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Cap
  • (n.) A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom
  • (v. i.) To uncover the head respectfully.
  • (v. t.) To complete

    Capability
  • (n.) Capacity of being used or improved.

    Capable
  • (a.) Capacious

    Capacious
  • (a.) Able or qualified to make large views of things, as in obtaining knowledge or forming designs

    Capacitate
  • (v. t.) To render capable

    Capacity
  • (n.) Ability

    Caparison
  • (n.) An ornamental covering or housing for a horse
  • (v. t.) To aborn with rich dress

    Cape
  • (n.) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into the sea or a lake
  • (v. i.) To gape.

    Capful
  • (n.) As much as will fill a cap.

    Capias
  • (n.) A writ or process commanding the officer to take the body of the person named in it, that is, to arrest him

    Capillaceous
  • (a.) Having long filaments

    Capillarity
  • (n.) The peculiar action by which the surface of a liquid, where it is in contact with a solid (as in a capillary tube), is elevated or depressed

    Capillary
  • (a.) Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels
  • (n.) A minute, thin-walled vessel

    Capital
  • (a.) A chapter, or section, of a book.
  • (n.) Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation

    Capitate
  • (a.) Having the flowers gathered into a head.

    Capitation
  • (n.) A numbering of heads or individuals.

    Capitular
  • (a.) Growing in, or pertaining to, a capitulum.
  • (n.) A member of a chapter.

    Capitulate
  • (n.) To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles
  • (v. t.) To surrender or transfer, as an army or a fortress, on certain conditions.

    Capitulation
  • (n.) A reducing to heads or articles

    Capitulum
  • (n.) A knoblike protuberance of any part, esp. at the end of a bone or cartilage.

    Capon
  • (n.) A castrated cock, esp. when fattened
  • (v. t.) To castrate

    Caporal
  • (n.) One who directs work

    Capote
  • (n.) A long cloak or overcoat, especially one with a hood.

    Capper
  • (n.) A by-bidder

    Caprice
  • (v. i.) An abrupt change in feeling, opinion, or action, proceeding from some whim or fancy

    Capricious
  • (a.) Governed or characterized by caprice

    Capricorn
  • (n.) A southern constellation, represented on ancient monuments by the figure of a goat, or a figure with its fore part like a fish

    Caprine
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a goat

    Capriole
  • (v. i.) A leap or caper, as in dancing.

    Capsaicin
  • (n.) A colorless crystalline substance extracted from the Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity

    Capsicum
  • (n.) A genus of plants of many species, producing capsules or dry berries of various forms, which have an exceedingly pungent, biting taste, and when ground form the red or Cayenne pepper of commerce

    Capsize
  • (n.) An upset or overturn.
  • (v. t. & i.) To upset or overturn, as a vessel or other body.

    Capstan
  • (n.) A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers

    Capstone
  • (n.) A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus

    Capsule
  • (n.) a dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the poppy, the flax, the lily, etc

    Capsulotomy
  • (n.) The incision of a capsule, esp. of that of the crystalline lens, as in a cataract operation

    Captain
  • (a.) Chief
  • (n.) A head, or chief officer
  • (v. t.) To act as captain of

    Caption
  • (n.) A caviling

    Captious
  • (a.) Apt to catch at faults

    Captivate
  • (p. a.) Taken prisoner
  • (v. t.) To acquire ascendancy over by reason of some art or attraction

    Captivating
  • (a.) Having power to captivate or charm

    Captive
  • (a.) Made prisoner, especially in war
  • (n.) A prisoner taken by force or stratagem, esp., by an enemy, in war
  • (v. t.) To take prisoner

    Captivity
  • (n.) A state of being under control

    Captor
  • (n.) One who captures any person or thing, as a prisoner or a prize.

    Capture
  • (n.) The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem
  • (v. t.) To seize or take possession of by force, surprise, or stratagem

    Capuchin
  • (n.) A Franciscan monk of the austere branch established in 1526 by Matteo di Baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed cowl or capoch of St

    Caput
  • (n.) The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856

    Capybara
  • (n.) A large South American rodent (Hydrochaerus capybara) Living on the margins of lakes and rivers

    Car
  • (n.) A chariot of war or of triumph

    Carabao
  • (n.) The water buffalo.

