Words about words

You contain something by keeping it inside something else. The bucket in the picture contains a cat.

A cook is someone who prepares and cooks food for a living. A cook in a higher class restaurant is usually called a chef.
Cooking is also the process of preparing food to eat by using heat, for example you need to cook potatoes before you can eat them.

Corroding is the process by which something becomes corroded. Metals usually corrode by a slow chemical reaction.

Something is corrugated if it has been bent or folded into evenly spaced ridges.
Two things that are commonly corrugated are iron sheets and cardboard.

You cower when you crouch in fear.
The dog is cowering under a Christmas tree.

Something that has cracks in it is said to be cracked. The picture is of some dry, cracked ground.

Cries is the plural of cry, for example "I heard the cries of the baby next door."

A food is crisp if it is fairly hard, brittle and easily broken. Very fresh vegetables are crisp and thinly sliced, cooked potatoes are so crisp they are actually called potato crisps!

Cross-eyed means your eyes look in different directions. One eye may look straight ahead while the other looks to the side. It most commonly means both eyes look inwards, like the cat in the picture.

Something, particularly a food, is described as crunchy if it breaks with a crackling noise as you chew it. Many breakfast cereals are crunchy.
The opposite of crunchy is soft or soggy.