| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| crackleware | noun | See Crackle, n., 3. |
| cracovienne | noun | A lively Polish dance, in 2-4 time. |
| cradgedness | noun | The quality or state of being cragged; cragginess. |
| cranberries | plural | of Cranberry |
| cranioclasm | noun | The crushing of a child’s head, as with the cranioclast or craniotomy forceps in cases of very difficult delivery. |
| cranioclast | noun | An instrument for crushing the head of a fetus, to facilitate delivery in difficult eases. |
| craniognomy | noun | The science of the form and characteristics of the skull. |
| craniometer | noun | An instrument for measuring the size of skulls. |
| craniometry | noun | The art or act of measuring skulls. |
| cranioscopy | noun | Scientific examination of the cranium. |
| crateriform | adjective | Having the form of a shallow bowl; — said of a corolla. |
| cream-faced | adjective | White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion. |
| cream-fruit | noun | A plant of Sierra Leone which yields a wholesome, creamy juice. |
| cream-slice | noun | A wooden knife with a long thin blade, used in handling cream or ice cream. |
| cream-white | adjective | As white as cream. |
| creationism | noun | The doctrine that a soul is specially created for each human being as soon as it is formed in the womb; — opposed to traducianism. |
| creatorship | noun | State or condition of a creator. |
| cratureless | adjective | Without created beings; alone. |
| credibility | noun | The quality of being credible; credibleness; as, the credibility of facts; the credibility of witnesses. |
| credulously | adverb | With credulity. |
| cremaillere | noun | An indented or zigzaged line of intrenchment. |
| cremasteric | adjective | Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery. |
| crematories | plural | of Crematory |
| crematorium | noun | Alt. of Crematory |
| crenelating | present participle & vb. noun | of Crenelate |
| crenelation | noun | The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure. |
| crenulation | noun | A minute crenation., The state of being minutely scalloped. |
| crepitating | present participle & vb. noun | of Crepitate |
| crepitation | noun | The act of crepitating or crackling., A grating or crackling sensation or sound, as that produced by rubbing two fragments of a broken bone together, or by pressing upon cellular tissue containing air., A crepitant rale. |
| crepuscular | adjective | Alt. of Crepusculous |
| crestfallen | adjective | With hanging head; hence, dispirited; dejected; cowed., Having the crest, or upper part of the neck, hanging to one side; — said of a horse. |
| crib-biting | noun | Same as Cribbing, 4. |
| criminalist | noun | One versed in criminal law. |
| criminality | noun | The quality or state of being criminal; that which constitutes a crime; guiltiness; guilt. |
| criminating | present participle & vb. noun | of Criminate |
| crimination | noun | The act of accusing; accusation; charge; complaint. |
| criminative | adjective | Charging with crime; accusing; criminatory. |
| criminatory | adjective | Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing; as, a criminatory conscience. |
| criminology | noun | A treatise on crime or the criminal population. |
| crinigerous | adjective | Bearing hair; hairy. |
| crippleness | noun | Lameness. |
| crithomancu | noun | A kind of divination by means of the dough of the cakes offered in the ancient sacrifices, and the meal strewed over the victims. |
| criticaster | noun | A contemptible or vicious critic. |
| criticising | present participle & vb. noun | of Criticise |
| crocidolite | noun | A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and soda; — called also blue asbestus. A silicified form, in which the fibers penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers. |
| crocodilian | adjective | Like, or pertaining to, the crocodile; characteristic of the crocodile., One of the Crocodilia. |
| crocodility | noun | A caption or sophistical mode of arguing. |
| crookedness | noun | The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness. |
| crop-tailed | adjective | Having the tail cropped. |
| cross-armed | adjective | With arms crossed. |
| crossbarred | adjective | Secured by, or furnished with, crossbars., Made or patterned in lines crossing each other; as, crossbarred muslin. |
| cross-birth | noun | Any preternatural labor, in which the body of the child lies across the pelvis of the mother, so that the shoulder, arm, or trunk is the part first presented at the mouth of the uterus. |
| crossbowman | noun | One who shoots with a crossbow. See Arbalest. |
| crosslegged | adjective | Having the legs crossed. |
| cross-spale | noun | Alt. of Cross-spall |
| cross-spall | noun | One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams are in; a cross-pawl. |
| cross-staff | noun | An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of celestial bodies., A surveyor’s instrument for measuring offsets. |
| cross-stone | noun | See Harmotome, and Staurotide. |
| crotaphitic | noun | Pertaining to the temple; temporal. |
| crotonylene | noun | A colorless, volatile, pungent liquid, C4H6, produced artificially, and regarded as an unsaturated hydrocarbon of the acetylene series, and analogous to crotonic acid. |
| crown wheel | A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; — called also a contrate wheel or face wheel. | |
| crow’s-feet | plural | of Crow’s-foot |
| crow’s-foot | noun | The wrinkles that appear, as the effect of age or dissipation, under and around the outer corners of the eyes., A caltrop., Same as Bird’s-mouth. |
| crow’s-nest | noun | A box or perch near the top of a mast, esp. in whalers, to shelter the man on the lookout. |
| cruciferous | adjective | Bearing a cross., Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants which have four petals arranged like the arms of a cross, as the mustard, radish, turnip, etc. |
| crucifixion | noun | The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment., The state of one who is nailed or fastened to a cross; death upon a cross., Intense suffering or affliction; painful trial. |
| crucigerous | adjective | Bearing the cross; marked with the figure of a cross. |
| crustaceous | adjective | Pertaining to, or of the nature of, crust or shell; having a crustlike shell., Belonging to the Crustacea; crustacean. |
| cryohydrate | noun | A substance, as salt, ammonium chloride, etc., which crystallizes with water of crystallization only at low temperatures, or below the freezing point of water. |
| cryptically | adverb | Secretly; occultly. |
| cryptogamia | noun | The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds. |
| cryptogamic | adjective | Alt. of Cryptogamous |
| cryptograph | noun | Cipher; something written in cipher. |
| crystalline | adjective | Consisting, or made, of crystal., Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture., Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline, while quartz crystal is perfectly crystallized., Fig.: Resembling crystal; pure; transparent; pellucid., A crystalline substance., See Aniline. |
| crystallite | noun | A minute mineral form like those common in glassy volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline outline and not referable to any mineral species, but marking the first step in the crystallization process. According to their form crystallites are called trichites, belonites, globulites, etc. |
| crystallize | verb t. | To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form., To be converted into a crystal; to take on a crystalline form, through the action of crystallogenic or cohesive attraction. |
| crystalloid | adjective | Crystal-like; transparent like crystal., A body which, in solution, diffuses readily through animal membranes, and generally is capable of being crystallized; — opposed to colloid., One of the microscopic particles resembling crystals, consisting of protein matter, which occur in certain plant cells; — called also protein crystal. |