English words starting with cry

Meanings of Cry:

verb

Shed tears, typically as an expression of distress, pain, or sorrow.

Usage examples:

Don't cry—it'll be all right

noun

A loud inarticulate shout or scream expressing a powerful feeling or emotion.

Usage examples:

A cry of despair

Meanings of Cry for:

idiom

Need badly or desperately

phrasal verb

To need a particular thing very much

Usage examples:

The country is crying out for a change in leadership.

Meanings of Cry off:

phrasal verb

Go back on a promise or fail to keep to an arrangement.

Usage examples:

We were going to spain together and he cried off at the last moment

Meanings of Cry out:

phrasal verb

Utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy

Meanings of Cry over spilled milk:

idiom

To express regret about something that has already happened or cannot be changed

Usage examples:

Yes, we made a mistake, but there’s no point in crying over spilled milk.

Meanings of Cry wolf:

To ask for help when you do not need it, which may prevent people from helping you when you do need it

Usage examples:

The administration has cried wolf so many times, it's difficult to know if there's a problem or not.

phrase

Call for help when it is not needed, with the effect that one is not believed when one really does need help.

Usage examples:

He accused her of crying wolf

Meanings of Cry your eyes out:

idiom

To cry a lot

Usage examples:

I was so upset that day, i cried my eyes out.

Meanings of Cry-out-for:

phrasal verb

To need a particular thing very much

Usage examples:

The country is crying out for a change in leadership.

Meanings of Cry-over:

idiom

To express regret about something that has already happened or cannot be changed

Usage examples:

Yes, we made a mistake, but there’s no point in crying over spilled milk.

Meanings of Crybabies:

noun

A person, especially a child, who sheds tears frequently or readily.

Usage examples:

She just didn't want to put up with the little brat even if it meant making herself out to be a cow…

Meanings of Crybaby:

noun

A person, especially a child, who sheds tears frequently or readily.

Usage examples:

She just didn't want to put up with the little brat even if it meant making herself out to be a cow…

Meanings of Crying:

adjective

Shedding tears; weeping.

Usage examples:

A crying baby

noun

Shedding tears.

Usage examples:

A crying baby

verb

Shed tears, typically as an expression of distress, pain, or sorrow.

Usage examples:

Don't cry—it'll be all right

Meanings of Crying-out:

phrasal verb

To shout or make a loud noise because you are frightened, hurt, etc.

Usage examples:

She cried out in pain as the bullet grazed her shoulder.

Meanings of Crying-shame:

idiom

A great misfortune

Usage examples:

It’s a crying shame that new mothers have to go back to work after six weeks.

Meanings of Cryobiology:

noun

The branch of biology which deals with the properties of organisms and tissues at low temperatures.

Usage examples:

This site lists cryobiology topics that make excellent science fair ideas and do not require much e…

Meanings of Cryocautery:

noun

A surgical instrument that freezes tissue; the use of such an instrument, especially for the destruction of abnormal tissue.

Meanings of Cryoconite:

noun

A grey sediment found at the bottom of holes in the surface of an ice field or glacier, consisting chiefly of wind-blown dust and often also microorganisms.

Meanings of Cryogen:

noun

A substance used to produce very low temperatures.

Usage examples:

The first cryogens were liquid air and compressed carbon dioxide snow.

Meanings of Cryogenic:

adjective

Relating to or involving the branch of physics that deals with the production and effects of very low temperatures.

Usage examples:

A powerful cryogenic engine

Meanings of Cryogenically:

adverb

In a way that relates to the freezing of dead human bodies, cells, or body parts at very low temperatures

Usage examples:

The blood in the umbilical cord was cryogenically frozen in hopes of using stem cells from it in a …

Meanings of Cryogenics:

noun

Another term for cryonics.

plural noun

The branch of physics dealing with the production and effects of very low temperatures.

Usage examples:

The munich researchers, wanting to stay in the business but having neither sufficient expertise nor…

Meanings of Cryogens:

noun

A substance used to produce very low temperatures.

Usage examples:

The first cryogens were liquid air and compressed carbon dioxide snow.

Meanings of Cryohydrate:

noun

A solid substance having a distinct composition and melting point formed by the combination of a salt or other crystalline compound with water (ice) at a temperature below freezing.

Meanings of Cryohydric:

adjective

Of or relating to distinctive mixtures of crystalline substances with water (ice), or their formation. chiefly in "cryohydric point" noun the eutectic point or temperature of a solution of a salt in water. "cryohydric temperature" noun = "cryohydric point".

Meanings of Cryolites:

noun

A white or colourless mineral consisting of a fluoride of sodium and aluminium. it is added to bauxite as a flux in aluminium smelting.

Usage examples:

The deposit at the eureka tunnel was mined for cryolite and thomsenolite, which were used as a flux…