English words starting with crin

Meanings of Crinal:

adjective

Of, relating to, or characteristic of the hair, especially of the head.

Meanings of Crinated:

adjective

Hairy; having hair or hair-like appendages. also (of a leaf, cell, etc.): with a jagged edge, serrate, notched.

Meanings of Crinch:

verb

Crunch.

Meanings of Crine:

verb

To shrink, shrivel, especially with age or heat; to dry up. also with in.

Meanings of Crined:

adjective

Shrunken; shrivelled.

Meanings of Crinet:

noun

A set of segmented metal plates which cover the top and sides of a horse's neck as part of its protective armour. compare "crinière"; "cranet".

Meanings of Cringe:

verb

Bend one's head and body in fear or apprehension or in a servile manner.

Usage examples:

He cringed away from the blow

noun

An act of cringing.

Usage examples:

The chuckle turned into a cringe as i swung a little, due to the movement caused by my laughter.

Meanings of Cringed:

verb

Bend one's head and body in fear or apprehension or in a servile manner.

Usage examples:

He cringed away from the blow

noun

An act of cringing.

Usage examples:

The chuckle turned into a cringe as i swung a little, due to the movement caused by my laughter.

Meanings of Cringeling:

adjective

Cringing; servile.

noun

A cringing or servile person, a sycophant; a coward.

Meanings of Cringes:

verb

Bend one's head and body in fear or apprehension or in a servile manner.

Usage examples:

He cringed away from the blow

noun

An act of cringing.

Usage examples:

The chuckle turned into a cringe as i swung a little, due to the movement caused by my laughter.

Meanings of Cringey:

adjective

Very embarrassing

Usage examples:

It was a bit cringey when he got her name wrong., cringy old school photos

Meanings of Cringing:

adjective

Bent in fear or apprehension.

Usage examples:

He lugged his carry-on bag and computer case past cringing passengers wary of being hit

verb

Bend one's head and body in fear or apprehension or in a servile manner.

Usage examples:

He cringed away from the blow

Meanings of Cringingness:

noun

Cringing quality; obsequiousness, servility; timidity.

Meanings of Cringle:

noun

A ring of rope containing a thimble, for another rope to pass through.

Usage examples:

Along that edge of the sail there will be a series of cringles, or large stainless grommets.

Meanings of Criniferous:

adjective

Having hair; covered in hair, hairy.

Meanings of Criniger:

noun

A genus of african and asian bulbuls (family pycnonotidae), which have bristly hairlike feathers around the bill.

Meanings of Crinigerous:

adjective

Having hair.

Meanings of Crinite:

adjective

Having hairlike tufts; hairy.

Usage examples:

The minute branchlets of the yellow thallus produce the irregularly radiated and crinite appearance…

Meanings of Crinivorous:

adjective

That eats hair.

Meanings of Crinkle:

verb

Form into small surface creases or wrinkles.

Usage examples:

Rose's face crinkled in bewilderment

noun

A wrinkle or crease on the surface of something.

Usage examples:

There was a crinkle of suspicion on her forehead

Meanings of Crinkleroot:

noun

A toothwort or pepper root (genus cardamine, family brassicaceae (cruciferae)).

Meanings of Crinkliest:

adjective

Full of creases or wrinkles; wrinkled.

Usage examples:

Brown crinkly paper

Meanings of Crinkly:

adjective

Full of creases or wrinkles; wrinkled.

Usage examples:

Brown crinkly paper

Meanings of Crinoid:

noun

An echinoderm of the class crinoidea, which comprises the sea lilies and feather stars.

Usage examples:

Commonly, the host is a brachiopod, but it may be a coral, bryozoan colony, crinoid stem, or mollusk.

adjective

Relating to or denoting crinoids.

Usage examples:

Grainy rocks in the upper third contain an abundance of disarticulated crinoid debris.

Meanings of Crinoidea:

plural noun

A class of echinoderms that comprises the sea lilies and feather stars. they have slender feathery arms and (in some kinds) a stalk for attachment, and were abundant in the palaeozoic era.

Usage examples:

This study reports the mtdna sequence and genome map for a member of the echinoderm class crinoidea…