15-letter words containing cr
- desacralization — the process of rendering anything less sacred; secularization
- describableness — The quality of being describable.
- descriptionless — Without a description.
- descriptiveness — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- discretionarily — subject or left to one's own discretion.
- discriminations — Plural form of discrimination.
- dixiecrat party — States' Rights Democratic Party.
- endocrine gland — anatomy: hormone-secreting gland
- endocrinologist — A person who is skilled at, or practices endocrinology.
- excrementitious — Of or pertaining to the nature of excrement.
- false decretals — the Pseudo-Isidorian documents.
- fellow creature — a kindred creature, especially a fellow human being.
- file descriptor — (programming, operating system) An integer that identifies an open file within a process. This number is obtained as a result of opening a file. Operations which read, write, or close a file would take the file descriptor as an input parameter. In many operating system implementations, file descriptors are small integers which index a table of open files. In Unix, file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 correspond to the standard input, standard output and standard error files respectively. See file descriptor leak.
- first secretary — The First Secretary of the Welsh Assembly is the leader of the ruling party.
- floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
- focusing screen — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
- full-cream milk — whole unskimmed milk
- hard-shell crab — a crab, especially an edible crab, that has not recently molted and has a hard shell.
- have a crush on — be attracted to: sb
- hemicraniectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of half of the cranium to enable brain surgery; hemicraniotomy.
- hemicryptophyte — any perennial plant that bears its overwintering buds at soil level, where they are often partly covered by surface debris
- holocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having only crystalline components and no glass
- horned screamer — a screamer, Anhima cornuta, of tropical South America, having a long, slender hornlike process projecting from the forehead.
- hypercritically — In a hypercritical manner.
- hyperdemocratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- hypocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having both glass and crystalline components
- ice-cream maker — a device used in making ice cream
- identity crisis — a period or episode of psychological distress, often occurring in adolescence but sometimes in adulthood, when a person seeks a clearer sense of self and an acceptable role in society.
- idiosyncratical — Alternative form of idiosyncratic.
- imperscriptible — not supported by written authority
- imprescriptable — Alt form imprescriptible.
- imprescriptible — not subject to prescription.
- imprescriptibly — In an imprescriptible manner; obviously.
- incredulousness — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- incrementalists — Plural form of incrementalist.
- indiscretionary — lack of discretion; imprudence.
- inscrutableness — Inscrutability.
- interambulacral — relating to, or situated between, interambulacra
- interambulacrum — the area between two of an echinoderm's ambulacra
- jaques-dalcroze — Émile [French ey-meel] /French eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1865–1950, Swiss composer and teacher: created eurythmics.
- jerusalem cross — a cross whose four arms are each capped with a crossbar and often with a small Greek cross centered in each quadrant.
- job description — an abstract of a job analysis containing the classification of and requirements for a job, used in hiring and placing prospective employees.
- juan de la cruz — San [sahn] /sɑn/ (Show IPA), John of the Cross, Saint.
- large cranberry — See under cranberry (def 1).
- levelling screw — a screw, often one of three, for adjusting the level of an apparatus
- lex non scripta — unwritten law; common law.
- literary critic — sb who reviews literature
- lodgepole creek — a river in SE Wyoming, SW Nebraska, and NE Colorado, flowing E to the South Platte River. 212 miles (341 km) long.
- lower criticism — a form of Biblical criticism having as its purpose the reconstruction of the original texts of the books of the Bible.
- lucrezia borgia — Cesare [che-zah-re] /ˈtʃɛ zɑ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1476?–1507, Italian cardinal, military leader, and politician.