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Bruxism
- noun - involuntarily or unconsciously clenching or grinding the teeth, typically during sleep
Bryales
- noun - category used in some classification systems for mosses having the spore case separated from the capsule wall by a hollow intercellular space
Bryonin
- - A bitter principle obtained from the root of the bryony (Bryonia alba and Bryonia dioica). It is a white, or slightly colored, substance, and is emetic and cathartic.
Bryozoa
- noun - marine or freshwater animals that form colonies of zooids
- sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding
Crabbed
- verb - annoyed and irritable
- complain; "What was he hollering about?"
- direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind
- fish for crab
- of writing, hard to read or understand
- scurry sideways like a crab
Cracked
- verb -
- break into simpler molecules by means of heat; "The petroleum cracked"
- break partially but keep its integrity; "The glass cracked"
- break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension; "The pipe snapped"
- cause to become cracked; "heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair"
- gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions; "she cracked my password"; "crack a safe"
- hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise; "The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler"
- informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband barmy"
- make a sharp sound; "his fingers snapped"
- make a very sharp explosive sound; "His gun cracked"
- of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide
- pass through (a barrier); "Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county"
- reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking
Cracker
- noun - a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends
- a poor White person in the southern United States
- a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things; "crackers are often mistakenly called hackers"
- a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet
- firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing
Crackle
- adjective - glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface
- having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware; "a crackle glaze"
- make a crackling sound; "My Rice Krispies crackled in the bowl"
- make a crushing noise; "his shoes were crunching on the gravel"
- the sharp sound of snapping noises
- to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks; "The blazing sun crackled the desert sand"
Cradled
- verb - bring up from infancy
- cut grain with a cradle scythe
- hold gently and carefully; "He cradles the child in his arms"
- hold or place in or as if in a cradle; "He cradled the infant in his arms"
- run with the stick
- wash in a cradle; "cradle gold"