5 letter words starting with cr

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  • CRAAL
  • CRABS
  • CRACK
  • CRAFT
  • CRAGS
  • CRAIC
  • CRAIG
  • CRAKE
  • CRAME
  • CRAMP
  • CRAMS
  • CRANE
  • CRANK
  • CRANS
  • CRAPE
  • CRAPS
  • CRAPY
  • CRARE
  • CRASH
  • CRASS
  • CRATE
  • CRAVE
  • CRAWL
  • CRAWS
  • CRAYS
  • CRAZE
  • CRAZY
  • CREAK
  • CREAM
  • CREDO
  • CREDS
  • CREED
  • CREEK
  • CREEL
  • CREEP
  • CREES
  • CREIN
  • CREMA
  • CREME
  • CREMS
  • CRENA
  • CREPE
  • CREPS
  • CREPT
  • CREPY
  • CRESS
  • CREST
  • CREWE
  • CREWS
  • CRIAS
  • CRIBO
  • CRIBS
  • CRICK
  • CRIED
  • CRIER
  • CRIES
  • CRIME
  • CRIMP
  • CRIMS
  • CRINE
  • CRINK
  • CRINS
  • CRIOS
  • CRIPE
  • CRIPS
  • CRISE
  • CRISP
  • CRISS
  • CRITH
  • CRITS
  • CROAK
  • CROCI
  • CROCK
  • CROCS
  • CROFT
  • CROGS
  • CROMB
  • CROME
  • CRONE
  • CRONK
  • CRONS
  • CRONY
  • CROOK
  • CROOL
  • CROON
  • CROPS
  • CRORE
  • CROSS
  • CROST
  • CROUP
  • CROUT
  • CROWD
  • CROWL
  • CROWN
  • CROWS
  • CROZE
  • CRUCK
  • CRUDE
  • CRUDO
  • CRUDS
  • CRUDY
  • CRUEL
  • CRUES
  • CRUET
  • CRUFT
  • CRUMB
  • CRUMP
  • CRUNK
  • CRUOR
  • CRURA
  • CRUSE
  • CRUSH
  • CRUST
  • CRUSY
  • CRUVE
  • CRWTH
  • CRYER
  • CRYNE
  • CRYPT

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Definition of crank

crank (noun)

  1. A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.
  2. The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
  3. Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
  4. An ill-tempered or nasty person.
  5. A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;
  6. A fit of temper or passion.
  7. (dated in US) A person who is considered strange or odd by others. They may behave in unconventional ways.
  8. (1800s) A baseball fan.
  9. An advocate of a pseudoscience movement.
  10. A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
  11. A sick person; an invalid.
  12. A penis.

crank (verb)

  1. To turn by means of a crank.
  2. To turn a crank.
  3. (of a crank or similar) To turn.
  4. To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
  5. To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
  6. To be running at a high level of output or effort.
  7. To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.

crank (adjective)

  1. Strange, weird, odd.
  2. Sick; unwell
  3. (of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
  4. Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.

crank (noun)

  1. A highly addictive phenethylamine stimulant drug, similar to cocaine. Its systematic (IUPAC) name is (S)-N-methyl-1-phenylpropan-2-amine.

Definition of cribs

cribs (noun)

  1. A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
  2. A bed for a child older than a baby.
  3. A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel
  4. A wicker basket; compare Moses basket.
  5. A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
  6. The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.
  7. A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
  8. A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
  9. A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
  10. A job, a position; (British), an appointment.
  11. A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
  12. One’s residence, or where one normally hangs out. A house or dwelling place.
  13. A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.
  14. (usually in the plural) A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
  15. A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.
  16. The card game cribbage.
  17. The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
  18. A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
  19. A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
  20. A packed lunch taken to work.
  21. A small raft made of timber.
  22. (thieves' cant) The stomach.
  23. A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.

cribs (verb)

  1. To place or confine in a crib.
  2. To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
  3. To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
  4. To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
  5. To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
  6. To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.
  7. (Indian English) To complain, to grumble
  8. To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
  9. (of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.

Definition of crick

crick (noun)

  1. 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. (Compare catch.)
  2. A small jackscrew.

crick (verb)

  1. To develop a crick (cramp, spasm).
  2. To cause to develop a crick; to create a crick in.
  3. To twist, bend, or contort, especially in a way that produces strain.

crick (noun)

  1. A small inlet or bay, often saltwater, narrower and extending farther into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river; the inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.
  2. A stream of water (often freshwater) smaller than a river and larger than a brook.
  3. Any turn or winding.

crick (noun)

  1. The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.

Definition of crows

crows (noun)

  1. A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call.
  2. The cry of the rooster.
  3. Any of various dark-coloured nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euploea.
  4. A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.
  5. A gangplank (corvus) used by the Ancient Roman navy to board enemy ships.
  6. (among butchers) The mesentery of an animal.
  7. A black person.
  8. The emblem of an eagle, a sign of military rank.

crows (verb)

  1. To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure, or defiance.
  2. To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.
  3. To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing it.