crossover | (noun) a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | Synonyms: crossing, crosswalk |
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(noun) the appropriation of a new style (especially in popular music) by combining elements of different genres in order to appeal to a wider audience | - |
(noun) a voter who is registered as a member of one political party but who votes in the primary of another party | Synonyms: crossover voter |
(noun) the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis | Synonyms: crossing over |
crosspatch | (noun) a bad-tempered person | Synonyms: churl, crank, grouch, grump |
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crosspiece | (noun) a transverse brace | - |
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(noun) a horizontal beam that extends across something | Synonyms: crossbeam, trave, traverse |
crossroad | (noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: carrefour, crossing, crossway, intersection |
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crossroads | (noun) a point where a choice must be made | - |
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(noun) a community of people smaller than a village | Synonyms: hamlet |
(noun) a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made | Synonyms: critical point, juncture |
crossruff | (verb) trump alternately in two hands | - |
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crosstalk | (noun) the presence of an unwanted signal via an accidental coupling | Synonyms: XT |
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crosstie | (noun) one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track | Synonyms: railroad tie, sleeper, tie |
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crosstown | (adjective) going or extending across a town or city | Synonyms: cross-town |
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(adverb) across a town or city | - |
crosswalk | (noun) a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | Synonyms: crossing, crossover |
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crossway | (noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: carrefour, crossing, crossroad, intersection |
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crossways | (adverb) transversely | Synonyms: across, crosswise |
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crosswind | (noun) wind blowing across the path of a ship or aircraft | - |
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crosswise | (adjective) lying or extending across the length of a thing or in a cross direction | - |
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(adjective) in the shape of (a horizontal piece on) a cross | - |
(adverb) transversely | Synonyms: across, crossways |
(adverb) not in the intended manner | - |
crossword | (noun) a puzzle in which words corresponding to numbered clues are to be found and written in to squares in the puzzle | Synonyms: crossword puzzle |
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crotal | (noun) any of several lichens of the genus Parmelia from which reddish brown or purple dyes are made | Synonyms: crottal, crottle |
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crotalaria | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Crotalaria having inflated pods within which the seeds rattle; used for pasture and green-manure crops | Synonyms: rattlebox |
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crotaphion | (noun) the tip of the greater wing of the sphenoid bone | - |
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crotch | (noun) the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk | Synonyms: fork |
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(noun) external sex organ | Synonyms: genital organ, genitalia, genitals, private parts, privates |
(noun) the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches | Synonyms: fork |
crotchet | (noun) a small tool or hooklike implement | - |
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(noun) a strange attitude or habit | Synonyms: oddity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness |
(noun) a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note | Synonyms: quarter note |
(noun) a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook | Synonyms: hook |
crotchetiness | (noun) a fussy and eccentric disposition | Synonyms: contrariness, crankiness, grumpiness |
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crotchety | (adjective) having a difficult and contrary disposition | Synonyms: cantankerous, ornery |
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croton | (noun) tropical Asiatic shrub; source of croton oil | Synonyms: Croton tiglium |
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(noun) grown in many varieties for their brightly colored foliage; widely cultivated as a houseplant | Synonyms: Codiaeum variegatum |
crotonbug | (noun) small light-brown cockroach brought to United States from Europe; a common household pest | Synonyms: Blattella germanica, Croton bug, German cockroach, water bug |
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crottal | (noun) any of several lichens of the genus Parmelia from which reddish brown or purple dyes are made | Synonyms: crotal, crottle |
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crottle | (noun) any of several lichens of the genus Parmelia from which reddish brown or purple dyes are made | Synonyms: crotal, crottal |
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crouch | (noun) the act of bending low with the limbs close to the body | - |
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(verb) sit on one's heels | Synonyms: hunker, hunker down, scrunch, scrunch up, squat |
(verb) bend one's back forward from the waist on down | Synonyms: bend, bow, stoop |
croup | (noun) the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks | Synonyms: croupe, hindquarters, rump |
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(noun) a disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing | Synonyms: spasmodic laryngitis |
croupe | (noun) the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks | Synonyms: croup, hindquarters, rump |
