Crab Nebula The Crab Nebula (catalogue designations Messier catalogue, New General Catalogue) is a supernova remnant in the constellation of Taurus. The nebula was first observed in 1731 by John Bevis. It is the remnant of a supernova that was recorded by Chinese astronomy and Islamic astronomy astronomers in 1054.
	Crab-eating Macaque The Crab-eating Macaque is a primarily arboreal macaque native to Southeast Asia. It is also called the Cynomolgus Monkey and the Long-tailed Macaque. M. fascicularis has been used extensively in medical experiments, in particular those connected with neuroscience.
	Crabeater Seal The Crabeater Seal, Lobodon carcinophagus, is one of the most remarkable, though least known, of the mammals of the world. At a population of fifteen million, it is perhaps the "second most numerous large species of mammals on Earth, after humans." More than one in every two Seals in the world is a Crabeater Seal and the population biomass of Crabeaters is about four times that of all other pinnipeds put together .
	Cracidae The chachalacas, guans and curassows are birds in the Family Cracidae. These are species of tropical and subtropical Central America and South America. One species, the Plain Chachalaca, just reaches southernmost Texas in the United States.
	Crack of Doom The phrase at the crack of doom, meaning "at the striking of the fateful hour", is derived from Macbeth by William Shakespeare and has entered common usage. On the heath the Weird Sisters show Macbeth of Scotland the line of kings that will issue from Banquo: In J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth, Tolkien plays upon Shakespeare's familiar phrase, to provide the literal Crack(s) of Doom, physical cracks fissures within the great volcano Mount Doom the very place
	Crack Willow The Crack Willow is a willow native to Europe and Asia. It is a rapid growing tree to 27 m tall, usually growing beside rivers. The Leaf are bright green, 9-15 cm long and 1.5-3 cm wide, with a finely serrated margin. The flowers are catkins, produced in early spring.
	Crackdown Crackdown is a freeform urban action game set for release in early 2007. Developed by Real Time Worlds, the game comes from the mind of David Jones, who helped create the original Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings. The graphics engine uses realistic physics and a new style of cel-shading.
	Cracked Cracked is one of America's oldest national satire and humor magazines. Begun in 1958, Cracked was the most successful imitator of the popular Mad Magazine, achieving success as the most dogged and durable of Mad's copycat competitors and long outlasting all others.
	Crackerjack Crackerjack was a United Kingdom children's comedy/variety BBC television series. It started in 1955 and ran until 1984. Through its long run it featured Eamonn Andrews, Leslie Crowther, Ed Stewart, Stu Francis, Peter Glaze, Don Maclean, Michael Aspel, Jan Hunt, The Krankies, Bernie Clifton and Ronnie Corbett amongst many others.
	Cradle cap Cradle Cap; // Or in a few other languages croûte de lait,eczma infantile, dermatite atopique infantile; //- ne shqip njihet si - rrjebull ose rrjebulla;// crosta lattea;// and sµ??µat?????a t?? t????t?? t?? ?efa??? t?? ?e?????(you can spell it better in this way - smigmatoria tu trikotu tis chefalis ton neognon)).
	Crambe Crambe is a genus of Brassicaceae native to Europe, southwest and central Asia and eastern Africa. It includes among its species seakale, grown as a leaf vegetable, Crambe cordifolia which is grown as an herbaceous border perennial, and Crambe abyssinica, which is grown for an oil from the seeds that has similar characteristics to whale oil.
	Crampons Crampons are a framework of spikes that are attached to boots to provide traction on snow and ice. General purpose crampons designed for most mountaineering and glacier travel are not well suited for vertical ice climbing. For ice climbing, specialized crampons that provide better support for front pointing are advised.
	Cranberry Cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs or trailing vines in the genus Vaccinium subgenus Oxycoccus, or in some treatments, in the distinct genus Oxycoccus. They are found in acidic bogs throughout the cooler parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
	Crane fly Crane flies are a family of insects resembling giant mosquitoes. Like the mosquito, they are in the order Diptera. They have numerous other common names, many of them more or less regional, including daddy longlegs, mosquito eaters, lollygaggers, gallinippers, gollywhoppers, doizabizzlers, chicken flies, penis legs, mosquito hawks, leather jackets, Jimmy Spinners, and skeeter eaters.
	Cranesbill The cranesbills make up the genus Geranium of 422 species of Annual plant, Biennial plant, and Perennial plant plants found throughout the temperate regions of the world and the mountains of the tropics, but mostly in the eastern part of the Mediterranean.
