| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| crabby | adjective | Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing. |
| craber | noun | The water rat. |
| crache | verb | To scratch. |
| cradle | noun | A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence; as, a cradle of crime; the cradle of liberty., Infancy, or very early life., An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath., A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground., A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship., A case for a broken or dislocated limb., A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the person., A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; — also called a rocker., A suspended scaffold used in shafts., The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster., The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck., To lay to rest, or rock, as in a cradle; to lull or quiet, as by rocking., To nurse or train in infancy., To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain., To transport a vessel by means of a cradle., To lie or lodge, as in a cradle. |
| crafty | adjective | Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous., Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful., Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily. |
| craggy | adjective | Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as, the craggy side of a mountain. |
| craker | noun | One who boasts; a braggart. |
| crambo | adjective | A game in which one person gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme., A word rhyming with another word. |
| crampy | Affected with cramp., Productive of, or abounding in, cramps. | |
| cranch | verb t. | See Craunch. |
| craned | imp. & past participle | of Crane |
| crania | noun | A genus of living Brachiopoda; — so called from its fancied resemblance to the cranium or skull., of Cranium |
| cranky | adjective | Full of spirit; crank., Addicted to crotchets and whims; unreasonable in opinions; crotchety., Unsteady; easy to upset; crank. |
| cranny | noun | A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance., A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc., To crack into, or become full of, crannies., To haunt, or enter by, crannies., Quick; giddy; thoughtless. |
| crants | noun | A garland carried before the bier of a maiden. |
| craped | imp. & past participle | of Crape |
| crasis | noun | A mixture of constituents, as of the blood; constitution; temperament., A contraction of two vowels (as the final and initial vowels of united words) into one long vowel, or into a diphthong; synaeresis; as, cogo for coago. |
| cratch | noun | A manger or open frame for hay; a crib; a rack. |
| crated | imp. & past participle | of Crate |
| crater | noun | The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up., The pit left by the explosion of a mine., A constellation of the southen hemisphere; — called also the Cup. |
| cravat | noun | A neckcloth; a piece of silk, fine muslin, or other cloth, worn by men about the neck. |
| craved | imp. & past participle | of Crave |
| craven | adjective | Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless., A recreant; a coward; a weak-hearted, spiritless fellow. See Recreant, n., To make recreant, weak, spiritless, or cowardly. |
| craver | noun | One who craves or begs. |
| crawly | adjective | Creepy. |
| crayer | noun | See Crare. |
| crayon | noun | An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders., A crayon drawing., A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light., To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan. |
| crazed | imp. & past participle | of Craze |
| creamy | adjective | Full of, or containing, cream; resembling cream, in nature, appearance, or taste; creamlike; unctuous. |
| creant | adjective | Creative; formative. |
| crease | noun | See Creese., A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced., One of the lines serving to define the limits of the bowler and the striker., To make a crease or mark in, as by folding or doubling. |
| creasy | adjective | Full of creases. |
| create | adjective | Created; composed; begotten., To bring into being; to form out of nothing; to cause to exist., To effect by the agency, and under the laws, of causation; to be the occasion of; to cause; to produce; to form or fashion; to renew., To invest with a new form, office, or character; to constitute; to appoint; to make; as, to create one a peer. |
| cretor | noun | One who creates, produces, or constitutes. Specifically, the Supreme Being. |
| creaze | noun | The tin ore which collects in the central part of the washing pit or buddle. |
| cr/che | noun | A public nursery, where the young children of poor women are cared for during the day, while their mothers are at work. |
| credit | noun | Reliance on the truth of something said or done; belief; faith; trust; confidence., Reputation derived from the confidence of others; esteem; honor; good name; estimation., A ground of, or title to, belief or confidence; authority derived from character or reputation., That which tends to procure, or add to, reputation or esteem; an honor., Influence derived from the good opinion, confidence, or favor of others; interest., Trust given or received; expectation of future playment for property transferred, or of fulfillment or promises given; mercantile reputation entitling one to be trusted; — applied to individuals, corporations, communities, or nations; as, to buy goods on credit., The time given for payment for lands or goods sold on trust; as, a long credit or a short credit., The side of an account on which are entered all items reckoned as values received from the party or the category named at the head of the account; also, any one, or the sum, of these items; — the opposite of debit; as, this sum is carried to one’s credit, and that to his debit; A has several credits on the books of B., To confide in the truth of; to give credence to; to put trust in; to believe., To bring honor or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise the estimation of., To enter upon the credit side of an account; to give credit for; as, to credit the amount paid; to set to the credit of; as, to credit a man with the interest paid on a bond. |
| creeks | noun pl. | A tribe or confederacy of North American Indians, including the Muskogees, Seminoles, Uchees, and other subordinate tribes. They formerly inhabited Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. |
| creeky | adjective | Containing, or abounding in, creeks; characterized by creeks; like a creek; winding. |
| creepy | adjective | Crawly; having or producing a sensation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin. |
| creese | noun | A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade. |
| cremor | noun | Cream; a substance resembling cream; yeast; scum. |
