8-letter words starting with CR
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter CR. This section showcases how CR at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with CR, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| criminal | 12 | someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | - |
| creature | 10 | a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else | - |
| creative | 13 | having the ability or power to create | a creative imagination |
| creating | 11 | - | - |
| crossing | 11 | a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | - |
| critical | 12 | forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis | a critical point in the campaign |
| creation | 10 | the human act of creating | - |
| crawling | 14 | a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | - |
| cracking | 17 | a sudden sharp noise | he heard the cracking of the ice |
| crashing | 14 | informal intensifiers | a crashing bore |
| creaking | 15 | a squeaking sound | - |
| crippled | 15 | disabled in the feet or legs | a crippled soldier |
| crackers | 16 | informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | - |
| crushing | 14 | forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority | - |
| creeping | 13 | a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | - |
| credible | 13 | capable of being believed | completely credible testimony |
| cremated | 13 | - | - |
| cruising | 11 | - | - |
| craziest | 19 | - | - |
| criteria | 10 | - | - |
| crescent | 12 | resembling the new moon in shape | - |
| crucifix | 22 | representation of the cross on which Jesus died | - |
| crowning | 14 | forming or providing a crown or summit | the crowning star on a Christmas tree |
| crucible | 14 | a vessel made of material that does not melt easily; used for high temperature chemical reactions | - |
| critique | 19 | an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play) | - |
| crumpled | 15 | of metal e.g. | a car with a crumpled front end |
| crackpot | 18 | a whimsically eccentric person | - |
| crapping | 15 | - | - |
| credited | 12 | (usually followed by `to') given credit for | an invention credited to Edison |
| croaking | 15 | a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog) | - |
| crowding | 15 | a situation in which people or things are crowded together | he didn't like the crowding on the beach |
| crossbow | 15 | a bow fixed transversely on a wooden stock grooved to direct the arrow (quarrel) | - |
| crusader | 11 | a disputant who advocates reform | - |
| crayfish | 19 | tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | - |
| credence | 13 | a kind of sideboard or buffet | - |
| crawfish | 19 | tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | - |
| cramming | 15 | - | - |
| crockery | 19 | tableware (eating and serving dishes) collectively | - |
| croupier | 12 | someone who collects and pays bets at a gaming table | - |
| creditor | 11 | a person to whom money is owed by a debtor; someone to whom an obligation exists | - |
| crevasse | 13 | a deep fissure | - |
| cradling | 12 | - | - |
| crossbar | 12 | a horizontal bar that goes across something | - |
| cryonics | 15 | the freezing of a seriously ill or recently deceased person to stop tissues from decomposing; the body is preserved until new medical cures are developed that might bring the person back to life | cryonics is more science fiction than serious science |
| creamery | 15 | a workplace where dairy products (butter and cheese etc.) are produced or sold | - |
| creepier | 12 | - | - |
| cremator | 12 | - | - |
| cropping | 15 | - | - |
| credenza | 20 | a kind of sideboard or buffet | - |
| cribbing | 15 | - | - |
| cruzeiro | 19 | - | - |
| crinkled | 15 | uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | - |
