| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| craftiness | noun | Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem. |
| cragginess | noun | The state of being craggy. |
| crakeberry | noun | See Crowberry. |
| cramp iron | See Cramp, n., 2. | |
| craniology | noun | The department of science (as of ethnology or archaeology) which deals with the shape, size, proportions, indications, etc., of skulls; the study of skulls. |
| craniotomy | noun | The operation of opening the fetal head, in order to effect delivery. |
| crankiness | noun | Crankness. |
| crapaudine | noun | Turning on pivots at the top and bottom; — said of a door., An ulcer on the coronet of a horse. |
| crapulence | noun | The sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit. |
| craspedota | noun pl. | The hydroid or naked-eyed medusae. See Hydroidea. |
| craspedote | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Craspedota. |
| crassament | adjective | Alt. of Crassamentum |
| crassiment | noun | See Crassament. |
| crassitude | noun | Grossness; coarseness; thickness; density. |
| craunching | present participle & vb. noun | of Craunch |
| crazedness | noun | A broken state; decrepitude; an impaired state of the intellect. |
| craze-mill | noun | Alt. of Crazing-mill |
| creameries | plural | of Creamery |
| creaminess | noun | The quality of being creamy. |
| cream laid | See under Laid. | |
| creational | adjective | Of or pertaining to creation. |
| creaturely | adjective | Creatural; characteristic of a creature. |
| creaturize | verb t. | To make like a creature; to degrade |
| crebritude | noun | Frequency. |
| credential | adjective | Giving a title or claim to credit or confidence; accrediting., That which gives a title to credit or confidence., Testimonials showing that a person is entitled to credit, or has right to exercise official power, as the letters given by a government to an ambassador or envoy, or a certificate that one is a duly elected delegate. |
| creditable | adjective | Worthy of belief., Deserving or possessing reputation or esteem; reputable; estimable., Bringing credit, reputation, or honor; honorable; as, such conduct is highly creditable to him. |
| creditably | adverb | In a creditable manner; reputably; with credit. |
| creditress | noun | Alt. of Creditrix |
| creepiness | noun | An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin. |
| creepingly | adverb | by creeping slowly; in the manner of a reptile; insidiously; cunningly. |
| crenelated | imp. & past participle | of Crenelate |
| crenulated | adjective | Minutely crenate. |
| creosoting | present participle & vb. noun | of Creosote |
| crepitated | imp. & past participle | of Crepitate |
| crepuscule | noun | Twilight. |
| crescentic | adjective | Crescent-shaped. |
| cretaceous | adjective | Having the qualities of chalk; abounding with chalk; chalky; as, cretaceous rocks and formations. See Chalk. |
| crewelwork | noun | Embroidery in crewels, commonly done upon some plain material, such as linen. |
| crib-biter | noun | A horse that has the habit of cribbing. |
| cribration | noun | The act or process of separating the finer parts of drugs from the coarser by sifting. |
| cribriform | adjective | Resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced with holes; as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress. |
| criminally | adverb | In violation of law; wickedly. |
| criminated | imp. & past participle | of Criminate |
| crimsoning | present participle & vb. noun | of Crimson |
| cringeling | noun | One who cringes meanly; a fawner. |
| cringingly | adverb | In a cringing manner. |
| crinoidean | noun | One of the Crinoidea. |
| criosphinx | noun | A sphinx with the head of a ram. |
| crispation | noun | The act or process of curling, or the state of being curled., A very slight convulsive or spasmodic contraction of certain muscles, external or internal. |
| crispature | noun | The state of being crispate. |
| crisscross | noun | A mark or cross, as the signature of a person who is unable to write., A child’s game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross., To mark or cover with cross lines; as, a paper was crisscrossed with red marks., In opposite directions; in a way to cross something else; crossing one another at various angles and in various ways., With opposition or hindrance; at cross purposes; contrarily; as, things go crisscross. |
| criterions | plural | of Criterion |
