| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| crabeater | noun | The cobia., An etheostomoid fish of the southern United States (Hadropterus nigrofasciatus)., A small European heron (Ardea minuta, and other allied species). |
| crabfaced | adjective | Having a sour, disagreeable countenance. |
| crabsidle | verb i. | To move sidewise, as a crab. [Jocular]. |
| crabstick | noun | A stick, cane, or cudgel, made of the wood of the crab tree. |
| crab tree | See under Crab. | |
| crab-yaws | noun | A disease in the West Indies. It is a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with very hard edges. See Yaws. |
| crackling | noun | The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated., The well-browned, crisp rind of roasted pork., Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting. |
| cracksmen | plural | of Cracksman |
| cracksman | noun | A burglar. |
| cracovian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Cracow in Poland. |
| craftless | adjective | Without craft or cunning. |
| craftsmen | plural | of Craftsman |
| craftsman | noun | One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic. |
| cramoisie | adjective | Alt. of Cramoisy |
| crampfish | noun | The torpedo, or electric ray, the touch of which gives an electric shock. See Electric fish, and Torpedo. |
| cramponee | adjective | Having a cramp or square piece at the end; — said of a cross so furnished. |
| crampoons | noun | A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc., Iron instruments with sharp points, worn on the shoes to assist in gaining or keeping a foothold. |
| cranberry | noun | A red, acid berry, much used for making sauce, etc.; also, the plant producing it (several species of Vaccinum or Oxycoccus.) The high cranberry or cranberry tree is a species of Viburnum (V. Opulus), and the other is sometimes called low cranberry or marsh cranberry to distinguish it. |
| crankbird | noun | A small European woodpecker (Picus minor). |
| crankness | noun | Liability to be overset; — said of a ship or other vessel., Sprightliness; vigor; health. |
| crannying | present participle & vb. noun | of Cranny |
| crapefish | noun | Salted codfish hardened by pressure. |
| crapulent | adjective | Alt. of Crapulous |
| crapulous | adjective | Surcharged with liquor; sick from excessive indulgence in liquor; drunk; given to excesses. |
| crassness | noun | Grossness. |
| crataegus | noun | A genus of small, hardy trees, including the hawthorn, much used for ornamental purposes. |
| craterous | adjective | Pertaining to, or resembling, a crater. |
| craunched | imp. & past participle | of Craunch |
| cravatted | adjective | Wearing a cravat. |
| cravening | present participle & vb. noun | of Craven |
| crayoning | present participle & vb. noun | of Crayon |
| craziness | noun | The state of being broken down or weakened; as, the craziness of a ship, or of the limbs., The state of being broken in mind; imbecility or weakness of intellect; derangement. |
| creamcake | noun | A kind of cake filled with custard made of cream, eggs, etc. |
| creatable | adjective | That may be created. |
| creatinin | noun | A white, crystalline, nitrogenous body closely related to creatin but more basic in its properties, formed from the latter by the action of acids, and occurring naturally in muscle tissue and in urine. |
| creatress | noun | She who creates. |
| creatural | adjective | Belonging to a creature; having the qualities of a creature. |
| credendum | noun | A thing to be believed; an article of faith; — distinguished from agendum, a practical duty. |
| crediting | present participle & vb. noun | of Credit |
| creditrix | noun | A female creditor. |
| credulity | noun | Readiness of belief; a disposition to believe on slight evidence. |
| credulous | adjective | Apt to believe on slight evidence; easily imposed upon; unsuspecting., Believed too readily. |
| creedless | adjective | Without a creed. |
| creekfish | noun | The chub sucker. |
| creephole | noun | A hole or retreat into which an animal may creep, to escape notice or danger., A subterfuge; an excuse. |
| cremaster | noun | A thin muscle which serves to draw up the testicle., The apex of the last abdominal segment of an insect. |
| cremation | noun | A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead. |
| crematory | noun | A furnace for cremating corpses; a building containing such a furnace., Pertaining to, or employed in, cremation. |
| cremocarp | noun | The peculiar fruit of fennel, carrot, parsnip, and the like, consisting of a pair of carpels pendent from a supporting axis. |
| crenation | noun | A rounded tooth on the edge of a leaf., The condition of being crenate. |
| crenature | noun | A rounded tooth or notch of a crenate leaf, or any part that is crenate; — called also crenelle., The state of being crenated or notched. |
