8-letter words containing cr
- macruran — belonging or pertaining to the suborder Macrura, comprising the lobsters, crayfishes, shrimps, and prawns.
- massacre — the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.
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- mediocre — of only ordinary or moderate quality; neither good nor bad; barely adequate: The car gets only mediocre mileage, but it's fun to drive. Synonyms: undistinguished, commonplace, pedestrian, everyday; run-of-the-mill. Antonyms: extraordinary, superior, uncommon, incomparable.
- micro ml — (uML) An interpreter for a subset of SML. Runs on MS-DOS. Written at the University of Umea, Sweden.
- microamp — One millionth ( 10-6 ) of an ampere, abbreviated as \u00b5A.
- microbar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to one millionth of a bar; one dyne per square centimeter.
- microbat — Any of the small bats in the suborder Microchiroptera.
- microbes — Plural form of microbe.
- microbic — a microorganism, especially a pathogenic bacterium.
- microbot — A small mobile robot equipped with a microcontroller.
- microbus — minibus.
- microcap — (US, finance) The stock of a public company with a market capitalization of roughly $300 million or less.
- microcar — A very small car.
- microdot — a photograph reduced to the size of a printed period, used especially to transmit messages, photographs, drawings, etc.
- microjet — a light jet-propelled aircraft
- microlog — (architecture) A section of non-volitile memory used to record state information. Often used for retaining crash information after a reboot in embedded systems.
- microlux — a millionth of a lux
- micromho — one millionth of a mho or siemens
- micronut — (climbing) A small nut (piece of metal jammed into the rockface to protect a climb).
- micropia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be smaller than their actual size.
- micropig — A miniature breed of pig.
- microtia — A congenital deformity where the pinna (external ear) is underdeveloped.
- micrurgy — the manipulation and examination of single cells under a microscope
- miscreed — a false creed
- mobocrat — One who favours a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint.
- monocrat — a person favoring monocracy.
- mud crab — a large edible crab, Scylla serrata, of Australian mangrove regions
- nacreous — of or relating to nacre.
- nanoacre — (unit, humour) /nan'oh-ay"kr/ A unit (about 2 mm square) of real estate on a VLSI integrated circuit. VLSI nanoacres have costs in the same range as real acres once one allows for design and fabrication setup costs.
- necropsy — the examination of a body after death; autopsy.
- necrosed — Simple past tense and past participle of necrose.
- necroses — death of a circumscribed portion of animal or plant tissue.
- necrosis — death of a circumscribed portion of animal or plant tissue.
- necrotic — death of a circumscribed portion of animal or plant tissue.
- neocracy — Government by the new or inexperienced.
- noncrime — an incident that is not considered to be against the law
- norcroft — (Contraction of Norman + Mycroft) A company producing C compilers, set up by Arthur Norman and Alan Mycroft. Now "sort of" called Codemist. The original Norcroft compiler was written by Alan and Arthur to provide a platform for teaching languages and compilers on the Cambridge University mainframe. They then went on to develop versions for the transputer, ARM and others.
- omicrons — Plural form of omicron.
- onscreen — As seen on a screen (as of television, film, or computer) rather than in real life.
- outcrawl — to crawl further than or faster than
- outcrier — One who cries out or proclaims; a herald or crier.
- outcries — Plural form of outcry.
- outcrops — Plural form of outcrop.
- outcross — to cross (animals or plants) by breeding individuals of different strains but, usually, of the same breed.
- outcrowd — to crowd out or exclude
- overcram — (transitive) To cram too full; to overstuff.
- overcrop — Agriculture. to crop (land) to excess; exhaust the fertility of by continuous cropping.
- overcrow — to crow over
- pancreas — a gland, situated near the stomach, that secretes a digestive fluid into the intestine through one or more ducts and also secretes the hormone insulin.