Middle East 
An extensive area of SW Asia and northern Africa, stretching from the Mediterranean to Pakistan and including the Arabian peninsula.
- cryptesthesia
- cryptic
- cryptically
- crypticity
- cryptic syllogism
- cryptid
- cryptish
- crypto-
- cryptoaesthesia
- cryptobiont
- cryptobiosis
- cryptobiotic
- cryptobranch
- cryptobranchiate
- crypto-Calvinism
- crypto-Calvinist
- crypto-Calvinistic
- cryptocerous
- cryptochrome
- cryptoclastic
- cryptococcal
- cryptococcosis
- Cryptococcus
- cryptocrystalline
- cryptocrystallisation