9-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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| crocodile | 14 | large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body covered with bony plates; of sluggish tropical waters | - |
| criticism | 15 | disapproval expressed by pointing out faults or shortcomings | the senator received severe criticism from his opponent |
| criticize | 22 | find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws | The paper criticized the new movie |
| crackling | 18 | the sharp sound of snapping noises | - |
| crucified | 17 | - | - |
| crossword | 15 | a puzzle in which words corresponding to numbered clues are to be found and written in to squares in the puzzle | - |
| cremation | 13 | the incineration of a dead body | - |
| craziness | 20 | foolish or senseless behavior | - |
| cranberry | 16 | any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries | - |
| croissant | 11 | very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll | - |
| crescendo | 14 | grow louder | The music crescendoes here |
| craftsman | 16 | a creator of great skill in the manual arts | - |
| crossover | 14 | a voter who is registered as a member of one political party but who votes in the primary of another party | - |
| crossfire | 14 | a lively or heated interchange of ideas and opinions | - |
| crippling | 16 | that cripples or disables or incapacitates | a crippling injury |
| criticise | 13 | find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws | - |
| crossroad | 12 | a junction where one street or road crosses another | - |
| croquette | 20 | minced cooked meats (or vegetables) in thick white sauce; breaded and deep-fried | - |
| crosswalk | 18 | a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | - |
| cryogenic | 17 | of or relating to very low temperatures | - |
| crackdown | 21 | severely repressive actions | - |
| criterion | 11 | a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated | - |
| crankcase | 17 | housing for a crankshaft | - |
| crematory | 16 | a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes | - |
| crucially | 16 | to a crucial degree | crucially important |
| cricketer | 17 | an athlete who plays cricket | - |
| crosstown | 14 | going or extending across a town or city | the crosstown bus |
| credulity | 15 | tendency to believe readily | - |
| creepiest | 13 | - | - |
| crusading | 13 | - | - |
| cruzeiros | 20 | - | - |
| credulous | 12 | disposed to believe on little evidence | the gimmick would convince none but the most credulous |
| cremating | 14 | - | - |
| crossbeam | 15 | a horizontal beam that extends across something | - |
| crudeness | 12 | a wild or unrefined state | - |
| crosswind | 15 | wind blowing across the path of a ship or aircraft | - |
| crosswise | 14 | transversely | - |
| crotchety | 19 | having a difficult and contrary disposition | - |
| cretinous | 11 | afflicted with cretinism | - |
| crossbred | 14 | bred from parents of different varieties or species | - |
| crabgrass | 14 | grasses with creeping stems that root freely; a pest in lawns | - |
| crassness | 11 | the quality of being crass--devoid of refinement | - |
| croupiers | 13 | - | - |
| crownless | 14 | not (especially not yet) provided with a crown | - |
| craftiest | 14 | - | - |
| criminous | 13 | - | - |
| crinoline | 11 | a skirt stiffened with hoops | - |
| crossable | 13 | - | - |
| cruciform | 18 | shaped like a cross | - |
| crabapple | 17 | any of numerous varieties of crab apples cultivated for their small acidic (usually bright red) fruit used for preserves or as ornamentals for their blossoms | - |
