Index of English words, starting with "cr"

(1) - Crowner (n.) A coroner.
(2) - Crowner (n.) One who, or that which, crowns.

(1) - Croze (n.) A cooper's tool for making the grooves for the heads of casks, etc.; also, the groove itself.

(1) - Crucial (a.) Severe; trying or searching, as if bringing to the cross; decisive; as, a crucial test.
(2) - Crucial (a.) Having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross; cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial incision.

(1) - Cruciate (v. t.) To torture; to torment. [Obs.] See Excruciate.
(2) - Cruciate (a.) Having the leaves or petals arranged in the form of a cross; cruciform.
(3) - Cruciate (a.) Tormented.

(1) - Crucible (n.) A test of the most decisive kind; a severe trial; as, the crucible of affliction.
(2) - Crucible (n.) A hollow place at the bottom of a furnace, to receive the melted metal.
(3) - Crucible (n.) A vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and calcining substances which require a strong degree of heat, as metals, ores, etc.