| crochet | (noun) needlework done by interlocking looped stitches with a hooked needle | Synonyms: crocheting |
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| (verb) make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle | Synonyms: hook |
| (verb) create by looping or crocheting | - |
| crocheting | (noun) creating a garment of needlework | - |
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| (noun) needlework done by interlocking looped stitches with a hooked needle | Synonyms: crochet |
| crock | (noun) an earthen jar (made of baked clay) | Synonyms: earthenware jar |
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| (noun) nonsense; foolish talk | - |
| (noun) a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink | Synonyms: carbon black, lampblack, smut, soot |
| (verb) soil with or as with crock | - |
| (verb) release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric | - |
| crocked | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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| crockery | (noun) tableware (eating and serving dishes) collectively | Synonyms: dishware |
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| crocket | (noun) an architectural ornament of curved foliage used at the edge of a spire or gable | - |
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| crocketed | (adjective) (of a gable or spire) furnished with a crocket (an ornament in the form of curved or bent foliage) | - |
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| crocodile | (noun) large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body covered with bony plates; of sluggish tropical waters | - |
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| crocodilian | (noun) extant archosaurian reptile | Synonyms: crocodilian reptile |
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| crocolite | (noun) a rare lead chromite mineral that forms bright orange crystals | - |
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| crocus | (noun) any of numerous low-growing plants of the genus Crocus having slender grasslike leaves and white or yellow or purple flowers; native chiefly to the Mediterranean region but widely cultivated | - |
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| croft | (noun) a small farm worked by a crofter | - |
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| crofter | (noun) an owner or tenant of a small farm in Great Britain | - |
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| croissant | (noun) very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll | Synonyms: crescent roll |
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| cromlech | (noun) a prehistoric megalithic tomb typically having two large upright stones and a capstone | Synonyms: dolmen, portal tomb |
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| cromorne | (noun) a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn) | Synonyms: crumhorn, krummhorn |
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| cromulent | (adjective) Legitimate or valid (frequently used ironically) | - |
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| crone | (noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldam, beldame, hag, witch |
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| cronk | (verb) utter a hoarse sound, like a raven | Synonyms: croak |
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| (verb) cry like a goose | Synonyms: honk |
| crony | (noun) a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities | Synonyms: brother, buddy, chum, pal, sidekick |
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| cronyism | (noun) favoritism shown to friends and associates (as by appointing them to positions without regard for their qualifications) | - |
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| crook | (noun) a long staff with one end being hook shaped | Synonyms: shepherd's crook |
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| (noun) someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | Synonyms: criminal, felon, malefactor, outlaw |
| (noun) a circular segment of a curve | Synonyms: bend, turn, twist |
| (verb) bend or cause to bend | Synonyms: curve |
| crookback | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookbacked, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
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| (noun) a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine | Synonyms: humpback, hunchback |
| crookbacked | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
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| crooked | (adjective) having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned | - |
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| (adjective) not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive | Synonyms: corrupt |
| (adjective) irregular in shape or outline | Synonyms: asymmetrical |
| (adjective) having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect | Synonyms: hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping |
| crookedly | (adverb) in a crooked lopsided manner | Synonyms: lopsidedly |
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| crookedness | (noun) having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being deceitful and underhanded | Synonyms: deviousness |
| (noun) a tortuous and twisted shape or position | Synonyms: contortion, torsion, tortuosity, tortuousness |
| crookneck | (noun) yellow squash with a thin curved neck and somewhat warty skin | Synonyms: crookneck squash, summer crookneck |
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| croon | (verb) sing softly | - |
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| crooner | (noun) a singer of popular ballads | Synonyms: balladeer |
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| crooning | (noun) the act of singing popular songs in a sentimental manner | - |
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| (noun) singing in a soft low tone | - |
| crop | (noun) a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food | Synonyms: craw |
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| (noun) the stock or handle of a whip | - |
| (noun) the output of something in a season | - |
| (noun) a collection of people or things appearing together | - |
| (noun) the yield from plants in a single growing season | Synonyms: harvest |
| (noun) a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale | - |
| (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, cut back, dress, lop, prune, snip, trim |
| (verb) feed as in a meadow or pasture | Synonyms: browse, graze, pasture, range |
| (verb) cut short | - |
| (verb) let feed in a field or pasture or meadow | Synonyms: graze, pasture |
| (verb) yield crops | - |
| (verb) prepare for crops | Synonyms: cultivate, work |
| cropped | (adjective) (of land or soil) used for growing crops | - |
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| cropper | (noun) small farmers and tenants | Synonyms: sharecrop farmer, sharecropper |
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| croquet | (noun) a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops; the winner is the first to traverse all the hoops and hit a peg | - |
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| (verb) play a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops | - |
| (verb) drive away by hitting with one's ball | - |
| croquette | (noun) minced cooked meats (or vegetables) in thick white sauce; breaded and deep-fried | - |
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| crore | (noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 7 zeros; ten million | - |
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| crosier | (noun) a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office | Synonyms: crozier |
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| cross | (adjective) extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis | Synonyms: thwartwise, transversal, transverse |
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| (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabbed, crabby, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
| (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding |
| (noun) (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species | Synonyms: crossbreed, hybrid |
| (noun) a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece | - |
| (noun) a marking that consists of lines that cross each other | Synonyms: crisscross, mark |
| (noun) any affliction that causes great suffering | Synonyms: crown of thorns |
| (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: crossbreed, hybridise, hybridize, interbreed |
| (verb) trace a line through or across | - |
| (verb) travel across or pass over | Synonyms: cover, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track, traverse |
| (verb) meet and pass | - |
| (verb) meet at a point | Synonyms: intersect |
| (verb) fold so as to resemble a cross | - |
| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
| (verb) to cover or extend over an area or time period | Synonyms: span, sweep, traverse |
| crossbar | (noun) long thin horizontal crosspiece between two vertical posts | - |
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| (noun) game equipment consisting of a horizontal bar to be jumped or vaulted over | - |
| (noun) a horizontal bar that goes across something | - |
| crossbeam | (noun) a horizontal beam that extends across something | Synonyms: crosspiece, trave, traverse |
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| crossbench | (noun) any of the seats in the House of Commons used by members who do not vote regularly with either the government or the Opposition | - |
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| crossbencher | (noun) a member of the House of Commons who does not vote regularly with either the government or the Opposition | - |
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| crossbill | (noun) finch with a bill whose tips cross when closed | Synonyms: Loxia curvirostra |
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| crossbones | (noun) two crossed bones (or a representation of two crossed bones) used as a symbol danger or death | - |
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| crossbow | (noun) a bow fixed transversely on a wooden stock grooved to direct the arrow (quarrel) | - |
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| crossbred | (adjective) bred from parents of different varieties or species | - |
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| crossbreed | (noun) (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species | Synonyms: cross, hybrid |
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| (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, hybridise, hybridize, interbreed |
| crossbreeding | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding |
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| (noun) reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons) | Synonyms: interbreeding, miscegenation |
| crosscheck | (noun) an illegal check (chopping at an opponent's arms or stick) | - |
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| (noun) an instance of confirming something by considering information from several sources | - |
| crosscurrent | (noun) actions counter to the main group activity | Synonyms: countercurrent |
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| (noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: countercurrent, rip, riptide, tide rip |
| crosscut | (noun) a route shorter than the usual one | Synonyms: cutoff, shortcut |
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| (noun) a diagonal path | - |
| (verb) cut using a diagonal line | Synonyms: cut across |
| crosse | (noun) a long racket with a triangular frame; used in playing lacrosse | - |
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| crossed | (adjective) placed crosswise | - |
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| (adjective) (of a check) marked for deposit only as indicated by having two lines drawn across it | - |
| crossfire | (noun) fire from two or more points so that the lines of fire cross | - |
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| (noun) a lively or heated interchange of ideas and opinions | - |
| crosshairs | (noun) a center of interest | - |
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| crosshatch | (noun) shading consisting of multiple crossing lines | Synonyms: hachure, hatch, hatching |
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| (verb) shade with multiple crossing lines | - |
| crosshatched | (adjective) shaded by means of fine parallel or crossed lines | Synonyms: hatched |
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| crosshead | (noun) metal block that connects to a piston; it slides on parallel guides and moves a connecting rod back and forth | - |
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| (noun) a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text | Synonyms: crossheading |
| crossheading | (noun) a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text | Synonyms: crosshead |
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| crossing | (noun) a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean) | - |
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| (noun) traveling across | - |
| (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding |
| (noun) a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | Synonyms: crossover, crosswalk |
| (noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: carrefour, crossroad, crossway, intersection |
| (noun) a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect | - |
| (noun) a shallow area in a stream that can be forded | Synonyms: ford |
| crossjack | (noun) the lowermost sail on a mizzenmast | Synonyms: mizzen course |
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| crossly | (adverb) in an ill-natured manner | Synonyms: grouchily, grumpily |
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| crossness | (noun) a disposition to be ill-tempered | Synonyms: crabbedness, crabbiness |
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| (noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: choler, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness, petulance |
| crossopterygian | (noun) any fish of the order Crossopterygii; most known only in fossil form | Synonyms: lobe-finned fish, lobefin |
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| 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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