| crabbedly | 19 | - | - |
| crabbiest | 15 | - | - |
| crabeater | 13 | - | - |
| crabmeats | 15 | - | - |
| crabstick | 19 | - | - |
| crabwoods | 17 | - | - |
| crackback | 25 | - | - |
| crackhead | 21 | - | - |
| crackiest | 17 | - | - |
| crackings | 18 | - | - |
| crackjaws | 27 | - | - |
| cracklier | 17 | - | - |
| cracknels | 17 | - | - |
| crackpots | 19 | - | - |
| cracksman | 19 | a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | - |
| cracksmen | 19 | - | - |
| cradlings | 13 | - | - |
| craftless | 14 | - | - |
| craftsmen | 16 | - | - |
| craftwork | 21 | - | - |
| craggiest | 13 | - | - |
| cramesies | 13 | - | - |
| crammable | 17 | - | - |
| crammings | 16 | - | - |
| cramoisie | 13 | - | - |
| crampbark | 21 | deciduous thicket-forming Old World shrub with clusters of white flowers and small bright red berries | - |
| crampfish | 21 | any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges | - |
| crampiest | 15 | - | - |
| cramponed | 16 | - | - |
| crampoons | 15 | - | - |
| cranachan | 16 | - | - |
| cranapple | 15 | - | - |
| cranching | 17 | - | - |
| cranelike | 15 | - | - |
| cranially | 14 | - | - |
| craniates | 11 | - | - |
| crankbait | 17 | - | - |
| crankiest | 15 | - | - |
| crankling | 16 | - | - |
| crankness | 15 | - | - |
| crankpins | 17 | - | - |
| crannoges | 12 | - | - |
| crannying | 15 | - | - |
| cranreuch | 16 | - | - |
| crapelike | 17 | - | - |
| crappiest | 15 | - | - |
| crapshoot | 16 | playing craps | - |
| crapulent | 13 | suffering from excessive eating or drinking | crapulent sleep |
| crapulous | 13 | suffering from excessive eating or drinking | a crapulous stomach |
| crashland | 15 | - | - |
| crashpads | 17 | - | - |
| cratefuls | 14 | - | - |
| cratering | 12 | - | - |
| craterlet | 11 | - | - |
| craterous | 11 | - | - |
| craunched | 17 | - | - |
| craunches | 16 | - | - |
| cravatted | 15 | - | - |
| cravenest | 14 | - | - |
| cravening | 15 | - | - |
| crawdaddy | 20 | small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | - |
| crawliest | 14 | - | - |
| crawlings | 15 | - | - |
| crawlways | 20 | - | - |
| crayoners | 14 | - | - |
| crayoning | 15 | - | - |
| crayonist | 14 | - | - |
| craythurs | 17 | - | - |
| crazyweed | 27 | any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock | - |
| creakiest | 15 | - | - |
| creamcups | 17 | California plant with small pale yellow flowers | - |
| creamiest | 13 | - | - |
| creamlaid | 14 | - | - |
| creamlike | 17 | - | - |
| creampuff | 21 | - | - |
| creamware | 16 | - | - |
| creamwove | 19 | - | - |
| creasiest | 11 | - | - |
| creasoted | 12 | - | - |
| creasotes | 11 | - | - |
| creatable | 13 | - | - |
| creatines | 11 | - | - |
| creations | 11 | - | - |
| creatives | 14 | - | - |
| creatress | 11 | - | - |
| creatural | 11 | - | - |
| creatures | 11 | - | - |
| credences | 14 | - | - |
| credendum | 15 | (Christianity) any of the sections into which a creed or other statement of doctrine is divided | - |
| credenzas | 21 | - | - |
| crediting | 13 | - | - |
| creditors | 12 | - | - |
| creekiest | 15 | - | - |
| creekside | 16 | - | - |
| creepages | 14 | - | - |
| creepered | 14 | - | - |
| creepmice | 17 | - | - |
| creeshier | 14 | - | - |
| creeshing | 15 | - | - |
| cremaster | 13 | - | - |
| cremators | 13 | - | - |
| cremocarp | 17 | - | - |
| cremornes | 13 | - | - |
| crenately | 14 | - | - |
| crenation | 11 | one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | - |
| crenature | 11 | one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | - |
| crenelate | 11 | supply with battlements | - |
| creneling | 12 | - | - |
