Select a letter for some words
Cad
A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards.
Calade
A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches.
Calculator
One who computes or reckons: one who estimates or considers the force and effect of causes, with a view to form a correct estimate of the effects.
Callithrix
the type genus of the ; the true marmosets.
Campaigner
One who has served in an army in several campaigns; an old soldier; a veteran.
Campanology
The art of ringing bells, or a treatise on the art.
Canker-bit
Eaten out by canker, or as by canker.
Canonist
A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law.
Canvas
Made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse cloth; .
Caponet
A young capon.
Captivity
The state of being a captive or a prisoner.
Carvacrol
A thick oily liquid, , of a strong taste and disagreeable odor, obtained from oil of caraway ().
Carve
To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures.
Casemated
Furnished with, protected by, or built like, a casemate.
Cassonade
Raw sugar; sugar not refined.
Cataclasm
A breaking asunder; disruption.
cattleship
a cargo ship for the transport of livestock.
Cave
To dwell in a cave.
Centrifugal
Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
Cessation
A ceasing or discontinuance, as of action, whether temporary or final; a stop; .
Chace
See 3d , , 3.
chalkboard
a dark sheet of slate used as a surface for writing on, with chalk.
Charlie
A familiar nickname or substitute for .
Charm
To make music upon; to tune.
Charon
The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions.
chickenfeed
a trifling sum of money.
Chide
A continuous noise or murmur.
Chiretta
A plant () found in Northern India, having medicinal properties to the gentian, and esteemed as a tonic and febrifuge.
Christianize
To adopt the character or belief of a Christian; to become Christian.
Christly
Christlike.
Chromate
A salt of chromic acid.
chromatograph
a piece of equipment used to perform chromatography{2}.
Chronicler
A writer of a chronicle; a recorder of events in the order of time; an historian.
Chyluria
A morbid condition in which the urine contains chyle or fatty matter, giving it a milky appearance.
Cinch
In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five.
Citrullus
a genus of vines including the watermelons ().
Claim
To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
Clean
Free from dirt or filth; .
cleaners
a shop where dry cleaning is done.
Clear
To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; -- of the weather; -- often followed by , , or .
Clechy
See .
Clothier
One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth.
Clump
An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.
Coagulate
To undergo coagulation.
Coax
To persuade by gentle, insinuating courtesy, flattering, or fondling; to wheedle; to soothe.
Coifed
Wearing a coif.
Colchicine
A powerful vegetable alkaloid, , extracted from the , or meadow saffron, as a white or yellowish amorphous powder, with a harsh, bitter taste; -- called also .
Colegoose
See .
Commiserable
Pitiable.
Companionable
Fitted to be a companion; fit for good fellowship; agreeable; sociable.
Competitive
Of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; competitory; .
Comprobate
To agree; to concur.
Compter
A counter.
Comptly
Neatly.
Compute
To determine by calculation; to reckon; to count.
Congiary
A present, as of corn, wine, or oil, made by a Roman emperor to the soldiers or the people; -- so called because measured to each in a .
Conn
See , to direct a ship.
Constitutionalism
The theory, principles, or authority of constitutional government; attachment or adherence to a constitution or constitutional government.
Contract tablet
A clay tablet on which was inscribed a contract, for safe keeping. Such tablets were inclosed in an outer case (often called the ), on which was inscribed a duplicate of the inscription on the inclosed tablet.
Coquettishly
In a coquettish manner.
Corival
A rival; a corrival.
Corporately
In a corporate capacity; acting as a corporate body.
Corroborate
To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen.
Cosecant
The secant of the complement of an arc or angle. See of .
Cosmoplastic
Pertaining to a plastic force as operative in the formation of the world independently of God; world-forming.
Costal
Pertaining to the ribs or the sides of the body; .
Countercharm
To destroy the effect of a charm upon.
Covenantor
The party who makes a covenant.
Covey
A brood or hatch of birds; an old bird with her brood of young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together; -- said of game; .
Crimeless
Free from crime; innocent.
Crosshead
A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead.
Crowd
To push, to press, to shove.
Crummy
Full of crumb or crumbs.
Crumpy
Brittle; crisp.
Crusted
Incrusted; covered with, or containing, crust; .
Culpon
A shred; a fragment; a strip of wood.
Cur
A mongrel or inferior dog.
Cynanthropy
A kind of madness in which men fancy themselves changed into dogs, and imitate the voice and habits of that animal.