creepy-crawly vs beast

creepy-crawly and beast both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
creepy-crawly	Yes	Yes	No	No
beast	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, beast is a hypernym of creepy-crawly; that is, beast is a word with a broader meaning than creepy-crawly:

creepy-crawly: an animal that creeps or crawls (such as worms or spiders or insects)
beast: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

Other hypernyms of creepy-crawly include animal, animate being, brute, creature, fauna.

creepy-crawly (noun)	beast (noun)
an animal that creeps or crawls (such as worms or spiders or insects)	a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
	a cruelly rapacious person

creepy-crawly (adjective)	beast (adjective)
causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin