Index of English words, starting with "cr"

(1) - Creedless (a.) Without a creed.

(1) - Creek (n.) Any turn or winding.
(2) - Creek (n.) A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook.
(3) - Creek (n.) A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river.

(1) - Creel (n.) A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.
(2) - Creel (n.) An osier basket, such as anglers use.

(1) - Creep (n.) A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground.
(2) - Creep (n.) A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.
(3) - Creep (n.) The act or process of creeping.
(4) - Creep (v. i.) To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
(5) - Creep (v. t.) To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl; as, the sight made my flesh creep. See Crawl, v. i., 4.
(6) - Creep (v. t.) To grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by tendrils, along its length.
(7) - Creep (v. t.) To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.
(8) - Creep (v. t.) To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep.
(9) - Creep (v. t.) To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or one's self; as, age creeps upon us.
(10) - Creep (v. t.) To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.
(11) - Creep (v. t.) To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl.