7-letter words starting with cr
- crotone — a town in S Italy, on the coast of Calabria: founded in about 700 bc by the Achaeans; chemical works and zinc-smelting. Pop: 60 010 (2001)
- crotons — Plural form of croton.
- crottin — a type of French goat cheese.
- croupon — a type of high quality leather obtained from the rear section of the hide
- crouton — Croutons are small pieces of toasted or fried bread that are added to soup just before you eat it.
- crowbar — A crowbar is a heavy iron bar which is used as a lever.
- crowded — If a place is crowded, it is full of people.
- crowder — One who crowds or pushes.
- crowdie — a porridge of meal and water; brose
- crowhop — a short hop.
- crowing — the sound made by a cock, particularly in the early morning
- crowley — a city in S Louisiana.
- crowned — characterized by or having a crown (often used in combination): a crowned signet ring; a low-crowned fedora.
- crowner — a promotional label consisting of a shaped printed piece of card or paper attached to a product on display
- crownet — a coronet.
- croydon — a borough in S Greater London (since 1965): formerly important for its airport (1915–59). Pop: 336 700 (2003 est). Area: 87 sq km (33 sq miles)
- crozier — crosier
- crubeen — a pig's trotter, esp one that has been cooked
- crucial — If you describe something as crucial, you mean it is extremely important.
- crucian — a European cyprinid fish, Carassius carassius, with a dark-green back, a golden-yellow undersurface, and reddish dorsal and tail fins: an aquarium fish
- crucify — If someone is crucified, they are killed by being tied or nailed to a cross and left to die.
- cruddle — (obsolete) To curdle.
- crudely — in a raw or unprepared state; unrefined or natural: crude sugar.
- crudest — in a raw or unprepared state; unrefined or natural: crude sugar.
- crudity — the condition or quality of being crude
- crueler — willfully or knowingly causing pain or distress to others.
- cruelly — willfully or knowingly causing pain or distress to others.
- cruelty — Cruelty is behaviour that deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
- crufted — cruft
- cruised — Simple past tense and past participle of cruise.
- cruiser — A cruiser is a motor boat which has an area for people to live or sleep in.
- cruises — Plural form of cruise.
- cruisey — Alternative spelling of cruisy.
- cruizie — an oil lamp
- cruller — a light sweet ring-shaped cake, fried in deep fat
- crumbed — Simple past tense and past participle of crumb.
- crumber — (Australian rules football) A player who waits around a marking contest aiming to get the ball if it falls down to the ground (because the opposing players leaping for it have spoiled each others efforts).
- crumble — If something crumbles, or if you crumble it, it breaks into a lot of small pieces.
- crumbly — Something that is crumbly is easily broken into a lot of little pieces.
- crumbum — a foolish or despicable person
- crummie — a cow, espy one with crooked or crumpled horns
- crumped — Simple past tense and past participle of crump.
- crumpet — Crumpets are round, flat pieces of a substance like bread or batter with small holes in them. You toast them and eat them with butter.
- crumple — If you crumple something such as paper or cloth, or if it crumples, it is squashed and becomes full of untidy creases and folds.
- crumply — easily crumpled
- crunchy — Food that is crunchy is pleasantly hard or crisp so that it makes a noise when you eat it.
- crunked — excited or intoxicated
- crunkle — (UK, obsolete, dialectal) To crumple.
- crunode — a point at which two branches of a curve intersect, each branch having a distinct tangent; node
- crupper — a strap from the back of a saddle that passes under the horse's tail to prevent the saddle from slipping forwards