10-Letter Words Containing: C,R,O,N,K

• short thick highly seasoned sausage

• severely repressive actions

• yellow squash with a thin curved neck and somewhat warty skin

• a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits

• erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries

• divest of the frock; of church officials

• Any animal with a thorny back, especially marine animals, such as:

• A woman over a certain age (variously 26 or 30) who has never married, older than a spinster.

• green caterpillar of a geometrid moth; pest of various fruit and shade trees

• a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments

• any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia

• an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions

• a person's social heritage: previous experience or training

• the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground

• information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem

• extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured

• relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation

• the state of the environment in which a situation exists

• (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear

• scenery hung at back of stage

• understate the importance or quality of