crack, v. break, chop, cleave, split, rift, snap.
crack, a. (Colloq.) first-rate, excellent, fine, capital, first-class.
cracked, a. (Colloq.) crotchety, eccentric, crazy.
crackle, v. crepitate, decrepitate.--n. crepitation, crackling.
crackling, a. crepitant.--n. crepitation, decrepitation, crackle.
crack up. (Low) extol, laud, praise, cry up.
cracksman, n. burglar.
cradle, n. baby's bed, trundle-bed; solen; cunabula.
craft, n. dexterity, skill; trade, handicraft; guild; guile, cunning, subtlety, artfulness.
craftiness, n. artfulness, guile, craft, cunning.
craftsman, n. artificer, artisan, mechanic, skilled workman.
crafty, a. shrewd, artful, wily, tricky, cunning, sly, deceitful, Machiavelian. Antonyms: guileless, artless, undesigning.
cragged, a. jagged, broken, craggy.
cram, v. compress, crowd, squeeze, press, impact.
cramp, v. restrain, confine, hinder, restrict, obstruct.
cranium, n. skull.
crank, n. winch, turning-handle; bend, turn, twist, crook, curve.
cranky, a. (Colloq.) crotchety, capricious, unreasonable, cantankerous, cross, perverse, cross-grained, contumacious unsteady.
cranny, n. crevice, chink. See crack.
crash, n. ruin, smash, failure, collapse.
crass, a. coarse, unrefined, gross, crude.
crave, v. long for, yearn for, hanker after; beseech, entreat, implore.
craven, a. cowardly.--n. coward.
craving, n. longing, yearning, hankering, hungering; entreaty, supplication.
crawler, n. creeper, reptile; pl. Reptilia, reptiles.
crawling, a. creeping, reptile, reptant, reptatorial, reptatory.--n. creeping.
craze, v. madden, derange, distract; confuse, disarrange.
craze, n. craziness, distraction; fancy, freak, crotchet; mania, passion, infatuation.
craziness, n. insanity, lunacy, dementia, delirium; monomania; megalomania; paranoia.
crazy, a. demented, deranged, insane, delirious, dementate, mad, lunatic, distracted, frantic, crazed, crack-brained; rickety, decrepit, shaky, tottering, dilapidated; desirous, eager, infatuated. Antonyms: sane, rational.
crazy person. madman, maniac, lunatic, bedlamite; monomaniac; paranoiac; megalomaniac.
cream, n. best part, quintessence; cremor; cosmetic.
creation, n. origination, making, invention; universe, cosmos, world.
creative, a. demiurgic, inventive, cosmoplastic, omnific.
creature, n. being.
credence, n. belief, credit, acceptance.
credit, n. belief, faith, confidence; repute, good name, esteem, honor; influence, prestige; trust, tick. Antonyms: discredit, dishonor, unbelief.
creditor, n. Associated words: bilk, subrogation.
credulous, a. unsuspecting, gullible. Antonym: incredulous.
creed, n. Associated-words: symbolics, symbolism Athanasian, Nicene, Apostles'.
creek, n. brook, rivulet, race, runlet, streamlet, runnel, bourn, burn; cove, bight.
creepers, n. pl. Reptilia.
creephole, n. retreat; subterfuge, expedient, makeshift excuse.
creeping, a. crawling, reptile, reptant; fawning, truckling, obsequious, sycophantic.
creeping, n. reptation; formication.
creepingly, adv. insidiously, cunningly.
cremate, v. incremate, incinerate.
cremation, n. incremation, incineration. Associated words: crematory, crematorium.
crest, n. tuft; helmet; top, ridge, crown, summit; armorial bearings, device, cognizance.
crested, a. cristate.
crestfallen, a. dejected, discouraged, disheartened, downcast.
crevice, n. cleft, fissure, rent, cranny, crack, chink.
crew, n. assemblage, throng, gang, mob, band, crowd.
crib, n. manger, rack; bin, bunker, box.
crib, v. (Colloq.) appropriate, plagiarize, steal, purloin.
