10-letter words containing cr
- body scrub — a product designed to exfoliate the skin
- breadcrumb — Breadcrumbs are tiny pieces of dry bread. They are used in cooking.
- bureaucrat — Bureaucrats are officials who work in a large administrative system. You can refer to officials as bureaucrats especially if you disapprove of them because they seem to follow rules and procedures too strictly.
- cabin crew — The cabin crew on an aircraft are the people whose job is to look after the passengers.
- cafe creme — coffee with cream.
- cancriform — shaped like a crab
- card creep — chip creep
- catch crop — a quick-growing crop planted between two regular crops grown in consecutive seasons, or between two rows of regular crops in the same season
- cgi script — Common Gateway Interface
- chancroids — Plural form of chancroid.
- chip creep — (hardware) Gradual loosening of an integrated circuit ("chip") in its socket as a result of expansion and contraction during the normal heating and cooling cycles of an electronic system, combined with vibration, e.g. due to cooling fans. The chip can loosen to the point that poor electrical contact between chip and socket reduces the signal quality, causing failure. Pushing chips back into their sockets can cure such symptoms temporarily. Permanent solutions include soldering chips directly to the PCB and clipping the component into the socket (as on some in-line memory modules). The same phenomenon can affect anything plugged into a socket but not held securely in place, e.g. a circuit board plugged into an edge connector on a motherboard or backplane can suffer "card creep".
- choucroute — a dish, resembling sauerkraut, that consists of cabbage that has been preserved by soaking in pickle
- cocreation — Joint creation.
- cold cream — an emulsion of water and fat used cosmetically for softening and cleansing the skin
- conacreism — the Irish system of letting farming land for a season or for eleven months
- concretely — constituting an actual thing or instance; real: a concrete proof of his sincerity.
- concreters — Plural form of concreter.
- concreting — Present participle of concrete.
- concretion — the act or process of coming or growing together; coalescence
- concretise — to make concrete, real, or particular; give tangible or definite form to: to concretize abstractions.
- concretism — the practice of representing abstract concepts in concrete terms
- concretist — a person who represents abstract concepts in concrete terms
- concretive — constituting an actual thing or instance; real: a concrete proof of his sincerity.
- concretize — to render concrete; make real or specific; give tangible form to
- conscribed — Simple past tense and past participle of conscribe.
- conscripts — Plural form of conscript.
- consecrate — When a building, place, or object is consecrated, it is officially declared to be holy. When a person is consecrated, they are officially declared to be a bishop.
- corkscrews — Plural form of corkscrew.
- corkscrewy — Resembling the worm of a corkscrew in shape.
- corn crake — a short-billed Eurasian rail, Crex crex, frequenting grainfields.
- corncrakes — Plural form of corncrake.
- corpocracy — a corporate bureaucracy.
- cosmocrats — Plural form of cosmocrat.
- countercry — a cry responding to another cry
- courtcraft — the artifices and intrigues of a royal court
- cover crop — a crop planted between main crops to prevent leaching or soil erosion or to provide green manure
- crab apple — A crab apple is a tree like an apple tree that produces small sour fruit.
- crab canon — a canon in which the imitating voice repeats the notes of the theme in reverse order
- crab grass — any of several coarse weedy grasses of the genus Digitaria, which grow in warm regions and tend to displace other grasses in lawns
- crab louse — a parasitic louse, Pthirus (or Phthirus) pubis, that infests the pubic region in humans
- crab stick — a stick of finely ground white fish, coloured to resemble crabmeat
- crab's eye — rosary pea.
- crabbiness — the state of being crabby
- crabsticks — Plural form of crabstick.
- crack baby — an infant, typically born prematurely, with a condition caused by the excessive consumption of crack cocaine by the mother during pregnancy and characterized by malformations and learning disabilities
- crack down — If people in authority crack down on a group of people, they become stricter in making the group obey rules or laws.
- crack root — (security, jargon) To defeat the security system of a Unix machine and gain root privileges thereby. The sort of thing a cracker wants to do.
- crack wise — to joke or gibe
- crackajack — crackerjack
- crackberry — a nickname for a BlackBerry handheld device that functions as a telephone, PDA, and e-mailer and appears to have an addictive hold on its users