11-letter words containing cra
- crampedness — confined or severely limited in space: cramped closets.
- crampfishes — Plural form of crampfish.
- cramponning — climbing using crampons
- cranberries — Plural form of cranberry.
- crance iron — a metal ring or cap to which bobstays and shrouds are secured, at the forward end of a bowsprit.
- cranesbills — Plural form of cranesbill.
- craniectomy — the surgical removal of a part of the skull to facilitate brain surgery, the bone then being discarded rather than replaced
- craniognomy — the scientific study of the shape and characteristics of the skull
- craniograph — an instrument that outlines the skull.
- craniometer — an instrument for measuring the cranium or skull
- craniometry — the study and measurement of skulls
- craniopagus — the condition of Siamese twins joined at the head
- craniophore — a device that holds a skull in place for measuring.
- cranioscopy — the study of the features of the human skull
- crank-sided — lopsided; askew.
- crankhandle — a handle for starting a motor
- crankshafts — Plural form of crankshaft.
- crap around — Vulgar. excrement. an act of defecation.
- crapehanger — a gloomy person; a pessimist
- crapshooter — a person who plays the game of craps
- crapulosity — the quality of being crapulous or crapulent
- crapulously — In a crapulous manner.
- crash truck — an emergency vehicle based at an airport.
- crashworthy — (of a vehicle) Capable of withstanding a crash.
- crater lake — a lake in the crater of an extinct volcano in SW Oregon, in Crater Lake National Park. 20 sq. mi. (52 sq. km); 1996 feet (608 meters) deep.
- crateriform — shaped like a crater
- crawl space — A crawl space is a narrow space under the roof or floor of a building that provides access to the wiring or plumbing.
- crazy about — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- crazy horse — Native American name Ta-Sunko-Witko. ?1849–77, Sioux chief, remembered for his attempts to resist White settlement in Sioux territory
- crazy house — an asylum for people with psychiatric disorders
- crazy quilt — If you describe something as a crazy quilt of other things, you mean that it is a mixture of those things without any pattern or order.
- defeaticrat — a member or supporter of the Democratic Party, echoing the belief among many opponents that it promoted a defeatist attitude to the situation in Iraq following the US-led invasion of 2003
- democracies — Plural form of democracy.
- democratise — To make democratic.
- democratism — The principles or spirit of a democracy.
- democratize — If a country or a system is democratized, it is made democratic.
- demonocracy — power of or rule by demons
- desacralize — to render less sacred; to secularize
- descrambled — Simple past tense and past participle of descramble.
- descrambler — unscrambler (def 2).
- desecrating — Present participle of desecrate.
- desecration — a desecrating or being desecrated
- edible crab — a species of crab, Cancer pagurus, found in the Mediterranean Sea, the North Sea, and the North Atlantic
- endocranial — relating to the endocranium
- endocranium — (anatomy) The layer between the dura mater and the skull.
- ergatocracy — Government by the workers.
- execrations — Plural form of execration.
- firecracker — a paper or cardboard cylinder filled with an explosive and having a fuse, for discharging to make a noise, as during a celebration.
- footscraper — a metal bar, set in a small frame and attached to a doorstep, used in cleaning mud from the bottoms of the shoes before entering a house.
- front crawl — a style of swimming in which the swimmer faces downwards and moves their arms alternately in strokes