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 crabs

crabs (noun)

  1. A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
  2. The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat
  3. A bad-tempered person.
  4. (in plural crabs) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
  5. A playing card with the rank of three.
  6. A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
  7. A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
  8. An unsold book that is returned to the publisher.

crabs (verb)

  1. To fish for crabs.
  2. To ruin.
  3. To complain.
  4. To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
  5. To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
  6. To move (a camera) sideways.
  7. (World War I), to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk.
  8. To back out of something.

crabs (noun)

  1. The crab apple or wild apple.
  2. The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
  3. A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
  4. A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
  5. A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
  6. A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
  7. A claw for anchoring a portable machine.

crabs (verb)

  1. (obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour
  2. To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
  3. (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick

crabs (noun)

  1. The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.

crabs (noun)

  1. Short for carabiner.

Definition of creep

creep (verb)

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

creep (noun)

  1. The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails)
  2. A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
  3. A slight displacement of an object: the slight movement of something
  4. The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
  5. In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
  6. An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
  7. The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
  8. Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
  9. A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills.
  10. A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.

Definition of crest

crest (noun)

  1. The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.
  2. A tuft, or other natural ornament, growing on an animal's head, for example the comb of a cockerel, the swelling on the head of a snake, the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc.
  3. The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on or displayed on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet.
  4. A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually on a helmet above it, sometimes (as for clerics) separately above the shield or separately as a mark for plate, in letterheads, and the like.
  5. The upper curve of a horse's neck.
  6. The ridge or top of a wave.
  7. The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage.
  8. The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc.
  9. The top line of a slope or embankment.
  10. A ridge along the surface of a bone.
  11. A design or logo, especially one of an institution, association or high-class family.
  12. Any of several birds in the family Regulidae, including the goldcrests and firecrests.

crest (verb)

  1. Particularly with reference to waves, to reach a peak.
  2. To reach the crest of (a hill or mountain)
  3. To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for.
  4. To mark with lines or streaks like waving plumes.

Definition of crews

crews (noun)

  1. A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs

crews (noun)

  1. The Manx shearwater.