| crenelled | 12 | - | - |
| crenelles | 11 | - | - |
| crenshaws | 17 | - | - |
| crenulate | 11 | having a margin with small rounded teeth | a crenulate leaf |
| creodonta | 12 | - | - |
| creodonts | 12 | - | - |
| creolians | 11 | - | - |
| creolised | 12 | - | - |
| creolises | 11 | - | - |
| creolists | 11 | - | - |
| creolized | 21 | - | - |
| creolizes | 20 | - | - |
| creophagy | 20 | - | - |
| creosoted | 12 | - | - |
| creosotes | 11 | - | - |
| creosotic | 13 | - | - |
| crepances | 15 | - | - |
| crepelike | 17 | - | - |
| creperies | 13 | - | - |
| crepiness | 13 | - | - |
| crepitant | 13 | - | - |
| crepitate | 13 | make a crackling sound | - |
| crepoline | 13 | - | - |
| crepuscle | 15 | the time of day immediately following sunset | - |
| crescendi | 14 | - | - |
| crescents | 13 | - | - |
| cressiest | 11 | - | - |
| crestings | 12 | - | - |
| crestless | 11 | - | - |
| cretinise | 11 | - | - |
| cretinism | 13 | severe hypothyroidism resulting in physical and mental stunting | - |
| cretinize | 20 | - | - |
| cretinoid | 12 | - | - |
| cretonnes | 11 | - | - |
| creutzers | 20 | - | - |
| crevalles | 14 | - | - |
| crevassed | 15 | - | - |
| crevasses | 14 | - | - |
| crevettes | 14 | - | - |
| crewelist | 14 | - | - |
| crewelled | 15 | - | - |
| crewmates | 16 | - | - |
| crewnecks | 20 | - | - |
| cribbages | 16 | - | - |
| cribbings | 16 | - | - |
| cribbling | 16 | - | - |
| cribellar | 13 | - | - |
| cribellum | 15 | - | - |
| cribworks | 20 | - | - |
| cricetids | 14 | - | - |
| cricketed | 18 | - | - |
| crimeless | 13 | - | - |
| crimewave | 19 | - | - |
| criminals | 13 | - | - |
| criminate | 13 | rebuke formally | - |
| crimpiest | 15 | - | - |
| crimpling | 16 | - | - |
| crimsoned | 14 | - | - |
| cringiest | 12 | - | - |
| cringings | 13 | - | - |
| crinklier | 15 | - | - |
| crinklies | 15 | - | - |
| crinkling | 16 | - | - |
| crinoidal | 12 | - | - |
| cripplers | 15 | - | - |
| crispated | 14 | - | - |
| crispened | 14 | - | - |
| crisphead | 17 | - | - |
| crispiest | 13 | - | - |
| crispness | 13 | firm but easily broken | - |
| cristated | 12 | - | - |
| criterial | 11 | serving as a basis for evaluation | - |
| criterium | 13 | a bicycle race held on a short course (usually less than 5 km or 3 miles) | - |
| critiqued | 21 | - | - |
| critiques | 20 | - | - |
| croakiest | 15 | - | - |
| croakings | 16 | - | - |
| croceines | 13 | - | - |
| crocheted | 17 | - | - |
| crocheter | 16 | - | - |
| crocketed | 18 | (of a gable or spire) furnished with a crocket (an ornament in the form of curved or bent foliage) | a crocketed spire |
| crockpots | 19 | - | - |
| crocoites | 13 | - | - |
| crocosmia | 15 | - | - |
| croftings | 15 | - | - |
| crokinole | 15 | - | - |
| cromlechs | 18 | - | - |
| cromornas | 13 | - | - |
| cromornes | 13 | - | - |
| cronyisms | 16 | - | - |
| croodling | 13 | - | - |
| crookback | 23 | a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine | - |
| crookeder | 16 | - | - |
| crookedly | 19 | in a crooked lopsided manner | - |
| crookneck | 21 | yellow squash with a thin curved neck and somewhat warty skin | - |
| crooniest | 11 | - | - |
| croonings | 12 | - | - |
| cropbound | 16 | - | - |
| cropfulls | 16 | - | - |
| croplands | 14 | - | - |
| croppings | 16 | - | - |
| croquante | 20 | - | - |
| croqueted | 21 | - | - |
| crorepati | 13 | - | - |
| crosiered | 12 | - | - |
| crossarms | 13 | - | - |
| crossband | 14 | - | - |
| crossbars | 13 | - | - |
| crossbill | 13 | finch with a bill whose tips cross when closed | - |
| crossbite | 13 | - | - |
| crossbows | 16 | - | - |
| crossbuck | 19 | - | - |
| crosscuts | 13 | - | - |
