11-letter words containing t, o, r, c
- crimination — An accusation of wrongdoing, a recrimination.
- criminatory — Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing.
- crinkleroot — any of several species of the toothwort Dentaria, esp D. diphylla of E North America, which has a fleshy pungent rhizome and clusters of white or pinkish flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- crithomancy — a form of divination in which grain or meal used in a sacrifice is analysed
- crochetings — a collection of crochet-work
- crochetwork — needlework done by crocheting.
- crocidolite — a blue fibrous amphibole mineral consisting of sodium iron silicate: a variety of asbestos used in cement products and pressure piping
- crop duster — a pilot employed in crop-dusting from an airplane.
- cropdusting — the spreading of fungicide, etc on crops in the form of dust, often from an aircraft
- cross ratio — a ratio relating four points in the real or complex plane.
- cross vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- cross-court — played across the court
- cross-match — to test the compatibility of (a donor's and recipient's blood) by checking that the red cells of each do not agglutinate in the other's serum
- cross-party — Cross-party activities involve two or more political parties. A cross-party group consists of members from two or more political parties.
- cross-patch — a bad-tempered or irritable person.
- cross-react — to participate in a cross-reaction.
- cross-staff — an instrument for measuring the angle of elevation of heavenly bodies, consisting of a calibrated staff with another shorter staff perpendicular to and sliding on it.
- cross-trade — cross (def 26).
- cross-train — to train (a worker, athlete, etc.) to be proficient at different, usually related, skills, tasks, jobs, etc.
- crotcheteer — a person with a crotchet
- 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-foot — a wrinkle at the outer corner of the eye
- crow's-nest — Nautical. a platform or shelter for a lookout at or near the top of a mast.
- crowded out — full to capacity; full to bursting
- crown agent — a member of a board appointed by the Minister for Overseas Development to provide financial, commercial, and professional services for a number of overseas governments and international bodies
- crown court — In England and Wales, a Crown Court is a court in which criminal cases are tried by a judge and jury rather than by a magistrate.
- crown ether — a type of cyclic ether consisting of a ring of carbon and oxygen atoms, with two or more carbon atoms between each oxygen atom
- crown graft — a type of graft in which the scion is inserted at the crown of the stock
- crown point — town in NE N.Y., on Lake Champlain: site of a fort important in the French and Indian & the Revolutionary wars: pop. 2,100
- crown roast — a roast consisting of ribs of lamb or pork arranged in a crown shape
- crown vetch — a trailing leguminous European plant, Coronilla varia, with clusters of white or pink flowers: cultivated in North America as a border plant
- crowstepped — (of a gable) having crow steps
- crushworthy — (usually, of a, person) Suitable for a crush (infatuation): attractive.
- crustaceous — forming, resembling, or possessing a surrounding crust or shell
- cry out for — If you say that something cries out for a particular thing or action, you mean that it needs that thing or action very much.
- cryocautery — Cautery by the application of extreme cold.
- cryohydrate — a crystalline substance containing water and a salt in definite proportions at low temperatures: a eutectic crystallizing below the freezing point of water
- cryokinetic — Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of cryokinesis.
- cryotherapy — medical treatment in which all or part of the body is subjected to cold temperatures, as by means of ice packs
- cryptobiont — any organism that exhibits cryptobiosis
- cryptococci — Plural form of cryptococcus.
- cryptogamic — Of, relating to, or denoting cryptogams.
- cryptogenic — (esp of diseases) of unknown or obscure origin
- cryptograms — Plural form of cryptogram.
- cryptograph — something written in code or cipher
- cryptologic — cryptography.
- cryptomeria — a coniferous tree, Cryptomeria japonica, of China and Japan, with curved needle-like leaves and small round cones: family Taxodiaceae
- cryptometer — an instrument used to determine the opacity of pigments and paints
- cryptomonad — any of various protozoalike algae of the phylum Cryptophyta usually having two flagella, common in both marine and freshwater environments where they appear along the shore as algal blooms, some also occurring as intestinal parasites.