    Carabid
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Carbus or family Carabidae.
  • (n.) One of the Carabidae, a family of active insectivorous beetles.

    Carabineer
  • (n.) A carbineer.

    Caracal
  • (n.) A lynx (Felis, or Lynx, caracal.) It is a native of Africa and Asia. Its ears are black externally, and tipped with long black hairs

    Caracara
  • (n.) A south American bird of several species and genera, resembling both the eagles and the vultures

    Caracole
  • (n.) A half turn which a horseman makes, either to the right or the left.
  • (v. i.) To move in a caracole, or in caracoles

    Caracul
  • (n.) Var. of Karakul, a kind of fur.

    Carafe
  • (n.) A glass water bottle for the table or toilet

    Carambola
  • (n.) An East Indian tree (Averrhoa Carambola), and its acid, juicy fruit

    Caramel
  • (n.) A kind of confectionery, usually a small cube or square of tenacious paste, or candy, of varying composition and flavor

    Carapace
  • (n.) The thick shell or shield which covers the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals

    Carat
  • (n.) A twenty-fourth part

    Caravan
  • (n.) A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together, esp

    Caravel
  • (n.) A name given to several kinds of vessels.

    Caraway
  • (n.) A biennial plant of the Parsley family (Carum Carui). The seeds have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste

    Carbamide
  • (n.) The technical name for urea.

    Carbide
  • (n.) A binary compound of carbon with some other element or radical, in which the carbon plays the part of a negative

    Carbine
  • (n.) A short, light musket or rifle, esp. one used by mounted soldiers or cavalry.

    Carbinol
  • (n.) Methyl alcohol, CH3OH

    Carbohydrate
  • (n.) One of a group of compounds including the sugars, starches, and gums, which contain six (or some multiple of six) carbon atoms, united with a variable number of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, but with the two latter always in proportion as to form water

    Carbolic
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid derived from coal tar and other sources

    Carbon
  • (n.) A carbon rod or pencil used in an arc lamp

    Carboy
  • (n.) A large, globular glass bottle, esp. one of green glass, inclosed in basket work or in a box, for protection

    Carbuncle
  • (n.) A beautiful gem of a deep red color (with a mixture of scarlet) called by the Greeks anthrax

    Carburet
  • (n.) A carbide.
  • (v. t.) To combine or to impregnate with carbon, as by passing through or over a liquid hydrocarbon

    Carburize
  • (v. t.) To combine with carbon or a carbon compound

    Carcajou
  • (n.) The wolverene

    Carcass
  • (n.) A dead body, whether of man or beast

    Carcinoma
  • (n.) A cancer. By some medical writers, the term is applied to an indolent tumor.

    Card
  • (n.) An indicator card.
  • (v. i.) To play at cards
  • (v. t.) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.

    Care
  • (n.) A burdensome sense of responsibility

    Cargo
  • (n.) The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel

    Carib
  • (n.) A native of the Caribbee islands or the coasts of the Caribbean sea

    Caricature
  • (v. t.) An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture

    Caricaturist
  • (n.) One who caricatures.

    Caries
  • (n.) Ulceration of bone

    Carillon
  • (n.) A chime of bells diatonically tuned, played by clockwork or by finger keys.

    Carina
  • (n.) A keel

    Cariole
  • (n.) A covered cart

    Carious
  • (a.) Affected with caries

    Carling
  • (n.) A short timber running lengthwise of a ship, from one transverse desk beam to another

    Carlist
  • (n.) A partisan of Charles X. of France, or of Don Carlos of Spain.

    Carlovingian
  • (a.) Pertaining to, founded by, of descended from, Charlemagne

    Carmagnole
  • (n.) A bombastic report from the French armies.

    Carman
  • (n.) A man whose employment is to drive, or to convey goods in, a car or car.

