10-letter words starting with cr
- crocheting — Present participle of crochet.
- crocodiles — Plural form of crocodile.
- crocosmias — Plural form of crocosmia.
- croissants — Plural form of croissant.
- crooked on — hostile or averse to
- crookedest — Superlative form of crooked.
- crookesite — a rare mineral, selenide of copper, thallium, and silver, (Cu, Tl, Ag) 2 Se, occurring in steel-gray, compact masses.
- crooknecks — Plural form of crookneck.
- crop-eared — having the ears or hair cut short
- cropduster — an aeroplane used to spray crops with fertilizer or insecticide
- croquettes — Plural form of croquette.
- cross buck — an offensive play in which two running backs cross paths and charge into the line on opposite sides, one back receiving the ball from the quarterback and the other back faking possession.
- cross hair — Also called cross wire. one of the fine wires or fibers, strands of spider web, or the like, crossing in a focal plane of an optical instrument to center a target or object or to define a line of sight.
- cross over — a structure consisting essentially of an upright and a transverse piece, used to execute persons in ancient times.
- cross rate — A cross rate is an exchange rate of two currencies expressed in a third different currency, such as the exchange rate between the euro and the yuan expressed in yen.
- cross talk — interference in one channel from another or others
- cross vine — a woody bignoniaceous vine, Bignonia capreolata, of the southeastern US, having large trumpet-shaped reddish flowers
- cross wind — a wind blowing across the course or path of a ship, aircraft, etc.
- cross wire — cross hair (def 1).
- 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.
- cross-foot — Accounting. to total figures horizontally across columns instead of vertically.
- cross-link — a chemical bond, atom, or group of atoms that connects two adjacent chains of atoms in a large molecule such as a polymer or protein
- cross-over — a structure consisting essentially of an upright and a transverse piece, used to execute persons in ancient times.
- cross-post — a message posted to two or more message boards or electronic mailing lists at the same time: Cross-posts are often greeted with hostility.
- cross-sell — to sell or try to sell (similar or related products or services) to an existing customer.
- cross-town — going across or following a route across a town
- cross-vein — a transverse vein that connects adjacent longitudinal veins in the wing of an insect.
- cross-vine — a climbing or creeping woody vine, Bignonia capreolata, of the bignonia family, having yellow-red trumpet-shaped flowers and a stem that shows a crosslike arrangement in cross section.
- cross-vote — to vote against one's own party
- crossandra — any shrub of the free-flowering mostly African genus Crossandra, grown in greenhouses for their large yellow, lilac, or orange flowers: family Acanthaceae
- crossbands — Plural form of crossband.
- crossbeams — Plural form of crossbeam.
- crossbills — Plural form of crossbill.
- crossbirth — any abnormal labour in which the child is positioned across the uterus
- crossbones — a representation of two thighbones placed across each other, usually under that of a skull, used as a symbol of death or danger
- crossbreed — to breed (animals or plants) using parents of different races, varieties, breeds, etc
- crosscheck — to verify (a fact, report, etc) by considering conflicting opinions or consulting other sources
- crossclaim — a secondary claim brought by a defendant in a lawsuit on a co-defendant
- crosscourt — (in racket games) directed to the diagonally opposite side of the court.
- crossdress — Alternative spelling of cross-dress.
- crossfader — (music) A device consisting of two volume controls which control separate records, allowing the DJ to change the source of the sound between the records.
- crossfield — (in sport) across the field of play
- crossfires — Plural form of crossfire.
- crosshairs — Also called cross wire. one of the fine wires or fibers, strands of spider web, or the like, crossing in a focal plane of an optical instrument to center a target or object or to define a line of sight.
- crosshatch — to shade or hatch (forms, figures, etc) with two or more sets of parallel lines that cross one another
- crossjacks — Plural form of crossjack.
- crosslight — a light source which illuminates a subject from a perpendicular angle to another light