7-letter words containing y, r
- coshery — (in Ireland) a chief's right to lodge at his tenants' houses with his followers
- country — A country is one of the political units which the world is divided into, covering a particular area of land.
- coursey — (nautical) A space in the galley; a part of the hatches.
- courtly — You use courtly to describe someone whose behaviour is very polite, often in a rather old-fashioned way.
- cowardy — A cowardly person (often used as a taunt by children).
- cowdrey — (Michael) Colin, Baron. 1932–2000, English cricketer. He played for Kent and in 114 Test matches (captaining England 27 times)
- crackly — Something that is crackly, especially a recording or broadcast, has or makes a lot of short, harsh noises.
- crankly — in a crank manner
- crassly — without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid: crass commercialism; a crass misrepresentation of the facts.
- crawley — a town in S England, in NE West Sussex: designated a new town in 1956. Pop: 100 547 (2001)
- crayola — /kray-oh'l*/ A super-minicomputer or super-microcomputer that provides some reasonable percentage of supercomputer performance for an unreasonably low price. A crayola might also be a killer micro.
- crayons — Plural form of crayon.
- crazily — If something moves crazily, it moves in a way or in a direction that you do not expect.
- creeley — Robert, 1926–2005, U.S. poet.
- creeshy — greasy
- criminy — used to express surprise, anger, etc.
- cringey — causing acute feelings of embarrassment or disgust
- crinkly — A crinkly object has many small creases or folds in it or in its surface.
- crisply — (especially of food) hard but easily breakable; brittle: crisp toast.
- crossly — in a cross or angry manner.
- crowley — a city in S Louisiana.
- croydon — a borough in S Greater London (since 1965): formerly important for its airport (1915–59). Pop: 336 700 (2003 est). Area: 87 sq km (33 sq miles)
- crucify — If someone is crucified, they are killed by being tied or nailed to a cross and left to die.
- crudely — in a raw or unprepared state; unrefined or natural: crude sugar.
- crudity — the condition or quality of being crude
- cruelly — willfully or knowingly causing pain or distress to others.
- cruelty — Cruelty is behaviour that deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
- cruisey — Alternative spelling of cruisy.
- crumbly — Something that is crumbly is easily broken into a lot of little pieces.
- crumply — easily crumpled
- crunchy — Food that is crunchy is pleasantly hard or crisp so that it makes a noise when you eat it.
- crusily — (in heraldry) decorated with small crosses
- cry for — shed tears for
- cry off — If you cry off, you tell someone that you cannot do something that you have agreed or arranged to do.
- cry out — If you cry out, you call out loudly because you are frightened, unhappy, or in pain.
- crybaby — If someone calls a child a crybaby, they mean that the child cries a lot for no good reason.
- cryogen — a substance used to produce low temperatures; a freezing mixture
- cryonic — relating to or involving cryonics
- cryppie — (job, cryptography) /krip'ee/ A cryptographer. One who hacks or implements software or hardware for cryptography.
- crypsis — (biology) The ability of an organism to avoid observation.
- cryptic — A cryptic remark or message contains a hidden meaning or is difficult to understand.
- cryptid — (cryptozoology) Any creature that may or may not exist. Sightings of various cryptids have been reported, but their reality has not been proved.
- crypto- — Crypto- is added to adjectives and nouns to form other adjectives and nouns which refer to people who have hidden beliefs and principles.
- crypton — a hypothetical particle important in string theory and explanations of dark matter
- cryptos — Plural form of crypto.
- crystal — A crystal is a small piece of a substance that has formed naturally into a regular symmetrical shape.
- cumfrey — Alternative form of comfrey.
- curably — In a curable manner.
- curlily — in a curly manner
- cursory — A cursory glance or examination is a brief one in which you do not pay much attention to detail.