crab | (noun) a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply | - |
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(noun) decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers | - |
(noun) a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body | Synonyms: crab louse, Phthirius pubis, pubic louse |
(noun) the edible flesh of any of various crabs | Synonyms: crabmeat |
(noun) a quarrelsome grouch | Synonyms: crabby person |
(verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, gripe, grouse, holler, squawk |
(verb) fish for crab | - |
(verb) scurry sideways like a crab | - |
(verb) direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind | - |
crabapple | (noun) small sour apple; suitable for preserving | Synonyms: crab apple |
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(noun) any of numerous wild apple trees usually with small acidic fruit | Synonyms: crab apple, wild apple |
(noun) any of numerous varieties of crab apples cultivated for their small acidic (usually bright red) fruit used for preserves or as ornamentals for their blossoms | Synonyms: crab apple, cultivated crab apple |
crabbed | (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
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crabbedness | (noun) a disposition to be ill-tempered | Synonyms: crabbiness, crossness |
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crabbiness | (noun) a disposition to be ill-tempered | Synonyms: crabbedness, crossness |
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crabby | (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabbed, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
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crabgrass | (noun) grasses with creeping stems that root freely; a pest in lawns | Synonyms: crab grass, finger grass |
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crabmeat | (noun) the edible flesh of any of various crabs | Synonyms: crab |
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crabs | (noun) infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice | Synonyms: pediculosis pubis |
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crabwise | (adjective) (of movement) at an angle | Synonyms: sideways |
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crack | (adjective) of the highest quality | Synonyms: A-one, ace, first-rate, super, tiptop, top-notch, topnotch, tops |
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(noun) the act of cracking something | Synonyms: cracking, fracture |
(noun) a usually brief attempt | Synonyms: fling, go, offer, pass, whirl |
(noun) a narrow opening | Synonyms: gap |
(noun) a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive | Synonyms: crack cocaine, tornado |
(noun) a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts | - |
(noun) witty remark | Synonyms: quip, sally, wisecrack |
(noun) a sudden sharp noise | Synonyms: cracking, snap |
(noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure |
(noun) a long narrow depression in a surface | Synonyms: chap, cranny, crevice, fissure |
(noun) a chance to do something | Synonyms: shot |
(verb) break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension | Synonyms: snap |
(verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only | Synonyms: break, check |
(verb) break partially but keep its integrity | - |
(verb) cause to become cracked | - |
(verb) reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking | - |
(verb) break into simpler molecules by means of heat | - |
(verb) pass through (a barrier) | Synonyms: break through |
(verb) tell spontaneously | - |
(verb) hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise | - |
(verb) suffer a nervous breakdown | Synonyms: break up, collapse, crack up, crock up |
(verb) make a sharp sound | Synonyms: snap |
(verb) make a very sharp explosive sound | - |
(verb) gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions | - |
crackbrained | (adjective) insanely irresponsible | Synonyms: idiotic |
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crackdown | (noun) severely repressive actions | - |
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cracked | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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(adjective) of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide | Synonyms: alligatored |
(adjective) used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure | Synonyms: chapped, roughened |
cracker | (noun) a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends | Synonyms: cracker bonbon, snapper |
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(noun) firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing | Synonyms: banger, firecracker |
(noun) a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet | - |
(noun) a poor White person in the southern United States | Synonyms: redneck |
(noun) a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things | - |
crackerberry | (noun) creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska | Synonyms: bunchberry, Cornus canadensis, dwarf cornel, pudding berry |
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crackerjack | (noun) something excellent of its kind | Synonyms: jimdandy, jimhickey |
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(noun) someone excellent of their kind | Synonyms: jimdandy, jimhickey |
crackers | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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cracking | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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(noun) the act of cracking something | Synonyms: crack, fracture |
(noun) a sudden sharp noise | Synonyms: crack, snap |
(noun) the process whereby heavy molecules of naphtha or petroleum are broken down into hydrocarbons of lower molecular weight (especially in the oil-refining process) | - |
crackle | (adjective) having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware | - |
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(noun) glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface | Synonyms: crackle china, crackleware |
(noun) the sharp sound of snapping noises | Synonyms: crackling, crepitation |
(verb) to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks | - |
(verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crunch, scranch, scraunch |
(verb) make a crackling sound | Synonyms: crepitate |
crackleware | (noun) glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface | Synonyms: crackle, crackle china |
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crackling | (noun) the sharp sound of snapping noises | Synonyms: crackle, crepitation |
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(noun) the residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered | Synonyms: greaves |
cracklings | (noun) the crisp residue left after lard has been rendered | - |
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crackpot | (noun) a whimsically eccentric person | Synonyms: crank, fruitcake, nut, nut case, screwball |
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cracksman | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: safebreaker, safecracker |
