First Names Rhyming CRISTOFER
English Words Rhyming CRISTOFER
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CRİSTOFER AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CRİSTOFER (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 8 Letters (ristofer) - English Words That Ends with ristofer:
Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (istofer) - English Words That Ends with istofer:
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (stofer) - English Words That Ends with stofer:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (tofer) - English Words That Ends with tofer:
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (ofer) - English Words That Ends with ofer:
| roofer | noun (n.) One who puts on roofs. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (fer) - English Words That Ends with fer:
| afer | noun (n.) The southwest wind. |
| anatifer | noun (n.) Same as Anatifa. |
| bluffer | noun (n.) One who bluffs. |
| buffer | noun (n.) An elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car. |
| | noun (n.) A pad or cushion forming the end of a fender, which receives the blow; -- sometimes called buffing apparatus. |
| | noun (n.) One who polishes with a buff. |
| | noun (n.) A wheel for buffing; a buff. |
| | noun (n.) A good-humored, slow-witted fellow; -- usually said of an elderly man. |
| chafer | noun (n.) One who chafes. |
| | noun (n.) A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of beetle; the cockchafer. The name is also applied to other species; as, the rose chafer. |
| chaffer | noun (n.) One who chaffs. |
| | noun (n.) Bargaining; merchandise. |
| | noun (n.) To treat or dispute about a purchase; to bargain; to haggle or higgle; to negotiate. |
| | noun (n.) To talk much and idly; to chatter. |
| | verb (v. t.) To buy or sell; to trade in. |
| | verb (v. t.) To exchange; to bandy, as words. |
| chamfer | noun (n.) The surface formed by cutting away the arris, or angle, formed by two faces of a piece of timber, stone, etc. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cut a furrow in, as in a column; to groove; to channel; to flute. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make a chamfer on. |
| chauffer | noun (n.) A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottom, and an open top. |
| chelifer | noun (n.) See Book scorpion, under Book. |
| cockchafer | noun (n.) A beetle of the genus Melolontha (esp. M. vulgaris) and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle. |
| coffer | noun (n.) A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables. |
| | noun (n.) Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural. |
| | noun (n.) A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson. |
| | noun (n.) A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire. |
| | noun (n.) The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam. |
| | verb (v. t.) To put into a coffer. |
| | verb (v. t.) To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering. |
| | verb (v. t.) To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers. |
| conchifer | noun (n.) One of the Conchifera. |
| conifer | noun (n.) A tree or shrub bearing cones; one of the order Coniferae, which includes the pine, cypress, and (according to some) the yew. |
| corticifer | noun (n.) One of the Gorgoniacea; -- so called because the fleshy part surrounds a solid axis, like a bark. |
| crucifer | noun (n.) Any plant of the order Cruciferae. |
| dapifer | noun (n.) One who brings meat to the table; hence, in some countries, the official title of the grand master or steward of the king's or a nobleman's household. |
| doffer | noun (n.) A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton from the cards. |
| | noun (n.) A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar, with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the fiber from the cards. |
| | noun (n.) A worker who replaces full bobbins by empty ones on the throstle or ring frames. |
| duffer | noun (n.) A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap, flashy articles, as sham jewelry; hence, a sham or cheat. |
| | noun (n.) A stupid, awkward, inefficient person. |
| | noun (n.) See Shicer. |
| | noun (n.) Any common domestic pigeon. |
| | noun (n.) One who duffs cattle, etc. |
| feoffer | noun (n.) One who enfeoffs or grants a fee. |
| fierasfer | noun (n.) A genus of small, slender fishes, remarkable for their habit of living as commensals in other animals. One species inhabits the gill cavity of the pearl oyster near Panama; another lives within an East Indian holothurian. |
| fifer | noun (n.) One who plays on a fife. |
| foraminifer | noun (n.) One of the foraminifera. |
| gaffer | noun (n.) An old fellow; an aged rustic. |
| | noun (n.) A foreman or overseer of a gang of laborers. |
| golfer | noun (n.) One who plays golf. |
| graffer | noun (n.) a notary or scrivener. |
| guffer | noun (n.) The eelpout; guffer eel. |
| guttifer | noun (n.) A plant that exudes gum or resin. |
| halfer | noun (n.) One who possesses or gives half only; one who shares. |
| | noun (n.) A male fallow deer gelded. |
| heifer | noun (n.) A young cow. |
| huffer | noun (n.) A bully; a blusterer. |
| loafer | noun (n.) One who loafs; a lazy lounger. |
| lucifer | noun (n.) The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; -- applied in Isaiah by a metaphor to a king of Babylon. |
| | noun (n.) Hence, Satan. |
