12-letter words containing cr
- microcentury — One CS professor used to characterise the standard length of his lectures as a microcentury - that is, about 52.6 minutes (see also attoparsec, nanoacre, and especially microfortnight).
- microcephaly — having a head with a small braincase.
- microchipped — Simple past tense and past participle of microchip.
- microcircuit — Electronics. integrated circuit.
- microclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
- microcopying — the act of copying onto microfilm
- microcrystal — a microscopic crystal.
- microculture — subculture (def 3b).
- microecology — the ecology of a microhabitat.
- microelement — Trace element.
- microfibrils — Plural form of microfibril.
- microfibrous — Composed of microscopic fibres.
- microfilaria — the embryonic larva of the nematode parasite Filaria or of related genera, especially of those species that cause heartworm in dogs and elephantiasis in humans.
- microfilming — Present participle of microfilm.
- microfinance — (finance) Finance that is provided to unemployed or low-income people or groups.
- microfluidic — Of, pertaining to, or using microfluidics.
- microforceps — (surgery) A very small forceps.
- microfossils — a fossil so small that it can be studied and identified only with a microscope.
- microgranite — an igneous rock with an identical composition and mineral content to granite, but having a finer texture
- micrographia — minute handwriting.
- micrographic — Pertaining to micrographics.
- microgravity — a condition, especially in space orbit, where the force of gravity is so weak that weightlessness results.
- microgripper — (engineering) A microscopic device used to grasp and manipulate microscale objects safely.
- microgrooves — Plural form of microgroove.
- microhabitat — an extremely localized, small-scale environment, as a tree stump or a dead animal.
- microinsurer — (insurance) An insurer providing microinsurance, small low-cost policies aimed at underserved groups.
- microlending — the lending of very small amounts of money at low interest, especially to a start-up company or self-employed person.
- micromanaged — Simple past tense and past participle of micromanage.
- micromanager — One who micromanages.
- micronucleus — the smaller of the two types of nuclei occurring in ciliate protozoans.
- micropayment — A very small payment made each time a user accesses an Internet page or service.
- microphagous — (of an animal) feeding on small particles of food
- microphallus — The condition of having an abnormally small penis; micropenis.
- microphonics — (electronics) The phenomenon where certain components in electronic devices transform mechanical vibrations into an unwanted electrical signal.
- microphoning — Present participle of microphone.
- microphonism — a usually undesirable property of some electronic circuits or components in which mechanical vibrations of a component affect the signal being transmitted through the circuit.
- microphysics — the branch of physics dealing with physical objects that are not large enough to be observed and treated directly, as elementary particles, atoms, and molecules.
- micropipette — a very slender pipette for transferring or measuring minute amounts of fluid, microorganisms, etc.
- microplanner — A subset of PLANNER, implemented in Lisp by Gerald Sussman et al at MIT. Its important features were goal-oriented, pattern-directed procedure invocation, an embedded knowledge base, and automatic backtracking. microPLANNER was superseded by Conniver.
- microprinted — printed in microprint
- microprogram — Computers. a set of microinstructions that defines the individual operations that a computer carries out in response to a machine-language instruction.
- micropterous — (of certain animals, esp some types of ant) having small reduced wings
- micropublish — to publish on microfilm or microfiche.
- microreaders — Plural form of microreader.
- microscopics — Any behaviour or characteristic observable at a microscopic scale.
- microscopies — Plural form of microscopy.
- microscopist — An expert at microscopy.
- microscopium — a faint constellation in the S hemisphere lying near Sagittarius and Capricornus
- microseconds — Plural form of microsecond.
- microsegment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by juncture.