8-letter words containing t, r, o, c
- 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
- creodont — any of a group of extinct Tertiary mammals some of which are thought to have been the ancestors of modern carnivores: order Carnivora
- creolist — a student of creole languages
- 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).
- crichton — James. 1560–82, Scottish scholar and writer, called the Admirable Crichton because of his talents
- croatian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Croatia, its people, or their language
- croceate — saffron-coloured
- crochets — Plural form of crochet.
- crockets — Plural form of crocket.
- crockett — David, known as Davy Crockett. 1786–1836, US frontiersman, politician, and soldier
- crockpot — a brand of electric slow cooker
- crocoite — a rare orange secondary mineral consisting of lead chromate in monoclinic crystalline form. Formula: PbCrO4
- crofters — Plural form of crofter.
- crofting — In Scotland, crofting is the activity of farming on small pieces of land.
- crompton — Richmal, full name Richmal Crompton Lamburn. 1890–1969, British children's author, best known for her Just William stories
- cronkite — Walter, 1916–2009, U.S. newscaster.
- crookest — sick or feeble.
- crop out — (of a formation of rock strata) to appear or be exposed at the surface of the ground; outcrop
- crop top — A crop top is a very short, usually tight, top worn by a girl or a woman.
- crosette — a projection at a corner of a door or window architrave.
- crosscut — cut at right angles or obliquely to the major axis
- crossest — a structure consisting essentially of an upright and a transverse piece, used to execute persons in ancient times.
- crosslet — a cross having a smaller cross near the end of each arm
- crosstie — a sleeper between rails on a railway
- crostata — A kind of Italian baked tart.
- crostini — pieces of toasted bread served with a savoury topping
- crostino — piece of toasted bread served with a savoury topping
- crotalin — a protein in the venom of pit vipers, used as an antigen in the preparation of snake antivenins.
- crotalum — a type of castanet, often used in religious dances in ancient Greece
- crotched — Having a crotch or fork; forked.
- crotches — a forking or place of forking, as of the human body between the legs.
- crotchet — A crotchet is a musical note that has a time value equal to two quavers.
- crotoxin — a toxin in the venom of the North American rattlesnake, Crotalus terrificus.
- croutons — Plural form of crouton.
- crowbait — an emaciated, worn-out horse or cow.
- crowboot — a type of Inuit boot made of fur and leather
- 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
- crownets — Plural form of crownet.
- crownlet — a small crown
- crowstep — corbiestep.
- crustose — having a crustlike appearance
- 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
- cryonaut — a person whose dead body has been preserved by the technique of cryonics.
- 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