| | noun (n.) A match made of a sliver of wood tipped with a combustible substance, and ignited by friction; -- called also lucifer match, and locofoco. See Locofoco. |
| | noun (n.) A genus of free-swimming macruran Crustacea, having a slender body and long appendages. |
| luffer | noun (n.) See Louver. |
| mammifer | noun (n.) A mammal. See Mammalia. |
| quaffer | noun (n.) One who quaffs, or drinks largely. |
| | noun (n.) One who quaffs, or drinks largely. |
| palpifer | noun (n.) Same as Palpiger. |
| proffer | noun (n.) An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender; as, proffers of peace or friendship. |
| | noun (n.) Essay; attempt. |
| | verb (v. t.) To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of; as, to proffer a gift; to proffer services; to proffer friendship. |
| | verb (v. t.) To essay or attempt of one's own accord; to undertake, or propose to undertake. |
| puffer | noun (n.) One who puffs; one who praises with noisy or extravagant commendation. |
| | noun (n.) One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder. |
| | noun (n.) Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the species of Tetrodon and Diodon; -- called also blower, puff-fish, swellfish, and globefish. |
| | noun (n.) The common, or harbor, porpoise. |
| | noun (n.) A kier. |
| reefer | noun (n.) One who reefs; -- a name often given to midshipmen. |
| | noun (n.) A close-fitting lacket or short coat of thick cloth. |
| rotifer | noun (n.) One of the Rotifera. See Illust. in Appendix. |
| scoffer | noun (n.) One who scoffs. |
| signifer | adjective (a.) Bearing signs. |
| siphonifer | noun (n.) Any cephalopod having a siphonate shell. |
| snuffer | noun (n.) One who snuffs. |
| | noun (n.) The common porpoise. |
| sonifer | noun (n.) A kind of ear trumpet for the deaf, or the partially deaf. |
| spirifer | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of fossil brachipods of the genus Spirifer, or Delthyris, and allied genera, in which the long calcareous supports of the arms form a large spiral, or helix, on each side. |
| stuffer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, stuffs. |
| surfer | noun (n.) The surf duck. |
| transfer | noun (n.) The act of transferring, or the state of being transferred; the removal or conveyance of a thing from one place or person to another. |
| | noun (n.) The conveyance of right, title, or property, either real or personal, from one person to another, whether by sale, by gift, or otherwise. |
| | noun (n.) That which is transferred. |
| | noun (n.) A picture, or the like, removed from one body or ground to another, as from wood to canvas, or from one piece of canvas to another. |
| | noun (n.) A drawing or writing printed off from one surface on another, as in ceramics and in many decorative arts. |
| | noun (n.) A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another. |
| | noun (n.) A pathological process by virtue of which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side. |
| | verb (v. t.) To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make over the possession or control of; to pass; to convey, as a right, from one person to another; to give; as, the title to land is transferred by deed. |
| | verb (v. t.) To remove from one substance or surface to another; as, to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone. |
| umbellifer | noun (n.) A plant producing an umbel or umbels. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CRİSTOFER (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 8 Letters (cristofe) - Words That Begins with cristofe:
Rhyming Words According to First 7 Letters (cristof) - Words That Begins with cristof:
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (cristo) - Words That Begins with cristo:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (crist) - Words That Begins with crist:
| cristate | adjective (a.) Crested. |
| cristallology | noun (n.) The science of the crystalline structure of inorganic bodies. |
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (cris) - Words That Begins with cris:
| crisis | noun (n.) The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point. |
| | noun (n.) That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat. |
| crisp | noun (n.) That which is crisp or brittle; the state of being crisp or brittle; as, burned to a crisp; specifically, the rind of roasted pork; crackling. |
| | adjective (a.) Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair. |
| | adjective (a.) Curled with the ripple of the water. |
| | adjective (a.) Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture; as, crisp snow. |
| | adjective (a.) Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness; in a fresh, unwilted condition. |
| | adjective (a.) Lively; sparking; effervescing. |
| | adjective (a.) Brisk; crackling; cheerful; lively. |
| | adjective (a.) To curl; to form into ringlets, as hair, or the nap of cloth; to interweave, as the branches of trees. |
| | adjective (a.) To cause to undulate irregularly, as crape or water; to wrinkle; to cause to ripple. Cf. Crimp. |
| | adjective (a.) To make crisp or brittle, as in cooking. |
| | verb (v. i.) To undulate or ripple. Cf. Crisp, v. t. |
| crisping | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crisp |
| crispate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Crispated |
| crispated | adjective (a.) Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted. |