| crooning | 11 | singing in a soft low tone | her crooning soon put the child to sleep |
| crabmeat | 14 | the edible flesh of any of various crabs | - |
| cribbage | 15 | a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two | - |
| cringing | 12 | totally submissive | - |
| cresting | 11 | - | - |
| craftier | 13 | - | - |
| creatine | 10 | an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is found in the muscle tissue of vertebrates both in the free form and as phosphocreatine; supplies energy for muscle contraction | - |
| cruciate | 12 | shaped like a cross | - |
| crabbing | 15 | - | - |
| craniums | 12 | - | - |
| creamier | 12 | - | - |
| crippler | 14 | - | - |
| crocuses | 12 | - | - |
| cronyism | 15 | favoritism shown to friends and associates (as by appointing them to positions without regard for their qualifications) | - |
| crosscut | 12 | a route shorter than the usual one | - |
| crudites | 11 | raw vegetables cut into bite-sized strips and served with a dip | - |
| craaling | 11 | - | - |
| crabbers | 14 | - | - |
| crabbier | 14 | - | - |
| crabbily | 17 | - | - |
| crablike | 16 | - | - |
| crabwise | 15 | (of movement) at an angle | - |
| crabwood | 16 | - | - |
| crachach | 20 | - | - |
| crackets | 16 | - | - |
| crackier | 16 | - | - |
| crackies | 16 | - | - |
| crackjaw | 26 | - | - |
| crackled | 17 | - | - |
| crackles | 16 | - | - |
| cracknel | 16 | - | - |
| crackups | 18 | - | - |
| cracowes | 15 | - | - |
| cradlers | 11 | - | - |
| crafters | 13 | - | - |
| craftily | 16 | in an artful manner | he craftily arranged to be there when the decision was announced |
| crafting | 14 | - | - |
| cragfast | 14 | stranded on or as if on a crag | cragfast climbers |
| craggers | 12 | - | - |
| craggier | 12 | - | - |
| craggily | 15 | - | - |
| cragsman | 13 | a climber of vertical rock faces | - |
| cragsmen | 13 | - | - |
| cramboes | 14 | - | - |
| cramfull | 15 | - | - |
| crammers | 14 | - | - |
| cramoisy | 15 | - | - |
| crampers | 14 | - | - |
| crampets | 14 | - | - |
| crampier | 14 | - | - |
| cramping | 15 | - | - |
| crampits | 14 | - | - |
| crampons | 14 | - | - |
| crampoon | 14 | an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing | - |
| cranages | 11 | - | - |
| cranched | 16 | - | - |
| cranches | 15 | - | - |
| cranefly | 16 | - | - |
| craniate | 10 | animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium | - |
| crankest | 14 | - | - |
| crankier | 14 | - | - |
| crankily | 17 | - | - |
| cranking | 15 | - | - |
| crankish | 17 | - | - |
| crankled | 15 | - | - |
| crankles | 14 | - | - |
| crankous | 14 | - | - |
| crankpin | 16 | - | - |
| crannied | 11 | having small chinks or crannies (especially in or between rocks or stones) | a crannied wall |
| crannies | 10 | - | - |
| crannoge | 11 | - | - |
| crannogs | 11 | - | - |
| crantses | 10 | - | - |
| crapauds | 13 | - | - |
| crapiest | 12 | - | - |
| crapolas | 12 | - | - |
| crappers | 14 | - | - |
| crappier | 14 | - | - |
| crappies | 14 | - | - |
| crashers | 13 | - | - |
| crashpad | 16 | - | - |
| crassest | 10 | - | - |
| cratches | 15 | - | - |
| crateful | 13 | the quantity contained in a crate | - |
| cratered | 11 | - | - |
| crathurs | 13 | - | - |
| cratonic | 12 | - | - |
| craunchy | 18 | - | - |
| cravates | 13 | - | - |
| cravened | 14 | - | - |
| cravener | 13 | - | - |
| cravenly | 16 | - | - |
| cravings | 14 | - | - |
| crawdads | 15 | - | - |
| crawlers | 13 | - | - |
| crawlier | 13 | - | - |
| crawlway | 19 | - | - |
| crayolas | 13 | - | - |
| crayoned | 14 | - | - |
| crayoner | 13 | - | - |
| craythur | 16 | - | - |
| crazings | 20 | - | - |
| creakier | 14 | - | - |
| creakily | 17 | in a creaky manner | the old boat was moving along creakily |
| creamers | 12 | - | - |
| creamily | 15 | - | - |
| creaming | 13 | - | - |
| creances | 12 | - | - |
| creasers | 10 | - | - |
