13-letter words containing cra
- hydrocracking — the cracking of petroleum or the like in the presence of hydrogen.
- idiosyncratic — pertaining to the nature of idiosyncrasy, or something peculiar to an individual: The best minds are idiosyncratic and unpredictable as they follow the course of scientific discovery.
- impact crater — crater (def 2).
- joseph crater — Joseph Force [fawrs,, fohrs] /fɔrs,, foʊrs/ (Show IPA), 1889–? a judge of the New York State Supreme Court: his mysterious disappearance on August 6, 1930, has never been solved.
- kerb-crawling — Kerb-crawling is the activity of driving slowly along the side of a road in order to find and hire a prostitute.
- killiecrankie — a mountain pass in central Scotland, in the Grampians.
- landing craft — any of various flat-bottomed vessels designed to move troops and equipment close to shore.
- lucrativeness — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- meritocracies — Plural form of meritocracy.
- metalcrafting — metalworking.
- meteor crater — a bowl-shaped depression in the ground formed by the impact of a meteorite
- microcracking — microscopic cracking
- musselcracker — a large variety of sea bream, Sparodon durbanensis, that feeds on shellfish and is a popular food and game fish
- night crawler — an earthworm.
- nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
- non-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
- non-lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- nondemocratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- ochlocratical — Pertaining to ochlocracy.
- packing crate — A packing crate is a large wooden box in which things are put so that they can be stored or taken somewhere.
- pantisocratic — relating to pantisocracy
- pedantocratic — of or relating to pedantocracy
- pencil crayon — coloured pencil
- picramic acid — a red, crystalline substance, C 6 H 5 N 3 O 5 , soluble in alcohol, used chiefly in the manufacture of azo dyes.
- post-socratic — of or relating to Socrates or his philosophy, followers, etc., or to the Socratic method.
- postcranially — affecting the postcranium
- prawn cracker — a puffy savoury crisp made from rice flour and prawn flavouring, served with Chinese food
- pre-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
- pro-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
- procrastinate — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- quarter crack — sand crack.
- reconsecrated — to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity: to consecrate a new church building.
- sacral plexus — a nerve network originating from the nerves of the sacral spine and innervating large areas of the lower trunk and legs, especially via the sciatic nerves.
- sacralization — to make sacred; imbue with sacred character, especially through ritualized devotion: a society that sacralized science.
- sacramentally — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- scrambled egg — eggs stirred while cooking
- scratch paper — rough paper for notes, etc.
- scratch score — an estimated number of strokes for a hole or course that a scratch player should make
- scratch sheet — a racing publication giving the betting odds and other information on the horses entered at a racetrack or racetracks during a racing day.
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- scratchpad ii — See Scratchpad I, AXIOM.
- she-crab soup — a thick, bisquelike soup made with the meat and eggs of the female crab.
- specrate_fp92 — (benchmark) A benchmark result derived from the results of a set of floating-point benchmarks (the geometric mean of 14 SPEC rates from CFP92) run multiple times simultaneously, which can be used to estimate a machine's overall multi-tasking throughput for floating-point code. It is typically used on multiprocessor machines. SPECrate_fp92 obsoletes SPECfpThruput89.
- spotted crake — a Eurasian rail, Porzana porzana, of swamps and marshes, having a buff speckled plumage and dark brown wings
- swimming crab — any of numerous, chiefly marine crabs, especially of the family Portunidae, having the legs adapted for swimming.
- thalassocracy — dominion over the seas, as in exploration, trade, or colonization.
- unconsecrated — to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity: to consecrate a new church building.
- unscratchable — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- up to scratch — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- white crappie — See under crappie.