    Carmelite
  • (n.) A friar of a mendicant order (the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel) established on Mount Carmel, in Syria, in the twelfth century

    Carmine
  • (n.) A beautiful pigment, or a lake, of this color, prepared from cochineal, and used in miniature painting

    Carnage
  • (n.) Flesh of slain animals or men.

    Carnal
  • (a.) Flesh-devouring

    Carnassial
  • (a.) Adapted to eating flesh.
  • (n.) A carnassial tooth

    Carnation
  • (n.) A species of Dianthus (D. Caryophyllus) or pink, having very beautiful flowers of various colors, esp

    Carnauba
  • (n.) The Brazilian wax palm.

    Carnelian
  • (n.) A variety of chalcedony, of a clear, deep red, flesh red, or reddish white color. It is moderately hard, capable of a good polish, and often used for seals

    Carney
  • (n.) A disease of horses, in which the mouth is so furred that the afflicted animal can not eat

    Carnival
  • (n.) A festival celebrated with merriment and revelry in Roman Gatholic countries during the week before Lent, esp

    Carnivore
  • (n.) One of the Carnivora.

    Carnivorous
  • (a.) Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc

    Carob
  • (n.) An evergreen leguminous tree (Ceratania Siliqua) found in the countries bordering the Mediterranean

    Caroche
  • (n.) A kind of pleasure carriage

    Carol
  • (v. i.) To sing
  • (v. t.) To praise or celebrate in song.

    Carom
  • (n.) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table
  • (v. i.) To make a carom.

    Carotid
  • (n.) One of the two main arteries of the neck, by which blood is conveyed from the aorta to the head

    Carotin
  • (n.) A red crystallizable tasteless substance, extracted from the carrot.

    Carousal
  • (n.) A jovial feast or festival

    Carouse
  • (n.) A drinking match
  • (v. i.) To drink deeply or freely in compliment
  • (v. t.) To drink up

    Carp
  • (n.) A fresh-water herbivorous fish (Cyprinus carpio.). Several other species of Cyprinus, Catla, and Carassius are called carp
  • (v. i.) To find fault
  • (v. t.) To find fault with

    Carriage
  • (n.) A frame or cage in which something is carried or supported

    Carrier
  • (n.) One who, or that which, carries or conveys

    Carrion
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to dead and putrefying carcasses
  • (n.) A contemptible or worthless person

    Carronade
  • (n.) A kind of short cannon, formerly in use, designed to throw a large projectile with small velocity, used for the purpose of breaking or smashing in, rather than piercing, the object aimed at, as the side of a ship

    Carrot
  • (n.) An umbelliferous biennial plant (Daucus Carota), of many varieties.

    Carry
  • (n.) A tract of land, over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water
  • (v. i.) To act as a bearer
  • (v. t.) To bear (one's self)

    Cart
  • (n.) A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot.
  • (v. i.) To carry burdens in a cart
  • (v. t.) To carry or convey in a cart.

    Carvacrol
  • (n.) A thick oily liquid, C10H13.OH, of a strong taste and disagreeable odor, obtained from oil of caraway (Carum carui)

    Carve
  • (n.) A carucate.
  • (v. i.) To cut up meat
  • (v. t.) To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner

    Carving
  • (n.) A piece of decorative work cut in stone, wood, or other material.

    Caryatid
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a caryatid.
  • (n.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.

    Caryopsis
  • (n.) A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc

    Casa
  • (n.) A house or mansion.

    Cascade
  • (n.) A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook
  • (v. i.) To fall in a cascade.

    Cascarilla
  • (n.) A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub (Croton Eleutheria)

    Case
  • (n.) A box, sheath, or covering
  • (v. i.) To propose hypothetical cases.
  • (v. t.) To cover or protect with, or as with, a case

    Cash
  • (n.) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out
  • (n.sing & pl.) A Chinese coin.
  • (v. t.) To disband.

    Casing
  • (n.) An inclosing frame

    Casino
  • (n.) A building or room used for meetings, or public amusements, for dancing, gaming, etc.

    Cask
  • (n.) A barrel-shaped vessel made of staves headings, and hoops, usually fitted together so as to hold liquids
  • (v. t.) To put into a cask.

