Words Starting CR & Ending K

• a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink

• nonsense; foolish talk

• an earthen jar (made of baked clay)

• release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric

• soil with or as with crock

• English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004)

• a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)

• twist (a body part) into a strained position

• A sturdy timber with a curve or angle used for primary framing of a timber house, usually used in pairs.

• A vehicle that has features of both a car and a truck.

• To make lame.

• a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)

• any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma

• someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

• a circular segment of a curve

• a long staff with one end being hook shaped

• bend or cause to bend

• a bad-tempered person

• a whimsically eccentric person

• an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant

• a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle

• (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

• travel along a zigzag path

• start by cranking

• rotate with a crank

• fasten with a crank

• bend into the shape of a crank

• a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog)

• pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

• utter a hoarse sound, like a raven

• make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath

• a squeaking sound

• make a high-pitched, screeching noise