Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or relating to chalk.
- adj. Consisting of chalk.
Etymologies
- From Latin crēta ("chalk") + -āceus (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It takes in a great part of New Brunswick and certain spots or areas in Nova Scotia; and another great coal-bearing system which we call the cretaceous and the tertiary in the mountain valleys of British Columbia.”
“The record of this period consists of a series of strata, in which chalk beds make a conspicuous appearance, and which is therefore called the cretaceous system or formation.”
“He said in the exploration of oil the set of system geologists refer to as the cretaceous rock, which is an oil bearing rock is said to be found in the gulf of Guinea stretching from Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia and Sierra Leone.”
“The discovery adds to growing evidence that the dinosaurs were wiped out when a comet or asteroid crashed into Earth at the end of the cretaceous.”
The Guardian: 'Last dinosaur' fossil adds weight to theory that asteroid wiped out creatures
“If you burn it all at once, some chance of getting above the cretaceous level, but lots of uncertainty, including how much reserves there really are.”
“The mid-cretaceous “saurian sauna” – no ice at sea level at poles.”
“Fast forward to the mid-cretaceous “saurian sauna”, when there was no ice at sea level at poles.”
“A: If you burn it all at once, there is some chance of getting above the cretaceous level, but lots of uncertainty, including how much reserves there really are.”
“Rand Paul's cretaceous values are balanced and justified by saying there's not a lot of black folks in Kentucky.”
The Huffington Post: Josh Mull: Election 2010: Media Marching Orders on Afghanistan
“In 2008 he traveled with a team of paleontologists to Utah and helped excavate fossils at the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, on what he described as "a very big expanse of cretaceous matrix.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cretaceous’.
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Phonestheme: CR- (or KR-)
Grateful credit to pterodactyl and http://reocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9783/phond1.html.
crook, crack, crane, cremains, cranberries, crimp, crow, crunch, crash, creak, croak, cronk and 94 more...
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
czardas, cytometer, cytology, cytheromania, cystoscope, cystolith, cyrenaic, cypseline, cyprinoid, cyphonism, cynophobia, cytogenesis and 1298 more...
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Archaic Colours
Words for colours that have fallen out of use.
aeneous, croceate, cretaceous, cramoisy, corbeau, coquelicot, coccineous, claret, cinerious, chrysochlorous, chlorochrous, cesious and 128 more...
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Colors
cerise, carnelian, florid, claret, watchet, rosaceous, coquelicot, vermilion, celadon, nacreous, lapis, viridescent and 132 more...
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parody's Words
defenestrate, behemoth, floss, macchiato, glom, emu, alpaca, crocheted, ampersand, charade, conflate, salacious and 193 more...
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Chained Bear's Favorite Words
peruvian, sparky, poop, etymological, fuck, whatnot, pulchritude, nosh, tetched, quotidian, squalid, trajectory and 388 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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justin's Words
braii, boerewors, lekker, viva, pap, lipodystrophy, lacticacidosis, sharp, chakalaka, defaulter, eish, oof and 256 more...
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kingrat47's Words
procrustean, devolution, cacophony, hippopotamus, crunch, beware, chortled, sibilant, subtle, undermine, acromegaly, acropolis and 645 more...
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Words of Dinosaurology
This quickly got bigger and weirder than originally intended, so now it's housing terms that relate to the study of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. See also Dinosaurs, Pterosaurs, Ichthy...
zygopophyses, ziphodont, plesiomorphic, cleidoic, endothermy, ectothermy, viviparous, vertebrae, cervical, dorsal, sacral, caudal and 628 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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nfk9595's Words
magnetohydrodynamics, bovine, epistle, gargantuan, kerfuffle, verbiage, morose, coup de main, elan, achtung, uber, verboten and 497 more...
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Geological time scale
precambrian, hadean, archean, eoarchean, paleoarchean, mesoarchean, neoarchean, proterozoic, paleoproterozoic, siderian, rhyacian, orosirian and 136 more...
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TheWritingLife's Words
exculpatory, perspicacious, internecine, d'oh, rhythm, trachtenberg, cretaceous, megaptera novaean..., velociraptor, ticonderoga, tintinnabulation, amontillado and 8 more...
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my favorite geology terms
(i'm a rock nerd, so what? :P)
dodecahedron, schist, gneiss, rhombic, conchoidal, metamorphose, loam, shale, sphalerite, apatite, orbital harmony, carboniferous and 26 more...
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brundlefly's Words
shrike, afghan, spelunking, scuttle, boatswain, eschatological, merkin, sassafras, etruscan, doppelganger, trench, cromulent and 43 more...
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