Words that are spelled similarly to cretaceous:
cretaceous, cetaceous, cretacious, arenaceous, predaceous, coetaneous, setaceous, ceraceous, rutaceous, cepaceous, crustaceous, cactaceous, cistaceous.
Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word cretaceous:
cenozoic, sauropod, seaway, eocene, mesozoic, mya, pterosaur, theropod, marsupials, dinosaur, dinosaurs, herbivore, oligocene, fossils, jurassic, extinction, holotype, orogeny, sedimentary, strata, quaternary, chalk, miocene, paleontologist, epoch, tyrannosaurus, paleozoic, triassic, fossil, igneous, subduction, geologic, tectonic, patagonia, uplift, fragmentary, permian, mongolia, tertiary, ago, rocks, formation, shale, taxon, specimen, vertebrae, clade, deposits, deposited, sandstone, phylogenetic, pleistocene, skeleton, taxa, extinct, amber, antarctica, genera, skull, basin, limestone, madagascar, reptiles, volcanic, beds, quartz, basal, period, eroded, genus, fauna, mammals, terrestrial, recovered, teeth, geological, boundary, tooth, sediment, specimens, shells, abundant, jaw, shallow, alberta, bones, cliffs, fault, layers, montana, primitive, argentina, flowering, partial, sands, erosion, wyoming, morocco, remains, species.
Words that rhyme with cretaceous:
ostentatious, tenacious, salacious, audacious, loquacious, gracious, mendacious, perspicacious, rapacious, vivacious, voracious, fallacious, efficacious, capacious, vexatious, spacious, hellacious, flirtatious, sebaceous, herbaceous, ignatius, predaceous, glacious, proteinaceous, ceraceous, horatius, crustaceous.
Adjectives that are often used to describe cretaceous:
late, early, upper, latest, lower, middle, mid, jurassic, marine, uppermost, pre, later, earliest, post, lowermost, entire, warm, thick, younger, triassic, equable, basal, dull, earlier, end, terminal, folded, lowest, transgressive, continental, horizontal, fossiliferous, medial, undoubted, disturbed, topmost, nonmarine, probable, invertebrate, tertiary, metamorphic, deformed, boreal, lying, water, dipping, alaska, eocene, texas, freshwater, mexico, peruvian, devonian, bearing, cambrian, brazilian, oolitic, colombian, jura, unconformable, latitude, carboniferous, unconsolidated.
Nouns that are often described by the adjective cretaceous:
period, rocks, age, time, strata, sediments, beds, times, deposits, formation, formations, fossils, limestone, limestones, tertiary, sea, shales, sandstones, epoch, seas, sandstone, extinction, boundary, sequence, eocene, era, flora, rock, stratigraphy, forms, species, dinosaurs, events, mammals, extinctions, fauna, shale, peneplain, clays, paleocene, birds, sands, paleogene, climate, event, surface, faunas, periods, cover, transgression, sequences, plants, ammonites, marls, sedimentation, series, units, basins, succession, climates, genera, coals, carbonates, paleogeography, basin, plutons, outcrops, evolution, lower, record, floras, ocean, unconformity, clay, ages, deposit, uplift, flysch, assemblages, arc, genus, conglomerate, vegetation, subsidence, chalk, bedrock, oceans, deformation, granites, flint, reptiles, seaway, complex, reservoirs.
Words that sound like cretaceous:
cretaceous, cretacious, crustaceous, curvaceous, crataegus, crotalus, criticize, critics, criticise, critiques, curtius, kurtosis, kritisch, crustacea, cetaceous, setaceous, contagious, courageous, courteous, crushes, croatia, ketosis, cretinous, keratosis, craterous, coriaceous, kroatia, gracious, crashes, curtis, irritation, chrysalis, crysis, kurtis, cottages, courages, cringes, crits, irritations, curtiss, crystalise, critz, kritz, erinaceous, curtness, grittiness, arenaceous, crasis, critelli, grotius, ericaceous, karateist.