	Crangonidae The family Crangonidae is a taxon of shrimps, of the superfamily Crangonoidea, including the commercially important species Crangon crangon. Its type genus is Crangon.
	Cranial cavity The cranial cavity is the relatively large space formed inside the skull. The brain occupies the cranial cavity, which is lined by the meninges and which contains fluid to cushion blows. Eight cranial bones together form the cranial cavity: the frontal bone and occipital bone bones, and two each of the parietal bone, temporal bone, sphenoid bone and ethmoid bones.
	Cranial nerves Cranial nerves are nerves that emerge from the brainstem instead of the spinal cord.
	Craniata Craniata is an unranked group of Chordata animals that contains the vertebrates and hagfish, which are sometimes grouped under Vertebrata. Craniata includes all animals with skulls, hence the name. Recent genetic analysis indicates that Myxini should be a part of Vertebrata.
	Craniometry Craniometry is the technique of measuring the bones of the skull. Craniometry was once intensively practiced in anthropology/ethnology.
	Crankshaft The crankshaft, sometimes casually abbreviated to crank , is the part of an engine which translates reciprocate linear piston motion into rotation. It typically connects to a flywheel, to reduce the pulsation characteristic of the four-stroke cycle, and sometimes a torsional or vibrational damper at the opposite end, to reduce the torsion vibrations often caused along the length of the crankshaft by the cylinders farthest from the output end acting on the torsional elasticit
	Crappie Pomoxis Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz, 1818, is a genus of freshwater fish in the sunfish family of order Perciformes. The type species is P. annularis, the white crappie. The common name crappie, refers to either of the Pomoxis species, both of which are extremely popular game fish.
	Craps Craps is a casino dice game. Craps is a simplification of the Old English game Hazard . Players wager money against the casino on the outcome of one roll, or of a series of rolls of two dice. Craps can also be played in less formal settings and is said to be popular among soldiers.
	Crash barrier A crash barrier is a barrier on a road designed to prevent vehicles from leaving the carriageway to improve road safety. Common sites for crash barriers are: * median separators on multi-lane highways * bridge supports * mountain roads In a crash test, a crash barrier is a rigid or deformable obstacle against which a car is impacted, or which impacts a car to be crash tested.
	Craspedia Craspedia is a genus of daisy commonly known as billy buttons. They are native to Australia where they grow in wetter conditions everywhere from sea level to the alps. The genus is found in every state of Australia except the Northern Territory. The leaves form rosettes but have considerable variation in form.
	Crass Crass was an influential England anarchist punk rock band.
	Crassula Crassula is a large genus of plants containing many species, including the popular Jade Plant, Crassula ovata. They are native to many parts of the globe, but cultivated varieties are almost exclusively from the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Crassulas are propagated by stem or leaf cuttings.
	Crassulaceae The Crassulaceae, or orpine family, is a family of dicotyledons. They store water in their succulent leaves. They are found worldwide, but mostly occur in the Northern Hemisphere and southern Africa, typically in dry and/or cold areas where water may be scarce. The family includes about 1,400 species in 33 genera.
	Crataegus Crataegus is a large genus of in the family Rosaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Europe, Asia and North America. The name hawthorn was originally applied to the species native to northern Europe, especially the Common Hawthorn C.
	Crater Lake National Park Crater Lake National Park is a United States National Park located in Southern Oregon whose primary feature is Crater Lake. It was established on May 22, 1902 as the fifth National Park in the United States. The park encompasses Crater Lake's caldera, which rests in the remains of a destroyed volcano posthumously called Mount Mazama.
	Craton A craton is an old and stable part of the continental crust that has survived the merging and splitting of continents and supercontinents for at least 500 million years. Cratons are generally found in the interiors of continents and are formed of a crust of lightweight felsic Igneous rock rock such as granite attached to a section of the upper Earth's mantle.
	Craven Craven is an area in northern Yorkshire, United Kingdom. The name Craven is Celtic in origin and is related to the Welsh language word craf, or 'garlic'. In the middle ages, the area was known for its wild garlic. A Craven Non-metropolitan district of North Yorkshire came into being in Local Government Act 1972, centered on the market town of Skipton.
	Crayfish Crayfish, often referred to as crawfish or crawdad, are fresh water crustaceans resembling small lobsters, to which they are closely related. They are found in bodies of fresh water that do not freeze to the bottom, and which have shelter against predators.
	Crayon A crayon is a stick of colored wax, charcoal, chalk, or other material used for writing and drawing. A crayon made of oiled chalk is called an oil pastel; when made of pigment with a dry binder, it is simply a pastel. A grease pencil is made of colored hardened petroleum and is useful for marking on hard, glossy surfaces such as porcelain or glass.