cricket, n. Associated words: stridulate, stridulation, stridulator, stridulatory, stridulous.
crime, n. felony, atrocity, outrage, enormity; offense, transgression, misdemeanor, malefaction, dereliction. Associated words: criminology, criminologist, criminality, recidivism, recidivist.
criminal, a. felonious, flagitious.
criminal, n. felon, malefactor, culprit; criminaloid.
criminate, v. incriminate, implicate, accuse.
crimination, n. incrimination.
crimpy, a. frizzly, crimped, wavy.
crincum, n. (Colloq.) twist, turn, freak, caprice, fancy, whim.
cringe, v. truckle, fawn, crouch.
cringing, a. truckling, fawning, servile, obsequious, slavish.
crinkly, a. wavy, wrinkly, kinky.
cripple, v. maim, lame, disable; hough, hamstring.
crippled, a. maimed, lame, disabled, deformed, halt.
crisis, n. critical juncture; climacteric, emergency, strait, exigency.
crisp, a. brittle, friable, short; crackling, lively, brisk. Antonyms: tenacious, tough, flexible.
critic, n. censor, reviewer, adept, judge, inspector; caviler, carper, censurer; Zoilus.
critical, a. discriminating, fastidious; carping, censorious, captious, caviling, zoilean; crucial, momentous, decisive, precarious, climacteric.
criticism, n. critique, censure, animadversion, stricture, cavil.
croak, v. forebode, decry, complain, grumble.
croaker, n. grumbler, alarmist, decrier, pessimist.
crock, n. jar, pot; soot, smut.
crony, n. (Colloq.) bosom friend, intimate, associate, chum.
crook, n. bend, turn, curve, curvature, deflection; crosier; pothook; artifice, trick, subterfuge, ruse.
crook, v. bend, curve, incurvate.
crooked, a. twisted, bent, devious, deformed, tortuous, sinuous, winding, flexuous, curved, curvilinear, spiral, labyrinthial; distorted, awry, askew, wry; dishonest, fraudulent, unscrupulous, knavish.
crookedness, n. tortuousness, tortuosity, sinuosity, incurvation, curvature, deformity, curvity, wryness, anfractuosity; dishonesty, improbity.
crop, n. harvest, fruit, product, ingathering.
crop, v. clip, lop, cut off; gather, reap, harvest, garner; browse, nibble.
cross, n. crucifix, rood, gibbet; rebated cross, gammadion, fylfot, saltire, swastika, cross bottony. Associated words: crucify, crucifixion, crucifier, cruciform, crucial, cruciate, crucigerous, crucifer, vexillum, crantara, consignation.
cross, n. hybrid, mongrel, limmer.
cross, a. athwart, transverse, intersecting; adverse, baffling, contrary, perverse; petulant, peevish, cynical, surly, unamiable, inaffable, crabbed, crusty, captious, fractious, churlish, vixenish, querulous, fretful, choleric, touchy, waspish, morose, sullen, ill-natured, irascible acrimonious, irritable; inverse, interchanged.
cross, v. intersect; traverse; run counter to, thwart, baffle, frustrate, foil; intercross; interbreed, hybridize; cancel.
crossbarred, a. cancellated.
crossbars, n. pl. lattice, grille, cancelli.
crossbeam, n. girder, stringer.
crossbow, n. arbelest, arcubalist.
crossbreed, n. hybrid, mongrel.
crossbreeding, n. hybridization.
crossbred, a. hybrid, mongrel.
crosscut, v. intersect.
cross-examination, n. cross-questioning, inquisition.
cross-eye, n. strabismus, strabism.
cross-fertilization, n. allogamy.
crossgrained, a. intractable, contrary, perverse, refractory, froward, stubborn.
crossing, n. hybridization.
crossing, n. intersection, decussation; cancellation; traversing; junction; crosswalk; thwarting, frustration, contradiction, interference; consignation.
crossness, n. petulance, peevishness, cynicism, unamiability, moroseness, irritability, asperity, ill-nature, inaffability, irascibility.
crosswise, adv. across, transversely.
