| ACCRESCENCE | • accrescence n. (Rare) Continuous growth; an accretion. • ACCRESCENCE n. growing together. |
| BITTERCRESS | • bittercress n. Barbarea vulgaris (garden yellowrocket), a biennial herb native to Europe. • bittercress n. Any plant of the Cardamine genus, especially Cardamine bulbosa and Cardamine hirsuta. • bitter-cress n. Alternative form of bittercress. |
| CONCRESCENT | • concrescent adj. Growing together. • CONCRESCENT adj. growing together. |
| CRESCENDOED | • crescendoed v. Simple past tense and past participle of crescendo. • CRESCENDO v. to come to a crescendo. |
| CRESCENDOES | • crescendoes n. Plural of crescendo. • crescendoes v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crescendo. • CRESCENDO v. to come to a crescendo. |
| CRESCENTADE | • crescentade n. (Archaic) A religious war for Islam. • CRESCENTADE n. a religious war for Islam. |
| CRESCOGRAPH | • crescograph n. A device for measuring growth in plants. • CRESCOGRAPH n. an instrument for measuring the growth of plants. |
| CRESTFALLEN | • crestfallen adj. Sad because of a disappointment. • crestfallen adj. (Obsolete, of a horse) Having the crest, or upper part of the neck, hanging to one side. • CRESTFALLEN adj. dispirited or disappointed by having one's hopes dashed. |
| DECRESCENCE | • DECRESCENCE n. the state of being decrescent, waning. |
| DECRESCENDO | • decrescendo n. (Music) An instruction to play gradually more softly. • decrescendo v. (Music) To gradually become quieter. • decrescendo adj. Becoming quieter gradually. |
| EXCRESCENCE | • excrescence n. Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else. • excrescence n. A disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct. • excrescence n. (Phonetics) The epenthesis of a consonant, e.g., warmth as [ˈwɔrmpθ] (adding a [p] between [m] and [θ])… |
| EXCRESCENCY | • excrescency n. An excrescent state or condition; the quality or fact of growing out of something; abnormal or excessive development. • excrescency n. (Obsolete) An exuberant outburst; an extravagance. • excrescency n. (Obsolete) An excrescence, and excrescent growth; an outgrowth. |
| ROCKCRESSES | • rockcresses n. Plural of rockcress. • ROCKCRESS n. another name for the plant arabis. |
| STAVESACRES | • stavesacres n. Plural of stavesacre. • STAVESACRE n. a tall larkspur whose seeds were formerly used against lice. |
| UNDERCRESTS | • undercrests v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of undercrest. • UNDERCREST v. (Shakespeare) to bear like a crest. |
| WINTERCRESS | • wintercress n. Any of the genus Barbarea of small herbaceous biennial or perennial flowering plants with dark green… • WINTERCRESS n. a bitter-tasting yellow-flowered perennial, somewhat resembling mustard. |