| critically | adverb | In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly., At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation, place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification critically situated. |
| criticised | imp. & past participle | of Criticise |
| criticiser | noun | One who criticises; a critic. |
| crocheting | present participle & vb. noun | of Crochet |
| crocketing | noun | Ornamentation with crockets. |
| crocodilia | noun pl. | An order of reptiles including the crocodiles, gavials, alligators, and many extinct kinds. |
| crocoisite | noun | Same as Crocoite. |
| croissante | adjective | Terminated with crescent; — said of a cross the ends of which are so terminated. |
| crop-eared | adjective | Having the ears cropped. |
| croqueting | present participle & vb. noun | of Croquet |
| cro-quette | noun | A ball of minced meat, fowl, rice, or other ingredients, highly seasoned, and fried. |
| crossbones | noun pl. | A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death. |
| crossbower | noun | A crossbowman. |
| crossbreed | noun | A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualities of two parent varieties or stocks., Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid. |
| cross-days | noun pl. | The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension. |
| cross-eyed | adjective | Affected with strabismus; squint-eyed; squinting. |
| crosspatch | noun | An ill-natured person. |
| cross-pawl | noun | Same as Cross-spale. |
| crosspiece | noun | A piece of any structure which is fitted or framed crosswise., A bar or timber connecting two knightheads or two bitts. |
| cross-tail | noun | A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine. |
| crosstrees | noun pl. | Pieces of timber at a masthead, to which are attached the upper shrouds. At the head of lower masts in large vessels, they support a semicircular platform called the “top.” |
| cross-week | noun | Rogation week, when the cross was borne in processions. |
| crotalaria | noun | A genus of leguminous plants; rattlebox. |
| crotaphite | noun | The temple or temporal fossa. Also used adjectively. |
| crotcheted | adjective | Marked or measured by crotchets; having musical notation. |
| croton bug | A small, active, winged species of cockroach (Ectobia Germanica), the water bug. It is common aboard ships, and in houses in cities, esp. in those with hot-water pipes. | |
| crowflower | noun | A kind of campion; according to Gerarde, the Lychnis Flos-cuculi. |
| crowkeeper | noun | A person employed to scare off crows; hence, a scarecrow. |
| crownpiece | noun | A piece or part which passes over the head, as in a bridle., A coin [In sense (b) properly crown piece.] See Crown, 19. |
| crown-post | noun | Same as King-post. |
| crown side | See Crown office. | |
| crow-quill | noun | A quill of the crow, or a very fine pen made from such a quill. |
| croylstone | noun | Crystallized cawk, in which the crystals are small. |
| cruciation | noun | The act of torturing; torture; torment. |
| crucifixes | plural | of Crucifix |
| crucifying | present participle & vb. noun | of Crucify |
| crumbcloth | noun | A cloth to be laid under a dining table to receive falling fragments, and keep the carpet or floor clean. |
| crustacean | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Crustacea; crustaceous., An animal belonging to the class Crustacea. |
| crustalogy | noun | Crustaceology. |
| crustation | noun | An adherent crust; an incrustation. |
| crustiness | noun | The state or quality of having crust or being like crust; hardness., The quality of being crusty or surly. |
| cryophorus | noun | An instrument used to illustrate the freezing of water by its own evaporation. The ordinary form consists of two glass bulbs, connected by a tube of the same material, and containing only a quantity of water and its vapor, devoid of air. The water is in one of the bulbs, and freezes when the other is cooled below 32ยก Fahr. |
| cryptidine | noun | One of the quinoline bases, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C11H11N; also, any one of several substances metameric with, and resembling, cryptidine proper. |
| cryptogram | noun | A cipher writing. Same as Cryptograph. |
| cryptology | noun | Secret or enigmatical language. |
| cryptopine | noun | A colorless crystalline alkaloid obtained in small quantities from opium. |
| crystallin | noun | See Gobulin. |