12-letter words starting with cr
- credit union — A credit union is a financial institution that offers its members low-interest loans.
- creditworthy — A creditworthy person or organization is one who can safely be lent money or allowed to have goods on credit, for example because in the past they have always paid back what they owe.
- creep feeder — a pen so constructed as to exclude larger animals while permitting young animals to enter and obtain feed.
- cremationist — a person who advocates cremation instead of burial of the dead.
- crematoriums — Plural form of crematorium.
- creme brulee — a cream or custard dessert covered with caramelized sugar
- crenellating — Present participle of crenellate.
- crenellation — to furnish with crenels or battlements.
- crenulations — Plural form of crenulation.
- creolization — (of a pidgin language) the process of becoming a creole
- crepe rubber — a type of crude natural rubber in the form of colourless or pale yellow crinkled sheets, prepared by pressing bleached coagulated latex through corrugated rollers: used for the soles of shoes and in making certain surgical and medical goods
- crepe-hanger — a person who sees the gloomy side of things; pessimist.
- crepusculous — Alternative form of crepuscular.
- crescendoing — 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.
- crested iris — a low iris, Iris cristata, of the eastern and central U.S., having faintly fragrant, yellow-crested, lilac-dotted flowers.
- cri de coeur — a cry from the heart; heartfelt or sincere appeal
- cricket ball — the ball used to play cricket
- cricket frog — either of two tree frogs, Acris gryllus or A. crepitans, of eastern and central U.S., having a clicking call.
- crime writer — a writer who writes detective fiction
- crime-buster — a law officer who specializes in fighting large-scale organized crime
- criminal law — the body of law dealing with the constitution of offences and the punishment of offenders
- criminalized — Simple past tense and past participle of criminalize.
- criminalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of criminalize.
- criminalness — (rare, dated) The state or quality of being criminal.
- criminations — Plural form of crimination.
- criminogenic — causing or promoting crime
- crimson flag — a southern African plant, Schizostylis coccinea, of the iris family, having tubular red flowers.
- cringeworthy — Causing feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness.
- crinkle leaf — a disease of plants, characterized by puckering, mottling, and distortion of the leaves, caused by any of several viruses.
- criosphinxes — Plural form of criosphinx.
- criptography — (spelling) It's spelled "cryptography".
- crisscrossed — crossed over each other
- crisscrosses — Plural form of crisscross.
- cristobalite — a white microcrystalline mineral consisting of silica and occurring in volcanic rocks. Formula: SiO2
- criticalness — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
- criticisable — Alternative form of criticizable.
- criticizable — to censure or find fault with.
- crochet hook — a hooked needle used for crocheting
- crocodilians — Plural form of crocodilian.
- crook rafter — a rafter for maintaining the angle between a principal rafter and a tie or collar beam.
- crookes lens — a type of lens, used in sunglasses, that is made from glass containing cerium. It reduces the transmission of ultraviolet radiation
- crookes tube — a type of cathode-ray tube in which the electrons are produced by a glow discharge in a low-pressure gas
- crop dusting — Crop dusting is the spreading of pesticides on crops, usually from an aircraft.
- crop failure — a failure of crops to yield sufficient food, etc, to maintain a community or to provide a surplus to sell
- crop sprayer — a device for spraying crops
- crop-dusting — the spraying of powdered fungicides or insecticides on crops, usually from an airplane.
- croquet hoop — a hoop stuck into a croquet lawn
- croquet lawn — a lawn where croquet is played
- crospovidone — Crospovidone is a substance used in tablets as a binder or disintegrant.
- cross colour — distortion in a colour television receiver in which high-frequency luminance detail is interpreted as colour information and reproduced as flashes of spurious colour