Select a letter for some words
Candidacy
The position of a candidate; state of being a candidate; candidateship.
Candidateship
Candidacy.
Candite
A variety of spinel, of a dark color, found at Candy, in Ceylon.
Cap
To uncover the head respectfully.
carcino-
A combining form meaning , as in gen.
Cassinette
A cloth with a cotton warp, and a woof of very fine wool, or wool and silk.
castrated
deprived of reproductive organs or sexual attributes.
Cataclysmist
One who believes that the most important geological phenomena have been produced by cataclysms.
Catchdrain
A ditch or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water.
Cattle
Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine.
Caudata
See .
Cease
To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; .
Celadon
A pale sea-green color; also, porcelain or fine pottery of this tint.
Chablis
A white wine made near , a town in France.
Chamaeleo
the type genus of the .
Chenopodiales
an order which corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae.
Chicaner
One who uses chicanery.
chickeree
the far western U.S. counterpart of the red squirrel.
Chickweed
The name of several caryophyllaceous weeds, especially , the seeds and flower buds of which are a favorite food of small birds.
Children
of .
Chirognomy
The art of judging character by the shape and appearance of the hand.
Chirp
To make a shop, sharp, cheerful, as of small birds or crickets.
Chitterlings
The smaller intestines of swine, etc., fried for food.
Churn
A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separate the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter.
Coadaptation
Mutual adaption.
Coagment
To join together.
Coalpit
A pit where coal is dug.
coccidioidomycosis
a disease of the lungs and skin characterized by excessive sputum and nodules.
Cockmatch
A cockfight.
Cognize
To know or perceive; to recognize.
Cointense
Equal in intensity or degree; .
Colatitude
The complement of the latitude, or the difference between any latitude and ninety degrees.
Coldfinch
A British wagtail.
Colluctation
A struggling; a contention.
Columnated
Having columns; .
Come-along
A gripping device, as for stretching wire, etc., consisting of two jaws so attached to a ring that they are closed by pulling on the ring.
Commentator
One who writes a commentary or comments; an expositor; an annotator.
Completory
Serving to fulfill.
Complicate
Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved.
Compound control
A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
Conceit
To conceive; to imagine.
Conceitedness
The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity.
Concrement
A growing together; the collection or mass formed by concretion, or natural union.
conditioner
exercise that conditions the body; .
conferral
the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift.
Confrication
A rubbing together; friction.
Confuse
Mixed; confounded.
Conglutination
A gluing together; a joining by means of some tenacious substance; junction; union.
constantan
a copper-nickel alloy composed of approximately 55 per cent copper and 45 per cent nickel, with high electrical resistance and a low temperature coefficient; it is used as resistance wire and in thermocouples.
Constructional
Pertaining to, or deduced from, construction or interpretation.
Convectively
In a convective manner.
Coralliform
resembling coral in form.
Coralloid
Having the form of coral; branching like coral.
Cord
A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.
Cork fossil
A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork.
corticosteroid
a steroid compound produced by the adrenal cortex, or a synthetic analog of such a compound.
Count-wheel
The wheel in a clock which regulates the number of strokes.
Cousin
Allied; akin.
Coverchief
A covering for the head.
Crack
Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of; .
crankcase
the housing for a crankshaft and connecting parts in an internal-combustion engine.
Creaturely
Creatural; characteristic of a creature.
Cremor
Cream; a substance resembling cream; yeast; scum.
crossover
the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis.
Cubital
A sleeve covering the arm from the elbow to the hand.
Cullionly
Mean; base.
Cumidine
A strong, liquid, organic base, , homologous with aniline.
Curiologic
Pertaining to a rude kind of hieroglyphics, in which a thing is represented by its picture instead of by a symbol.