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croupier | (noun) someone who collects and pays bets at a gaming table | - |
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croupy | (adjective) resembling or arising from or indicating croup | - |
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crouton | (noun) a small piece of toasted or fried bread; served in soup or salads | - |
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crow | (noun) black birds having a raucous call | - |
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(noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: brag, bragging, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing |
(noun) the cry of a cock (or an imitation of it) | - |
(verb) dwell on with satisfaction | Synonyms: gloat, triumph |
(verb) express pleasure verbally | - |
(verb) utter shrill sounds | - |
crowbait | (noun) an emaciated horse likely soon to become carrion and so attractive to crows | Synonyms: crow-bait |
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crowbar | (noun) a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge | Synonyms: pry, pry bar, wrecking bar |
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crowberry | (noun) a low evergreen shrub with small purple flowers and black berrylike fruit | - |
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crowd | (noun) a large number of things or people considered together | - |
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(noun) an informal body of friends | Synonyms: bunch, crew, gang |
(verb) to gather together in large numbers | Synonyms: crowd together |
(verb) cause to herd, drive, or crowd together | Synonyms: herd |
(verb) approach a certain age or speed | Synonyms: push |
(verb) fill or occupy to the point of overflowing | - |
crowded | (adjective) overfilled or compacted or concentrated | - |
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crowdfunding | (noun) Funding from a large number of small backers | - |
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crowding | (noun) a situation in which people or things are crowded together | - |
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crowdsourcing | (noun) Work done by a large group of anonymous users | - |
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crowfoot | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, butterflower, goldcup, kingcup |
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crowing | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, braggart, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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(noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: brag, bragging, crow, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing |
crown | (noun) the part of a hat (the vertex) that covers the crown of the head | - |
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(noun) an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty | Synonyms: diadem |
(noun) a wreath or garland worn on the head to signify victory | - |
(noun) the center of a cambered road | Synonyms: crest |
(noun) (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth | Synonyms: cap, crownwork, jacket, jacket crown |
(noun) the part of a tooth above the gum that is covered with enamel | - |
(noun) the top of the head | Synonyms: pate, poll |
(noun) the award given to the champion | Synonyms: pennant |
(noun) the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill) | Synonyms: crest, peak, summit, tip, top |
(noun) the upper branches and leaves of a tree or other plant | Synonyms: treetop |
(noun) an English coin worth 5 shillings | - |
(verb) be the culminating event | Synonyms: top |
(verb) put an enamel cover on | - |
(verb) invest with regal power; enthrone | Synonyms: coronate |
(verb) form the topmost part of | - |
crownbeard | (noun) any plant of the genus Verbesina having clustered white or yellow flower heads | Synonyms: crown-beard, crown beard |
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crowned | (adjective) provided with or as if with a crown or a crown as specified; often used in combination | - |
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(adjective) having an (artificial) crown on a tooth | - |
(adjective) crowned with or as if with laurel symbolizing victory | Synonyms: laureled, laurelled |
crowning | (adjective) forming or providing a crown or summit | - |
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(adjective) representing a level of the highest possible achievement or attainment | - |
crownless | (adjective) not (especially not yet) provided with a crown | Synonyms: uncrowned |
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crownwork | (noun) (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth | Synonyms: cap, crown, jacket, jacket crown |
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(noun) a type of fortification, like a hornwork, but consisting of a full bastion with the walls on either side ending in half-bastions from which longer flank walls run back towards the main fortress. | - |
crozier | (noun) a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office | Synonyms: crosier |
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crucial | (adjective) of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis | Synonyms: important |
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(adjective) of the greatest importance | Synonyms: all-important, all important, essential, of the essence |
(adjective) having crucial relevance | - |
cruciality | (noun) a state of critical urgency | Synonyms: criticality, criticalness |
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crucially | (adverb) to a crucial degree | - |
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cruciate | (adjective) shaped like a cross | Synonyms: cruciform |
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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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cruciferous | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Cruciferae | - |
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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 |
cruciform | (adjective) shaped like a cross | Synonyms: cruciate |