    Casque
  • (n.) A piece of defensive or ornamental armor (with or without a vizor) for the head and neck

    Cassation
  • (n.) The act of annulling.

    Cassava
  • (n.) A nutritious starch obtained from the rootstocks of the cassava plant, used as food and in making tapioca

    Casserole
  • (n.) A mold (in the shape of a hollow vessel or incasement) of boiled rice, mashed potato or paste, baked, and afterwards filled with vegetables or meat

    Cassia
  • (n.) A genus of leguminous plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees) of many species, most of which have purgative qualities

    Cassimere
  • (n.) A thin, twilled, woolen cloth, used for men's garments.

    Cassino
  • (n.) A game at cards, played by two or more persons, usually for twenty-one points.

    Cassiopeia
  • (n.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere, situated between Cepheus and Perseus

    Cassiterite
  • (n.) Native tin dioxide

    Cassock
  • (n.) A garment resembling a long frock coat worn by the clergy of certain churches when officiating, and by others as the usually outer garment

    Cassowary
  • (n.) A large bird, of the genus Casuarius, found in the east Indies. It is smaller and stouter than the ostrich

    Cast
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Cast
  • (n.) A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage
  • (v. i.) To calculate
  • (v. t.) To bring forth prematurely

    Casual
  • (a.) Coming without regularity
  • (n.) One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong

    Casuarina
  • (n.) A genus of leafless trees or shrubs, with drooping branchlets of a rushlike appearance, mostly natives of Australia

    Casuist
  • (n.) One who is skilled in, or given to, casuistry.
  • (v. i.) To play the casuist.

    Cat
  • (n.) A cat o' nine tails.
  • (v. t.) To bring to the cathead

    Catachresis
  • (n.) A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification

    Cataclysm
  • (n.) An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water

    Catacomb
  • (n.) A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead

    Catadromous
  • (a.) Having the lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one

    Catafalque
  • (n.) A temporary structure sometimes used in the funeral solemnities of eminent persons, for the public exhibition of the remains, or their conveyance to the place of burial

    Catalan
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Catalonia.
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Catalonia

    Catalog
  • (n. & v.) Catalogue.

    Catalpa
  • (n.) A genus of American and East Indian trees, of which the best know species are the Catalpa bignonioides, a large, ornamental North American tree, with spotted white flowers and long cylindrical pods, and the C

    Catalysis
  • (n.) A process by which reaction occurs in the presence of certain agents which were formerly believed to exert an influence by mere contact

    Catalytic
  • (a.) Relating to, or causing, catalysis.
  • (n.) An agent employed in catalysis, as platinum black, aluminium chloride, etc.

    Catamaran
  • (n.) A kind of fire raft or torpedo bat.

    Catamite
  • (n.) A boy kept for unnatural purposes.

    Catamount
  • (n.) The cougar. Applied also, in some parts of the United States, to the lynx.

    Cataplasm
  • (n.) A soft and moist substance applied externally to some part of the body

    Cataplexy
  • (n.) A morbid condition caused by an overwhelming shock or extreme fear and marked by rigidity of the muscles

    Catapult
  • (n.) A forked stick with elastic band for throwing small stones, etc.

    Cataract
  • (n.) A great fall of water over a precipice

    Catarrh
  • (n.) An inflammatory affection of any mucous membrane, in which there are congestion, swelling, and an altertion in the quantity and quality of mucus secreted

    Catastasis
  • (n.) That part of a speech, usually the exordium, in which the orator sets forth the subject matter to be discussed

    Catastrophe
  • (n.) An event producing a subversion of the order or system of things

    Catastrophic
  • (a.) Of a pertaining to a catastrophe.

    Catastrophism
  • (n.) The doctrine that the geological changes in the earth's crust have been caused by the sudden action of violent physical causes

    Catawba
  • (n.) A light-colored, sprightly American wine from the Catawba grape.