	Crazy Crazy may refer to: * Insanity, a form of mental illness * Crazy, a comic magazine * Crazy, a 1999 documentary by Heddy Honigmann * Crazy, a 2000 German coming-of-age film directed by Hans-Christian Schmid * C.R.A.Z.Y., a 2005 French-language film directed and co-written by Jean-Marc Valle
	Crazy Horse Crazy Horse, was a respected member of the Oglala Sioux Native Americans in the United States tribe. Noted for his courage in battle, he was recognized among his own people as a great leader committed to preserving the traditions and values of the Lakota way of life and for leading his people into a war against the takeover of their lands by the Federal government of the United States.
	Crazy Quilt Crazy-Quilt is a fictional DC Comics supervillain, created by Jack Kirby in 1946. Crazy-Quilt was a noted painter who led a double-life as a master crook. He gave the plans for his crimes to various henchmen through clues left in his paintings. That is until the day when one of his henchmen double-crossed and betrayed him.
	Cream Cream or creme is a dairy product that is composed of the higher-butterfat layer skimmed from the top of raw milk before homogenization. In the raw milk, over time, the lighter fat rises to the top. In the industrial production of cream this process is accelerated by using centrifuges called "separators".
	Cream puff A cream puff is a dessert made from a filled choux pastry, a warm dough made with water, butter, flour and eggs. The eggs cause the pastry to puff up into a hollow ball which can be filled by injection or by slicing off the top of the pastry which is later replaced. The filling is typically whipped cream or custard.
	Cream soda Cream Soda may refer to the indie band now known as Galaxy Train. Cream soda is a sweet carbonated soft drink. It varies from country to country, but its most usual property is its vanilla flavouring. Its name originated, at least in the United Kingdom, from "ice cream soda" as it was traditionally served with a dollop of ice cream floating in it.
	Create Create is an United States television network that was the successor to the PBS YOU network, created in January 2006 when the latter network closed. Owned by American Public Television with assistance from WGBH Boston, the network offers primarily crafts and travel programming from the APT, Public Broadcasting Service and National Endowment for the Arts libraries.
	Creatine Creatine is a nitrogenous organic acid that naturally occurs in vertebrates and helps to supply energy to muscle cells. Creatine was identified in 1832 when Michel Eugne Chevreul discovered it as a component of skeletal muscle which he later named creatine after the Greek language word for flesh, Kreas.
	Creationism In many religion traditions, creationism refers to ideology support of the origin belief that humanity, life, the Earth, or the universe as a whole was specially creation by a deity or by other forms of supernatural intervention.
	Creativity Creativity is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations between existing ideas or concepts. From a scientific point of view, the products of creative thought are usually considered to have both originality and appropriateness. An alternative, more everyday conception of creativity is that it is simply the act of making something new.
	Credit card A credit card system is a type of Retailer transaction settlement and Credit system, named after the small plastic card issued to users of the system. A credit card is different from a debit card in which, during every transaction, the money from the users's account is removed.
	Credit union A credit union is a not-for-profit co-operative financial institution that is owned and controlled by its members, through the election of a volunteer Board of Directors elected from the membership itself. Only a member of a credit union may deposit money with the credit union, or loan money from it.
	Cree The Cree are an indigenous people of North America whose people range from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean in both Canada and the United States. They now constitute the largest group of First Nations people in Canada and are referred to as Native Americans in the United States in the United States.
	Creeping buttercup The Creeping buttercup is a flowering plant in the Buttercup family, native to Europe and the Pacific Northwest. It has attractive yellow flowers and stolons, running stems, which produce roots and new plants at the nodes. Creeping buttercup has three-lobed dark green, white-spotted leaves that grow out of the node [1].
	Creeping Soft Grass Creeping Soft Grass or Creeping Velvet Grass is a species of Poaceae, native to Europe and western Asia. It is a rhizomatous perennial grass found in woods and hedgerows, growing to 50 cm tall. It has rhizomes that occur around 5 cm deep in soil or sometimes deeper. Rhizome growth occurs in the period May to November but is fastest from mid-June to mid-July.
	Creeping zinnia The creeping zinnias are flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae. They are widely cultivated as ornamental plants, and there are numerous cultivars.
	Creepy Creepy was a horror-comics magazine launched by Warren Publishing in 1964. Like Mad, it was a black-and-white newsstand publication in a magazine format and thus did not require the approval or seal of the Comics Code Authority. Russ Jones, the founding editor of Creepy in 1964, detailed the magazine's origins and his lengthy negotiations with Warren in the memoir at his website.
