8-letter words containing r, c, o
- crabwood — a tropical American meliaceous tree, Carapa guianensis
- crack on — If you crack on with something, you continue doing it, especially with more effort than before, or as quickly as possible.
- crackpot — If you describe someone or their ideas as crackpot, you disapprove of them because you think that their ideas are strange and crazy.
- cramdown — (legal) A court settlement in bankruptcy in which creditors receive less than they were owed.
- cramoisy — of a crimson colour
- crampons — Plural form of crampon.
- crampoon — Alternative form of crampon (attachment for a shoe).
- cranford — a township in NE New Jersey.
- crankous — fretful; cranky
- crannoge — Alt form crannog.
- crannogs — Plural form of crannog.
- cranston — city in R.I.: suburb of Providence: pop. 79,000
- crap out — to make a losing throw in craps
- cratonic — Of or pertaining to the craton.
- crawford — Joan, real name Lucille le Sueur. 1908–77, US film actress, who portrayed ambitious women in such films as Mildred Pierce (1945)
- crayoned — Simple past tense and past participle of crayon.
- cream of — creamed purée of
- creation — In many religions, creation is the making of the universe, Earth, and creatures by God.
- creators — Plural form of creator.
- creditor — Your creditors are the people who you owe money to.
- cremator — a furnace for cremating corpses
- cremorne — a crumhorn
- creodont — any of a group of extinct Tertiary mammals some of which are thought to have been the ancestors of modern carnivores: order Carnivora
- creolise — (of a pidgin language) to become the native language of a speech community
- creolist — a student of creole languages
- creolize — to make (a language) become a creole
- creosote — Creosote is a thick dark liquid made from coal tar which is used to prevent wood from rotting.
- cretonne — a heavy cotton or linen fabric with a printed design, used for furnishing
- cribnote — crib (def 5a).
- cribwork — a supporting framework of beams, logs, etc. built in layers, each layer having its unit at right angles to those of the layer below
- crichton — James. 1560–82, Scottish scholar and writer, called the Admirable Crichton because of his talents
- crim con — criminal conversation
- crinoids — Plural form of crinoid.
- criollos — Plural form of criollo.
- croakers — Plural form of croaker.
- croakily — In a croaky manner.
- croaking — Present participle of croak.
- croatian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Croatia, its people, or their language
- croceate — saffron-coloured
- crochets — Plural form of crochet.
- crockery — Crockery is the plates, cups, saucers, and dishes that you use at meals.
- crockets — Plural form of crocket.
- crockett — David, known as Davy Crockett. 1786–1836, US frontiersman, politician, and soldier
- crocking — British Dialect. soot; smut.
- crockpot — a brand of electric slow cooker
- crocoite — a rare orange secondary mineral consisting of lead chromate in monoclinic crystalline form. Formula: PbCrO4
- crocuses — Plural form of crocus.
- crofters — Plural form of crofter.
- crofting — In Scotland, crofting is the activity of farming on small pieces of land.
- cromalin — a colour proofing system