8-letter words containing cr
- pea crab — any of several tiny crabs of the family Pinnotheridae, the female of which lives as a commensal in the shells of bivalve mollusks.
- pencraft — the art or craft of writing; skill with writing
- picrated — containing picrate
- picritic — containing picrate; of or relating to picrate
- piecrust — the crust or shell of a pie.
- precrash — of or pertaining to the period before a crash, esp of a motor vehicle; coming into effect or being deployed prior to a crash
- precrime — of or relating to law-enforcement efforts and strategies to deter crime by predicting when and where criminal activity will occur.
- recreant — cowardly or craven.
- recreate — to create anew.
- rescreen — a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
- rescript — a written answer, as of a Roman emperor or a pope, to a query or petition in writing.
- s-scroll — an ornamental motif in the form of the letter S .
- sacredly — devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose; consecrated.
- sacristy — an apartment in or a building connected with a church or a religious house, in which the sacred vessels, vestments, etc., are kept.
- sanscrit — Sanskrit
- scrabble — to scratch or scrape, as with the claws or hands.
- scrabbly — insignificantly small or sparse: scrabbly tufts of grass sprouting from the parched lawn.
- scragged — a lean or scrawny person or animal.
- scraggly — irregular; uneven; jagged.
- scramble — to climb or move quickly using one's hands and feet, as down a rough incline.
- scramjet — a ramjet engine in which the flow through the combustor itself is supersonic.
- scrannel — thin or slight.
- scranton — William Warren, 1917–2011, U.S. politician.
- scraping — an act or instance of scraping.
- scrapped — a fight or quarrel: She got into a scrap with her in-laws.
- scrapper — a fighter or aggressive competitor, especially one always ready or eager for a fight, argument, or contest: the best lightweight scrapper in boxing; a rugged political scrapper.
- scrapple — cornmeal mush mixed with pork scraps, seasoned with onions, spices, herbs, etc., and shaped into loaves and sliced for frying.
- scratchy — causing or liable to cause a slight grating noise: a scratchy record.
- scrattle — to scratch
- scrawled — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- scrawler — a person who scrawls.
- screamed — to utter a loud, sharp, piercing cry.
- screamer — a person or thing that screams.
- screechy — like or suggesting screeching.
- screeded — a long discourse or essay, especially a diatribe.
- screeder — a person who lays screeds on a surface
- screened — a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
- screever — an artist who draws pictures on sidewalks, as with colored chalks, earning a living from the donations of spectators and passersby.
- screw up — 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.
- screw-in — fitting in by being twisted
- screw-on — attached, connected, or closed by screwing onto another part of a container or receptacle.
- screw-up — 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.
- screwage — /skroo'*j/ Like lossage but connotes that the failure is due to a designed-in misfeature rather than a simple inadequacy or a mere bug.
- scriabin — Aleksandr Nikolaevich [al-ig-zan-der nik-uh-lahy-uh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər ˌnɪk əˈlaɪ ə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1872–1915, Russian composer and pianist.
- scribble — to tear apart (wool fibers) in the first stages of carding.
- scribing — scriber.
- scribism — the beliefs and actions of Jewish scribes during Christ's life
- scriggle — to wriggle
- scriggly — wriggly
- scrimper — a person who scrimps