| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| cuckolding | present participle & vb. noun | of Cuckold |
| cuckoldize | verb t. | To cuckold. |
| cuckoopint | noun | A plant of the genus Arum (A. maculatum); the European wake-robin. |
| cucullated | adjective | Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood., Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the leaf of the commonest American blue violet., Having the prothorax elevated so as to form a sort of hood, receiving the head, as in certain insects., Having a hoodlike crest on the head, as certain birds, mammals, and reptiles. |
| cucumiform | adjective | Having the form of a cucumber; having the form of a cylinder tapered and rounded at the ends, and either straight or curved. |
| cudgelling | of Cudgel | |
| cuirassier | noun | A soldier armed with a cuirass. |
| cul-de-sac | noun | A passage with only one outlet, as a street closed at one end; a blind alley; hence, a trap., a position in which an army finds itself with no way of exit but to the front., Any bag-shaped or tubular cavity, vessel, or organ, open only at one end. |
| culiciform | adjective | Gnat-shaped. |
| culinarily | adverb | In the manner of a kitchen; in connection with a kitchen or cooking. |
| culminated | imp. & past participle | of Culminate |
| cultivable | adjective | Capable of being cultivated or tilled. |
| cultivated | imp. & past participle | of Cultivate |
| cultivator | noun | One who cultivates; as, a cultivator of the soil; a cultivator of literature., An agricultural implement used in the tillage of growing crops, to loosen the surface of the earth and kill the weeds; esp., a triangular frame set with small shares, drawn by a horse and by handles. |
| cultriform | adjective | Shaped like a pruning knife; cultrate. |
| culturable | adjective | Capable of, or fit for, being cultivated; capable or becoming cultured. |
| cultus cod | See Cod, and Buffalo cod, under Buffalo. | |
| culvertail | noun | Dovetail. |
| cumbersome | adjective | Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous., Not easily managed; as, a cumbersome contrivance or machine. |
| cumulating | present participle & vb. noun | of Cumulate |
| cumulation | noun | The act of heaping together; a heap. See Accumulation. |
| cumulatist | noun | One who accumulates; one who collects. |
| cumulative | adjective | Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; aggregated., Augmenting, gaining, or giving force, by successive additions; as, a cumulative argument, i. e., one whose force increases as the statement proceeds., Tending to prove the same point to which other evidence has been offered; — said of evidence., Given by same testator to the same legatee; — said of a legacy. |
| cunctation | noun | Delay; procrastination. |
| cunctative | adjective | Slow; tardy; dilatory; causing delay. |
| cundurango | noun | The bark of a South American vine (Gonolobus Condurango) of the Milkweed family. It has been supposed, but erroneously, to be a cure for cancer. |
| cunningman | noun | A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. |
| curability | noun | The state of being curable; curableness. |
| curateship | noun | A curacy. |
| curiologic | adjective | Pertaining to a rude kind of hieroglyphics, in which a thing is represented by its picture instead of by a symbol. |
| curledness | noun | State of being curled; curliness. |
| curmudgeon | noun | An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl. |
| curmurring | noun | Murmuring; grumbling; — sometimes applied to the rumbling produced by a slight attack of the gripes. |
| currencies | plural | of Currency |
| curriculum | noun | A race course; a place for running., A course; particularly, a specified fixed course of study, as in a university. |
| cursedness | noun | The state of being under a curse or of being doomed to execration or to evil., Wickedness; sin; cursing., Shrewishness. |
| curstfully | adverb | Peevishly; vexatiously; detestably. |
| curtailing | present participle & vb. noun | of Curtail |
| curtaining | present participle & vb. noun | of Curtain |
| curtelasse | A corruption of Cutlass. | |
| curvedness | noun | The state of being curved. |
| curvograph | noun | An arcograph. |
| cushewbird | noun | The galeated curassow. See Curassow. |
| cushioning | present participle & vb. | of Cushion |
| cuspidated | adjective | Having a sharp end, like the point of a spear; terminating in a hard point; as, a cuspidate leaf. |
| customable | adjective | Customary., Subject to the payment of customs; dutiable. |
| customably | adverb | Usually. |
| cuttlefish | noun | A cephalopod of the genus Sepia, having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally., A foul-mouthed fellow. |
| cuttystool | noun | A low stool, A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister. |