| crispation | noun (n.) The act or process of curling, or the state of being curled. |
| | noun (n.) A very slight convulsive or spasmodic contraction of certain muscles, external or internal. |
| crispature | noun (n.) The state of being crispate. |
| crisper | noun (n.) One who, or that which, crisps or curls; an instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth, as in chinchilla. |
| crispin | noun (n.) A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron saint of the craft. |
| | noun (n.) A member of a union or association of shoemakers. |
| crispness | noun (n.) The state or quality of being crisp. |
| crispy | adjective (a.) Formed into short, close ringlets; frizzed; crisp; as, crispy locks. |
| | adjective (a.) Crisp; brittle; as, a crispy pie crust. |
| crissal | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the crissum; as, crissal feathers. |
| | adjective (a.) Having highly colored under tail coverts; as, the crissal thrasher. |
| crisscross | noun (n.) A mark or cross, as the signature of a person who is unable to write. |
| | noun (n.) A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross. |
| | verb (v. t.) To mark or cover with cross lines; as, a paper was crisscrossed with red marks. |
| | adverb (adv.) In opposite directions; in a way to cross something else; crossing one another at various angles and in various ways. |
| | adverb (adv.) With opposition or hindrance; at cross purposes; contrarily; as, things go crisscross. |
| crissum | noun (n.) That part of a bird, or the feathers, surrounding the cloacal opening; the under tail coverts. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (cri) - Words That Begins with cri:
| crib | noun (n.) A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals. |
| | noun (n.) A stall for oxen or other cattle. |
| | noun (n.) A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child. |
| | noun (n.) A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats. |
| | noun (n.) A hovel; a hut; a cottage. |
| | noun (n.) A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft. |
| | noun (n.) A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A small raft of timber. |
| | noun (n.) A small theft; anything purloined;; a plagiaris/; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons. |
| | noun (n.) A miner's luncheon. |
| | noun (n.) The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage. |
| | verb (v. t.) To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp. |
| | verb (v. t.) To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton. |
| | verb (v. i.) To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations. |
| | verb (v. i.) To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination. |
| | verb (v. i.) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse. |
| cribbing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crib |
| | noun (n.) The act of inclosing or confining in a crib or in close quarters. |
| | noun (n.) Purloining; stealing; plagiarizing. |
| | noun (n.) A framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A vicious habit of a horse; crib-biting. The horse lays hold of the crib or manger with his teeth and draws air into the stomach with a grunting sound. |
| criber | noun (n.) Alt. of Crib-biter |
| cribble | noun (n.) A coarse sieve or screen. |
| | noun (n.) Coarse flour or meal. |
| | adjective (a.) Coarse; as, cribble bread. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause to pass through a sieve or riddle; to sift. |
| cribbling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cribble |
| cribellum | noun (n.) A peculiar perforated organ of certain spiders (Ciniflonidae), used for spinning a special kind of silk. |
| cribrate | adjective (a.) Cribriform. |
| cribration | noun (n.) The act or process of separating the finer parts of drugs from the coarser by sifting. |
| cribriform | adjective (a.) Resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced with holes; as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress. |
| cribrose | adjective (a.) Perforated like a sieve; cribriform. |
| cric | noun (n.) The ring which turns inward and condenses the flame of a lamp. |
| crick | noun (n.) The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it. |
| | noun (n.) A painful, spasmodic affection of the muscles of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part. |
| | noun (n.) A small jackscrew. |
| cricket | noun (n.) An orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllus, and allied genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the front wings. |
| | noun (n.) A low stool. |
| | noun (n.) A game much played in England, and sometimes in America, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides. |
| | noun (n.) A small false roof, or the raising of a portion of a roof, so as to throw off water from behind an obstacle, such as a chimney. |
| | verb (v. i.) To play at cricket. |
| cricketer | noun (n.) One who plays at cricket. |
| cricoid | adjective (a.) Resembling a ring; -- said esp. of the cartilage at the larynx, and the adjoining parts. |
| cricothyroid | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining both to the cricoid and the thyroid cartilages. |
| crier | noun (n.) One who cries; one who makes proclamation. |
| | noun (n.) an officer who proclaims the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation; as, a town-crier. |
| crime | noun (n.) Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law. |
