crypt

Usage

• apocryphal

  An apocryphal story is widely known but probably not true.

• grotesque

  Something grotesque is so distorted or misshapen that it is disturbing, bizarre, gross, or very ugly.

• crypt

  a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)

• cryptic

  of an obscure nature

• cryptogram

  a piece of writing in code or cipher

• cryptography

  the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms

• encrypt

  convert ordinary language into code

• encryption

  the activity of converting data or information into code