| 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 |