve two or more political parties. A cross-party group consists of members from two or more political parties.
- cross-patch — a bad-tempered or irritable person.
- cross-react — to participate in a cross-reaction.
- cross-staff — an instrument for measuring the angle of elevation of heavenly bodies, consisting of a calibrated staff with another shorter staff perpendicular to and sliding on it.
- cross-trade — cross (def 26).
- 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
- crossbarred — having a crossbar or crossbars
- crossbearer — a person who carries or wears a cross
- crossbowman — (in medieval warfare) a soldier armed with a crossbow.
- crossfaders — Plural form of crossfader.
- 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
- crustaceans — Plural form of crustacean.
- crustaceous — forming, resembling, or possessing a surrounding crust or shell
- crux ansata — the ankh, an ancient Egyptian symbol
- cryptograms — Plural form of cryptogram.
- crystal set — an early form of radio receiver having a crystal detector to demodulate the radio signals but no amplifier, therefore requiring earphones
- crystal tea — a bog shrub, Ledum palustre, of the heath family, found from the North Temperate Zone to the Arctic Circle, having leaves that are rust-colored and hairy beneath with rolled margins, and dense clusters of white flowers.
- crystalised — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalise.
- crystalized — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalize.
- crystalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crystalize.
- crystallike — a clear, transparent mineral or glass resembling ice.
- crystalline — A crystalline substance is in the form of crystals or contains crystals.
- crystallise — to form into crystals; cause to assume crystalline form.
- crystallite — any of the minute rudimentary or imperfect crystals occurring in many glassy rocks
- crystallize — If you crystallize an opinion or idea, or if it crystallizes, it becomes fixed and definite in someone's mind.