crimpy, a. frizzly, crimped, [wavy].

crincum, n. (Colloq.) [twist], [turn], [freak], [caprice], [fancy], [whim].

cringe, v. [truckle], [fawn], [crouch].

cringing, a. truckling, [fawning], [servile], [obsequious], [slavish].

crinkle, v. [curl], [wrinkle].

crinkly, a. [wavy], wrinkly, [kinky].

cripple, v. maim, [lame], [disable]; hough, [hamstring].

crippled, a. maimed, [lame], [disabled], [deformed], halt.

crisis, n. critical [juncture]; climacteric, emergency, [strait], exigency.

crisp, a. [brittle], friable, [short]; [crackling], [lively], [brisk]. Antonyms: [tenacious], [tough], [flexible].