| cran | (noun) a capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring | - |
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| cranberry | (noun) very tart red berry used for sauce or juice | - |
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| (noun) any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries | - |
| crane | (noun) large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world | - |
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| (noun) lifts and moves heavy objects; lifting tackle is suspended from a pivoted boom that rotates around a vertical axis | - |
| cranesbill | (noun) any of numerous geraniums of the genus Geranium | Synonyms: crane's bill |
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| craniate | (noun) animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium | Synonyms: vertebrate |
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| craniologist | (noun) someone who claims to be able to read your character from the shape of your skull | Synonyms: phrenologist |
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| craniology | (noun) the scientific study of the skulls of various human races | - |
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| craniometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring skull sizes | - |
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| craniometry | (noun) the branch of physical anthropology dealing with the study and measurement of dry skulls after removal of its soft parts | - |
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| craniotomy | (noun) a surgical opening through the skull | - |
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| cranium | (noun) the part of the skull that encloses the brain | Synonyms: braincase, brainpan |
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| crank | (noun) a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle | Synonyms: starter |
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| (noun) an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant | Synonyms: chalk, chicken feed, deoxyephedrine, glass, ice, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, shabu, trash |
| (noun) a bad-tempered person | Synonyms: churl, crosspatch, grouch, grump |
| (noun) a whimsically eccentric person | Synonyms: crackpot, fruitcake, nut, nut case, screwball |
| crankcase | (noun) housing for a crankshaft | - |
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| crankiness | (noun) a fussy and eccentric disposition | Synonyms: contrariness, crotchetiness, grumpiness |
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| crankshaft | (noun) a rotating shaft driven by (or driving) a crank | - |
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| cranny | (noun) a small opening or crevice (especially in a rock face or wall) | - |
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| (noun) a long narrow depression in a surface | Synonyms: chap, crack, crevice, fissure |