| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| cicatricle | noun | The germinating point in the embryo of a seed; the point in the yolk of an egg at which development begins. |
| cicatrices | plural | of Cicatrix |
| cicatrized | imp. & past participle | of Cicatrize |
| ciceronian | adjective | Resembling Cicero in style or action; eloquent. |
| cicisbeism | noun | The state or conduct of a cicisbeo. |
| cicuration | noun | The act of taming. |
| ciliograde | adjective | Moving by means of cilia, or cilialike organs; as, the ciliograde Medusae. |
| cimeliarch | noun | A superintendent or keeper of a church’s valuables; a churchwarden. |
| cinchonine | noun | One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; — called also cinchonia. |
| cinchonism | noun | A condition produced by the excessive or long-continued use of quinine, and marked by deafness, roaring in the ears, vertigo, etc. |
| cinchonize | verb t. | To produce cinchonism in; to poison with quinine or with cinchona. |
| cinematics | noun sing. | See Kinematics. |
| cineration | noun | The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction. |
| cinerulent | adjective | Full of ashes. |
| cinnamomic | adjective | See Cinnamic. |
| cinquefoil | noun | The name of several different species of the genus Potentilla; — also called five-finger, because of the resemblance of its leaves to the fingers of the hand., An ornamental foliation having five points or cups, used in windows, panels, etc. |
| cipherhood | noun | Nothingness. |
| circassian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Circassia, in Asia., A native or inhabitant of Circassia. |
| circensial | adjective | Alt. of Circensian |
| circensian | adjective | Of or pertaining to, or held in, the Circus, In Rome. |
| circuiteer | noun | A circuiter. |
| circuition | noun | The act of going round; circumlocution. |
| circuitous | adjective | Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accomplishing an end. |
| circulable | adjective | That may be circulated. |
| circularly | adverb | In a circular manner. |
| circulator | noun | One who, or that which, circulates. |
| circumcise | verb t. | To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females., To purify spiritually. |
| circumduce | verb t. | To declare elapsed, as the time allowed for introducing evidence. |
| circumduct | verb t. | To lead about; to lead astray., To contravene; to nullify; as, to circumduct acts of judicature. |
| circumflex | noun | A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable., A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus [~ or /]; and in Latin and some other languages, denoting a long and contracted syllable, marked [/ or ^]. See Accent, n., 2., To mark or pronounce with a circumflex., Moving or turning round; circuitous., Curved circularly; — applied to several arteries of the hip and thigh, to arteries, veins, and a nerve of the shoulder, and to other parts. |
| circumfuse | verb t. | To pour round; to spread round. |
| circumgyre | verb i. | To circumgyrate. |
| circummure | verb t. | To encompass with a wall. |
| circumvent | verb t. | To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around. |
| circumvest | verb t. | To cover round, as with a garment; to invest. |
| cirrigrade | adjective | Moving or moved by cirri, or hairlike appendages. |
| cirripedia | noun pl. | An order of Crustacea including the barnacles. When adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs, looking like a delicate curl, whence the name of the group. See Anatifa. |
| cirrostomi | noun pl. | The lowest group of vertebrates; — so called from the cirri around the mouth; the Leptocardia. See Amphioxus. |
| cisleithan | adjective | On the Austrian side of the river Leitha; Austrian. |
| cismontane | adjective | On this side of the mountains. See under Ultramontane. |
| cistercian | noun | A monk of the prolific branch of the Benedictine Order, established in 1098 at Citeaux, in France, by Robert, abbot of Molesme. For two hundred years the Cistercians followed the rule of St. Benedict in all its rigor., Of or pertaining to the Cistercians. |
| citigradae | noun pl. | A suborder of Arachnoidea, including the European tarantula and the wolf spiders (Lycosidae) and their allies, which capture their prey by rapidly running and jumping. See Wolf spider. |
| citizeness | noun | A female citizen. |
| citraconic | adjective | Pertaining to, derived from, or having certain characteristics of, citric and aconitic acids. |
| civilities | plural | of Civillty |
| civilizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Civilize |