    Catbird
  • (n.) An American bird (Galeoscoptes Carolinensis), allied to the mocking bird, and like it capable of imitating the notes of other birds, but less perfectly

    Catboat
  • (n.) A small sailboat, with a single mast placed as far forward as possible, carring a sail extended by a gaff and long boom

    Catcall
  • (n.) A sound like the cry of a cat, such as is made in playhouses to express dissatisfaction with a play

    Catch
  • (n.) Act of seizing
  • (v. i.) To attain possession.
  • (v. t.) Hence: To insnare

    Catechin
  • (n.) One of the tannic acids, extracted from catechu as a white, crystalline substance

    Catechism
  • (n.) A book containing a summary of principles, especially of religious doctrine, reduced to the form of questions and answers

    Catechist
  • (n.) One who instructs by question and answer, especially in religions matters.

    Catechu
  • (n.) A dry, brown, astringent extract, obtained by decoction and evaporation from the Acacia catechu, and several other plants growing in India

    Categorical
  • (a.) Not hypothetical or relative

    Categorize
  • (v. t.) To insert in a category or list

    Category
  • (n.) Class

    Catena
  • (n.) A chain or series of things connected with each other.

    Cater
  • (n.) A provider
  • (v. t.) To cut diagonally.

    Catfish
  • (n.) A name given in the United States to various species of siluroid fishes

    Catgut
  • (n.) A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, esp. of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc

    Catharsis
  • (n.) A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the mouth, bowels, etc.

    Cathartic
  • (n.) A medicine that promotes alvine discharges

    Cathay
  • (n.) China

    Cathead
  • (n.) A projecting piece of timber or iron near the bow of vessel, to which the anchor is hoisted and secured

    Cathedra
  • (n.) The official chair or throne of a bishop, or of any person in high authority.

    Catheter
  • (n.) The name of various instruments for passing along mucous canals, esp. applied to a tubular instrument to be introduced into the bladder through the urethra to draw off the urine

    Cathode
  • (n.) The part of a voltaic battery by which the electric current leaves substances through which it passes, or the surface at which the electric current passes out of the electrolyte

    Cathodic
  • (a.) A term applied to the centrifugal, or efferent, course of the nervous influence.

    Catholic
  • (a.) Not narrow-minded, partial, or bigoted
  • (n.) An adherent of the Roman Catholic church

    Cation
  • (n.) An electro-positive substance, which in electro-decomposition is evolved at the cathode

    Catkin
  • (n.) An ament

    Catmint
  • (n.) A well-know plant of the genus Nepeta (N. Cataria), somewhat like mint, having a string scent, and sometimes used in medicine

    Catoptrics
  • (n.) That part of optics which explains the properties and phenomena of reflected light, and particularly that which is reflected from mirrors or polished bodies

    Catsup
  • (n.) A table sauce made from mushrooms, tomatoes, walnuts, etc.

    Cattish
  • (a.) Catlike

    Cattle
  • (n. pl.) Quadrupeds of the Bovine family

    Catty
  • (n.) An East Indian Weight of 1 1/3 pounds.

    Caucasian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas
  • (n.) A member of any of the white races of mankind.

    Caucus
  • (n.) A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding measures of party policy
  • (v. i.) To hold, or meet in, a caucus or caucuses.

    Caudal
  • (a.) Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a tail

    Caudex
  • (n.) The stem of a tree., esp. a stem without a branch, as of a palm or a tree fern

    Caudle
  • (n.) A kind of warm drink for sick persons, being a mixture of wine with eggs, bread, sugar, and spices
  • (v. t.) To make into caudle.

    Caught
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Catch

    Caul
  • (n.) A covering of network for the head, worn by women

    Causal
  • (a.) Relating to a cause or causes
  • (n.) A causal word or form of speech.

    Causation
  • (n.) The act of causing

    Causative
  • (a.) Effective, as a cause or agent
  • (n.) A word which expresses or suggests a cause.

    Cause
  • (conj.) Abbreviation of Because.
  • (n.) To effect as an agent
  • (v.) Any subject of discussion or debate
  • (v. i.) To assign or show cause

    Caustic
  • (a.) A caustic curve or caustic surface.

    Cauterize
  • (v. t.) To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic.

