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 crims

crims (noun)

  1. A criminal.


Definition of crown

crown (noun)

  1. A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
  2. A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
  3. (by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
  4. Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
  5. (metonym) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
  6. (by extension) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
  7. The top part of something:
  8. A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.
  9. Splendor; culmination; acme.
  10. Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the koruna, kruna, krone, korona.
  11. A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.
  12. The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
  13. The top of a tree.
  14. The part of a tooth above the gums.
  15. A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
  16. A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling
  17. The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet
  18. The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
  19. (in the plural) The bights formed by the turns of a cable.
  20. In England, a standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.
  21. In American, a standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.
  22. A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location
  23. During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina
  24. A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening
  25. The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
  26. A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
  27. A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
  28. A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.
  29. The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.

crown (verb)

  1. To place a crown on the head of.
  2. To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
  3. To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
  4. To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
  5. To declare (someone) a winner.
  6. Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
  7. To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
  8. To hit on the head.
  9. To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
  10. In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
  11. To widen the opening of the barrel.
  12. To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
  13. To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.

crown (adjective)

  1. Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
  2. Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.

crown (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.

Definition of cruel

cruel (verb)

  1. To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success)
  2. To violently provoke (a child) in the belief that this will make them more assertive.

cruel (adjective)

  1. Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless.
  2. Harsh; severe.
  3. Cool; awesome; neat.

cruel (adverb)

  1. To a great degree; terribly.

cruel (noun)

  1. Worsted yarn, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.