9-Letter Words Starting: CRU

• The monetary unit of Brazil from 1942 to 1986 and 1990 to 1993.

• shaped like a cross

• kill by nailing onto a cross

• treat cruelly

• hold within limits and control

• criticize harshly or violently

• the sound of something crunching

• a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources)

• the act of crushing

• make a crushing noise

• press or grind with a crushing noise

• crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound

• reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading

• to a crucial degree

• Likely to crunch, especially with reference to food when it is eaten.

• Having sensibilities of a counter-culture nature lover or hippie; derived from the concept of crunchy granola.