| crenelate | verb t. | To furnish with crenelles., To indent; to notch; as, a crenelated leaf. |
| crenelled | adjective | Same as Crenate. |
| crenulate | adjective | Alt. of Crenulated |
| creosoted | imp. & past participle | of Creosote |
| crepitant | adjective | Having a crackling sound; crackling; rattling. |
| crepitate | verb | To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap. |
| crepuscle | noun | Alt. of Crepuscule |
| crescence | noun | Increase; enlargement. |
| crescendo | adjective & adverb | With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; — a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score., A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone with which a passage is performed., A passage to be performed with constantly increasing volume of tone. |
| cresorcin | noun | Same as Isorcin. |
| cresselle | noun | A wooden rattle sometimes used as a substitute for a bell, in the Roman Catholic church, during the latter part of Holy Week, or the last week of Lent. |
| crestless | adjective | Without a crest or escutcheon; of low birth. |
| creticism | noun | Falsehood; lying; cretism. |
| cretinism | noun | A condition of endemic or inherited idiocy, accompanied by physical degeneracy and deformity (usually with goiter), frequent in certain mountain valleys, esp. of the Alps. |
| cretinous | adjective | Having the characteristics of a cretin. |
| cribbling | present participle & vb. noun | of Cribble |
| cribellum | noun | A peculiar perforated organ of certain spiders (Ciniflonidae), used for spinning a special kind of silk. |
| cricketer | noun | One who plays at cricket. |
| crimeless | adjective | Free from crime; innocent. |
| criminate | verb t. | To accuse of, or charge with, a crime., To involve in a crime or in its consequences; to render liable to a criminal charge. |
| criminous | adjective | Criminal; involving great crime or grave charges; very wicked; heinous. |
| crimpling | present participle & vb. noun | of Crimple |
| crimsoned | imp. & past participle | of Crimson |
| crinatory | adjective | Crinitory. |
| crinitory | adjective | Of or relating to hair; as, a crinitory covering. |
| crinkling | present participle & vb. noun | of Crinkle |
| crinoidal | adjective | Of pertaining to crinoids; consisting of, or containing, crinoids. |
| crinoidea | noun pl. | A large class of Echinodermata, including numerous extinct families and genera, but comparatively few living ones. Most of the fossil species, like some that are recent, were attached by a jointed stem. See Blastoidea, Cystoidea, Comatula. |
| crinoline | noun | A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; — so called because originally made of hair., A lady’s skirt made of any stiff material; latterly, a hoop skirt. |
| crinosity | noun | Hairiness. |
| crippling | present participle & vb. noun | of Cripple, Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building. |
| crispated | adjective | Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted. |
| crispness | noun | The state or quality of being crisp. |
| criterion | noun | A standard of judging; any approved or established rule or test, by which facts, principles opinions, and conduct are tried in forming a correct judgment respecting them. |
| criticise | verb t. | To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture., To express one’s views as to the merit or demerit of; esp., to animadvert upon; to find fault with; as, to criticise conduct., To act as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment; to play the critic; — formerly used with on or upon., To discuss the merits or demerits of a thing or person; esp., to find fault. |
| criticism | noun | The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of a production in the fine arts; as, dramatic criticism., The act of criticising; a critical judgment passed or expressed; a critical observation or detailed examination and review; a critique; animadversion; censure. |
| crocheted | imp. & past participle | of Crochet |
| crocketed | adjective | Ornamented with crockets. |
| crocodile | noun | A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the large rivers of Africa, Asia, and America. The eggs, laid in the sand, are hatched by the sun’s heat. The best known species is that of the Nile (C. vulgaris, or C. Niloticus). The Florida crocodile (C. Americanus) is much less common than the alligator and has longer jaws. The name is also sometimes applied to the species of other related genera, as the gavial and the alligator., A fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile. |
| croconate | noun | A salt formed by the union of croconic acid with a base. |
| croftland | noun | Land of superior quality, on which successive crops are raised. |
