0%

13-letter words containing r, e, c, i

  • cranial index — the ratio of the greatest length to the greatest width of the cranium, multiplied by 100: used in comparative anthropology
  • cranial nerve — any of the 12 paired nerves that have their origin in the brain and reach the periphery through natural openings in the skull
  • crape jasmine — a shrub, Tabernaemontana divaricata, native to India, having white flowers that are fragrant at night.
  • crash barrier — A crash barrier is a strong low fence built along the side of a road or between the two halves of a motorway in order to prevent accidents.
  • credentialing — Usually, credentials. evidence of authority, status, rights, entitlement to privileges, or the like, usually in written form: Only those with the proper credentials are admitted.
  • credentialism — a tendency to value formal qualifications, esp at the expense of competence and experience
  • credentialled — having credentials
  • credibilities — the quality of being believable or worthy of trust: After all those lies, his credibility was at a low ebb.
  • credit agency — an agency that checks whether people are able to pay for goods and services they wish to buy on credit, and provides them with a credit rating
  • credit bureau — an agency that is a clearinghouse for information on the credit rating of individuals or firms
  • credit crunch — A credit crunch is a period during which there is a sudden reduction in the amount of money that banks and other lenders have available to lend.
  • credit rating — Your credit rating is a judgment of how likely you are to pay money back if you borrow it or buy things on credit.
  • creditability — bringing or deserving credit, honor, reputation, or esteem.
  • creep-feeding — the practice of feeding young farm animals (esp piglets, calves, and lambs) in a sectioned-off part of their indoor environment, in order to prevent the mother from gaining access to the food
  • creep-grazing — a method of pasture management that allows young farm animals (esp lambs) to graze part of the pasture before the adults in the group
  • creme fraiche — Crème fraiche is a type of thick, slightly sour cream.
  • crenellations — the battlements on a building
  • crested swift — any of several birds of the family Hemiprocnidae, of southeast Asia and the East Indies, related to the true swifts but differing in having erectile crests and the habit of perching in trees.
  • cricket table — a three-legged table of the Jacobean period.
  • crime-fighter — any person, as a law-enforcement officer or government official, who works to prevent crime or to enforce criminal laws.
  • crimean tatar — a member of a Turkic people who lived in the Crimea before emigration to Anatolia in the 18th and 19th centuries and deportations to Soviet central Asia after World War II.
  • criminal code — the body of laws regulating how crimes are to be punished
  • criminalities — Plural form of criminality.
  • criminousness — the quality or state of being criminous
  • cringe-making — causing feelings of acute embarrassment or distaste
  • cripple creek — a village in central Colorado: gold-mining centre since 1891, once the richest in the world
  • crisis center — a central facility, telephone answering service, etc., where people may obtain informed help or advice in a personal crisis.
  • crisis centre — a place providing help to victims of crime, natural disasters, etc
  • criticalities — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
  • cross bedding — layering within one or more beds in a series of rock strata that does not run parallel to the plane of stratification
  • cross-examine — When a lawyer cross-examines someone during a trial or hearing, he or she questions them about the evidence that they have already given.
  • cross-fertile — capable of cross-fertilization or of being cross-fertilized
  • cross-grained — (of timber) having the fibres arranged irregularly or in a direction that deviates from the axis of the piece
  • cross-section — If you refer to a cross-section of particular things or people, you mean a group of them that you think is typical or representative of all of them.
  • cross-selling — to sell or try to sell (similar or related products or services) to an existing customer.
  • cross-sterile — incapable of reproducing due to hybridization.
  • cross-trainer — a type of athletic shoe designed to be used in more than one type of activity.
  • cross-utilize — to make use of in an additional or different way.
  • crossbreeding — Present participle of crossbreed.
  • crosschecking — Present participle of crosscheck.
  • crosscut file — a file having two intersecting rows of teeth
  • crossdressing — to dress in clothing typically worn by members of the opposite sex.
  • crossectional — Of, pertaining to, or being a cross section.
  • crossing over — the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the diplotene stage of meiosis. It results in the rearrangement of genes and produces variation in the inherited characteristics of the offspring
  • crotchetiness — The state or quality of being crotchety.
  • cruiserweight — A cruiserweight is another name for a light heavyweight.
  • crush barrier — a barrier erected to separate sections of large crowds in order to prevent crushing
  • cruzeiro real — a former monetary unit of Brazil, which was replaced by the real
  • cryogenically — in a cryogenic manner
  • cryotherapies — Plural form of cryotherapy.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?