    Cautery
  • (n.) A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue

    Caution
  • (n.) A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided
  • (v. t.) To give notice of danger to

    Cautious
  • (a.) Attentive to examine probable effects and consequences of acts with a view to avoid danger or misfortune

    Cavalcade
  • (n.) A procession of persons on horseback

    Cavalier
  • (a.) Gay
  • (n.) A gay, sprightly, military man

    Cavalry
  • (n.) That part of military force which serves on horseback.

    Cavatina
  • (n.) Originally, a melody of simpler form than the aria

    Cave
  • (n.) A coalition or group of seceders from a political party, as from the Liberal party in England in 1866
  • (v. i.) To dwell in a cave.

    Caviar
  • (n.) The roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted

    Cavil
  • (n.) A captious or frivolous objection.
  • (v. i.) To raise captious and frivolous objections
  • (v. t.) To cavil at.

    Cavity
  • (n.) A hollow place

    Cavort
  • (v. i.) To prance ostentatiously

    Cavy
  • (n.) A rodent of the genera Cavia and Dolichotis, as the guinea pig (Cavia cobaya). Cavies are natives of South America

    Caw
  • (n.) The cry made by the crow, rook, or raven.
  • (v. i.) To cry like a crow, rook, or raven.

    Cayuse
  • (n.) An Indian pony.

    Cease
  • (n.) Extinction.
  • (v. i.) To be wanting
  • (v. t.) To put a stop to

    Cedar
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to cedar.
  • (n.) The name of several evergreen trees. The wood is remarkable for its durability and fragrant odor

    Cede
  • (v. t.) To yield or surrender

    Cedilla
  • (n.) A mark placed under the letter c

    Ceil
  • (v. t.) To line or finish a surface, as of a wall, with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or the like

    Celadon
  • (n.) A pale sea-green color

    Celandine
  • (n.) A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers

    Celebrant
  • (n.) One who performs a public religious rite

    Celebrate
  • (v. t.) To extol or honor in a solemn manner

    Celebrity
  • (n.) A person of distinction or renown

    Celeriac
  • (n.) Turnip-rooted celery, a from of celery with a large globular root, which is used for food

    Celerity
  • (n.) Rapidity of motion

    Celery
  • (n.) A plant of the Parsley family (Apium graveolens), of which the blanched leafstalks are used as a salad

    Celestial
  • (a.) Belonging to the aerial regions, or visible heavens.
  • (n.) A Chinaman

    Celestite
  • (n.) Native strontium sulphate, a mineral so named from its occasional delicate blue color. It occurs crystallized, also in compact massive and fibrous forms

    Celiac
  • (a.) Relating to the abdomen, or to the cavity of the abdomen.

    Celibacy
  • (n.) The state of being unmarried

    Celibate
  • (a.) Unmarried
  • (n.) Celibate state

    Cell
  • (n.) A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery
  • (v. t.) To place or inclose in a cell.

    Celsius
  • (n.) The Celsius thermometer or scale, so called from Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, who invented it

    Celt
  • (n.) A weapon or implement of stone or metal, found in the tumuli, or barrows, of the early Celtic nations

    Cembalo
  • (n.) An old name for the harpsichord.

    Cement
  • (n.) A kind of calcined limestone, or a calcined mixture of clay and lime, for making mortar which will harden under water
  • (v. i.) To become cemented or firmly united

    Cemetery
  • (n.) A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead

    Cenobite
  • (n.) One of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude

    Cenotaph
  • (n.) An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere.

    Cenozoic
  • (a.) Belonging to the most recent division of geological time, including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age of man

    Cense
  • (n.) A census
  • (v. i.) To burn or scatter incense.
  • (v. t.) To perfume with odors from burning gums and spices.

    Censor
  • (n.) A critic

    Censurable
  • (a.) Deserving of censure

    Censure
  • (n.) Judgment either favorable or unfavorable
  • (v. i.) To condemn or reprimand by a judicial or ecclesiastical sentence.

    Census
  • (n.) An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country

    Cent
  • (n.) A hundred

    Ceorl
  • (n.) A freeman of the lowest class

    Cephalic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the head.
  • (n.) A medicine for headache, or other disorder in the head.

