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credit card noun : a card authorizing purchases on credit

cred·i·tor noun : a person to whom money is owed

cre·do noun, plural credos [ORIGIN: ME, fr. L, I believe]

1 : a set of fundamental beliefs : CREED

2 : a guiding principle

cred·u·lous adjective : inclined to believe esp. on slight evidence

— cre·du·li·ty noun

— cred·u·lous·ly adverb

Cree noun, plural Cree or Crees : a member of an American Indian people of Canada

creed noun [ORIGIN: ME crede, fr. OE crēda, fr. L credo I believe, first word of the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds]

1 : a statement of the essential beliefs of a religious faith; also : the body of such beliefs

2 : a guiding principle

Synonyms

[1] cult, faith, persuasion, religion—more at RELIGION

[2] doctrine, gospel, ideology, philosophy; also manifesto

creek noun 1 chiefly British : a small inlet

2 : a stream smaller than a river

Synonyms

brook, rill, rivulet, streamlet; also freshet, runoff; river, stream, watercourse, waterway; canal, race, millrace, millstream

Creek noun : a member of an American Indian people of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida

creel noun : a wicker basket esp. for carrying fish

1creep verb crept ; creep·ing 1 : to move along with the body prone and close to the ground : CRAWL

2 : to feel as though insects were crawling on the skin

3 : to grow over a surface like ivy

4 : to go very slowly

5 : to enter, advance, or progress gradually so as to be almost unnoticed

— creep·er noun

Synonyms

[1] crawl, grovel, slither, snake, worm—more at CRAWL

[4] crawl, drag, inch, plod, poke—more at CRAWL

2creep noun : an unpleasant or obnoxious person

Synonyms

beast, boor, churl, clown, cretin, cur, heel, jerk, joker, louse, lout, skunk, slob, snake—more at JERK

creep·ing adjective : developing or advancing by imperceptible degrees

Synonyms

dilatory, laggard, languid, poky, slow, sluggish, tardy—more at SLOW

creepy adjective creep·i·er; -est : having or producing a nervous shivery fear

Synonyms

eerie, haunting, spooky, uncanny, unearthly, weird—more at EERIE

cre·mate verb cre·mat·ed; cre·mat·ing : to reduce (a dead body) to ashes with fire

— cre·ma·tion noun

cre·ma·to·ry noun, plural -ries : a furnace for cremating; also : a structure containing such a furnace

crème noun, plural crèmes [ORIGIN: F, lit., cream]

: a sweet liqueur

cren·el·lat·ed or cren·el·at·ed adjective : having battlements

— cren·el·la·tion noun

Cre·ole noun 1 : a descendant of early French or Spanish settlers of the U.S. Gulf states preserving their speech and culture; also : a person of mixed French or Spanish and black descent speaking a dialect of French or Spanish

2 not cap : a language that has evolved from a pidgin but serves as the native language of a speech community

cre·o·sote noun : an oily liquid obtained by distillation of coal tar and used in preserving wood

crepe or crêpe noun : a light crinkled fabric of any of various fibers

crêpe su·zette noun, plural crêpes suzette or crêpe suzettes often cap S : a thin folded or rolled pancake in a hot orange-butter sauce that is sprinkled with a liqueur and set ablaze for serving

cre·pus·cu·lar adjective 1 : of, relating to, or resembling twilight

2 : occurring or active during twilight <~ insects>

cre·scen·do adverb or adjective [ORIGIN: It]

: increasing in loudness — used as a direction in music

— crescendo noun

cres·cent noun [ORIGIN: ME cressant, fr. AF fr. prp. of crestre to grow, increase, fr. L crescere]

: the moon at any stage between new moon and first quarter and between last quarter and new moon; also : something shaped like the figure of the crescent moon with a convex and a concave edge

— cres·cen·tic adjective

cress noun : any of several salad plants related to the mustards

1crest noun 1 : a tuft or process on the head of an animal (as a bird)

2 : a heraldic device

3 : an upper part, edge, or limit