Words That Start With: CROC

• an architectural ornament of curved foliage used at the edge of a spire or gable

• needlework done by interlocking looped stitches with a hooked needle

• create by looping or crocheting

• make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle

• 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

• 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

• any of numerous low-growing plants of the genus Crocus having slender grasslike leaves and white or yellow or purple flowers; native chiefly to the Mediterranean region but widely cultivated

• A crocodile.

• A plastic slip-on shoe.

• A perennial flowering plant (of the genus Crocus in the Iridaceae family). Saffron is obtained from the stamens of Crocus sativus.

• Any of various similar flowering plants, such as the autumn crocus and prairie crocus.

• A deep yellow powder, the oxide of some metal (especially iron), calcined to a red or deep yellow colour.

• A fraudulent doctor; a quack.