| crenel | noun | See Crenelle., An embrasure or indentation in a battlement; a loophole in a fortress; an indentation; a notch. See Merlon, and Illust. of Battlement., Same as Crenature. |
| creole | noun | One born of European parents in the American colonies of France or Spain or in the States which were once such colonies, esp. a person of French or Spanish descent, who is a native inhabitant of Louisiana, or one of the States adjoining, bordering on the Gulf of of Mexico., Of or pertaining to a Creole or the Creoles. |
| crepon | noun | A thin stuff made of the finest wool or silk, or of wool and silk. |
| cresol | noun | Any one of three metameric substances, CH3.C6H4.OH, homologous with and resembling phenol. They are obtained from coal tar and wood tar, and are colorless, oily liquids or solids. [Called also cresylic acid.] |
| cressy | adjective | Abounding in cresses. |
| cretan | adjective | Pertaining to Crete, or Candia., A native or inhabitant of Crete or Candia. |
| cretic | noun | A poetic foot, composed of one short syllable between two long ones (- / -). |
| cretin | noun | One afflicted with cretinism. |
| crevet | noun | A crucible or melting pot; a cruset. |
| crevis | noun | The crawfish. |
| crewel | noun | Worsted yarn,, slackly twisted, used for embroidery. |
| crewet | noun | See Cruet. |
| criber | noun | Alt. of Crib-biter |
| crimpy | adjective | Having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool of the Saxony sheep. |
| crinal | adjective | Of or pertaining to the hair. |
| crined | adjective | Having the hair of a different tincture from the rest of the body; as, a charge crined of a red tincture. |
| crinel | noun | Alt. of Crinet |
| crinet | noun | A very fine, hairlike feather. |
| crnged | imp. & past participle | of Cringe |
| cringe | verb t. | To draw one’s self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn., To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort., Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility. |
| crinum | noun | A genus of bulbous plants, of the order Amaryllidace/, cultivated as greenhouse plants on account of their beauty. |
| crises | plural | of Crisis |
| crisis | noun | The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point., That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat. |
| crispy | adjective | Formed into short, close ringlets; frizzed; crisp; as, crispy locks., Crisp; brittle; as, a crispy pie crust. |
| crissa | plural | of Crissum |
| critic | noun | One skilled in judging of the merits of literary or artistic works; a connoisseur; an adept; hence, one who examines literary or artistic works, etc., and passes judgment upon them; a reviewer., One who passes a rigorous or captious judgment; one who censures or finds fault; a harsh examiner or judge; a caviler; a carper., The art of criticism., An act of criticism; a critique., Of or pertaining to critics or criticism; critical., To criticise; to play the critic. |
| croche | noun | A little bud or knob at the top of a deer’s antler. |
| crocin | noun | The coloring matter of Chinese yellow pods, the fruit of Gardenia grandiflora., A red powder (called also polychroite), which is made from the saffron (Crocus sativus). See Polychroite. |
| crocky | adjective | Smutty. |
| crocus | noun | A genus of iridaceous plants, with pretty blossoms rising separately from the bulb or corm. C. vernus is one of the earliest of spring-blooming flowers; C. sativus produces the saffron, and blossoms in the autumn., A deep yellow powder; the oxide of some metal calcined to a red or deep yellow color; esp., the oxide of iron (Crocus of Mars or colcothar) thus produced from salts of iron, and used as a polishing powder. |
| croise | noun | A pilgrim bearing or wearing a cross., A crusader. |
| croker | noun | A cultivator of saffron; a dealer in saffron. |
| cronel | noun | The iron head of a tilting spear. |
| cronet | noun | The coronet of a horse. |
| crotch | noun | The angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree., A stanchion or post of wood or iron, with two arms for supporting a boom, spare yards, etc.; — called also crane and crutch. |
| croton | noun | A genus of euphorbiaceous plants belonging to tropical countries. |
| crouch | verb i. | To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear., To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe., To sign with the cross; to bless., To bend, or cause to bend, as in humility or fear. |
| crouke | noun | A crock; a jar. |
| croupy | adjective | Of or pertaining to croup; resembling or indicating croup; as, a croupy cough. |
| crouse | adjective | Brisk; lively; bold; self-complacent. |
| crowed | of Crow, of Crow | |
| crowdy | noun | A thick gruel of oatmeal and milk or water; food of the porridge kind. |
| crowth | noun | An ancient musical instrument. See 4th Crowd. |
| crudle | verb i. | See Cruddle. |
| cruels | noun pl. | Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck. |
| cruise | noun | See Cruse, a small bottle., To sail back and forth on the ocean; to sail, as for the potection of commerce, in search of an enemy, for plunder, or for pleasure., To wander hither and thither on land., A voyage made in various directions, as of an armed vessel, for the protection of other vessels, or in search of an enemy; a sailing to and fro, as for exploration or for pleasure. |
| cruive | noun | A kind of weir or dam for trapping salmon; also, a hovel. |
| crummy | adjective | Full of crumb or crumbs., Soft, as the crumb of bread is; not crusty. |
| crumpy | adjective | Brittle; crisp. |
| crunch | verb i. | To chew with force and noise; to craunch., To grind or press with violence and noise., To emit a grinding or craunching noise., To crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit. |
| crural | adjective | Of or pertaining to the thigh or leg, or to any of the parts called crura; as, the crural arteries; crural arch; crural canal; crural ring. |
| cruset | noun | A goldsmith’s crucible or melting pot. |
| crusta | noun | A crust or shell., A gem engraved, or a plate embossed in low relief, for inlaying a vase or other object. |
| crusty | adjective | Having the nature of crust; pertaining to a hard covering; as, a crusty coat; a crusty surface or substance., Having a hard exterior, or a short, rough manner, though kind at heart; snappish; peevish; surly. |
| crutch | noun | A staff with a crosspiece at the head, to be placed under the arm or shoulder, to support the lame or infirm in walking., A form of pommel for a woman’s saddle, consisting of a forked rest to hold the leg of the rider., A knee, or piece of knee timber, A forked stanchion or post; a crotch. See Crotch., To support on crutches; to prop up. |
| cruxes | plural | of Crux |
| cruces | plural | of Crux |
| crying | present participle & vb. noun | of Cry, Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous; as, a crying evil. |