| cruciality | (noun) a state of critical urgency | Synonyms: criticality, criticalness |
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| crucible | (noun) a vessel made of material that does not melt easily; used for high temperature chemical reactions | Synonyms: melting pot |
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| crucifer | (noun) any of various plants of the family Cruciferae | Synonyms: cruciferous plant |
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| crucifix | (noun) a gymnastic exercise performed on the rings when the gymnast supports himself with both arms extended horizontally | - |
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| (noun) representation of the cross on which Jesus died | Synonyms: rood-tree, rood |
| crucifixion | (noun) the act of executing by a method widespread in the ancient world; the victim's hands and feet are bound or nailed to a cross | - |
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| (noun) the infliction of extremely painful punishment or suffering | Synonyms: excruciation |
| crud | (noun) an ill-defined bodily ailment | - |
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| (noun) any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant | Synonyms: filth, skank |
| (noun) heavy wet snow that is unsuitable for skiing | - |
| crude | (noun) a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons | Synonyms: crude oil, fossil oil, oil, petroleum, rock oil |
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| crudeness | (noun) an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement | Synonyms: crudity, gaucheness |
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| (noun) an unpolished unrefined quality | Synonyms: roughness |
| (noun) a wild or unrefined state | Synonyms: crudity, primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness |
| crudites | (noun) raw vegetables cut into bite-sized strips and served with a dip | - |
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| crudity | (noun) an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement | Synonyms: crudeness, gaucheness |
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| (noun) a wild or unrefined state | Synonyms: crudeness, primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness |
| cruelness | (noun) the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance | Synonyms: cruelty, harshness |
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| cruelty | (noun) a cruel act; a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering | Synonyms: inhuman treatment |
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| (noun) the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance | Synonyms: cruelness, harshness |
| (noun) feelings of extreme heartlessness | Synonyms: mercilessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness |
| cruet | (noun) bottle that holds wine or oil or vinegar for the table | Synonyms: crewet |
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| cruise | (noun) an ocean trip taken for pleasure | Synonyms: sail |
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| cruiser | (noun) a large fast warship; smaller than a battleship and larger than a destroyer | - |
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| (noun) a large motorboat that has a cabin and plumbing and other conveniences necessary for living on board | Synonyms: cabin cruiser, pleasure boat, pleasure craft |
| (noun) a car in which policemen cruise the streets; equipped with radiotelephonic communications to headquarters | Synonyms: patrol car, police car, police cruiser, prowl car, squad car |
| cruiserweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the middleweight division and lighter than those in the super heavyweight division. | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 169 and 175 pounds | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
| cruller | (noun) small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts | Synonyms: twister |
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| crumb | (noun) small piece of e.g. bread or cake | - |
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| (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
| (noun) a very small quantity of something | - |
| crumbliness | (noun) excessive breakableness | Synonyms: friability |
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| crumhorn | (noun) a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn) | Synonyms: cromorne, krummhorn |
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| crumpet | (noun) a thick soft cake with a porous texture; cooked on a griddle | - |
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| crunch | (noun) the act of crushing | Synonyms: compaction, crush |
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| (noun) the sound of something crunching | - |
| (noun) a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources) | - |
| crupper | (noun) a strap from the back of a saddle passing under the horse's tail; prevents saddle from slipping forward | - |
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| crus | (noun) the leg from the knee to foot | - |
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| crusade | (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, cause, drive, effort, movement |
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| crusader | (noun) a disputant who advocates reform | Synonyms: meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer |
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| cruse | (noun) small jar; holds liquid (oil or water) | - |
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| crush | (noun) the act of crushing | Synonyms: compaction, crunch |
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| (noun) temporary love of an adolescent | Synonyms: calf love, infatuation, puppy love |
| (noun) a dense crowd of people | Synonyms: jam, press |
| (noun) leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated | Synonyms: crushed leather |
| crusher | (noun) a device that crushes something | - |
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| crushing | (noun) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority | Synonyms: quelling, stifling, suppression |
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| crust | (noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: cheekiness, freshness, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence |
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| (noun) the outer layer of the Earth | Synonyms: Earth's crust |
| (noun) a hard outer layer that covers something | Synonyms: encrustation, incrustation |
| crustacean | (noun) any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton | - |
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| crutch | (noun) anything that serves as an expedient | - |
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| (noun) a wooden or metal staff that fits under the armpit and reaches to the ground; used by disabled person while walking | - |
| crux | (noun) the most important point | Synonyms: crux of the matter |
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