5 Letter Words That Start With CR

crude

Adjective : In a natural, untreated state.

Adjective : Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.

Adjective : Lacking concealing elements.

croon

Verb : (transitive)

Verb : To hum or sing (a song or tune), or to speak (words), softly in a low pitch or in a sentimental manner; specifically, to sing (a popular song) in a low, mellow voice.

Verb : To soothe (a person or an animal) by singing softly.

crack

Verb : (intransitive) To form cracks.

Verb : (intransitive) To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.

Verb : (intransitive) To become debilitated by psychological pressure.

crest

Noun : The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.

Noun : A tuft, or other natural ornament, growing on an animal's head, for example the comb of a cockerel, the swelling on the head of a snake, the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc.

Noun : The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on or displayed on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet.

crisp

Adjective : (of something seen or heard) Sharp, clearly defined.

Adjective : Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture.

Adjective : Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness.

croak

Noun : A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.

Noun : The call of a frog or toad.

Noun : The harsh call of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.

craft

Noun : (uncountable, obsolete) Strength; power; might; force .

Noun : (uncountable) Intellectual power; skill; art.

Noun : Ability, skilfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs, adroitness, practical cunning; ingenuity in constructing, dexterity .

creep

Verb : (intransitive) To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.

Verb : (intransitive, of plants) To grow across a surface rather than upwards.

Verb : (intransitive) To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.

crown

Noun : (clothing, monarchy) A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.

Noun : A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.

Noun : (by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor.

crypt

Noun : (now rare) A cave or cavern.

Noun : An underground vault, especially one beneath a church that is used as a burial place.

Noun : (anatomy) A small pit or cavity in the surface of an organ or other structure.

crass

Adjective : Coarse; crude; unrefined or insensitive; lacking discrimination or taste.

Adjective : Materialistic.

Adjective : Physically dense or thick.

crush

Noun : A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.

Noun : Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.

Noun : A violent crowding.

crave

Verb : (ambitransitive) To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for.

Verb : (transitive, archaic or literary) To ask for earnestly; to beg or demand, as from a figure of authority.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To call for; to require as a course of action.

crank

Adjective : (dialectal) Hard; difficult.

Adjective : (informal) Strange; weird; odd.

Adjective : (dialectal) Bent; twisted; crooked; distorted; out of repair.

cream

Noun : The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.

Noun : (standards of identity, US) The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.

Noun : (standards of identity, UK) The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).

cross

Noun : A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.

Noun : (heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.

Noun : A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).

creed

Noun : That which is believed; accepted doctrine, especially religious doctrine; a particular set of beliefs; any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to.

Noun : (specifically, religion) A reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents; a confession of faith for public use, especially one which is brief and comprehensive.

Noun : (rare) The fact of believing; belief, faith.

cruel

Adjective : Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless.

Adjective : Harsh; severe.

Adjective : (slang) Cool; awesome; neat.

craze

Noun : A strong habitual desire or fancy.

Noun : A temporary passion or infatuation, as for some new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad.

Noun : (ceramics) A crack in the glaze or enamel caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat.

crazy

Adjective : Of unsound mind; insane; demented.

Adjective : Out of control.

Adjective : Very excited or enthusiastic.

crone

Noun : (archaic) An old woman.

Noun : An archetypal figure, a wise woman.

Noun : An ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman; a hag.

crash

Noun : A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.

Noun : An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.

Noun : (computing) A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.

crimp

Adjective : (obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.

Adjective : (obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.

Noun : A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.

crick

Noun : A painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, making it difficult to move the part affected.

Noun : A small jackscrew.

Verb : To develop a crick (cramp, spasm).

crony

Noun : (informal, originally Cambridge University) A close friend.

Noun : (informal) A trusted companion or partner in a criminal organization.

Noun : (obsolete) An old woman; a crone.

croft

Noun : An enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production, and often with a dwelling next to it; in particular, such a piece of land rented to a farmer (a crofter), especially in Scotland, together with a right to use separate pastureland shared by other crofters.

Verb : (intransitive) To do agricultural work on one or more crofts.

Verb : (transitive, archaic) To place (cloth, etc.) on the ground in the open air in order to sun and bleach it.

crowd

Verb : (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.

Verb : (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers

Verb : (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.

crool

Verb : (archaic, intransitive) To murmur or mutter.

Adjective : Alternative spelling of cruel [Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless.]

Verb : Alternative spelling of cruel [(chiefly Australia, New Zealand) To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success)]

crook

Noun : A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.

Noun : A bending of the knee; a genuflection.

Noun : A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).

creak

Noun : The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.

Verb : (intransitive) To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances.

