10-letter words starting with cr
- crosslines — Plural form of crossline.
- crossmatch — (pathology) To test that the blood of a donor and recipient are compatible.
- crossovers — Plural form of crossover.
- crosspatch — a peevish bad-tempered person
- crosspiece — a transverse beam, joist, etc
- crossroads — A crossroads is a place where two roads meet and cross each other.
- crossruffs — Plural form of crossruff.
- crosstrees — two short bars across a ship's masthead, to spread the rigging that supports the mast
- crosswalks — Plural form of crosswalk.
- crosswinds — Plural form of crosswind.
- crosswords — Plural form of crossword.
- crotalaria — a genus of plants and shrubs of the Fabaceae family with pods in which the seeds rattle
- crotcheted — short-tempered
- crotchless — (of a garment) having a hole cut so as to leave the genitals uncovered.
- crotchwood — wood from a tree crotch, characterized by a swirling, irregular figure and used for furniture and veneers.
- croton bug — a small, winged cockroach (Blattella germanica); German cockroach
- croton oil — a yellowish-brown oil obtained from the plant Croton tiglium, formerly used as a drastic purgative
- croupiness — the condition of being afflicted with croup
- croustades — Plural form of croustade.
- crowd surf — to engage in crowd surfing.
- crowd-surf — to engage in crowd surfing.
- crowkeeper — a person who guards crops from crows
- crown fire — a forest fire that spreads along treetops, often at great speeds.
- crown gall — a disease of peaches, apples, roses, grapes, etc., characterized by the formation of galls on the roots or stems usually at or below ground level, caused by a bacterium, Agrobacterium tumefaciens.
- crown land — (in the United Kingdom) land belonging to the Crown
- crown lens — a lens made of optical crown, esp the optical-crown part of a compound achromatic lens
- crown post — any vertical member in a roof truss, especially a king post.
- crown rust — a disease of oats and other grasses, characterized by the formation, on the leaves, of orange or black spores, caused by a rust fungus, Puccinia coronata.
- crown wart — a disease of alfalfa and clover, characterized by galls around the base of the stem, caused by several fungi of the genus Urophlyctis.
- crownbeard — any of various American composite plants constituting the genus Verbesina, having clustered, usually yellow flower heads.
- crownpiece — the piece forming or fitting the top of something
- cruciality — involving an extremely important decision or result; decisive; critical: a crucial experiment.
- cruciating — Present participle of cruciate.
- cruciation — (obsolete) torture; torment.
- crucifixes — Plural form of crucifix.
- crucifying — Present participle of crucify.
- cruddiness — The quality of being cruddy.
- crude tank — A crude tank is a large vessel for crude oil.
- cruikshank — George. 1792–1878, English illustrator and caricaturist
- cruise car — an automobile used by police officers, equipped with a radiotelephone for communicating with police headquarters.
- cruisewear — clothing which is suitable for wearing while on a cruise
- crumbcloth — a cloth placed under a dining table to protect the carpet from crumbs and other material
- crumblings — any pieces of matter which have crumbled or fallen from a larger part
- crumminess — the state or quality of being crummy
- crumplings — crumpling or folding actions
- crunchable — That can be crunched.
- crunchings — any actions in which things are crunched
- crunchtime — the tense, critical phase of an activity
- crush zone — The crush zone is the part of a vehicle's bodywork that is designed to absorb the energy in a crash, reducing the amount that is felt by passengers inside the vehicle.
- crushingly — You can use crushingly to emphasize the degree of a negative quality.