| | noun (n.) Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong. |
| | noun (n.) Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity. |
| | noun (n.) That which occasion crime. |
| crimeful | adjective (a.) Criminal; wicked; contrary to law, right, or dury. |
| crimeless | adjective (a.) Free from crime; innocent. |
| criminal | noun (n.) One who has commited a crime; especially, one who is found guilty by verdict, confession, or proof; a malefactor; a felon. |
| | adjective (a.) Guilty of crime or sin. |
| | adjective (a.) Involving a crime; of the nature of a crime; -- said of an act or of conduct; as, criminal carelessness. |
| | adjective (a.) Relating to crime; -- opposed to civil; as, the criminal code. |
| criminalist | noun (n.) One versed in criminal law. |
| criminality | noun (n.) The quality or state of being criminal; that which constitutes a crime; guiltiness; guilt. |
| criminalness | noun (n.) Criminality. |
| criminating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Criminate |
| crimination | noun (n.) The act of accusing; accusation; charge; complaint. |
| criminative | adjective (a.) Charging with crime; accusing; criminatory. |
| criminatory | adjective (a.) Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing; as, a criminatory conscience. |
| criminology | noun (n.) A treatise on crime or the criminal population. |
| criminous | adjective (a.) Criminal; involving great crime or grave charges; very wicked; heinous. |
| crimosin | noun (n.) See Crimson. |
| crimping | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crimp |
| crimp | noun (n.) A coal broker. |
| | noun (n.) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service. |
| | noun (n.) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced. |
| | noun (n.) Hair which has been crimped; -- usually in pl. |
| | noun (n.) A game at cards. |
| | adjective (a.) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. |
| | adjective (a.) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory. |
| | verb (v. t.) To fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that the material will retain the shape intended; to give a wavy appearance to; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to crimp a ruffle. Cf. Crisp. |
| | verb (v. t.) To pinch and hold; to seize. |
| | verb (v. t.) to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, etc. |
| | verb (v. t.) In cartridge making, to fold the edge of (a cartridge case) inward so as to close the mouth partly and confine the charge. |
| crimpage | noun (n.) The act or practice of crimping; money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men. |
| crimper | noun (n.) One who, or that which, crimps |
| | noun (n.) A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape. |
| | noun (n.) A device for giving hair a wavy appearance. |
| | noun (n.) A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics. |
| crimpling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crimple |
| crimpy | adjective (a.) Having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool of the Saxony sheep. |
| crimson | noun (n.) A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general. |
| | adjective (a.) Of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red. |
| | verb (v. t.) To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden. |
| | (b. t.) To become crimson; to blush. |
| crimsoning | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crimson |
| crinal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the hair. |
| crinated | adjective (a.) Having hair; hairy. |
| crinatory | adjective (a.) Crinitory. |
| crincum | noun (n.) A twist or bend; a turn; a whimsey. |
| crined | adjective (a.) Having the hair of a different tincture from the rest of the body; as, a charge crined of a red tincture. |
| crinel | noun (n.) Alt. of Crinet |
| crinet | noun (n.) A very fine, hairlike feather. |
| cringing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cringe |
| cringe | noun (n.) Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility. |
| | verb (v. t.) To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn. |
| | verb (v. t.) To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort. |
| cringeling | noun (n.) One who cringes meanly; a fawner. |
| cringer | noun (n.) One who cringes. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CRİSTOFER:
English Words which starts with 'cris' and ends with 'ofer':
English Words which starts with 'cri' and ends with 'fer':
English Words which starts with 'cr' and ends with 'er':
| crabber | noun (n.) One who catches crabs. |
| crabeater | noun (n.) The cobia. |
| | noun (n.) An etheostomoid fish of the southern United States (Hadropterus nigrofasciatus). |
| | noun (n.) A small European heron (Ardea minuta, and other allied species). |
| craber | noun (n.) The water rat. |
| cracker | noun (n.) One who, or that which, cracks. |
| | noun (n.) A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow. |
| | noun (n.) A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclosed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; -- often called firecracker. |
| | noun (n.) A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker. |
| | noun (n.) A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States. |
| | noun (n.) The pintail duck. |
| | noun (n.) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc. |