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cradle | (noun) a baby bed with sides and rockers | - |
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(noun) a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold | Synonyms: rocker |
(noun) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence | Synonyms: birthplace, place of origin, provenance, provenience |
(noun) birth of a person | - |
(verb) run with the stick | - |
(verb) hold gently and carefully | - |
(verb) wash in a cradle | - |
(verb) cut grain with a cradle scythe | - |
(verb) hold or place in or as if in a cradle | - |
(verb) bring up from infancy | - |
cradlesong | (noun) the act of singing a quiet song to lull a child to sleep | Synonyms: lullaby |
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(noun) a quiet song intended to lull a child to sleep | Synonyms: berceuse, lullaby |
craft | (noun) the skilled practice of a practical occupation | Synonyms: trade |
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(noun) a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space | - |
(noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | Synonyms: craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness |
(noun) skill in an occupation or trade | Synonyms: craftsmanship, workmanship |
(noun) people who perform a particular kind of skilled work | Synonyms: trade |
(verb) make by hand and with much skill | - |
crafter | (noun) a creator of great skill in the manual arts | Synonyms: craftsman |
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craftily | (adverb) in an subtle, cunning manner | Synonyms: artfully, cunningly, foxily, knavishly, slyly, trickily |
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craftiness | (noun) the quality of being crafty | Synonyms: guile |
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(noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | Synonyms: craft, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness |
craftsman | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artificer, artisan, journeyman |
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(noun) a creator of great skill in the manual arts | Synonyms: crafter |
(noun) a professional whose work is consistently of high quality | - |
craftsmanship | (noun) skill in an occupation or trade | Synonyms: craft, workmanship |
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crafty | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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crag | (noun) a steep rugged rock or cliff | - |
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cragfast | (adjective) stranded on or as if on a crag | - |
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cragged | (adjective) having hills and crags | Synonyms: craggy, hilly, mountainous |
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craggy | (adjective) having hills and crags | Synonyms: cragged, hilly, mountainous |
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cragsman | (noun) a climber of vertical rock faces | Synonyms: rock climber |
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crake | (noun) any of several short-billed Old World rails | - |
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cram | (verb) prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam | - |
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(verb) study intensively, as before an exam | Synonyms: bone, bone up, drum, get up, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up |
(verb) crowd or pack to capacity | Synonyms: chock up, jam, jampack, ram, wad |
(verb) put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled | - |
crammer | (noun) a textbook designed for cramming | - |
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(noun) a special school where students are crammed | - |
(noun) a student who crams | - |
(noun) a teacher who is paid to cram students for examinations | - |
cramp | (noun) a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together | Synonyms: cramp iron |
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(noun) a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued | - |
(noun) a painful and involuntary muscular contraction | Synonyms: muscle spasm, spasm |
(verb) suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle | - |
(verb) affect with or as if with a cramp | - |
(verb) prevent the progress or free movement of | Synonyms: halter, hamper, strangle |
(verb) secure with a cramp | - |
crampbark | (noun) deciduous thicket-forming Old World shrub with clusters of white flowers and small bright red berries | Synonyms: cranberry tree, European cranberry bush, European cranberrybush, guelder rose, Viburnum opulus |
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cramped | (adjective) constricted in size | - |
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crampfish | (noun) any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges | Synonyms: electric ray, numbfish, torpedo |
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crampon | (noun) an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing | Synonyms: climber, climbing iron, crampoon |
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(noun) a hinged pair of curved iron bars; used to raise heavy objects | Synonyms: crampoon |
crampoon | (noun) an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing | Synonyms: climber, climbing iron, crampon |
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(noun) a hinged pair of curved iron bars; used to raise heavy objects | Synonyms: crampon |
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 | - |
cranch | (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: craunch, crunch, grind |
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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 | - |
(verb) stretch (the neck) so as to see better | Synonyms: stretch out |
cranesbill | (noun) any of numerous geraniums of the genus Geranium | Synonyms: crane's bill |
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cranial | (adjective) of or relating to the cranium which encloses the brain | - |
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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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craniometric | (adjective) of or relating to craniometry | Synonyms: craniometrical |
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craniometrical | (adjective) of or relating to craniometry | Synonyms: craniometric |
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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 | (adjective) (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail | Synonyms: cranky, tender, tippy |
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(noun) a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle | Synonyms: starter |
(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 |
(verb) rotate with a crank | Synonyms: crank up |
(verb) bend into the shape of a crank | - |
(verb) fasten with a crank | - |
(verb) start by cranking | Synonyms: crank up |
