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17-letter words containing cr

  • pseudo-democratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
  • purple shore crab — any of numerous crabs that live along the shoreline between the tidemarks, as Hemigrapsus nudus (purple shore crab) of the Pacific coast of North America.
  • put the screws on — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • railroad crossing — place for vehicles to cross train tracks
  • recreation centre — a facility open to the public for leisure and recreation activities
  • recreation ground — an open space for public recreation, esp one in a town, with swings and slides, etc, for children
  • recreational drug — drug taken for pleasure
  • recreationalist's — recreationist.
  • recruiting office — an office where staff are recruited, esp by the military
  • recrystallization — to become crystallized again.
  • recursive acronym — (convention)   A hackish (and especially MIT) tradition is to choose acronyms and abbreviations that refer humorously to themselves or to other acronyms or abbreviations. The classic examples were two MIT editors called EINE ("EINE Is Not Emacs") and ZWEI ("ZWEI Was EINE Initially"). More recently, there is a Scheme compiler called LIAR (Liar Imitates Apply Recursively), and GNU stands for "GNU's Not Unix!" - and a company with the name CYGNUS, which expands to "Cygnus, Your GNU Support". See also mung.
  • ribbon microphone — a microphone that utilizes a metal ribbon suspended in a magnetic field.
  • ross and cromarty — a historic county in NW Scotland.
  • rotation of crops — a system of rotating in a fixed order the kinds of crops, as grain or grass, grown in the same field, to maintain soil fertility
  • sacra romana rota — the official name of the Rota.
  • sacred roman rota — rota1 (def 3).
  • sacrifice paddock — a grassed area allowed to be grazed completely, to be cultivated and resown later
  • sacrificial anode — Chemistry. an anode that is attached to a metal object subject to electrolysis and is decomposed instead of the object.
  • saint croix river — Also called Santa Cruz. a U.S. island in the N Lesser Antilles: the largest of the Virgin Islands. 82 sq. mi. (212 sq. km).
  • scrape the barrel — to be forced to use one's last and weakest resource
  • scratch 'n' sniff — denoting a product that releases a smell when scratched
  • screaming meemies — extreme nervous tension
  • screaming-meemies — extreme nervousness; hysteria (usually preceded by the).
  • scrophulariaceous — belonging to the Scrophulariaceae, the figwort family of plants.
  • secretary-general — the head or chief administrative officer of a secretariat.
  • self-consecration — the act of setting oneself to a task or vocation without ordination by others or by a religious body.
  • semimicroanalysis — any analytical method in which the weight of the sample is between 10 and 100 milligrams.
  • shortcrust pastry — a basic type of pastry that is made with half the quantity of fat to flour, and has a crisp but crumbly texture
  • sign of the cross — a movement of the hand to indicate a cross, as from forehead to breast and left shoulder to right or, in the Eastern Orthodox Church, from right shoulder to left.
  • silk-screen print — a type of print made with a stencil and a fine mesh screen. Ink is applied to and forced through the small holes in the screen leaving the covered area free from ink
  • simple microscope — a microscope having a single lens.
  • social democratic — A social democratic party is a political party whose principles are based on social democracy.
  • socratic elenchus — the drawing out of the consequences of a position in order to show them to be contrary to some accepted position
  • spectromicroscope — a microscope with an attached spectroscope.
  • st. crispin's day — October 25: anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt (1415).
  • subscription rate — the price charged for a subscription
  • supreme sacrifice — the sacrifice of one's own life: Many made the supreme sacrifice during the war.
  • tax-bracket creep — bracket creep.
  • television screen — the flat vertical surface in a television set on which pictures are shown
  • textual criticism — lower criticism.
  • the silent screen — silent films, considered as a whole
  • throat microphone — a microphone worn around the throat and actuated by vibrations of the larynx, used when background noise would obscure the sound of speech, as in an airplane cockpit.
  • turn of the screw — a short novel (1898) by Henry James.
  • ultramicrobalance — a balance for weighing precisely, to a hundredth of a microgram or less, minute quantities of material.
  • uncircumscribable — to draw a line around; encircle: to circumscribe a city on a map.
  • wall street crash — the dramatic collapse of share prices on the New York Stock Exchange in October 1929, an important factor in the early stages of the Depression
  • windscreen washer — a small nozzle on the bonnet of a motor vehicle, from which jets of water are squirted electronically onto the windscreen to help clean it
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