| creasier | 10 | - | - |
| creasing | 11 | - | - |
| creasote | 10 | - | - |
| creatins | 10 | - | - |
| creators | 10 | - | - |
| creatrix | 17 | - | - |
| credenda | 12 | - | - |
| credibly | 16 | easy to believe on the basis of available evidence | - |
| creekier | 14 | - | - |
| creeling | 11 | - | - |
| creepage | 13 | - | - |
| creepers | 12 | - | - |
| creepies | 12 | - | - |
| creepily | 15 | - | - |
| creeshed | 14 | - | - |
| creeshes | 13 | - | - |
| creesing | 11 | - | - |
| cremains | 12 | the remains of a dead body after cremation | - |
| cremates | 12 | - | - |
| creminis | 12 | - | - |
| cremonas | 12 | - | - |
| cremorne | 12 | - | - |
| cremosin | 12 | - | - |
| crenated | 11 | having a margin with rounded scallops | - |
| creneled | 11 | - | - |
| crenelle | 10 | a notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated battlement | - |
| crenshaw | 16 | - | - |
| creodont | 11 | - | - |
| creolian | 10 | - | - |
| creolise | 10 | - | - |
| creolist | 10 | - | - |
| creolize | 19 | develop into a creole | pidgins often creolize |
| creosols | 10 | - | - |
| creosote | 10 | a dark oily liquid obtained by distillation of coal tar; used as a preservative for wood | - |
| crepance | 14 | - | - |
| creperie | 12 | - | - |
| crepiest | 12 | - | - |
| crepitus | 12 | - | - |
| crescive | 15 | - | - |
| cressets | 10 | - | - |
| cressier | 10 | - | - |
| crestals | 10 | - | - |
| crestons | 10 | - | - |
| cresylic | 15 | - | - |
| cretisms | 12 | - | - |
| cretonne | 10 | an unglazed heavy fabric; brightly printed; used for slipcovers and draperies | - |
| creutzer | 19 | - | - |
| crevalle | 13 | - | - |
| crevette | 13 | - | - |
| creviced | 16 | - | - |
| crevices | 15 | - | - |
| crewcuts | 15 | - | - |
| crewless | 13 | - | - |
| crewmate | 15 | - | - |
| crewneck | 19 | - | - |
| cribbers | 14 | - | - |
| cribbled | 15 | - | - |
| cribbles | 14 | - | - |
| cribella | 12 | - | - |
| cribrate | 12 | - | - |
| cribrose | 12 | - | - |
| cribrous | 12 | - | - |
| cribwork | 19 | - | - |
| cricetid | 13 | - | - |
| crickets | 16 | - | - |
| cricking | 17 | - | - |
| cricoids | 13 | - | - |
| crimeful | 15 | - | - |
| criminis | 12 | - | - |
| crimmers | 14 | - | - |
| crimpers | 14 | - | - |
| crimpier | 14 | - | - |
| crimping | 15 | - | - |
| crimpled | 15 | - | - |
| crimples | 14 | - | - |
| crimsons | 12 | - | - |
| crinated | 11 | - | - |
| cringers | 11 | - | - |
| cringier | 11 | - | - |
| cringles | 11 | - | - |
| crinites | 10 | - | - |
| crinkles | 14 | - | - |
| crinoids | 11 | - | - |
| criollos | 10 | - | - |
| cripples | 14 | - | - |
| crispate | 12 | wavy or notched and curled very irregularly | - |
| crispens | 12 | - | - |
| crispers | 12 | - | - |
| crispest | 12 | - | - |
| crispier | 12 | - | - |
| crispies | 12 | - | - |
| crispily | 15 | - | - |
| crisping | 13 | - | - |
| crispins | 12 | - | - |
| cristate | 10 | - | - |
| critters | 10 | - | - |
| critturs | 10 | - | - |
| crivvens | 16 | - | - |
| croakers | 14 | - | - |
| croakier | 14 | - | - |
| croakily | 17 | - | - |
| croceate | 12 | - | - |
| croceine | 12 | - | - |
| croceins | 12 | - | - |
| croceous | 12 | - | - |
| crochets | 15 | - | - |
| crockets | 16 | - | - |
| crocking | 17 | - | - |
| crockpot | 18 | - | - |
| crocoite | 12 | - | - |
| crofters | 13 | - | - |
| crofting | 14 | - | - |
| croggies | 12 | - | - |
| crogging | 13 | - | - |
| cromacks | 18 | - | - |
| crombecs | 16 | - | - |
| crombing | 15 | - | - |
| cromlech | 17 | a prehistoric megalithic tomb typically having two large upright stones and a capstone | - |
| cromorna | 12 | - | - |
| cromorne | 12 | a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn) | - |
| cronkest | 14 | - | - |
| croodled | 12 | - | - |
| croodles | 11 | - | - |
| crookery | 17 | - | - |
| crookest | 14 | - | - |