(verb) travel along a zigzag path | Synonyms: zigzag |
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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cranky | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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(adjective) (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail | Synonyms: crank, tender, tippy |
crannied | (adjective) having small chinks or crannies (especially in or between rocks or stones) | - |
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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 |
crap | (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bull, bullshit, dogshit, horseshit, Irish bull, shit |
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(noun) obscene terms for feces | Synonyms: dirt, poop, shit, shite, turd |
(verb) have a bowel movement | Synonyms: ca-ca, defecate, make, shit, stool, take a crap, take a shit |
crapaud | (noun) large toothed frog of South America and Central America resembling the bullfrog | Synonyms: Leptodactylus pentadactylus, South American bullfrog |
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crape | (noun) a soft thin light fabric with a crinkled surface | Synonyms: crepe |
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(noun) small very thin pancake | Synonyms: crepe, French pancake |
(verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crimp, frizz, frizzle, kink, kink up |
(verb) cover or drape with crape | Synonyms: crepe |
crapette | (noun) solitaire with two players using separate packs | Synonyms: Russian bank |
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crapper | (noun) a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination | Synonyms: can, commode, pot, potty, stool, throne, toilet |
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crappie | (noun) small sunfishes of central United States rivers | - |
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(noun) small sunfishes of the genus Pomoxis of central United States rivers | - |
crappy | (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: icky, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky |
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craps | (noun) a gambling game played with two dice; a first throw of 7 or 11 wins and a first throw of 2, 3, or 12 loses and a first throw of any other number must be repeated to win before a 7 is thrown, which loses the bet and the dice | - |
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(noun) expressions used when two dice are thrown and both come up showing one spot | Synonyms: snake eyes |
crapshoot | (noun) playing craps | Synonyms: crap game, crap shooting |
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(noun) a risky and uncertain venture | - |
crapshooter | (noun) a gambler who plays the game of craps | - |
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crapulence | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, drink, drinking, drunkenness |
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crapulent | (adjective) suffering from excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: crapulous |
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crapulous | (adjective) given to gross intemperance in eating or drinking | - |
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(adjective) suffering from excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: crapulent |
crash | (noun) the act of colliding with something | Synonyms: smash |
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(noun) a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles) | Synonyms: wreck |
(noun) a loud resonant repeating noise | Synonyms: clang, clangor, clangoring, clangour, clank, clash |
(noun) a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures) | Synonyms: collapse |
(noun) (computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative | - |
(verb) sleep in a convenient place | Synonyms: doss, doss down |
(verb) stop operating | Synonyms: go down |
(verb) undergo a sudden and severe downturn | - |
(verb) undergo damage or destruction on impact | Synonyms: ram |
(verb) break violently or noisily; smash | Synonyms: break apart, break up |
(verb) cause to crash | - |
(verb) hurl or thrust violently | Synonyms: dash |
(verb) enter uninvited; informal | Synonyms: barge in, gate-crash |
(verb) move with, or as if with, a crashing noise | - |
(verb) fall or come down violently | - |
(verb) move violently as through a barrier | - |
(verb) make a sudden loud sound | - |
(verb) occupy, usually uninvited | - |
crasher | (noun) someone who gets in (to a party) without an invitation or without paying | Synonyms: gatecrasher, unwelcome guest |
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crashing | (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, blinking, bloody, blooming, flaming, fucking |
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crass | (adjective) (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility | - |
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crassitude | (noun) the quality of being crass--devoid of refinement | Synonyms: crassness |
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crassness | (noun) the quality of being crass--devoid of refinement | Synonyms: crassitude |
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crate | (noun) a rugged box (usually made of wood); used for shipping | - |
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(noun) the quantity contained in a crate | Synonyms: crateful |
(verb) put into a crate; as for protection | - |
crateful | (noun) the quantity contained in a crate | Synonyms: crate |
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crater | (noun) a bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite or bomb | - |
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(noun) a bowl-shaped geological formation at the top of a volcano | Synonyms: volcanic crater |
craton | (noun) the part of a continent that is stable and forms the central mass of the continent; typically Precambrian | - |
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craunch | (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, crunch, grind |
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cravat | (noun) neckwear worn in a slipknot with long ends overlapping vertically in front | - |
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crave | (verb) plead or ask for earnestly | - |
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(verb) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for | Synonyms: hunger, lust, starve, thirst |
craved | (adjective) wanted intensely | Synonyms: desired |
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craven | (adjective) lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful | Synonyms: recreant |
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(noun) an abject coward | Synonyms: poltroon, recreant |
cravenness | (noun) meanspirited cowardice | - |
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craving | (noun) an intense desire for some particular thing | - |
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