11-letter words containing r, e, s, t
- crime sheet — a record of an individual's offences against regulations
- crimebuster — (chiefly, US, informal) A person, especially a law enforcement officer, who is particularly effective in thwarting criminal activity and in bringing criminals to justice.
- criticaster — a lowly or petty critic
- crochetings — a collection of crochet-work
- crop duster — a pilot employed in crop-dusting from an airplane.
- cross-react — to participate in a cross-reaction.
- cross-trade — cross (def 26).
- crow's feet — Crow's feet are wrinkles which some older people have at the outside corners of their eyes.
- crow's nest — On a ship, the crow's nest is a small platform high up on the mast, where a person can go to look in all directions.
- crow's-nest — Nautical. a platform or shelter for a lookout at or near the top of a mast.
- crowstepped — (of a gable) having crow steps
- crude steel — unrefined steel
- crustaceans — Plural form of crustacean.
- crustaceous — forming, resembling, or possessing a surrounding crust or shell
- 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.
- ctenophores — Plural form of ctenophore.
- cultureless — Devoid of culture.
- curiosities — Plural form of curiosity.
- currentness — the state or quality of being current; currency.
- curtainless — without a curtain or curtains
- custard pie — Custard pies are artificial pies which people sometimes throw at each other as a joke.
- custard-pie — characteristic of a type of slapstick comedy in which a performer throws a pie in another's face: popular especially in the era of vaudeville and early silent films.
- customaries — Plural form of customary.
- cut corners — to do something in the easiest and shortest way, esp at the expense of high standards
- cyberethics — Ethics in cyberspace.
- cybernetics — Cybernetics is science which involves studying the way electronic machines and human brains work, and developing machines that do things or think like people.
- cybersafety — Safety in using the Internet.
- cyclometers — Plural form of cyclometer.
- cysticercus — an encysted larval form of many tapeworms, consisting of a head (scolex) inverted in a fluid-filled bladder
- cytochromes — Plural form of cytochrome.
- daisycutter — Alternative form of daisy cutter.
- danger list — on
- dastardized — Simple past tense and past participle of dastardize.
- dastardness — the sate or quality of being a dastard
- day of rest — the Sabbath; Sunday
- dead-stroke — relating to a stroke made that has no kickback or reverberation
- debt crisis — a situation in which the large debts owed by a number of individuals, organizations or countries threaten to overwhelm them, so that they become unable to service their debts which, in turn, may threaten the stability of larger structures
- decelerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decelerate.
- declarators — Plural form of declarator.
- decolorants — Plural form of decolorant.
- deconstruct — In philosophy and literary criticism, to deconstruct an idea or text means to show the contradictions in its meaning, and to show how it does not fully explain what it claims to explain.