5-letter words containing cr
- cropt — a simple past tense and past participle of crop.
- crore — (in Indian English) ten million
- cross — If you cross something such as a room, a road, or an area of land or water, you move or travel to the other side of it. If you cross to a place, you move or travel over a room, road, or area of land or water in order to reach that place.
- crost — Eye dialect of cross.
- croud — Obsolete form of crowd.
- croup — Croup is a disease which children sometimes suffer from that makes it difficult for them to breathe and causes them to cough a lot.
- crout — (archaic) sauerkraut.
- crowd — A crowd is a large group of people who have gathered together, for example to watch or listen to something interesting, or to protest about something.
- crowe — Russell. born 1964, Australian film actor, born in New Zealand. His films include LA Confidential (1997), Gladiator (2000), for which he won an Oscar, A Beautiful Mind (2001), Master and Commander (2003), and American Gangster (2007)
- crown — A crown is a circular ornament, usually made of gold and jewels, which a king or queen wears on their head at official ceremonies. You can also use crown to refer to anything circular that is worn on someone's head.
- crows — Plural form of crow.
- croze — the recess cut at the end of a barrel or cask to receive the head
- cruck — one of a pair of curved wooden timbers supporting the end of the roof in certain types of building
- crude — A crude method or measurement is not exact or detailed, but may be useful or correct in a rough, general way.
- cruds — Plural form of crud.
- crudy — (in the works of Shakespeare) crude or raw
- cruel — Someone who is cruel deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
- cruet — A cruet is a small container, or set of containers, for salt, pepper, or mustard which is used at meals.
- cruft — Charles. 1852–1938, British dog breeder, who organized the first (1886) of the annual dog shows known as Cruft's
- crull — (obsolete) curly; curled.
- crumb — Crumbs are tiny pieces that fall from bread, biscuits, or cake when you cut it or eat it.
- crump — to thud or explode with a loud dull sound
- crunk — a form of hip-hop music originating in the southern states of the US
- cruor — a blood clot
- crura — the part of the leg or hind limb between the femur or thigh and the ankle or tarsus; shank.
- cruse — a small earthenware container used, esp formerly, for liquids
- crush — To crush something means to press it very hard so that its shape is destroyed or so that it breaks into pieces.
- crust — The crust on a loaf of bread is the outside part.
- cruth — Alternative form of crwth.
- crwth — an ancient stringed instrument of Celtic origin similar to the cithara but bowed in later types
- cryer — Archaic form of crier.
- cryo- — indicating low temperature; frost, cold, or freezing
- crypt — A crypt is an underground room underneath a church or cathedral.
- decry — If someone decries an idea or action, they criticize it strongly.
- e-crm — customer relationship management carried out on the internet
- ecrus — very light brown in color, as raw silk, unbleached linen, etc.
- lucre — monetary reward or gain; money.
- lycra — Spandex.
- macro — very large in scale, scope, or capability.
- mcrae — Carmen, 1920–94, U.S. jazz singer and songwriter.
- micra — a plural of micron.
- micro — microprocessor
- mucro — a short point projecting abruptly, as at the end of a leaf.
- nacre — mother-of-pearl.
- nacro — (in England and Wales) an organization that aims to reduce crime by supporting people in finding alternatives to crime, for example, by resettling ex-offenders and providing education and advice in communities
- necro — (Internet) To make a new post to a forum discussion that has been dormant for a long time, making the thread visible in the list of active topics; to bump.
- ocrea — a sheathing part, as a pair of stipules united about a stem.
- picra — a powder made up of aloes and canella which is used as a laxative or digestive cleanser
- sacra — a bone resulting from the fusion of two or more vertebrae between the lumbar and the coccygeal regions, in humans being composed usually of five fused vertebrae and forming the posterior wall of the pelvis.
- scrab — to scratch or scrape