| crooking | 15 | - | - |
| crooling | 11 | - | - |
| crooners | 10 | - | - |
| croonier | 10 | - | - |
| cropfull | 15 | - | - |
| cropfuls | 15 | - | - |
| cropland | 13 | - | - |
| cropless | 12 | - | - |
| croppers | 14 | - | - |
| croppies | 14 | - | - |
| cropsick | 18 | - | - |
| croquets | 19 | - | - |
| crosiers | 10 | - | - |
| crossarm | 12 | - | - |
| crossbit | 12 | - | - |
| crossers | 10 | - | - |
| crossest | 10 | - | - |
| crossish | 13 | - | - |
| crosslet | 10 | - | - |
| crossply | 15 | - | - |
| crosstie | 10 | one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track | - |
| crossway | 16 | a junction where one street or road crosses another | - |
| crostata | 10 | - | - |
| crostini | 10 | - | - |
| crostino | 10 | - | - |
| crotales | 10 | - | - |
| crotalum | 12 | - | - |
| crotched | 16 | - | - |
| crotches | 15 | - | - |
| crotchet | 15 | a strange attitude or habit | - |
| crotonic | 12 | - | - |
| crottles | 10 | - | - |
| crouched | 16 | - | - |
| crouches | 15 | - | - |
| croupade | 13 | - | - |
| croupers | 12 | - | - |
| croupily | 15 | - | - |
| crouping | 13 | - | - |
| croupons | 12 | - | - |
| croupous | 12 | - | - |
| crousely | 13 | - | - |
| croutons | 10 | - | - |
| crowbait | 15 | an emaciated horse likely soon to become carrion and so attractive to crows | - |
| crowbars | 15 | - | - |
| crowboot | 15 | - | - |
| crowders | 14 | - | - |
| crowdies | 14 | - | - |
| crowfeet | 16 | - | - |
| crowfoot | 16 | any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | - |
| crowings | 14 | - | - |
| crowlike | 17 | - | - |
| crowners | 13 | - | - |
| crownets | 13 | - | - |
| crownlet | 13 | - | - |
| crowstep | 15 | - | - |
| croziers | 19 | - | - |
| crozzled | 29 | - | - |
| crubeens | 12 | - | - |
| crucians | 12 | - | - |
| crucifer | 15 | any of various plants of the family Cruciferae | - |
| cruddier | 12 | - | - |
| crudding | 13 | - | - |
| cruddled | 13 | - | - |
| cruddles | 12 | - | - |
| crudiest | 11 | - | - |
| cruelest | 10 | - | - |
| crueller | 10 | - | - |
| cruisers | 10 | - | - |
| cruisier | 10 | - | - |
| cruisies | 10 | - | - |
| cruizies | 19 | - | - |
| crullers | 10 | - | - |
| crumbers | 14 | - | - |
| crumbier | 14 | - | - |
| crumbing | 15 | - | - |
| crumbled | 15 | - | - |
| crumbles | 14 | - | - |
| crumbums | 16 | - | - |
| crumenal | 12 | - | - |
| crumhorn | 15 | a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn) | - |
| crummack | 20 | - | - |
| crummier | 14 | - | - |
| crummies | 14 | - | - |
| crummily | 17 | - | - |
| crummock | 20 | - | - |
| crumpest | 14 | - | - |
| crumpets | 14 | - | - |
| crumpier | 14 | - | - |
| crumping | 15 | - | - |
| crumples | 14 | - | - |
| crunched | 16 | - | - |
| cruncher | 15 | - | - |
| crunches | 15 | - | - |
| crunchie | 15 | - | - |
| crunkled | 15 | - | - |
| crunkles | 14 | - | - |
| crunodal | 11 | - | - |
| crunodes | 11 | - | - |
| cruppers | 14 | - | - |
| crusaded | 12 | - | - |
| crusades | 11 | - | - |
| crusados | 11 | - | - |
| crushers | 13 | - | - |
| crusians | 10 | - | - |
| crustate | 10 | - | - |
| crustier | 10 | - | - |
| crusties | 10 | - | - |
| crustily | 13 | - | - |
| crusting | 11 | - | - |
| crustose | 10 | (of lichens) having a thin crusty thallus that adheres closely to the surface on which it is growing | crustose lichens |
| crutched | 16 | - | - |
| crutches | 15 | - | - |
| cruzados | 20 | - | - |
| cryingly | 17 | - | - |
| cryobank | 19 | - | - |
| cryogens | 14 | - | - |
| cryogeny | 17 | the branch of physics that studies the phenomena that occur at very low temperatures | - |
| cryolite | 13 | a white mineral consisting of fluorides of aluminum and sodium; a source of fluorine | - |
| cryostat | 13 | a thermostat that operates at very low temperatures | - |
| cryotron | 13 | - | - |
| cryptons | 15 | - | - |
| crystals | 13 | - | - |
