8-letter words containing cr
- cranking — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crankish — mildly eccentric
- crankous — fretful; cranky
- crankpin — a short cylindrical bearing surface fitted between two arms of a crank and set parallel to the main shaft of the crankshaft
- crannied — full of crannies or chinks
- crannies — Plural form of cranny.
- crannoge — Alt form crannog.
- crannogs — Plural form of crannog.
- cranston — city in R.I.: suburb of Providence: pop. 79,000
- cranwell — a village in E England, in Lincolnshire: Royal Air Force College (1920)
- crap out — to make a losing throw in craps
- crapfest — (informal, vulgar) Something of incredibly low quality.
- crappier — extremely bad, unpleasant, or inferior; lousy: crappy weather.
- crappies — Plural form of crappie.
- crapping — (in craps) a losing throw, in which the total on the two dice is 2, 3, or 12.
- crapplet — (web, abuse) A badly written or profoundly useless Java applet. "I just wasted 30 minutes downloading this stinkin' crapplet!"
- crashers — Plural form of crasher.
- crashing — (intensifier) (esp in the phrase a crashing bore)
- crashpad — a place to sleep or live temporarily
- crassest — without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid: crass commercialism; a crass misrepresentation of the facts.
- cratches — a crib for fodder; manger.
- crateful — (informal) As much as a crate would hold.
- cratered — If the surface of something is cratered, it has many craters in it.
- cratonic — Of or pertaining to the craton.
- cravable — (especially of a food) having qualities that engender an intense desire for more: All too often, salt, sugar, fat, and “crunch” make a food craveable.
- cravened — Simple past tense and past participle of craven.
- cravenly — In a craven manner.
- cravings — great or eager desire; yearning.
- crawdads — Plural form of crawdad.
- crawfish — A crawfish is a small shellfish with five pairs of legs which lives in rivers and streams. You can eat some types of crawfish.
- crawford — Joan, real name Lucille le Sueur. 1908–77, US film actress, who portrayed ambitious women in such films as Mildred Pierce (1945)
- crawlers — a baby's overalls; rompers
- crawlies — Fear, anxiety.
- crawling — a defect in freshly applied paint or varnish characterized by bare patches and ridging
- crawlway — a low passageway in a cave or mine that can only be negotiated by crawling
- crayfish — A crayfish is a small shellfish with five pairs of legs which lives in rivers and streams. You can eat some types of crayfish.
- crayoned — Simple past tense and past participle of crayon.
- craziest — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- creakily — creaking or apt to creak: a creaky stairway.
- creaking — Present participle of creak.
- cream of — creamed purée of
- creamers — Plural form of creamer.
- creamery — A creamery is a place where milk and cream are made into butter and cheese.
- creamier — Comparative form of creamy.
- creamily — In a creamy manner.
- creaming — the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- creampie — Alternative spelling of cream pie.
- creasing — Present participle of crease.
- creatify — To edit, rewrite, and/or revise standard text using creative writing tools and techniques.
- creatine — an important metabolite involved in many biochemical reactions and present in many types of living cells