- 05.127 He seemed to be crouched right down
- 12.022 and they crouched against the walls
word
Cross-legged
This hyphenated word is entered exactly so in OED.
- 07.097 The dwarves were sitting cross-legged on the floor round the fire,
“cross-legged, adj.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 7 September 2017.
Crock
- 01.065 Dump the crocks in a boiling bowl;
- 02.001 and piles of unwashed crocks
Crockery is earthenware, compared to the wooden drinking vessels we see elsewhere.
Cringe
- 12.022 cringing under boulders,
Crevice
- 11.014 but without a joint or crevice to be seen.
Crescent
- 03.040 in a broad silver crescent.
- 03.042 in a crescent moon,
Crawl
- 01.123 Later he used to crawl out of the great gate
- 04.009 Soon Fili and Kili came crawling back,
- 05.002 and crawled along for a good way,
- 05.108 It was no good crawling back
- 06.006 as he crawled into the bushes at the edge of the dell.
- 07.031 and crawling
- 08.058 and crawling
- 08.109 and kept back those that crawled up.
- 08.113 and crawling along the boughs above the heads of the dwarves.
- 09.059 Up he crawled like a drowned rat,
- 11.012 and though autumn was now crawling towards winter
- 11.023 of huge size crawling slowly
Cramp
- 10.012 and cramped
Cranny
- 11.019 in the crannies of stone.
Cower
- 12.020 and cowered down