Verb : (transitive) To produce a creaking sound with.

creek

Noun : (British) A small inlet, often saltwater, leading to the sea or to the main channel of a river, especially a river estuary.

Noun : (British) The inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.

Noun : (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, US) A stream of water, typically a stream of freshwater smaller than a river; in Australia, also used of river-sized bodies of water.

crawl

Verb : (intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.

Verb : (intransitive) To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.

Verb : (intransitive) To act in a servile manner.

credo

Noun : A statement of a belief or a summary statement of a whole belief system; also (metonymically) the belief or belief system itself.

Noun : (Christianity) The liturgical creed (usually the Nicene Creed), or a musical arrangement of it for use in church services.

crane

Noun : Any bird of the family Gruidae, large birds with long legs and a long neck which is extended during flight.

Noun : (US, dialect) Ardea herodias, the great blue heron.

Noun : A mechanical lifting machine or device, often used for lifting heavy loads for industrial or construction purposes.

crock

Noun : A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.

Noun : A piece of broken pottery, a shard.

Noun : (UK) A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.

crump

Noun : The sound of a muffled explosion.

Verb : (intransitive) To produce such a sound.

Verb : (intransitive, US, medical slang) To decline rapidly in health (but not as rapidly as crash).

crake

Noun : Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.

Verb : To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.

Verb : (obsolete) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.

crust

Noun : A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.

Noun : The external, hardened layer of certain foodstuffs, including most types of bread, fried meat, etc.

Noun : An outer layer composed of pastry

crabs

Noun : (slang) Pubic lice.

Noun : (gambling, slang) A dice roll of two aces.

cruor

Noun : (obsolete) The colouring matter of the blood.

Noun : The clotted portion of coagulated blood, containing the colouring matter; gore.

crime

Noun : (countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law, especially criminal law.

Noun : (countable) Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity.

Noun : (countable, obsolete) That which occasions crime.

cramp

Noun : A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled; (sometimes) a similar pain even without noticeable contraction.

Noun : That which confines or contracts.

Noun : A clamp for carpentry or masonry.

crumb

Noun : A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread).

Noun : A small piece of any other solid substance.

Noun : (figuratively) A bit, small amount.

crate

Noun : A large open box or basket, used especially to transport fragile goods.

Noun : (slang, mildly derogatory) A vehicle (car, aircraft, spacecraft, etc.) seen as unreliable.

Noun : (programming) In the Rust programming language, a binary or library.

cried

Verb : (intransitive) To shed tears; to weep. Especially in anger or sadness

Verb : (transitive) To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.

Verb : (ambitransitive) To shout, scream, yell.

cronk

Verb : To honk like a goose.

Noun : The honking sound of a goose.

Adjective : (Australia, colloquial, obsolete) Unwell, sick.

crowl

Noun : A surname.

Verb : (obsolete, intransitive) To make a growling noise, as the stomach.

creel

Noun : A woven basket, especially a wicker basket and especially as follows:

Noun : (fishing) An osier basket that anglers use to hold fish.

Noun : (chiefly historical) Such a basket slung as a backpack for cargo, especially in times and places with limited or nonexistent wheeled transport, as for example among peasants in mountainous regions.

creat

Noun : An usher to a riding master (riding instructor).

Noun : Andrographis paniculata, a plant native to the Indian subcontinent and used in the traditional medicine of parts of Asia.

croud

Noun : Obsolete form of crowd. [A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.]

Verb : Obsolete form of crowd. [(intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.]

crill

crawk

Verb : To caw (squawk).

crepe

Noun : A flat round pancake-like pastry from Lower Brittany, made with wheat.

Noun : A soft thin light fabric with a crinkled surface.

Noun : Crepe paper; thin, crinkled tissue paper.

cruet

Noun : A small bottle or container used to hold a condiment, such as salt, pepper, oil, or vinegar, for use at a dining table.

Noun : (British) A stand for these containers.

Noun : (Christianity) A small vessel used to hold wine or water for the Eucharist.

creon

Noun : (Greek mythology) King of Thebes, noted primarily in the stories of Antigone and Oedipus.

crwth

Noun : (historical) An archaic stringed instrument associated particularly with Wales, though once played widely in Europe, and characterized by a vaulted back and enough space for the player to stop each of the six strings on the fingerboard. Played variously by plucking or bowing.

craic

Noun : (Ireland) Often preceded by the: amusement, fun, especially through enjoyable company; also, pleasant conversation.

crull

Noun : A surname.

criss

Noun : Alternative form of kris (“dagger”) [A traditional Indonesian, Malaysian, or Filipino sword or dagger having a tapering, usually serpentine blade.]

crags

Noun : (Northern England) A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep cliff or rock.

