13-letter words starting with cr
- crested swift — any of several birds of the family Hemiprocnidae, of southeast Asia and the East Indies, related to the true swifts but differing in having erectile crests and the habit of perching in trees.
- crestone peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,294 feet (4360 meters).
- crevalle jack — any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
- cricket table — a three-legged table of the Jacobean period.
- crime-fighter — any person, as a law-enforcement officer or government official, who works to prevent crime or to enforce criminal laws.
- crimean tatar — a member of a Turkic people who lived in the Crimea before emigration to Anatolia in the 18th and 19th centuries and deportations to Soviet central Asia after World War II.
- criminal code — the body of laws regulating how crimes are to be punished
- criminalising — Present participle of criminalise.
- criminalities — Plural form of criminality.
- criminalizing — Present participle of criminalize.
- criminologist — the study of crime and criminals: a branch of sociology.
- criminousness — the quality or state of being criminous
- cringe-making — causing feelings of acute embarrassment or distaste
- crinicultural — of or relating to hair growth
- cripple creek — a village in central Colorado: gold-mining centre since 1891, once the richest in the world
- crisis center — a central facility, telephone answering service, etc., where people may obtain informed help or advice in a personal crisis.
- crisis centre — a place providing help to victims of crime, natural disasters, etc
- crisscrossing — crossing over each other
- critical mass — In physics, the critical mass of a substance is the minimum amount of it that is needed for a nuclear chain reaction.
- critical path — the sequence of stages of a project requiring the longest time
- criticalities — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
- crock of shit — a quantity or source of lies or nonsense
- crookes space — a dark region near the cathode in some low-pressure gas-discharge tubes
- crop rotation — the system of growing a sequence of different crops on the same ground so as to maintain or increase its fertility
- crop spraying — the spraying of crops with insecticide, fungicide, etc
- croquembouche — a French dessert consisting of a cone-shaped mound of small cream puffs glazed with caramelized sugar
- cross bedding — layering within one or more beds in a series of rock strata that does not run parallel to the plane of stratification
- cross oneself — to outline the form of a cross as a Christian religious act by moving the hand from the forehead to the breast and then from one shoulder to the other
- cross product — a vector perpendicular to two given vectors, u and v, and having magnitude equal to the product of the magnitudes of the two given vectors multiplied by the sine of the angle between the two given vectors, usually represented by u × v.
- cross the bar — to die
- cross-benches — (in the UK parliament) an area for members who are not allied to a particular party
- cross-buttock — a wrestling throw in which the hips are used as a fulcrum to throw an opponent
- cross-channel — Cross-Channel travel is travel across the English Channel, especially by boat.
- cross-country — Cross-country is the sport of running, riding, or skiing across open countryside rather than along roads or around a running track.
- cross-current — A cross-current is a current in a river or sea that flows across another current.
- cross-cutting — linking traditionally separate or independent parties or interests
- cross-dresser — to dress in clothing typically worn by members of the opposite sex.
- cross-examine — When a lawyer cross-examines someone during a trial or hearing, he or she questions them about the evidence that they have already given.
- cross-fertile — capable of cross-fertilization or of being cross-fertilized
- cross-footing — Accounting. to total figures horizontally across columns instead of vertically.
- cross-grained — (of timber) having the fibres arranged irregularly or in a direction that deviates from the axis of the piece
- cross-posting — the sending of an email to many forums, mailing lists, etc
- cross-purpose — a contrary aim or purpose
- cross-section — If you refer to a cross-section of particular things or people, you mean a group of them that you think is typical or representative of all of them.
- cross-selling — to sell or try to sell (similar or related products or services) to an existing customer.
- cross-sterile — incapable of reproducing due to hybridization.
- cross-trainer — a type of athletic shoe designed to be used in more than one type of activity.
- cross-utilize — to make use of in an additional or different way.
- crossbenchers — Plural form of crossbencher.
- crossbreeding — Present participle of crossbreed.