14-letter words containing cr
- double-crosser — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
- dragline crane — an excavating crane having a bucket that is dropped from a boom and dragged toward the crane base by a cable.
- draw the crabs — to attract unwelcome attention
- drone aircraft — a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft used for reconnaissance or bombing
- dungeness crab — an edible crab, Cancer magister, of shallow Pacific coastal waters from northern California to Alaska.
- endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
- escrow account — account held on sb else's behalf
- excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
- exocrine gland — any gland, such as a salivary or sweat gland, that secretes its products through a duct onto an epithelial surface
- ferry crossing — the act or instance of travelling across the sea by ferry
- flemish scroll — a scroll, as on a chair leg, having the form of two intersecting and oppositely curved C-scrolls.
- flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
- form criticism — a method of textual analysis, applied especially to the Bible, in which the origin and history of certain passages are traced by isolating their literary forms, as miracle story, saying, or apothegm, on the assumption that they were fixed by oral tradition prior to compilation in written form.
- french cricket — a child's game resembling cricket, in which the batsman's legs are used as the wicket
- french cruller — cruller (def 2).
- french-cruller — a rich, light cake cut from a rolled dough and deep-fried, usually having a twisted oblong shape and sometimes topped with sugar or icing.
- function creep — the gradual widening of the use of a technology or system beyond the purpose for which it was originally intended, esp when this leads to potential invasion of privacy
- garlic crusher — a kitchen implement used to crush cloves of garlic
- gerontocracies — Plural form of gerontocracy.
- give credit to — to have confidence or trust in; believe
- grade crossing — an intersection of a railroad track and another track, a road, etc., at the same level.
- graham cracker — a semisweet cracker, usually rectangular in shape, made chiefly of whole-wheat flour.
- hairline crack — a very fine crack
- haitian creole — the creolized French that is the native language of most Haitians.
- hammer crusher — A hammer crusher is a crusher in which a hammer hits the material that is being crushed.
- handicraftsman — a person skilled in a handicraft; craftsman.
- hanging scroll — a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
- hepatopancreas — a large gland of shrimps, lobsters, and crabs that combines the functions of a liver and pancreas.
- holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
- holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
- home secretary — the secretary of state for the Home Office.
- horseshoe crab — a large marine arthropod, Limulus polyphemus, of shallow coastal waters of eastern North America and eastern Asia, having both compound and simple eyes, book gills, a stiff tail, and a brown carapace curved like a horseshoe: a living fossil related to the woodlouse.
- hypercriticism — criticism that is carping or unduly harsh.
- hypercriticize — To criticize with unjust severity.
- hyperexcretion — excessive excretion
- hypermicrosoma — dwarfishness.
- hypersecretion — an excessive secretion.
- hypocritically — of the nature of hypocrisy, or pretense of having virtues, beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually possess: The parent who has a “do what I say and not what I do” attitude can appear hypocritical to a child.
- ice cream cone — a thin, crisp, hollow conical wafer for holding one or more scoops of ice cream.
- ice-cream cone — a thin, crisp, hollow conical wafer for holding one or more scoops of ice cream.
- ice-cream soda — An ice-cream soda is a dessert made from ice cream, fruit-flavoured syrup, and soda water. It is usually served in a tall glass.
- ice-cream suit — a man's lightweight summer suit of white or a finely striped or solid pastel color.
- idiosyncracies — Plural form of idiosyncracy.
- idiosyncrasies — a characteristic, habit, mannerism, or the like, that is peculiar to an individual.
- incredibleness — so extraordinary as to seem impossible: incredible speed.
- incrementalism — a policy of making changes, especially social changes, by degrees; gradualism.
- incrementalist — a policy of making changes, especially social changes, by degrees; gradualism.
- incrementation — The act or process of incrementing.
- indiscreetness — Indiscretion.
- indiscriminant — Misspelling of indiscriminate.