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)

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.
The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
An ill-tempered or nasty person.
A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;
A fit of temper or passion.
(dated in US) A person who is considered strange or odd by others. They may behave in unconventional ways.
(1800s) A baseball fan.
An advocate of a pseudoscience movement.
A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
A sick person; an invalid.
A penis.

crank (verb)

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

crank (adjective)

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

crank (noun)

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

Definition of crept

crept (verb)

To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.
To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.

Definition of crimp

crimp (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.
The natural curliness of wool fibres.
(usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
A card game.

crimp (verb)

To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
To pinch and hold; to seize.
To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
To bend or mold leather into shape.
To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.

crimp (adjective)

Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.

crimp (noun)

An agent who procures seamen, soldier, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
(specifically) One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

crimp (verb)

To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.

Definition of crisp

crisp (noun)

A thin slice of fried potato eaten as a snack.
A baked dessert made with fruit and crumb topping
Anything baked or fried and eaten as a snack

crisp (verb)

To make crisp.
To become crisp.
To cause to curl or wrinkle (of the leaves or petals of plants, for example); to form into ringlets or tight curls (of hair).
To become curled.
To cause to undulate irregularly (of water); to cause to ripple.
To undulate or ripple.
To wrinkle, contort or tense (a part of one's body).
To become contorted or tensed (of a part of the body).
To interweave (of the branches of trees).
To make a sharp or harsh sound.
To colour (something with highlights); to add small amounts of colour to (something).

crisp (adjective)

(of something seen or heard) Sharp, clearly defined.
Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture.
Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness.
(of weather, air etc.) Dry and cold.
(of movement, action etc.) Quick and accurate.
(of talk, text, etc.) Brief and to the point.
(of wine) having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a flabby one.
Lively; sparking; effervescing.
Curling in stiff curls or ringlets.
Curled by the ripple of water.
Not using fuzzy logic; based on a binary distinction between true and false.