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crucify | (verb) criticize harshly or violently | Synonyms: blast, pillory, savage |
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(verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: bedevil, dun, frustrate, rag, torment |
(verb) hold within limits and control | Synonyms: mortify, subdue |
(verb) kill by nailing onto a cross | - |
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 | - |
cruddy | (adjective) characterized by obscenity | Synonyms: filthy, foul, nasty, smutty |
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crude | (adjective) not refined or processed | Synonyms: unprocessed, unrefined |
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(adjective) belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness | Synonyms: primitive, rude |
(adjective) conspicuously and tastelessly indecent | Synonyms: earthy, gross, vulgar |
(adjective) not processed or subjected to analysis | Synonyms: raw |
(adjective) devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment | Synonyms: blunt, stark |
(adjective) not carefully or expertly made | Synonyms: rough |
(noun) a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons | Synonyms: crude oil, fossil oil, oil, petroleum, rock oil |
crudely | (adverb) in a crude or unrefined manner | - |
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(adverb) in a crude and unskilled manner | Synonyms: artlessly, inexpertly |
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 |
cruel | (adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: barbarous, brutal, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious |
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cruelly | (adverb) excessively | - |
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(adverb) with cruelty | - |
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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(verb) sail or travel about for pleasure, relaxation, or sightseeing | - |
(verb) travel at a moderate speed | - |
(verb) drive around aimlessly but ostentatiously and at leisure | - |
(verb) look for a sexual partner in a public place | - |
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 | - |
(verb) remove crumbs from | - |
(verb) break into crumbs | - |
(verb) coat with bread crumbs | - |
crumble | (verb) break or fall apart into fragments | Synonyms: fall apart |
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(verb) fall into decay or ruin | Synonyms: decay, dilapidate |
(verb) fall apart | Synonyms: break down, collapse, crumple, tumble |
crumbliness | (noun) excessive breakableness | Synonyms: friability |
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crumbly | (adjective) easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder | Synonyms: friable |
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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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crummy | (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, punk, sleazy, tinny |
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crump | (verb) explode heavily or with a loud dull noise | - |
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(verb) bombard with heavy shells | - |
(verb) make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants | Synonyms: scrunch, thud |
crumpet | (noun) a thick soft cake with a porous texture; cooked on a griddle | - |
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crumple | (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, rumple, wrinkle |
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(verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: cockle, knit, pucker, rumple |
(verb) fold or collapse | Synonyms: buckle |
(verb) fall apart | Synonyms: break down, collapse, crumble, tumble |
crumpled | (adjective) of metal e.g. | Synonyms: bent, dented |
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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) | - |
(verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, comminute, grind, mash |
(verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, scranch, scraunch |
(verb) crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound | Synonyms: munch |
(verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, craunch, grind |
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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crural | (adjective) of or relating the leg from the knee to the foot | - |
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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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(verb) go on a crusade; fight a holy war | - |
(verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: agitate, campaign, fight, press, push |
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 |
(verb) break into small pieces | - |
(verb) become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure | - |
(verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, shell, trounce, vanquish |
(verb) make ineffective | Synonyms: break down |
(verb) to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition | Synonyms: mash, squash, squeeze, squelch |
(verb) crush or bruise | Synonyms: jam |
(verb) humiliate or depress completely | Synonyms: smash |
(verb) come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority | Synonyms: oppress, suppress |
crushed | (adjective) subdued or brought low in condition or status | Synonyms: broken, humbled, humiliated, low |
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(adjective) treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance | - |
crusher | (noun) a device that crushes something | - |
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crushing | (adjective) physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination | Synonyms: devastating |
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(noun) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority | Synonyms: quelling, stifling, suppression |
crushingly | (adverb) in a crushing manner | - |
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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 |
(verb) form a crust or form into a crust | - |