10-letter words containing cr
- cryoscopic — Chemistry. a technique for determining the molecular weight of a substance by dissolving it and measuring the freezing point of the solution.
- cryosphere — All those areas of the Earth where the surface is frozen.
- cryostasis — the deep-freezing of human bodies or other organisms at death; cryonics.
- cryostatic — of or relating to a cryostat
- crypto-jew — a member of a Jewish community who secretly practices Judaism while officially converting, under duress, to either Christianity or Islam.
- cryptogams — Plural form of cryptogam.
- cryptogamy — the state of being a cryptogam
- cryptogram — a secret symbol
- cryptology — the study of secret codes or ciphers and the devices used to create and decipher them
- cryptopine — a poisonous alkaloid, C21H23NO5, found in opium
- cryptozoic — of or relating to that part of geological time represented by rocks in which the evidence of life is slight and the life forms are primitive; pre-Phanerozoic
- cryptozoon — an extinct genus of algae from Precambrian and Cambrian times, forming irregularly hemispherical fossil colonies composed of layers of limy precipitate.
- crystalise — Alternative spelling of from=non-Oxford British spelling.
- crystalize — (rare) alternative spelling of crystallize.
- crystallo- — crystal
- cut across — If an issue or problem cuts across the division between two or more groups of people, it affects or matters to people in all the groups.
- cybercrime — the illegal use of computers and the internet
- czarocracy — A Government headed by a czar or a similar autocrat.
- deck crane — a deck-mounted crane used for loading and unloading cargo
- decrassify — to make (something) less crass
- decreaseth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decrease.
- decreasing — becoming less or fewer; diminishing.
- decreation — Destruction.
- decree-law — an executive decree made pursuant to a delegation from the legislature and having the full force of legislation.
- decrements — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decrement.
- decremeter — an instrument for measuring the damping of an electromagnetic wave train.
- decreolize — to modify (a creole language) in the direction of a standard form of the language on which most of the vocabulary of the creole is based.
- decrepitly — In a decrepit way.
- decrescent — (esp of the moon) decreasing; waning
- decrypting — Present participle of decrypt.
- decryption — to decode or decipher.
- democratic — A democratic country, government, or political system is governed by representatives who are elected by the people.
- democritus — ?460–?370 bc, Greek philosopher who developed the atomist theory of matter of his teacher, Leucippus
- descramble — to restore (a scrambled signal) to an intelligible form, esp automatically by the use of electronic devices
- descriable — Capable of being descried (detected or perceived).
- describent — (geometry) A generatrix.
- describers — Plural form of describer.
- describing — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- descriptor — a word or phrase which constitutes the descriptive element of a sentence
- desecrated — to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office.
- desecrater — One who desecrates.
- desecrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desecrate.
- desecrator — to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office.
- diacritics — Plural form of diacritic.
- discreated — to reduce to nothing; annihilate.
- discredits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discredit.
- discreeter — Comparative form of discreet.
- discreetly — judicious in one's conduct or speech, especially with regard to respecting privacy or maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature; prudent; circumspect.
- discrepant — (usually of two or more objects, accounts, findings etc.) differing; disagreeing; inconsistent: discrepant accounts.
- discretely — apart or detached from others; separate; distinct: six discrete parts.