| 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 | - |
| crustacean | (adjective) of or belonging to the class Crustacea | Synonyms: crustaceous |
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| (noun) any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton | - |
| crustaceous | (adjective) being or having or resembling a hard crust or shell | - |
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| (adjective) of or belonging to the class Crustacea | Synonyms: crustacean |
| crustal | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the crust of the earth or moon | - |
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| crusted | (adjective) having a hardened crust as a covering | Synonyms: crustlike, crusty, encrusted |
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| crustlike | (adjective) having a hardened crust as a covering | Synonyms: crusted, crusty, encrusted |
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| crustose | (adjective) (of lichens) having a thin crusty thallus that adheres closely to the surface on which it is growing | - |
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| crusty | (adjective) having a hardened crust as a covering | Synonyms: crusted, crustlike, encrusted |
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| (adjective) brusque and surly and forbidding | Synonyms: curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured |
| 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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| cry | (noun) a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition | Synonyms: call, outcry, shout, vociferation, yell |
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| (noun) a fit of weeping | - |
| (noun) a slogan used to rally support for a cause | Synonyms: battle cry, rallying cry, war cry, watchword |
| (noun) a loud utterance of emotion (especially when inarticulate) | Synonyms: yell |
| (noun) the characteristic utterance of an animal | - |
| (verb) shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain | Synonyms: weep |
| (verb) bring into a particular state by crying | - |
| (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, holler, hollo, scream, shout, shout out, squall, yell |
| (verb) proclaim or announce in public | Synonyms: blazon out |
| (verb) utter a characteristic sound | - |
| (verb) utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy | Synonyms: call out, cry out, exclaim, outcry, shout |
| (verb) demand immediate action | - |
| cryaesthesia | (noun) hypersensitivity to cold | Synonyms: cryesthesia |
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| crybaby | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, complainer, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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| (noun) a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy | Synonyms: chicken, wimp |
| cryesthesia | (noun) hypersensitivity to cold | Synonyms: cryaesthesia |
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| crying | (adjective) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | Synonyms: egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank |
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| (adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: clamant, exigent, insistent, instant |
| (noun) the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds) | Synonyms: tears, weeping |
| cryoanaesthesia | (noun) insensibility resulting from cold | Synonyms: cryoanesthesia |
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| cryoanesthesia | (noun) insensibility resulting from cold | Synonyms: cryoanaesthesia |
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| cryobiology | (noun) the branch of biology that studies the effects of low temperatures on living tissues or organs or organisms | - |
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| cryocautery | (noun) application of a substance that destroys tissue by freezing it | - |
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| (noun) an instrument for destroying tissue by freezing it | - |
| cryogen | (noun) a liquid that boils at below -160 C and is used as a refrigerant | - |
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| cryogenic | (adjective) of or relating to very low temperatures | - |
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| cryogenics | (noun) the branch of physics that studies the phenomena that occur at very low temperatures | Synonyms: cryogeny |
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| cryogeny | (noun) the branch of physics that studies the phenomena that occur at very low temperatures | Synonyms: cryogenics |
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| cryolite | (noun) a white mineral consisting of fluorides of aluminum and sodium; a source of fluorine | Synonyms: Greenland spar |
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| cryometer | (noun) a thermometer designed to measure low temperatures | - |
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| cryonic | (adjective) of or relating to cryonics | - |
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| cryonics | (noun) the freezing of a seriously ill or recently deceased person to stop tissues from decomposing; the body is preserved until new medical cures are developed that might bring the person back to life | - |
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| cryopathy | (noun) destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene | Synonyms: frostbite |
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| cryophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of freezing | - |
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| cryoscope | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring freezing and melting points | - |
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| cryostat | (noun) a thermostat that operates at very low temperatures | - |
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| cryosurgery | (noun) the use of extreme cold (usually liquid nitrogen) to destroy unwanted tissue (warts or cataracts or skin cancers) | - |
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| crypt | (noun) a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church) | - |
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| cryptanalysis | (noun) the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms | Synonyms: cryptanalytics, cryptography, cryptology |
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| cryptanalyst | (noun) decoder skilled in the analysis of codes and cryptograms | Synonyms: cryptographer, cryptologist |
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| cryptanalytic | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptographic, cryptographical, cryptologic, cryptological |
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