    Cephalization
  • (n.) Domination of the head in animal life as expressed in the physical structure

    Cephalometer
  • (n.) An instrument measuring the dimensions of the head of a fetus during delivery.

    Cephalometry
  • (n.) The measurement of the heads of living persons.

    Cephalothorax
  • (n.) The anterior portion of any one of the Arachnida and higher Crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax

    Cepheus
  • (n.) A northern constellation near the pole. Its head, which is in the Milky Way, is marked by a triangle formed by three stars of the fourth magnitude

    Ceraceous
  • (a.) Having the texture and color of new wax

    Ceramic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to pottery

    Cerastes
  • (n.) A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye

    Cerberus
  • (n.) A genus of East Indian serpents, allied to the pythons

    Cercaria
  • (n.) The larval form of a trematode worm having the shape of a tadpole, with its body terminated by a tail-like appendage

    Cere
  • (n.) The soft naked sheath at the base of the beak of birds of prey, parrots, and some other birds
  • (v. t.) To wax

    Ceria
  • (n.) Cerium oxide, CeO2, a white infusible substance constituting about one per cent of the material of the common incandescent mantle

    Ceriph
  • (n.) One of the fine lines of a letter, esp. one of the fine cross strokes at the top and bottom of letters

    Cerise
  • (a.) Cherry-colored

    Cerium
  • (n.) A rare metallic element, occurring in the minerals cerite, allanite, monazite, etc. Symbol Ce

    Cernuous
  • (a.) Inclining or nodding downward

    Cero
  • (n.) A large and valuable fish of the Mackerel family, of the genus Scomberomorus. Two species are found in the West Indies and less commonly on the Atlantic coast of the United States

    Certain
  • (a.) Actually existing
  • (adv.) Certainly.
  • (n.) A certain number or quantity.

    Certificate
  • (n.) A written declaration legally authenticated.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a certificate

    Certify
  • (v. t.) To give certain information of

    Certiorari
  • (n.) A writ issuing out of chancery, or a superior court, to call up the records of a inferior court, or remove a cause there depending, in order that the party may have more sure and speedy justice, or that errors and irregularities may be corrected

    Certitude
  • (n.) Freedom from doubt

    Cerulean
  • (a.) Sky-colored

    Cerumen
  • (n.) The yellow, waxlike secretion from the glands of the external ear

    Ceruse
  • (n.) A cosmetic containing white lead.

    Cerussite
  • (n.) Native lead carbonate

    Cervelat
  • (n.) An ancient wind instrument, resembling the bassoon in tone.

    Cervical
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the neck

    Cervine
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the deer, or to the family Cervidae.

    Cervix
  • (n.) The neck

    Cessation
  • (n.) A ceasing or discontinuance, as of action, whether temporary or final

    Cession
  • (n.) A yielding, or surrender, as of property or rights, to another person

    Cesspool
  • (n.) A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter

    Cestode
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea.
  • (n.) One of the Cestoidea.

    Cestus
  • (n.) A covering for the hands of boxers, made of leather bands, and often loaded with lead or iron

    Cetacean
  • (n.) One of the Cetacea.

    Cete
  • (n.) One of the Cetacea, or collectively, the Cetacea.

    Cetology
  • (n.) The description or natural history of cetaceous animals.

    Chablis
  • (n.) A white wine made near Chablis, a town in France.

    Chacma
  • (n.) A large species of African baboon (Cynocephalus porcarius)

    Chaconne
  • (n.) An old Spanish dance in moderate three-four measure, like the Passacaglia, which is slower

    Chaetognath
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Chaetognatha.

    Chafe
  • (n.) Heat excited by friction.
  • (v. i.) To be worn by rubbing
  • (v. t.) To excite heat in by friction

    Chaff
  • (n.) Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character
  • (v. i.) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule
  • (v. t.) To make fun of

    Chagrin
  • (a.) Chagrined.
  • (n.) To excite ill-humor in
  • (v. i.) To be vexed or annoyed.

