10-letter words containing r, c, n
- cranked up — 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.
- 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.
- crannequin — a portable device for bending a crossbow.
- crappiness — extremely bad, unpleasant, or inferior; lousy: crappy weather.
- crapulence — sickness caused by excess in drinking or eating
- 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.
- crazy bone — funny bone
- creakiness — The state of being creaky.
- creakingly — With a creaking sound.
- creaminess — containing cream.
- creatinine — an anhydride of creatine that is abundant in muscle and excreted in the urine
- creational — Of, or pertaining to creation.
- credential — something that entitles a person to confidence, authority, etc
- creepiness — having or causing a creeping sensation of the skin, as from horror or fear: a creepy ghost story.
- creepingly — in a creeping manner
- cremations — Plural form of cremation.
- crenelated — In a castle, a crenelated wall has gaps in the top or openings through which to fire at attackers.
- crenellate — to supply with battlements
- crenulated — minutely crenate, as the margin of certain leaves.
- 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.
- crewelling — the art of making crewelwork
- cribbiting — to practice cribbing.
- cribration — the action of sifting, esp (in pharmacy) to separate finer particles of a drug from coarser particles
- cricketing — Cricketing means relating to or taking part in cricket.
- criminally — In a criminal manner.
- crimsoning — Present participle of crimson.
- cringeling — a person who cringes in a subservient manner; a fawner
- crinogenic — stimulating secretion.
- crinoidean — of or relating to the Crinoidea, an order of echinoderms
- crinolette — a steel framework worn under the skirt to distend its rear section, fashionable in the mid-18th century
- crinolined — wearing a crinoline
- 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.
- critiquing — an article or essay criticizing a literary or other work; detailed evaluation; review.
- cro magnon — an Upper Paleolithic population of humans, regarded as the prototype of modern Homo sapiens in Europe. Skeletal remains found in an Aurignacian cave in southern France indicate that the Cro-Magnon had long heads, broad faces, and sunken eyes, and reached a height of approximately 5 feet 9 inches (175 cm).
- cro-magnon — belonging to a prehistoric, Caucasoid type of human who lived on the European continent, distinguished by tallness and erect stature, and by the use of stone and bone implements, principally of Aurignacian culture
- crocheting — Present participle of crochet.
- croissants — Plural form of croissant.
- crooked on — hostile or averse to