	Cremation Cremation is the practice of disposing of a corpse by combustion. This often takes place in a crematorium or crematory. Cremation and burial are the main ways of Funeral#Final disposition of the dead.
	Crematory Crematory is a gothic metal/death metal band formed in Westhofen, Germany in 1991. They broke up in 2002 but reformed in 2004 to release the album Revolution, a largely progressive effort which brought the band into more accessible/techno-metal territory than ever before.
	Crème brûlée Crme brle is a dessert consisting of a rich custard base topped with a layer of hard caramel, created by burning sugar under a broiling or other intense heat source. It is usually served cold in individual ramekins. The custard base is normally flavored with just vanilla, but it can be flavoured in a number of ways, with chocolate, liqueur, fruit, etc.
	Cremona Cremona is a city in Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left shore of the Po river in the middle of the Po. It is the capital of the province of Cremona.
	Crenellation Crenellation is the name for the distinctive pattern that frames the tops of the walls of many medieval castles, often called battlement. Crenellation most commonly takes the form of multiple, regular, rectangular spaces cut out of the top of the wall to allow defenders spaces to shoot arrows from and other spaces to hide behind full cover.
	Crêpe A crpe is a type of very thin cooked pancake usually made from wheat flour. The word, like the pancake itself, is of France origin, deriving from the Latin crispa, meaning "curled".
	Crêpe Suzette Cr?pe Suzette is a typical France dessert, consisting of a cr?pe with a hot sauce of caramelized sugar, orange juice, lightly grated Orange (fruit) peel and liqueur (usually Grand Marnier) on top, which is subsequently flamb?ed.
	Crepis Crepis is a genus of about 200 Annual plant and perennial Magnoliophyta found in the family Asterales resembling Dandelion, the main differences being that Hawksbeards have multiple flowers per plant as well as branching stems. The name Crepis derives from Greek language, meaning 'shoe'.
	Crepuscular Crepuscular is a term used to describe animals that are primarily active during the twilight. Crepuscular is thus in contrast with diurnal animal and nocturnal animal. Crepuscular animals may also be active on a bright moonlit night. Many animals that are casually described as nocturnal are in fact crepuscular.
	Crescent In art and symbolism, a crescent is generally the shape produced when a circle disk has a segment of another circle removed from its edge, so that what remains is a shape enclosed by two circular arcs of different diameters which intersect at two points. In astronomy, a crescent is the shape of the lit side of a spherical body that appears to be less than half illuminated by the Sun as seen by the viewer.
	Crescentia Crescentia is a genus of six species of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to southern Florida, the Caribbean, southern Mexico, Central America and northern South America. The species are small trees growing to 10 m tall, and producing large spherical fruits up to half a meter in diameter.
	Cresol Cresols are organic compounds which are methylphenols. They are a widely occurring natural and manufactured group of aromatic organic compounds which are categorized as phenols. Depending on the temperature, cresols can be solid or liquid because they have melting points not far from room temperature.
	Crested Myna The Crested Myna is a kind of bird native to southeastern China and Indochina.
	Crested Screamer The Crested Screamer, more commonly called the Southern Screamer, is a species of the bird family of birds Anhimidae. Found around Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina. Diet consists of plants stems and leaves.
	Crete Crete is the largest of the Greece islands and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean Sea. It is located at approximately . Tourist attractions in Crete include archeological sites at Knossos, Phaistos, Gortys and many other places, the Venetian castle in Rethymno, the Samaria Gorge and many other minor gorges .
	Crevalle jack Crevalle Jack is a fast, saltwater fish that can be found in inland waters along the shoreline of the western Atlantic Ocean from Nova Scotia to Uruguay and the eastern Atlantic from Portugal to Angola. It has a large rounded head with large eyes and a dark silvery body that can show hints of blue-green to green-gold.
	Crevasse A crevasse is a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field, formed due to changes in glacier speed. An acceleration in glacier speed can cause extension and formation of a crevasse. Transverse crevasses are the most common crevasse type, forming in a zone of extension where the glacier is accelerating as it moves downslope.
	Crew cut A crew cut is a type of haircut in which the hair is cut very short. The term was most likely coined to describe the haircut worn by members of the Yale University Sport rowing crew. The crew cut was adopted by the United States armed forces during World War II, and became a civilian fashion for men throughout the 1950s.
	Cribbage Cribbage or Crib is a card game for two, three or four players that involves forming combinations of Playing card over a series of hands to accumulate points. Points are mainly scored by runs, regardless of Suit; by pairs, triples and quadruples; by Flush; and by combinations of cards that add up to 15.