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16-letter words containing cr

  • creeping thistle — a weedy Eurasian thistle, Cirsium arvense, common as a fast-spreading weed in the US
  • creme de bananes — a liqueur flavored with bananas.
  • creole continuum — a range of language varieties in an area undergoing decreolization showing a continuous gradation from forms more like the underlying creole to those approaching the standard language.
  • crested screamer — a goose-like aquatic bird, Chauna torquata, of the family Anhimidae of tropical and subtropical South America, having a crest on the back of its head: order Anseriformes (ducks, geese, etc)
  • crime of passion — a crime, often a murder, committed from passion, esp sexual passion
  • crime passionnel — a crime committed from passion, esp sexual passion
  • crime prevention — official and police policies to prevent crime
  • criminal assault — a punishable offence of attempting to harm another person through physical contact
  • criminal justice — the system of law enforcement, involving police, lawyers, courts, and corrections, used for all stages of criminal proceedings and punishment.
  • criminal offence — an action which is punishable under the law
  • critical damping — the minimum amount of viscous damping that results in a displaced system returning to its original position without oscillation
  • critical density — the density of matter that would be required to halt the expansion of the universe
  • critical section — A non-re-entrant piece of code that can only be executed by one process at a time. It will usually terminate in bounded time and a process will only have to wait a bounded time to enter it. Some synchronisation mechanism is required at the entry and exit of the critical section to ensure exclusive use.
  • cromwell current — an equatorial Pacific current, flowing eastward from the Hawaiian Islands to the Galápagos Islands
  • cross of calvary — a Latin cross with a representation of steps beneath it.
  • cross one's mind — to occur to one briefly or suddenly
  • cross protection — the protection against a viral infection given to a plant by its prior inoculation with a related but milder virus
  • cross-curricular — denoting or relating to an approach to a topic that includes contributions from several different disciplines and viewpoints
  • cross-cut chisel — a chisel used for making grooves
  • cross-resistance — immunologic resistance to the pathogenic effects of a microorganism because of previous exposure to another species or type having cross-reactive antigens.
  • cross-validation — a process by which a method that works for one sample of a population is checked for validity by applying the method to another sample from the same population.
  • crossbow archery — the sport of shooting with a crossbow
  • crosscontaminate — Alternative spelling of cross-contaminate.
  • crossopterygians — Plural form of crossopterygian.
  • crossover bodice — a bodice which has one side crossing over the other
  • crossword puzzle — a puzzle in which the solver deduces words suggested by numbered clues and writes them into corresponding boxes in a grid to form a vertical and horizontal pattern
  • crowd one's luck — to take unnecessary risks in an already favorable situation
  • crown and anchor — a game played with dice marked with crowns and anchors
  • crown prosecutor — In Britain, a crown prosecutor is a lawyer who works for the state and who prosecutes people who are accused of crimes.
  • croydon facelift — the tightening effect on the skin of a woman's face caused by securing the hair at the back of the head in a tight ponytail
  • cry for the moon — to desire the unattainable
  • cryoprecipitates — Plural form of cryoprecipitate.
  • cryopreservation — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
  • cryptozoological — (cryptozoology) Of or pertaining to cryptozoology.
  • cryptozoologists — Plural form of cryptozoologist.
  • crystal detector — a demodulator, used esp in microwave circuits and in early radio receivers, consisting of a thin metal wire in point contact with a semiconductor crystal
  • crystalline lens — a biconvex transparent elastic structure in the eye situated behind the iris, serving to focus images on the retina
  • crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
  • crystallographic — of, relating to, or dealing with crystals or crystallography.
  • dacryocystectomy — The surgical removal of a part of the lacrimal sac.
  • dead sea scrolls — a collection of manuscripts in Hebrew and Aramaic discovered in caves near the Dead Sea between 1947 and 1956. They are widely held to have been written between about 100 bc and 68 ad and provide important biblical evidence
  • democratic party — (in the US) the older and more liberal of the two major political parties, so named since 1840
  • demoiselle crane — a gray crane, Anthropoides virgo, of northern Africa, Europe, and Asia, having long, white plumes behind each eye.
  • deputy secretary — the Deputy Secretary of State or Defense etc
  • devonshire cream — clotted cream.
  • diacritical mark — any of various marks, as a macron or cedilla, added to a letter or symbol to indicate its pronunciation or to distinguish it in some way
  • direct democracy — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
  • disaccreditation — to take away the accreditation or authorization of: to disaccredit a diplomat.
  • discriminability — The condition of being discriminable.
  • discriminatingly — With discrimination.
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