crab
Any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
Various other animals that resemble true crabs:
Various other animals that resemble true crabs:
A bad-tempered person.
An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
Ellipsis of crab angle.
A playing card with the rank of three.
A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
An unsold book that is returned to the publisher.
On an insignia, a coat of arms symbol representing a senior rank.
A member of the Crips.

crabs
plural of crab

crabtree
Alternative form of crab tree.

crabtrees
plural of crabtree

crafish
Obsolete spelling of crayfish.

craifish
Obsolete spelling of crayfish.

crawdad
Synonym of crayfish.

crawdads
plural of crawdad

crawfish
Any of various freshwater crustaceans: crayfish.
Any of various marine crustaceans, rock lobster; especially Jasus lalandii, the Cape crawfish.
An English-Canadian. Used in some corners of Quebec (including the Gaspé).

crawfishes
plural of crawfish

crayfish
Any of numerous freshwater decapod crustaceans in superfamily Astacoidea or Parastacoidea, resembling the related lobster but usually much smaller.
Any of numerous freshwater decapod crustaceans in superfamily Astacoidea or Parastacoidea, resembling the related lobster but usually much smaller.
A rock lobster (family Palinuridae).
A freshwater crayfish (family Parastacidae), such as the gilgie, marron, or yabby.
The species Thenus orientalis of the slipper lobster family (Scyllaridae).

crayfishes
plural of crayfish

crefish
Obsolete spelling of crayfish.

crevis
The crayfish.

crevises
plural of crevis

crevyssh
Obsolete spelling of crayfish.

crucifictions
Misspelling of crucifixions.

crucifixion
An execution by being nailed or tied to an upright cross and left to hang there until dead.
An execution by being nailed or tied to an upright cross and left to hang there until dead.
The military punishment of being tied to a fixed object, often with the limbs in a stretched position.
An ordeal, terrible, especially malicious treatment imposed upon someone.

crucifixions
plural of crucifixion

cumaceans
plural of cumacean

cycli
plural of cyclus

cyclotron
An early particle accelerator in which charged particles were generated at a central source and accelerated spirally outward through a fixed magnetic field and alternating electric fields.

cyclotrons
plural of cyclotron

cyclus
A cycle, or series of poems.

cycluses
plural of cyclus

cyprides
plural of cypris

cypris
cyprid

daana
Alternative spelling of dana.

daggerblade grass shrimp
A grass shrimp of species Palaemon pugio

daira
Alternative form of daerah.

dairas
plural of daira

dala
The currency of Hawaii between 1847 and 1898, equal to the United States dollar.

dana
The virtue of generosity or giving, a form of alms, in Indian philosophy.

daphnia
A water flea of the genus Daphnia.

daphnias
plural of daphnia

decapod
Having ten legs.

decapods
plural of decapod

des
Desflurane.

dess
Unattractive, unappealing.

desses
plural of dess

devo
Devastated.

dies
third-person singular simple present indicative of die

dolos
The bones that are thrown when throwing the bones for divination.
The ankle bones of sheep or goats formerly used by children as playthings.
Interlocking blocks of concrete, used for protection of seawalls and to preserve beaches from erosion, formerly known as Merryfield blocks.

dolosse
plural of dolos

druidesses
plural of druidess

dysurias
plural of dysuria

ectoflexus
An indentation on the buccal face of the upper molar in some early vertebrates

edible crab
Cancer pagurus; a species of robust crab of a reddish-brown color found in the North Sea, North Atlantic Ocean, and perhaps in the Mediterranean Sea.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see edible, crab.

edible crabs
plural of edible crab

emerita
feminine singular of emeritus (“(often postpositive) retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title”)

emeritae
feminine plural of emeritus

emeritus
Retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title.

eumenorrhoea
Alternative spelling of eumenorrhea.

fairy shrimp
A small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages and swimming on its back.

fairy shrimps
plural of fairy shrimp

favella
Alternative form of favela.

favellas
plural of favella

favorites
plural of favorite

fiddler crab
a genus of crab in which the male has one hugely enlarged claw (genus Uca).

fiddler crabs
plural of fiddler crab

fiendesses
plural of fiendess

fish doctors
plural of fish doctor

fish lice
plural of fish louse

fish louse
Any aquatic crustacean which is a parasite of fish, typically attached to the skin or gills
Any aquatic crustacean which is a parasite of fish, typically attached to the skin or gills

fishlice
plural of fishlouse

fishlouse
Alternative form of fish louse.

flexus
A low, curvilinear ridge with a scalloped pattern.
In infolding of enamel that separates lophs on an upper tooth.

freshwater crayfish
Any of the small decapod crustaceans of the family Parastacidae, living in freshwater habitats of Australasia, New Zealand, South America, and Madagascar.

fructosurias
plural of fructosuria

gammarid
Any amphipod of the suborder Gammaridea.
Any amphipod of the family Gammaridae.

gammarids
plural of gammarid

ghost crab
Any of several burrowing crabs, of the genus Ocypode, found along sandy shores.

ghost crabs
plural of ghost crab

ghost shrimp
Any of various aquatic crustaceans of the infraorder Thalassinidea, the genus Palaemonetes, or the family Caprellidae.

ghost shrimps
plural of ghost shrimp

giant hermit crab
A large marine hermit crab of species Petrochirus diogenes, found in the Caribbean Sea.

giant isopod
Any of several very large marine isopods of the genus Bathynomus, known for being the largest of all known isopods.

giant mud crab
Scylla serrata, a species of crab.

gilgies
plural of gilgie

gitana
A female gypsy.

gitanas
plural of gitana

glomerule
A head or dense cluster of flowers, formed by condensation of a cyme, as in the flowering dogwood.
A glomerulus.

glomerules
plural of glomerule

glomeruli
plural of glomerulus

glomerulum
Misspelling of glomerulus.

glomerulus
A small intertwined group of capillaries within nephrons of the kidney that filter the blood to make urine
A structure in the olfactory bulb central to olfactory sensory transduction, composed of receptor neuron axons and mitral neuron dendrites and organized by odor type.
Any of several other similar intertwined masses of things

glucosurias
plural of glucosuria

gnathia
plural of gnathion

goose barnacle
Synonym of gooseneck barnacle (“Pollicipes pollicipes and related crustaceans”).

goose barnacles
plural of goose barnacle

gooseneck barnacle
Any of the species Pollicipes pollicipes or P. polymerus, filter-feeding crustaceans that live attached to hard surfaces of rocks and flotsam in the ocean intertidal zone, with a long and muscular stalk, which is edible and considered a delicacy in several Mediterranean countries.
Any barnacle in the superseded order Pedunculata, now all or most of infraclass Thoracica, most of which are filter-feeders that attach to surfaces by a long stalk, though some are parasites.

grammersow
A woodlouse.

grammersows
plural of grammersow

graphorrhoea
Alternative form of graphorrhea (British spelling)

grass shrimp
Certain shrimp of North American waters
Certain shrimp of North American waters

gribble
Any of various wood-boring marine crustaceans of the genus Limnoria, especially Limnoria lignorum, which cause damage to underwater wooden structures.

gribbles
plural of gribble

guardesses
plural of guardess

hardback
A book with a solid binding.