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| baguette |
a long, thin loaf of bread with a crisp crust, made from a basic, wheat flour dough. The baguette has its origins in France. [1/3 definitions] |
| boilerplate |
in winter sports, snow having a hard, icy crust. [1/5 definitions] |
| cataclysm |
a violent natural event, esp. an upheaval causing a sudden change in the earth's crust, or a great flood. [1/2 definitions] |
| cobbler |
a deep-dish fruit pie with a thick crust only on the top. [1/3 definitions] |
| crud |
(slang) a coating of dirt, crust, caked filth, or the like. [1/4 definitions] |
| crust |
a portion of bread that is mostly crust or that is hard and dry. [1/7 definitions] |
| crustaceous |
of, pertaining to, resembling, or having a hard crust or shell. [1/2 definitions] |
| crustal |
of, relating to, or involving a crust, esp. of a planetary body. |
| crustless |
combined form of crust. |
| crusty |
having or resembling a crust. [1/2 definitions] |
| dandruff |
a thin crust that forms on the scalp and is shed in flaky particles. |
| deep-dish pie |
a pie, usu. of fruit, baked in a deep dish, often with a crust only on the top. |
| diastrophism |
the process by which the surface of the earth changes in shape and levels because of movements of the earth's crust. [1/2 definitions] |
| en croûte |
in a crust, esp. wrapped in pastry and baked. |
| encrust |
to cover with, or as though with, a crust. |
| fault |
a break in a body of rock that is part of the earth's crust, with the result that the planes of contiguous surfaces are displaced. [1/7 definitions] |
| flute |
an indentation, groove, or furrow, as in pleated cloth or along the edge of a pie crust. [1/8 definitions] |
| French bread |
a long, slender loaf of yeast bread made with white flour and having a crisp crust. |
| iron |
a chemical element that has twenty-six protons in each nucleus and that occurs naturally in a variety of compounds such as minerals important in the earth's crust as well as the biologically essential cytochromes and hemoglobin, and that can be isolated in pure form as a silver-gray, dense, malleable metal that rusts rapidly in air, can be easily magnetized, and is widely used in a variety of alloys. (symbol: Fe) [1/16 definitions] |
| kaiser roll |
a large baked roll with a hard crust, used for sandwiches. |
| Linzer torte |
(sometimes l.c.) a pastry filled with raspberry jam and covered with a lattice crust that is made of finely ground almonds. |
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