8-letter words containing r, c, o
- croupous — (medicine) Relating to or resembling croup; especially, attended with the formation of a deposit or membrane like that found in membranous croup.
- crousely — in a crouse manner
- croutons — Plural form of crouton.
- crow jim — reverse racism; racism by Black people against White people
- crow-hop — a short hop.
- crowbait — an emaciated, worn-out horse or cow.
- crowbars — Plural form of crowbar.
- crowboot — a type of Inuit boot made of fur and leather
- crowd in — If problems or thoughts crowd in on you, a lot of them happen to you or affect you at the same time, so that they occupy all your attention and make you feel unable to escape.
- crowding — a large number of persons gathered closely together; throng: a crowd of angry people.
- crowfoot — any of several plants of the genus Ranunculus, such as R. sceleratus and R. aquatilis (water crowfoot) that have yellow or white flowers and divided leaves resembling the foot of a crow
- crowners — Plural form of crowner.
- crownets — Plural form of crownet.
- crowning — the stage of labour when the infant's head is passing through the vaginal opening
- crownlet — a small crown
- crowstep — corbiestep.
- crozzled — blackened or burnt at the edges
- crumhorn — a medieval woodwind instrument of bass pitch, consisting of an almost cylindrical tube curving upwards and blown through a double reed covered by a pierced cap
- crunodal — of or relating to a crunode
- crustose — having a crustlike appearance
- cruzeiro — a former monetary unit of Brazil, replaced by the cruzeiro real
- cry down — to belittle; disparage
- cry foul — If you cry foul, you claim that someone, especially an opponent or rival, has acted illegally or unfairly.
- cry wolf — If someone cries wolf, they say that there is a problem when there is not, with the result that people do not believe them when there really is a problem.
- cryobank — a facility for storing living tissue, such as sperm, embryos, cells, etc, at a low temperature
- cryogens — Plural form of cryogen.
- cryolite — a white or colourless mineral consisting of a fluoride of sodium and aluminium in monoclinic crystalline form: used in the production of aluminium, glass, and enamel. Formula: Na3AlF6
- cryology — the study of snow and ice.
- cryonaut — a person whose dead body has been preserved by the technique of cryonics.
- cryonics — the practice of freezing a human corpse in the hope of restoring it to life in the future
- cryostat — an apparatus for maintaining a constant low temperature or a vessel in which a substance is stored at a low temperature
- cryotron — a miniature switch working at the temperature of liquid helium and depending for its action on the production and destruction of superconducting properties in the conductor
- cubiform — having the shape of a cube
- cudworth — Ralph. 1617–88, English philosopher and theologian. His works include True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678) and A Treatise concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (1731)
- cumarone — a colourless insoluble aromatic liquid obtained from coal tar and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins. Formula: C 8H 6O
- cumbrous — cumbersome
- cuniform — Alternative spelling of cuneiform.
- cupboard — A cupboard is a piece of furniture that has one or two doors, usually contains shelves, and is used to store things. In British English, cupboard refers to all kinds of furniture like this. In American English, closet is usually used instead to refer to larger pieces of furniture.
- cupreous — of, consisting of, containing, or resembling copper; coppery
- curassow — any gallinaceous ground-nesting bird of the family Cracidae, of S North, Central, and South America. Curassows have long legs and tails and, typically, a distinctive crest of curled feathers
- curation — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- curators — Plural form of curator.
- curatory — the office of a curator
- curculio — any of various American weevils, esp Conotrachelus nenuphar (plum curculio), a pest of fruit trees
- cursitor — (in the Court of Chancery) a clerk or officer
- cursored — Simple past tense and past participle of cursor.
- cuspidor — spittoon
- cussword — a swearword
- customer — You can use customer in expressions such as a cool customer or a tough customer to indicate what someone's behaviour or character is like.
- cut drop — a drop scene cut to reveal part of the upstage area.