| crookback | noun | A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback. |
| crookbill | noun | A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right. |
| crookedly | adverb | In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner. |
| croqueted | imp. & past participle | of Croquet |
| crosiered | adjective | Bearing a crosier. |
| crossbeak | noun | Same as Crossbill. |
| crossbeam | noun | A girder., A beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is fastened when riding at anchor. |
| crossbill | A bill brought by a defendant, in an equity or chancery suit, against the plaintiff, respecting the matter in question in that suit., A bird of the genus Loxia, allied to the finches. Their mandibles are strongly curved and cross each other; the crossbeak. | |
| crossbite | noun | A deception; a cheat., To deceive; to trick; to gull. |
| crossbred | adjective | Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel. |
| cross-bun | noun | A bun or cake marked with a cross, and intended to be eaten on Good Friday. |
| crossette | noun | A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; — called also ancon, ear, elbow., The shoulder of a joggled keystone. |
| cross-eye | noun | See Strabismus. |
| crossfish | noun | A starfish. |
| crossflow | verb i. | To flow across, or in a contrary direction. |
| crossnath | verb t. | To shade by means of crosshatching. |
| crosshead | noun | A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead. |
| crossjack | noun | The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast. |
| crossness | noun | The quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor. |
| crossroad | noun | A road that crosses another; an obscure road intersecting or avoiding the main road. |
| crossruff | noun | The play in whist where partners trump each a different suit, and lead to each other for that purpose; — called also seesaw. |
| cross-tie | noun | A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place. |
| crosswise | adverb | In the form of a cross; across; transversely. |
| crosswort | noun | A name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc. |
| crotaline | adjective | Resembling, or pertaining to, the Crotalidae, or Rattlesnake family. |
| crotchety | adjective | Given to crotchets; subject to whims; as, a crotchety man. |
| crotonine | noun | A supposed alkaloid obtained from croton oil by boiling it with water and magnesia, since found to be merely a magnesia soap of the oil. |
| crouching | present participle & vb. noun | of Crouch |
| croustade | noun | Bread baked in a mold, and scooped out, to serve minces upon. |
| crowberry | noun | A heathlike plant of the genus Empetrum, and its fruit, a black, scarcely edible berry; — also called crakeberry. |
| crownless | adjective | Without a crown. |
| crown-saw | noun | A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion. |
| crownwork | noun | A work consisting of two or more bastioned fronts, with their outworks, covering an enceinte, a bridgehead, etc., and connected by wings with the main work or the river bank. |
| crow-silk | noun | A filamentous fresh-water alga (Conferva rivularis of Linnaeus, Rhizoclonium rivulare of Kutzing). |
| crowstone | noun | The top stone of the gable end of a house. |
| croziered | adjective | Crosiered. |
| crucifier | noun | One who crucifies; one who subjects himself or another to a painful trial. |
| cruciform | adjective | Cross-shaped; (Bot.) having four parts arranged in the form of a cross. |
| crucified | imp. & past participle | of Crucify |
| crudeness | noun | A crude, undigested, or unprepared state; rawness; unripeness; immatureness; unfitness for a destined use or purpose; as, the crudeness of iron ore; crudeness of theories or plans. |
| crudities | plural | of Crudity |
| cruelness | noun | Cruelty. |
| cruelties | plural | of Cruelty |
| cruentate | adjective | Smeared with blood. |
| cruentous | adjective | Bloody; cruentate. |
| crumbling | present participle & vb. noun | of Crumble |
| crummable | adjective | Capable of being crumbed or broken into small pieces. |
| crumpling | present participle & vb. noun | of Crumple |
| crunching | present participle & vb. noun | of Crunch |
| crusading | present participle & vb. noun | of Crusade, Of or pertaining to a crusade; as, a crusading spirit. |
| crustacea | noun pl. | One of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; — so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered. |
| crustated | adjective | Covered with a crust; as, crustated basalt. |
| crustific | adjective | Producing or forming a crust or skin. |
| cryptical | adjective | Hidden; secret; occult. |
| cryptogam | noun | A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia. |
| cryptonym | noun | A secret name; a name by which a person is known only to the initiated. |