17-letter words containing cre
- acme screw thread — a type of screw thread having inclined flat flanks and a flat top and bottom: used in machine tools
- age of discretion — the age at which a person is considered to be able to manage his or her own affairs
- archimedes' screw — an ancient type of water-lifting device making use of a spiral passage in an inclined cylinder. The water is raised when the spiral is rotated
- baggage screening — the procedure whereby baggage is electronically screened at an airport before it is allowed on the plane
- coal-tar creosote — impure phenol or carbolic acid, distinct from the creosote of wood tar.
- codlins-and-cream — an onagraceous plant, Epilobium hirsutum, native to Europe and Asia and introduced into North America, having purplish-red flowers and hairy stems and leaves
- commercial credit — credit issued by a bank to a business to finance trading or manufacturing operations.
- company secretary — A company secretary is a person whose job within a company is to keep the legal affairs, accounts, and administration in order.
- cream of the crop — the best of a group
- cream one's jeans — the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- creature comforts — Creature comforts are the things that you need to feel comfortable in a place, for example good food and modern equipment.
- creature of habit — If you say that someone is a creature of habit, you mean that they usually do the same thing at the same time each day, rather than doing new and different things.
- credit facilities — a type of loan made by a bank
- credit memorandum — a memorandum issued to an account allowing a credit or reducing a debit, especially one posted to a customer's account.
- creeping elegance — Describes a tendency for parts of a design to become elegant past the point of diminishing return, something which often happens at the expense of the less interesting parts of the design, the schedule, and other things deemed important in the Real World. See also creeping featurism, second-system effect, tense.
- creeping eruption — a skin eruption with intense itching, caused by the burrowing of various larvae under the skin
- creme de la creme — If you refer to someone or something as the crème de la crème, you mean they are the very best person or thing of their kind.
- creme de violette — a liqueur flavored with vanilla extract and the essential oils of violets.
- crew-neck sweater — a sweater with a crew neck
- defence secretary — the member of a government who is responsible for the country's armed forces
- discreditableness — Quality of being discreditable.
- discrete preorder — (mathematics) A preorder is said to be discrete if any two of its elements are incomparable.
- discrete variable — a variable that may assume only a countable, and usually finite, number of values.
- exfoliating cream — a granular cosmetic preparation that removes dead cells from the skin's surface
- field penny-cress — the common penny-cress, Thlaspi arvense.
- foreign secretary — foreign minister.
- general secretary — the chief administrator of an organization
- genetic screening — assessment of an individual's genetic makeup to detect inheritable defects that may be transmitted to offspring.
- hillcrest heights — a city in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- ice-cream parlour — a place where people go to eat ice cream
- incremental value — increased value measured on an index or scale
- interrupted screw — a screw having the thread interrupted in one or more places by longitudinal channels, as in the breech of a cannon or the lead screw of a lathe.
- lettre de creance — letter of credit.
- mustard and cress — Mustard and cress is very young mustard plants and cress plants grown together and eaten in salad.
- non-discretionary — subject or left to one's own discretion.
- peaches and cream — If you say that a woman or a girl has a peaches and cream complexion, you mean that she has very clear, smooth, pale skin.
- peterloo massacre — an incident at St Peter's Fields, Manchester, in 1819 in which a radical meeting was broken up by a cavalry charge, resulting in about 500 injuries and 11 deaths
- private secretary — a person who attends to the individual or confidential correspondence, files, etc., of a business executive, official, or the like.
- put the screws on — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- recreation centre — a facility open to the public for leisure and recreation activities
- recreation ground — an open space for public recreation, esp one in a town, with swings and slides, etc, for children
- recreational drug — drug taken for pleasure
- recreationalist's — recreationist.
- sacred roman rota — rota1 (def 3).
- screaming meemies — extreme nervous tension
- screaming-meemies — extreme nervousness; hysteria (usually preceded by the).
- secretary-general — the head or chief administrative officer of a secretariat.
- silk-screen print — a type of print made with a stencil and a fine mesh screen. Ink is applied to and forced through the small holes in the screen leaving the covered area free from ink
- tax-bracket creep — bracket creep.
- television screen — the flat vertical surface in a television set on which pictures are shown
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