Words containing cross
5 letter words containing cross
- cross — If you cross something such as a room, a road, or an area of land or water, you move or travel to the other side of it. If you cross to a place, you move or travel over a room, road, or area of land or water in order to reach that place.
6 letter words containing cross
7 letter words containing cross
- crossed — angry and annoyed; ill-humored; snappish: Don't be cross with me. Synonyms: petulant, fractious, irascible, waspish, crabbed, churlish, sulky, cantankerous, cranky, ill-tempered, impatient, irritable, fretful, touchy, testy. Antonyms: good-natured, good-humored; agreeable.
- crosser — a structure consisting essentially of an upright and a transverse piece, used to execute persons in ancient times.
- crosses — Plural form of cross.
- crossly — in a cross or angry manner.
- incross — a mating between organisms that are both homozygous for the same allele.
8 letter words containing cross
- cross-up — a structure consisting essentially of an upright and a transverse piece, used to execute persons in ancient times.
- crossarm — a horizontal bar or arm
- crossbar — A crossbar is a horizontal piece of wood attached to two upright pieces, for example a part of the goal in football.
- crossbow — A crossbow is a weapon consisting of a small, powerful bow that is fixed across a piece of wood, and aimed like a gun.
- crosscut — cut at right angles or obliquely to the major axis
9 letter words containing cross
- autocross — a form of motor sport in which cars race over a half-mile circuit of rough grass
- backcross — to mate (a hybrid of the first generation) with one of its parents
- cross-cut — made or used for cutting crosswise.
- cross-eye — a turning inwards towards the nose of one or both eyes, caused by abnormal alignment
- cross-out — a structure consisting essentially of an upright and a transverse piece, used to execute persons in ancient times.
10 letter words containing cross
- crisscross — to move or cause to move in a crosswise pattern
- cross-eyed — Someone who is cross-eyed has eyes that seem to look towards each other.
- cross-fade — to fade in (one sound or picture source) as another is being faded out
- cross-file — to register as a candidate in more than one party's primary election
- cross-fire — lines of gunfire from two or more positions or combatants crossing one another, or a single one of such lines.
11 letter words containing cross
- backcrossed — Simple past tense and past participle of backcross.
- backcrosses — Plural form of backcross.
- christcross — the mark of a cross formerly placed in front of the alphabet in hornbooks
- criss-cross — If a person or thing criss-crosses an area, they travel from one side to the other and back again many times, following different routes. If a number of things criss-cross an area, they cross it, and cross over each other.
- cross-bench — a seat in Parliament occupied by a neutral or independent member
12 letter words containing cross
- backcrossing — (genetics) The crossing of a hybrid with one of its parents or an individual genetically similar to its parent.
- bookcrossing — the practice of deliberately leaving books in places where they will be found and read by other people
- crisscrossed — crossed over each other
- crisscrosses — Plural form of crisscross.
- cross-action — an action brought within the same lawsuit by one defendant against another defendant or against the plaintiff.
13 letter words containing cross
- crisscrossing — crossing over each other
- cross-benches — (in the UK parliament) an area for members who are not allied to a particular party
- cross-buttock — a wrestling throw in which the hips are used as a fulcrum to throw an opponent
- cross-channel — Cross-Channel travel is travel across the English Channel, especially by boat.
- cross-country — Cross-country is the sport of running, riding, or skiing across open countryside rather than along roads or around a running track.
14 letter words containing cross
- cross-addicted — addicted to two or more substances simultaneously.
- cross-breeding — the process of causing animals to mate with another species, or of causing plants to reproduce with another species
- cross-compiler — a compiler able to create executable code for a platform different from the one the compiler is run on
- cross-compound — (of a compound engine or turbine) having the high-pressure and low-pressure units side by side.
- cross-cultural — Cross-cultural means involving two or more different cultures.
15 letter words containing cross
- christcross-row — the alphabet.
- cross-assembler — An assembler which runs on one type of processor and produces machine code for another. There is a set of 6502, 68xx and Zilog Z80 and 8085 cross-assemblers in C by <[email protected]> and Alan R. Baldwin. They run under MS-DOS and could be compiled to run under Unix and on the Amiga and Atari ST. See also fas.
- cross-fertilize — to subject or be subjected to cross-fertilization
- cross-ownership — ownership of two or more similar or related businesses, as communications media, especially in the same locality: to forbid cross-ownership of newspapers and TV or radio stations in the same city.
- cross-pollinate — to subject or be subjected to cross-pollination
16 letter words containing cross
- across-the-board — applying to all employees, members, groups, or categories; general: The across-the-board pay increase means a raise for all employees.
- cross-curricular — denoting or relating to an approach to a topic that includes contributions from several different disciplines and viewpoints
- 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.
- crosscontaminate — Alternative spelling of cross-contaminate.
17 letter words containing cross
- cross-correlation — the correlation between two sequences of random variables in a time series
- cross-examination — to examine by questions intended to check a previous examination; examine closely or minutely.
- cross-pollination — the transfer of pollen from the anthers of one flower to the stigma of another flower by the action of wind, insects, etc
- cross-utilization — to make use of in an additional or different way.
18 letter words containing cross
- cross-disciplinary — linking two or more fields of study
19 letter words containing cross
- cross-fertilization — fertilization by the fusion of male and female gametes from different individuals of the same species
- noughts-and-crosses — tick-tack-toe (def 1).
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