Noun : A rough, broken fragment of rock.

Noun : (geology) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Pliocene to Pleistocene epochs.

creps

Noun : (medicine, colloquial) Crepitations.

Noun : A surname from German.

croup

Noun : The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.

Verb : (obsolete outside dialects) To croak, make a hoarse noise.

Noun : (pathology) An infectious illness of the larynx, especially in young children, causing respiratory difficulty.

crier

Noun : One who cries.

Noun : An officer who proclaims the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation, such as a town crier.

Noun : A surname.

crept

Verb : (intransitive) To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.

Verb : (intransitive, of plants) To grow across a surface rather than upwards.

Verb : (intransitive) To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.

craig

Noun : (countable) A surname.

Noun : A Scottish habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic from Scottish Gaelic creag, originally meaning someone who lived near a crag.

Noun : An Irish surname of Hiberno-Norman origin, an anglicization of de Craig, de Creag (“of the crag”).

crius

Noun : (Greek mythology) A Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaia.

crare

Noun : A slow unwieldy trading vessel.

cruft

Noun : (slang) Anything that is old or of inferior quality.

Noun : (computing, slang) Redundant, old or improperly written code, especially that which accumulates over time.

Noun : (film, slang) Meaningless or gratuitous content displayed on computer consoles in visual entertainment productions.

cruck

Noun : (architecture) A sturdy timber with a curve or angle used for primary framing of a timber house, usually used in pairs.

Verb : (dialectal, transitive) To make lame.

Noun : A vehicle that has features of both a car and a truck.

crean

Noun : A surname from Irish.

Noun : A hamlet in Cornwall, England, not far from Land's End (OS grid ref SW3924).

crapo

Noun : A surname.

Noun : Alternative form of crappo (“toad”) [(Caribbean, chiefly Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago) A toad (chiefly from the family Bufonidae).]

crico

cribo

Noun : Any of various snakes in the genus Drymarchon.

cryin

crete

Noun : An island in the Mediterranean, and the largest in Greece.

Noun : One of the thirteen regions (peripheries) of Greece, consisting of Chania, Iraklion, Lasithi and Rethymno.

Noun : (archaic) A Cretan.

cruse

Noun : (religion, heraldry or obsolete) A small jar used to hold liquid, such as oil or water.

Noun : (now uncommon) An oil lamp; a crusy.

Noun : A surname.

crore

Noun : (India, Pakistan) ten million; 10,000,000; or with Indian digit grouping, 1,00,00,000. Often used with units of money.

croat

Noun : (countable) A native or inhabitant of Croatia; a person of Croatian ethnicity.

Noun : (dated) An irregular soldier, generally from Croatia.

Noun : (uncountable, uncommon) The Croatian lect.

crape

Noun : Mourning garments, especially an armband or hatband.

Verb : (transitive) To form into ringlets; to curl or crimp.

Verb : (transitive) To clothe in crape.

crows

Noun : (military, US) Acronym of Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station.

creme

Adjective : Alternative spelling of crème [Synonym of cream]

Noun : Alternative spelling of crème [(cooking) A very sugary, fluffy white cream derivative or creamlike analogue.]

Verb : Alternative spelling of crème [To whip into a thick creamy texture.]

crunk

Adjective : (US, slang) Crazy and intoxicated.

Noun : A type of hip hop that originated in the southern United States.

Verb : (intransitive, obsolete) To cry like a crane.

crewe

Noun : (uncountable) A placename:

Noun : A town and civil parish with a town council in Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7055).

Noun : A town in Nottoway County, Virginia, United States.

crams

Verb : (transitive) To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity.

Verb : (transitive) To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.

Verb : (transitive) To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination.

crase

Verb : Early Modern spelling of craze (“break into pieces, crack”).

Noun : A surname.

crans

Noun : A commune in Ain department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.

Noun : A commune in Jura department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.

Noun : A municipality in Nyon district, Vaud canton, Switzerland, renamed from Crans-près-Céligny in 2021.

crowe

Noun : A surname.

crise

Noun : Obsolete form of kris. [A traditional Indonesian, Malaysian, or Filipino sword or dagger having a tapering, usually serpentine blade.]

cryst

cripe

Noun : A surname.

crary

Noun : A surname.

crumm

Noun : A surname.

croix

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creen

Verb : (Cornwall, obsolete) To complain; to whine; to moan.

crème

Adjective : Synonym of cream

Noun : (cooking) A very sugary, fluffy white cream derivative or creamlike analogue.

Noun : (cosmetics) Cream.

crume

Noun : A surname.

crazo

Noun : (slang) A crazy or insane person.

crire

crous

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