5-letter words containing c, r
- croud — Obsolete form of crowd.
- croup — Croup is a disease which children sometimes suffer from that makes it difficult for them to breathe and causes them to cough a lot.
- crout — (archaic) sauerkraut.
- crowd — A crowd is a large group of people who have gathered together, for example to watch or listen to something interesting, or to protest about something.
- crowe — Russell. born 1964, Australian film actor, born in New Zealand. His films include LA Confidential (1997), Gladiator (2000), for which he won an Oscar, A Beautiful Mind (2001), Master and Commander (2003), and American Gangster (2007)
- crown — A crown is a circular ornament, usually made of gold and jewels, which a king or queen wears on their head at official ceremonies. You can also use crown to refer to anything circular that is worn on someone's head.
- crows — Plural form of crow.
- croze — the recess cut at the end of a barrel or cask to receive the head
- cruck — one of a pair of curved wooden timbers supporting the end of the roof in certain types of building
- crude — A crude method or measurement is not exact or detailed, but may be useful or correct in a rough, general way.
- cruds — Plural form of crud.
- crudy — (in the works of Shakespeare) crude or raw
- cruel — Someone who is cruel deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
- cruet — A cruet is a small container, or set of containers, for salt, pepper, or mustard which is used at meals.
- cruft — Charles. 1852–1938, British dog breeder, who organized the first (1886) of the annual dog shows known as Cruft's
- crull — (obsolete) curly; curled.
- crumb — Crumbs are tiny pieces that fall from bread, biscuits, or cake when you cut it or eat it.
- crump — to thud or explode with a loud dull sound
- crunk — a form of hip-hop music originating in the southern states of the US
- cruor — a blood clot
- crura — the part of the leg or hind limb between the femur or thigh and the ankle or tarsus; shank.
- cruse — a small earthenware container used, esp formerly, for liquids
- crush — To crush something means to press it very hard so that its shape is destroyed or so that it breaks into pieces.
- crust — The crust on a loaf of bread is the outside part.
- cruth — Alternative form of crwth.
- crwth — an ancient stringed instrument of Celtic origin similar to the cithara but bowed in later types
- cryer — Archaic form of crier.
- cryo- — indicating low temperature; frost, cold, or freezing
- crypt — A crypt is an underground room underneath a church or cathedral.
- csiro — Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
- cuber — a solid bounded by six equal squares, the angle between any two adjacent faces being a right angle.
- cukor — George, 1899–1983, U.S. film director.
- cul8r — see you later
- cupr- — copper
- cupro — Rayon made by the cuproammonium process.
- curbs — Plural form of curb.
- curch — a woman's plain cap or kerchief
- curds — Often, curds. a substance consisting mainly of casein and the like, obtained from milk by coagulation, and used as food or made into cheese.
- curdy — full of curd
- cured — (of food) treated by salting, smoking, or drying in order to preserve it
- curer — A healer.
- cures — Plural form of cure.
- curet — a spoon-shaped surgical instrument for the removal of tissue from the walls of body cavities
- curia — the papal court and government of the Roman Catholic Church
- curie — Marie (mari). 1867–1934, French physicist and chemist, born in Poland: discovered with her husband Pierre the radioactivity of thorium, and discovered and isolated radium and polonium. She shared a Nobel prize for physics (1903) with her husband and Henri Becquerel, and was awarded a Nobel prize for chemistry (1911)
- curio — A curio is an object such as a small ornament which is unusual and fairly rare.
- curli — curled hairlike processes on the surface of the bacterium Escherichia coli by means of which the bacterium adheres to and infects wounds
- curls — Plural form of curl.
- curly — Curly hair is full of curls.
- curns — a grain.