9-letter words containing cr
- cream tea — In Britain, a cream tea is an afternoon meal that consists of tea to drink and small cakes called scones that are eaten with jam and cream. Cream teas are served in places such as tea shops.
- creamcups — a Californian papaveraceous plant, Platystemon californicus, with small cream-coloured or yellow flowers on long flower stalks
- creamiest — Superlative form of creamy.
- creamlaid — (of laid paper) cream-coloured and of a ribbed appearance
- creamlike — Resembling cream.
- creampuff — puff pastry filled with cream
- creamware — a type of earthenware with a deep cream body developed about 1720 and widely produced
- creamwove — (of wove paper) cream-coloured and even-surfaced
- crease up — If someone or something makes you crease up or creases you up, they make you laugh a lot.
- creatable — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
- creations — The action or process of bringing something into existence.
- creatives — Plural form of creative.
- creatress — A female creator.
- creatural — of, relating to, or of the nature of a creature.
- creatures — Plural form of creature.
- credences — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of credence.
- credendum — an article of faith
- credenzas — Plural form of credenza.
- credibley — Misspelling of credibly.
- crediting — Present participle of credit.
- creditors — Plural form of creditor.
- credulity — Credulity is a willingness to believe that something is real or true.
- credulous — If you describe someone as credulous, you have a low opinion of them because they are too ready to believe what people tell them and are easily deceived.
- creedence — Misspelling of credence.
- creedless — any system, doctrine, or formula of religious belief, as of a denomination.
- creek war — an uprising in 1813–14 of the Creek Indians against settlers in Alabama: frontier militia from Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi under Andrew Jackson helped defeat the Creek, who ceded two-thirds of their land to the U.S.
- creepiest — Superlative form of creepy.
- cremaster — the muscle which raises and lowers the testicles
- cremating — Present participle of cremate.
- cremation — to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite.
- crematory — A crematory is the same as a crematorium.
- cremocarp — any fruit consisting of two united carpels which hang from a supporting axis
- crenation — any of the rounded teeth or the notches between them on a crenate structure
- crenature — a rounded projection, as on the margin of a leaf, etc.
- crenelate — to furnish with battlements or crenels, or with squared notches
- crenulate — having a margin very finely notched with rounded projections, as certain leaves
- creodonts — Plural form of creodont.
- creolized — (of a language) incorporating a considerable range of features from one or more unrelated languages, as the result of contact between language communities
- creosoted — Simple past tense and past participle of creosote.
- creosotes — Plural form of creosote.
- crepiness — the quality of being crepe-like in texture, esp in skin
- crepitant — to make a crackling sound; crackle.
- crepitate — to make a rattling or crackling sound; rattle or crackle
- crepoline — a light silk or silk and wool material used in dressmaking
- crepuscle — twilight
- crescence — (obsolete) increase; enlargement.
- crescendo — A crescendo is a noise that gets louder and louder. Some people also use crescendo to refer to the point when a noise is at its loudest.
- crescents — Plural form of crescent.
- crespelle — (plurale tantum) Small, folded pancakes, with a savoury (or sweet) filling, sometimes served with a sauce.
- crestings — Plural form of cresting.