5-letter words starting with cr
- 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.