    Chain
  • (n.) An instrument which consists of links and is used in measuring land.
  • (v. t.) To fasten, bind, or connect with a chain

    Chair
  • (n.) A movable single seat with a back.
  • (v. t.) To carry publicly in a chair in triumph.

    Chaise
  • (n.) a carriage in general.

    Chalaza
  • (n.) A spiral band of thickened albuminous substance which exists in the white of the bird's egg, and serves to maintain the yolk in its position

    Chalazion
  • (n.) A small circumscribed tumor of the eyelid caused by retention of secretion, and by inflammation of the Melbomian glands

    Chalcedony
  • (n.) A cryptocrystalline, translucent variety of quartz, having usually a whitish color, and a luster nearly like wax

    Chalcocite
  • (n.) Native copper sulphide, called also copper glance, and vitreous copper

    Chalcography
  • (n.) The act or art of engraving on copper or brass, especially of engraving for printing

    Chalcopyrite
  • (n.) Copper pyrites, or yellow copper ore

    Chaldean
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Chaldea.
  • (n.) A learned man, esp. an astrologer

    Chaldee
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Chaldea.
  • (n.) The language or dialect of the Chaldeans

    Chaldron
  • (n.) An English dry measure, being, at London, 36 bushels heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle

    Chalet
  • (n.) A herdsman's hut in the mountains of Switzerland.

    Chalice
  • (n.) A cup or bowl

    Chalk
  • (n.) A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone
  • (v. t.) To make white, as with chalk

    Challenge
  • (n.) A claim or demand.
  • (v. i.) To assert a right

    Challis
  • (n.) A soft and delicate woolen, or woolen and silk, fabric, for ladies' dresses.

    Chalybeate
  • (a.) Impregnated with salts of iron
  • (n.) Any water, liquid, or medicine, into which iron enters as an ingredient.

    Chalybite
  • (n.) Native iron carbonate

    Cham
  • (n.) The sovereign prince of Tartary
  • (v. t.) To chew.

    Chance
  • (a.) Happening by chance
  • (adv.) By chance
  • (n.) A possibility
  • (v. i.) To happen, come, or arrive, without design or expectation.
  • (v. t.) To befall

    Chancre
  • (n.) A venereal sore or ulcer

    Chancroid
  • (n.) A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease

    Chandelier
  • (n.) A candlestick, lamp, stand, gas fixture, or the like, having several branches

    Chandler
  • (n.) A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by a word prefixed

    Change
  • (v. i.) To be altered
  • (v. t.) Alteration in the order of a series

    Channel
  • (n.) A gutter
  • (v. t.) To course through or over, as in a channel.

    Chanson
  • (n.) A song.

    Chant
  • (v. i.) To make melody with the voice
  • (v. t.) A psalm, etc., arranged for chanting.

    Chaos
  • (n.) An empty, immeasurable space

    Chaotic
  • (a.) Resembling chaos

    Chap
  • (n.) A blow
  • (v. i.) To bargain
  • (v. t.) To cause to open in slits or chinks

    Char
  • (n.) A car

    Chase
  • (n.) A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall
  • (v.) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise
  • (v. i.) To give chase
  • (v. t.) To cut, so as to make a screw thread.

    Chasm
  • (n.) A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock

    Chasseur
  • (n.) An attendant upon persons of rank or wealth, wearing a plume and sword.

    Chassis
  • (n.) A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a barbette or casemate gun moves backward and forward

    Chaste
  • (a.) Pure from unlawful sexual intercourse

    Chastise
  • (v. t.) To inflict pain upon, by means of stripes, or in any other manner, for the purpose of punishment or reformation

    Chastity
  • (n.) Chasteness.

    Chasuble
  • (n.) The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a narrower front piece, the two connected over the shoulders only

    Chat
  • (n.) A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat (I
  • (v. i.) To talk in a light and familiar manner
  • (v. t.) To talk of.

    Chauffeur
  • (n.) Brigands in bands, who, about 1793, pillaged, burned, and killed in parts of France

    Chauvinism
  • (n.) Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause

    Chaw
  • (v. t.) As much as is put in the mouth at once


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