4-letter words containing r
- cran — a unit of capacity used for measuring fresh herring, equal to 37.5 gallons
- crap — If you describe something as crap, you think that it is wrong or of very poor quality.
- crat — Bureaucrat.
- craw — the stomach of an animal
- cray — a crayfish
- creb — cyclic amp-response element binding protein; a protein involved in the long-term memory process
- cred — Cred is the same as street cred.
- cree — temporary immunity from the rules of a game: said by children
- cren — Corporation for Research and Educational Networking
- creo — (slang) short for creationist.
- crew — The crew of a ship, an aircraft, or a spacecraft is the people who work on and operate it.
- cria — a baby llama, alpaca, or vicuña
- crib — A crib is a bed for a small baby.
- crik — Obsolete spelling of creak.
- crim — criminal
- crin — Horsehair fabric.
- crip — a term used to refer to a person who is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs.
- crit — a critic.
- crlf — (character) /ker'l*f/, sometimes /kru'l*f/ or /C-R-L-F/ A carriage return (CR, ASCII 13) followed by a line feed (LF, ASCII 10). Under Unix influence this usage has become less common because Unix uses just line feed as its line terminator. See newline, terpri.
- croc — crocodile
- crog — to ride on a bicycle as a passenger
- cron — (operating system) The Unix clock daemon that executes commands at specified dates and times according to instructions in a "crontab" file.
- crop — Crops are plants such as wheat and potatoes that are grown in large quantities for food.
- crow — A crow is a large black bird which makes a loud, harsh noise.
- crtc — Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission
- crud — You use crud to refer to any disgustingly dirty or sticky substance.
- crue — Obsolete form of crew.
- crum — Obsolete form of crumb.
- crus — the leg, esp from the knee to the foot
- crut — crud (def 1).
- crux — The crux of a problem or argument is the most important or difficult part of it which affects everything else.
- cruz — San Juan de la [sahn hwahn de lah] /sɑn ʰwɑn dɛ lɑ/ (Show IPA), John of the Cross, Saint.
- cryo — (informal) cryoprecipitate.
- csar — Alternative form of tsar.
- ctrl — control
- curb — If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
- curd — The thick white substance which is formed when milk turns sour can be referred to as curds.
- cure — If doctors or medical treatments cure an illness or injury, they cause it to end or disappear.
- curf — a cherty limestone found in Portland stone beds
- curl — If you have curls, your hair is in the form of tight curves and spirals.
- curn — a grain of corn
- curr — a purring or cooing sound
- curs — a mongrel dog, especially a worthless or unfriendly one.
- curt — If you describe someone as curt, you mean that they speak or reply in a brief and rather rude way.
- czar — an emperor: title of any of the former emperors of Russia and, at various times, the sovereigns of other Slavic nations
- darb — something excellent of its kind
- dard — a member of any of the Indo-European peoples speaking a Dardic language
- dare — If you do not dare to do something, you do not have enough courage to do it, or you do not want to do it because you fear the consequences. If you dare to do something, you do something which requires a lot of courage.
- darg — a day's work
- dari — the local name for the dialect of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan