15-letter words containing cri
- acrimoniousness — The quality of being resentful or cynical.
- ascribed status — the social position assigned to a person on the basis of kinship, ethnic group, sex, etc.
- career criminal — a person who earns his income through criminal activities
- circumscription — the act of circumscribing or the state of being circumscribed
- circumscriptive — That circumscribes or outlines.
- conscriptionist — a person who is in favour of conscription
- cricopharyngeal — of, relating to, or involving the cricoid cartilage and the pharynx.
- cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
- criminal damage — intentionally damaging property that belongs to someone else, including public property
- criminal lawyer — a lawyer who deals with criminal rather than civil cases
- criminal record — a list of a person's criminal convictions
- criminalisation — (chiefly, British) Alternative form of criminalization.
- criminalization — to make punishable as a crime: To reduce the graffiti on subway cars, he wants to criminalize the selling of spray paint to minors.
- crimson rosella — an Australian parrot, Platycercus elegans, often kept as a cage bird
- crinkum-crankum — a fanciful name for any object that is full of twists and turns
- crisis software — A small UK company producing software for the Acorn Archimedes range of computers.
- crisis theology — a neoorthodox theology, advocated by Karl Barth and others, emphasizing the absolute necessity of faith and divine revelation in transcending the personal crisis, common to all humankind, that arises from the contradictions inherent in human nature and in the social order.
- crispus attucks — Crispus [kris-puh s] /ˈkrɪs pəs/ (Show IPA), 1723?–70, American patriot, probably a fugitive slave, killed in the Boston Massacre.
- crispy critters — (jargon) (Or "Crispy Crittered". From the "Post" breakfast cereal of the same name) hardware which is fried or toast.
- critical period — a period in a lifetime during which a specific stage of development usually occurs. If it fails to do so, it cannot readily occur afterwards
- critical region — that part of a statistical distribution in which the probability of a given hypothesis is less than the chosen significance level, so that the hypothesis would be rejected
- critical volume — the volume occupied by one mole or unit mass of a substance in its critical state
- critter cuisine — food consisting of the flesh of insects, eaten as a delicacy in some parts of the world
- cultural cringe — the perception that one's own culture is inferior to that of another group or country
- decriminalising — Present participle of decriminalise.
- decriminalizing — (rare) present participle of decriminalize To change the laws so something is no longer a crime.
- describableness — The quality of being describable.
- descriptionless — Without a description.
- descriptiveness — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- discriminations — Plural form of discrimination.
- endocrine gland — anatomy: hormone-secreting gland
- endocrinologist — A person who is skilled at, or practices endocrinology.
- file descriptor — (programming, operating system) An integer that identifies an open file within a process. This number is obtained as a result of opening a file. Operations which read, write, or close a file would take the file descriptor as an input parameter. In many operating system implementations, file descriptors are small integers which index a table of open files. In Unix, file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 correspond to the standard input, standard output and standard error files respectively. See file descriptor leak.
- hypercritically — In a hypercritical manner.
- identity crisis — a period or episode of psychological distress, often occurring in adolescence but sometimes in adulthood, when a person seeks a clearer sense of self and an acceptable role in society.
- imperscriptible — not supported by written authority
- imprescriptable — Alt form imprescriptible.
- imprescriptible — not subject to prescription.
- imprescriptibly — In an imprescriptible manner; obviously.
- job description — an abstract of a job analysis containing the classification of and requirements for a job, used in hiring and placing prospective employees.
- lex non scripta — unwritten law; common law.
- literary critic — sb who reviews literature
- lower criticism — a form of Biblical criticism having as its purpose the reconstruction of the original texts of the books of the Bible.
- non-descriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- nondiscriminate — Not discriminate.
- nonprescription — (of drugs, medication, etc.) legally available for purchase without a doctor's prescription; over-the-counter.
- nonprescriptive — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
- on prescription — If a medicine is available on prescription, you can only get it from a chemist or pharmacist if a doctor gives you a prescription for it.
- oneirocriticism — the art of interpreting dreams.
- organized crime — illegal activities co-ordinated by groups
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