10-letter words starting with cr
- crescentic — a shape resembling a segment of a ring tapering to points at the ends.
- crescively — in a crescive or increasing manner
- crest rail — the carved or profiled top rail of a chair, settee, or sofa.
- cresta run — high-speed tobogganing down a steep narrow passage
- cretaceous — consisting of or resembling chalk
- crevassing — Present participle of crevasse.
- crevecoeur — Miˈchel Guilˈlaume Jean de (miˈʃɛl giˈjoʊm ʒɑ̃ də) ; mēshelˈ gēyōmˈ zhän də) (pseud. J. Hector St. John) 1735-1813; Am. essayist & agriculturist, born in France
- crew chief — the head of a crew, especially for maintenance of aircraft or racing cars.
- crewellery — crewelwork
- crewelling — the art of making crewelwork
- crewelwork — embroidery done with crewel
- crib death — Crib death is the sudden death of a baby while it is asleep, although the baby had not previously been ill.
- crib sheet — a sheet containing notes, etc, on a particular subject, used as a study aid
- cribbiting — to practice cribbing.
- cribration — the action of sifting, esp (in pharmacy) to separate finer particles of a drug from coarser particles
- cribriform — pierced with holes; sievelike
- cricketers — Plural form of cricketer.
- cricketing — Cricketing means relating to or taking part in cricket.
- crime wave — When more crimes than usual are committed in a particular place, you can refer to this as a crime wave.
- criminally — In a criminal manner.
- crimsoning — Present participle of crimson.
- cringeling — a person who cringes in a subservient manner; a fawner
- crinogenic — stimulating secretion.
- crinoidean — of or relating to the Crinoidea, an order of echinoderms
- crinolette — a steel framework worn under the skirt to distend its rear section, fashionable in the mid-18th century
- crinolined — wearing a crinoline
- crinolines — Plural form of crinoline.
- criosphinx — a sphinx with the head of a ram instead of a human.
- crippledom — the state of being crippled
- crispation — the act of curling or state of being curled
- crispature — the state of being crisped or crispate
- crispbread — Crispbreads are thin dry biscuits made from wheat or rye. They are often eaten instead of bread by people who want to lose weight.
- crispiness — The state of being crispy.
- crispinian — Saint, See under Crispin, Saint.
- crisscross — to move or cause to move in a crosswise pattern
- cristiform — crest-shaped
- criteria's — a standard of judgment or criticism; a rule or principle for evaluating or testing something.
- criterions — Plural form of criterion.
- crithidial — relating to a developmental stage in protozoan parasites of the trypanosome group, now more commonly referred to as the epimastigote stage
- critically — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
- criticised — to censure or find fault with.
- criticiser — (British) alternative spelling of criticizer.
- criticises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of criticise.
- criticisms — the act of passing judgment as to the merits of anything.
- criticized — to censure or find fault with.
- criticizer — to censure or find fault with.
- criticizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of criticize.
- critiquing — an article or essay criticizing a literary or other work; detailed evaluation; review.
- cro magnon — an Upper Paleolithic population of humans, regarded as the prototype of modern Homo sapiens in Europe. Skeletal remains found in an Aurignacian cave in southern France indicate that the Cro-Magnon had long heads, broad faces, and sunken eyes, and reached a height of approximately 5 feet 9 inches (175 cm).
- cro-magnon — belonging to a prehistoric, Caucasoid type of human who lived on the European continent, distinguished by tallness and erect stature, and by the use of stone and bone implements, principally of Aurignacian culture