8-letter words containing cr
- discrown — to deprive of a crown; dethrone; depose.
- eat crow — any of several large oscine birds of the genus Corvus, of the family Corvidae, having a long, stout bill, lustrous black plumage, and a wedge-shaped tail, as the common C. brachyrhynchos, of North America.
- eccrisis — the ejection or discharge of waste matter from the body
- eccritic — (medicine) Any remedy that promotes discharges.
- ecraseur — surgical device consisting of a heavy wire loop placed around a part to be removed and tightened until it cuts through
- eggcrate — of or resembling a horizontal construction divided by vertical partitions into cell-like areas, used especially for directing downward rays of overhead light: eggcrate ceiling fixtures.
- encradle — to put in a cradle
- encrease — Obsolete spelling of increase.
- encroach — Intrude on (a person's territory or a thing considered to be a right).
- encrypts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encrypt.
- escrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of escrow.
- eucritic — relating to eucrite
- eurocrat — European Union official
- excreate — (obsolete) To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting.
- excreted — Simple past tense and past participle of excrete.
- excretes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of excrete.
- execrate — Feel or express great loathing for.
- exocrine — Relating to or denoting glands that secrete their products through ducts opening onto an epithelium rather than directly into the bloodstream.
- fulcrate — having or supported by fulcra
- fulcrums — Plural form of fulcrum.
- furcraea — a member of a genus of succulent plants of the family Agavaceae native to tropical parts of Central and South America
- gimcrack — a showy, useless trifle; gewgaw.
- go crook — to lose one's temper
- gun crew — the sailors and petty officers in charge of a gun on a ship.
- icecream — Alternative spelling of ice cream.
- idocrase — vesuvianite.
- in-crowd — in-group (def 1).
- increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- increate — not created; uncreated.
- incretin — (biochemistry) A gastrointestinal hormone causing an increase in the amount of insulin released from the beta cells of the islets of Langerhans after eating, even before blood glucose levels become elevated.
- incroach — Archaic form of encroach.
- inscribe — to address or dedicate (a book, photograph, etc.) informally to a person, especially by writing a brief personal note in or on it.
- inscroll — enscroll.
- isocracy — a government in which all individuals have equal political power.
- isocryme — a line on a map connecting points that have the same temperature during the coldest period of a year
- jim crow — racial segregation
- jim-crow — favoring or supporting Jim Crow.
- killcrop — a baby that is always hungry, thought to be a fairy changeling
- lacrimal — lachrymal (defs 1–3).
- lacrosse — a game, originated by Indians of North America, in which two 10-member teams attempt to send a small ball into each other's netted goal, each player being equipped with a crosse or stick at the end of which is a netted pocket for catching, carrying, or throwing the ball.
- lacrymal — Alternative spelling of lachrymal.
- lit crit — literary criticism
- lit-crit — literary criticism.
- lucretia — Also, Lucrece [loo-krees] /luˈkris/ (Show IPA). Roman Legend. a Roman woman whose suicide led to the expulsion of the Tarquins and the establishment of the Roman republic.
- macramed — an elaborately patterned lacelike webbing made of hand-knotted cord, yarn, or the like, and used for wall decorations, hanging baskets, garments, accessories, etc.
- macready — William Charles, 1793–1873, English actor.
- macropod — A plant-eating marsupial mammal of an Australasian family that comprises the kangaroos and wallabies.
- macrotia — (medicine) Abnormal development of the auricle of the ear.
- macroura — Macruran.
- macrural — (zoology) macrurous.