13-letter words containing cri
- lacrimal duct — either of two small ducts extending from the inner corner of each eyelid to the lacrimal sac.
- mistranscribe — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
- new criticism — (often initial capital letters) an approach to the critical study of literature that concentrates on textual explication and rejects historical and biographical study as irrelevant to an understanding of the total formal organization of a work.
- nondescriptly — in a nondescript manner
- nonprescribed — Not prescribed.
- overprescribe — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- oversubscribe — to subscribe for more of than is available, expected, or required: The charity drive was oversubscribed by several thousand dollars.
- pre-described — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- prescriptible — subject to or suitable for prescription.
- recriminalize — to make punishable as a crime: To reduce the graffiti on subway cars, he wants to criminalize the selling of spray paint to minors.
- recrimination — the act of recriminating, or countercharging: Hope gave way to recrimination with both sides claiming the moral high ground.
- redescription — the act of redescribing
- rice crispies — puffed grains of rice, eaten esp as a breakfast cereal
- sacrifice fly — a fly ball when there are fewer than two players out that enables a base runner, usually at third base, to score after the ball is caught.
- sacrificially — pertaining to or concerned with sacrifice.
- san cristobal — a city in SW Venezuela.
- scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
- script doctor — one who revises or alters a script to improve it.
- script kiddie — a child or teenager who gains illegal access to computer systems, often by using hacking programs downloaded from the internet
- script reader — playreader.
- scripturalism — the state of being scriptural or adhering to the Scriptures when translating or writing
- scripturalist — a literalist or translator obedient to the Scriptures
- scriptwriting — a person who writes scripts, as for movies, radio, or television.
- scrivenership — the position of being a scrivener or scribe; scribing
- self-critical — capable of criticizing oneself objectively.
- simscript i.5 — A version of SIMSCRIPT developed at CACI in 1965. It produced assembly language.
- supercriminal — an extremely bad, powerful or successful criminal, a criminal working on a large scale or committing extreme crimes
- supercritical — extremely critical.
- transcriptase — RNA polymerase.
- transcription — the act or process of transcribing.
- transcriptome — a collection of all the messenger RNA in a particular cell
- ultracritical — hypercritical.
- undescribable — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- undescriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.