crotch, n. fork, crotchet, angle.
crotchet, n. whim, fancy, vagary, caprice, freak.
crotchety, a. whimsical, fanciful, vagarious, capricious.
crouch, v. squat, couch, stoop; cringe, fawn, truckle.
croup, n. cynanche.
crow, n. Associated words: caw, corvine, corviform, corvoid.
crow, v. brag, exult, swagger, vaunt, gasconade, vapor.
crowd, v. press, shove, jostle; compress, cram, cramp, squeeze, stow, impact; swarm, throng, troop; intrude.
crowd, n. concourse, crush, posse, multitude, number, mass, throng, horde, host, troop, bevy, knot, assembly, confluence; populace, rabble, commonalty, mob, proletariat, riffraff, the masses, rabblerout, roughscuff.
crowded, a. congested, serried, dense, compact. Antonyms: incompact, loose.
crowding, n. congestion, compression.
crown, n. diadem, coronet, corona; tiara; wreath, garland chaplet, coronal, laurel, bays; royalty, sovereignty; consummation, capsheaf, summit, top, crest, vertex, vortex; krone. Associated words: coronal, coronary.
crown, v. consummate, complete.
crowning, a. consummating, completing.
crowning, n. coronation.
crucial, a. cruciform, cross-shaped; severe, trying, ordeal
crude, a. undeveloped, inelaborate, uncouth, inartistic, unfinished.
cruel, a. pitiless, merciless, inhuman, unmerciful, fell, relentless, ruthless, truculent, brutal, unfeeling, severe, inexorable, incompassionate, implacable.
cruelly, n. inhumanity, implacability, severity, atrocity, pitilessness.
crumble, v. disintegrate, decay, molder.
crumbly, a. friable.
crumple, v. rumple, ruck, wrinkle, crush together.
crush, v. overpower, vanquish, quell, subdue, conquer, suppress; squeeze, press, compress.
crush, n. compression; pressure, crowd.
crushing, a. overwhelming.
crush-room, n. foyer.
crust, n. incrustation.--v. incrust.
crusty, a. cross, unamiable, surly.
cry, v. weep, sob, wail, bawl, squall, whimper, blubber, pule, bewail; shout, call, exclaim, yell, scream, vociferate, clamor, ejaculate.
cry, n. exclamation, ejaculation, acclamation, outcry, clamor, vociferation, yoicks, scream, shriek, howl, yell, proclamation; slogan, shibboleth; halloo, whoop, hoot: crying, weeping, wail, lamentation, mewl, plaint whimpering.
cry down. decry, disparage, dispraise, traduce.
crying, n. weeping, sobbing, wailing, wail, clamation, bawling, puling, squalling.
crying, a. weeping, sobbing, clamant; flagrant, egregious, heinous, nefarious.
cry out upon. denounce, censure, condemn.
crypt, n. catacomb; follicle.
cryptic, a. hidden, secret, occult, enigmatical.
cry to. pray to, implore, beseech.
cube, n. hexahedron.
cucking-stool, n. castigatory, tumbrel, trebucket, ducking-stool
cucumber, n. gherkin (small and prickly).
cud, n. rumen; quid. Associated words: Ruminantia, ruminant, ruminate, rumination, merycism.
cudgel, n. club, bludgeon.
cue, n. catchword; queue, pigtail; hint, suggestion, intimation.
cuff, n. box, slap, buffet; manchette (ornamental cuff).
cuff, v. box, slap, smite, strike, buffet.
culprit, n. offender, malefactor, delinquent, criminal sinner.
cultivable, a. tillable, arable, culturable.
cultivate, v. till.
cultivation, n. tillage.
culture, n. cultivation, tillage; refinement, enlightenment, education.
cultured, a. refined, educated, enlightened.
cumbersome, a. burdensome, troublesome, unwieldy, unmanageable.
cunning, a. artful, crafty, sly, wily, arch, designing, deceitful, intriguing; curious, ingenious; skillful, dexterous.
cunning, n. craft, deceit, craftiness, subtlety, wiliness.