11-letter words starting with cr
- crazy horse — Native American name Ta-Sunko-Witko. ?1849–77, Sioux chief, remembered for his attempts to resist White settlement in Sioux territory
- crazy house — an asylum for people with psychiatric disorders
- crazy quilt — If you describe something as a crazy quilt of other things, you mean that it is a mixture of those things without any pattern or order.
- cream sauce — a white sauce made from cream, butter, etc
- creationary — Of or relating to creation.
- creationism — Creationism is the belief that the account of the creation of the universe in the Bible is true, and that the theory of evolution is incorrect.
- creationist — A creationist is someone who believes that the story of the creation of the universe in the Bible is true, and who rejects the theory of evolution.
- creatorship — a person or thing that creates.
- credentials — Someone's credentials are their previous achievements, training, and general background, which indicate that they are qualified to do something.
- credibility — If someone or something has credibility, people believe in them and trust them.
- credit card — A credit card is a plastic card that you use to buy goods on credit. Compare charge card.
- credit hour — A credit hour is a credit that a school or college awards to students who have completed a course of study.
- credit line — A person or company's credit line is the amount of credit that they are allowed, for example, by a credit card company or a bank.
- credit memo — A credit memo is an official written acknowledgement that money is owed back to a customer.
- credit note — A credit note is a piece of paper that a shop gives you when you return goods that you have bought from it. It states that you are entitled to take goods of the same value without paying for them.
- credit risk — a person or institution judged to be unlikely to be able to repay a loan
- credit side — the side of a balance sheet showing income and assets
- credit slip — A credit slip is the same as a credit note.
- credit swap — A credit swap is a kind of insurance against credit risk where a third party agrees to pay a lender if the loan defaults, in exchange for receiving payments from the lender.
- credulously — In a credulous manner; believably.
- creep up on — If you creep up on someone, you move slowly closer to them without being seen by them.
- creepypasta — (Internet slang) Frightening urban legends and short stories circulated on the Internet.
- cremaillere — a trench or fortification constructed in an indented or saw-tooth pattern
- crematories — Plural form of crematory.
- crematorium — A crematorium is a building in which the bodies of dead people are burned.
- crenelation — Alternative form of crenellation.
- crenellated — In a castle, a crenellated wall has gaps in the top or openings through which to fire at attackers.
- crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
- creole-fish — a deep-sea fish, Paranthias furcifer, of the sea bass family, inhabiting tropical Atlantic waters.
- creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
- crepe paper — Crepe paper is stretchy paper with an uneven surface. Coloured crepe paper is often used for making decorations.
- crepe shoes — shoes soled with crepe rubber
- crepehanger — a person who sees the gloomy side of things; pessimist.
- crepitating — Present participle of crepitate.
- crepitation — the act of crepitating
- crepuscular — Crepuscular means relating to twilight.
- crepusculum — Crepuscule; twilight; dusk.
- crescendoed — Music. a gradual, steady increase in loudness or force. a musical passage characterized by such an increase. the performance of a crescendo passage: The crescendo by the violins is too abrupt.
- crescendoes — Plural form of crescendo.
- crescentade — a religious crusade or war fought under the flag of Turkey
- crescograph — an instrument for measuring plant growth
- crest cloud — a stationary cloud parallel to and near the top of a mountain ridge. Compare cap cloud (def 1).
- crested tit — a small European songbird, Parus cristatus, that has a greyish-brown plumage with a prominent speckled black-and-white crest: family Paridae (tits)
- crestfallen — If you look crestfallen, you look sad and disappointed about something.
- cretan bull — a savage bull, captured on Crete by Hercules and allowed to roam near Marathon in Greece until captured by Theseus.
- creve coeur — a town in E Missouri.
- crewmembers — Plural form of crewmember.
- cri du chat — cat's cry syndrome.
- crib-biting — a harmful habit of horses in which the animal leans on the manger or seizes it with the teeth and swallows a gulp of air
- cricket bat — a specially shaped, carved wooden bat used to play cricket