| crossette | 11 | - | - |
| crossfall | 14 | - | - |
| crossfish | 17 | - | - |
| crosshair | 14 | - | - |
| crosshead | 15 | a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text | - |
| crossings | 12 | - | - |
| crossjack | 24 | the lowermost sail on a mizzenmast | - |
| crosslets | 11 | - | - |
| crosslike | 15 | - | - |
| crossness | 11 | an irritable petulant feeling | - |
| crossruff | 17 | trump alternately in two hands | - |
| crosstalk | 15 | the presence of an unwanted signal via an accidental coupling | - |
| crosstied | 12 | - | - |
| crossties | 11 | - | - |
| crosstree | 11 | - | - |
| crossways | 17 | transversely | - |
| crosswire | 14 | - | - |
| crosswort | 14 | - | - |
| crostatas | 11 | - | - |
| crostinis | 11 | - | - |
| crotaline | 11 | - | - |
| crotalism | 13 | - | - |
| crotchets | 16 | - | - |
| crotonbug | 14 | small light-brown cockroach brought to United States from Europe; a common household pest | - |
| crouching | 17 | - | - |
| croupades | 14 | - | - |
| croupiest | 13 | - | - |
| croustade | 12 | - | - |
| crowbaits | 16 | - | - |
| crowberry | 19 | a low evergreen shrub with small purple flowers and black berrylike fruit | - |
| crowboots | 16 | - | - |
| crowdedly | 19 | - | - |
| crowdfund | 19 | - | - |
| crowfoots | 17 | - | - |
| crowingly | 18 | - | - |
| crownings | 15 | - | - |
| crownland | 15 | - | - |
| crownlets | 14 | - | - |
| crownlike | 18 | - | - |
| crownwork | 21 | (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth | - |
| crowsfeet | 17 | - | - |
| crowsfoot | 17 | - | - |
| crowsteps | 16 | - | - |
| cruciates | 13 | - | - |
| crucibles | 15 | - | - |
| crucifers | 16 | - | - |
| crucifier | 16 | - | - |
| crucifies | 16 | - | - |
| cruddiest | 13 | - | - |
| cruddling | 14 | - | - |
| crudities | 12 | - | - |
| cruellest | 11 | - | - |
| cruelness | 11 | the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance | - |
| cruelties | 11 | - | - |
| cruiseway | 17 | - | - |
| cruisiest | 11 | - | - |
| cruisings | 12 | - | - |
| crumbiest | 15 | - | - |
| crumblier | 15 | - | - |
| crumblies | 15 | - | - |
| crumbling | 16 | - | - |
| crumenals | 13 | - | - |
| crumhorns | 16 | - | - |
| crummacks | 21 | - | - |
| crummiest | 15 | - | - |
| crummocks | 21 | - | - |
| crumpiest | 15 | - | - |
| crumplier | 15 | - | - |
| crumpling | 16 | - | - |
| crunchers | 16 | - | - |
| crunchier | 16 | - | - |
| crunchies | 16 | - | - |
| crunchily | 19 | - | - |
| crunching | 17 | - | - |
| crunkling | 16 | - | - |
| crusaders | 12 | - | - |
| crusadoes | 12 | - | - |
| crushable | 16 | - | - |
| crushings | 15 | - | - |
| crustacea | 13 | class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleas | - |
| crustated | 12 | - | - |
| crustiest | 11 | - | - |
| crustless | 11 | - | - |
| crustlike | 15 | having a hardened crust as a covering | - |
| crutching | 17 | - | - |
| cruzadoes | 21 | - | - |
| crybabies | 18 | - | - |
| cryobanks | 20 | - | - |
| cryocable | 18 | - | - |
| cryolites | 14 | - | - |
| cryometer | 16 | a thermometer designed to measure low temperatures | - |
| cryometry | 19 | - | - |
| cryophyte | 22 | - | - |
| cryoprobe | 18 | - | - |
| cryoscope | 18 | a measuring instrument for measuring freezing and melting points | - |
| cryoscopy | 21 | - | - |
| cryostats | 14 | - | - |
| cryotrons | 14 | - | - |
| cryptadia | 17 | - | - |
| cryptical | 18 | of an obscure nature | - |
| cryptogam | 19 | formerly recognized taxonomic group including all flowerless and seedless plants that reproduce by means of spores: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi | - |
| cryptonym | 21 | - | - |