| craftsmaster | noun (n.) One skilled in his craft or trade; one of superior cunning. |
| craker | noun (n.) One who boasts; a braggart. |
| crammer | noun (n.) One who crams; esp., one who prepares a pupil hastily for an examination, or a pupil who is thus prepared. |
| craniometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the size of skulls. |
| crater | noun (n.) The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up. |
| | noun (n.) The pit left by the explosion of a mine. |
| | noun (n.) A constellation of the southen hemisphere; -- called also the Cup. |
| craver | noun (n.) One who craves or begs. |
| crawler | noun (n.) One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile. |
| crayer | noun (n.) See Crare. |
| creaser | noun (n.) A tool, or a sewing-machine attachment, for making lines or creases on leather or cloth, as guides to sew by. |
| | noun (n.) A tool for making creases or beads, as in sheet iron, or for rounding small tubes. |
| | noun (n.) A tool for making the band impression distinct on the back. |
| creeper | noun (n.) One who, or that which, creeps; any creeping thing. |
| | noun (n.) A plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia). |
| | noun (n.) A small bird of the genus Certhia, allied to the wrens. The brown or common European creeper is C. familiaris, a variety of which (var. Americana) inhabits America; -- called also tree creeper and creeptree. The American black and white creeper is Mniotilta varia. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of patten mounted on short pieces of iron instead of rings; also, a fixture with iron points worn on a shoe to prevent one from slipping. |
| | noun (n.) A spurlike device strapped to the boot, which enables one to climb a tree or pole; -- called often telegraph creepers. |
| | noun (n.) A small, low iron, or dog, between the andirons. |
| | noun (n.) An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dragging at the bottom of a well, or any other body of water, and bringing up what may lie there. |
| | noun (n.) Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen. |
| | noun (n.) Crockets. See Crocket. |
| cremaster | noun (n.) A thin muscle which serves to draw up the testicle. |
| | noun (n.) The apex of the last abdominal segment of an insect. |
| creutzer | noun (n.) See Kreutzer. |
| crippler | noun (n.) A wooden tool used in graining leather. |
| criticaster | noun (n.) A contemptible or vicious critic. |
| criticiser | noun (n.) One who criticises; a critic. |
| croaker | noun (n.) One who croaks, murmurs, grumbles, or complains unreasonably; one who habitually forebodes evil. |
| | noun (n.) A small American fish (Micropogon undulatus), of the Atlantic coast. |
| | noun (n.) An American fresh-water fish (Aplodinotus grunniens); -- called also drum. |
| | noun (n.) The surf fish of California. |
| crocker | noun (n.) A potter. |
| crofter | noun (n.) One who rents and tills a small farm or helding; as, the crofters of Scotland. |
| croker | noun (n.) A cultivator of saffron; a dealer in saffron. |
| cropper | noun (n.) One that crops. |
| | noun (n.) A variety of pigeon with a large crop; a pouter. |
| | noun (n.) A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth. |
| | noun (n.) A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse. |
| crosier | noun (n.) The pastoral staff of a bishop (also of an archbishop, being the symbol of his office as a shepherd of the flock of God. |
| crossbower | noun (n.) A crossbowman. |
| crouper | noun (n.) See Crupper. |
| croupier | noun (n.) One who presides at a gaming table and collects the stakes. |
| | noun (n.) One who, at a public dinner party, sits at the lower end of the table as assistant chairman. |
| crowder | noun (n.) One who plays on a crowd; a fiddler. |
| | noun (n.) One who crowds or pushes. |
| crowflower | noun (n.) A kind of campion; according to Gerarde, the Lychnis Flos-cuculi. |
| crowkeeper | noun (n.) A person employed to scare off crows; hence, a scarecrow. |
| crowner | noun (n.) One who, or that which, crowns. |
| | noun (n.) A coroner. |
| crozier | noun (n.) See Crosier. |
| crucifier | noun (n.) One who crucifies; one who subjects himself or another to a painful trial. |
| cruiser | noun (n.) One who, or a vessel that, cruises; -- usually an armed vessel. |
| | noun (n.) A man-of-war less heavily armed and armored than a battle ship, having great speed, and generally of from two thousand to twelve thousand tons displacement. |
| cruller | noun (n.) A kind of sweet cake cut in strips and curled or twisted, and fried crisp in boiling fat. |
| crupper | noun (n.) The buttocks or rump of a horse. |
| | noun (n.) A leather loop, passing under a horse's tail, and buckled to the saddle to keep it from slipping forwards. |
| | verb (v. t.) To fit with a crupper; to place a crupper upon; as, to crupper a horse. |
| crusader | noun (n.) One engaged in a crusade; as, the crusaders of the Middle Ages. |
| crusher | noun (n.) One who, or that which, crushes. |
| cryer | noun (n.) The female of the hawk; a falcon-gentil. |
| cryptographer | noun (n.) One who writes in cipher, or secret characters. |
| crystallographer | noun (n.) One who describes crystals, or the manner of their formation; one versed in crystallography. |
| cryometer | noun (n.) A thermometer for the measurement of low temperatures, esp. such an instrument containing alcohol or some other liquid of a lower freezing point than mercury. |
