| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| cabinetwork | noun | The art or occupation of working upon wooden furniture requiring nice workmanship; also, such furniture. |
| cachectical | adjective | Having, or pertaining to, cachexia; as, cachectic remedies; cachectical blood. |
| cacodoxical | adjective | Heretical. |
| cacogastric | adjective | Troubled with bad digestion. |
| cacographic | adjective | Pertaining to, or characterized by, cacography; badly written or spelled. |
| cacophonous | adjective | Alt. of Cacophonious |
| cacophonies | plural | of Cacophony |
| caffetannic | adjective | Pertaining to, or derived from, the tannin of coffee. |
| caking coal | See Coal. | |
| calamistrum | noun | A comblike structure on the metatarsus of the hind legs of certain spiders (Ciniflonidae), used to curl certain fibers in the construction of their webs. |
| calcedonian | adjective | See Chalcedonic. |
| calceolaria | noun | A genus of showy herbaceous or shrubby plants, brought from South America; slipperwort. It has a yellow or purple flower, often spotted or striped, the shape of which suggests its name. |
| calciferous | adjective | Bearing, producing, or containing calcite, or carbonate of lime. |
| calcigenous | adjective | Tending to form, or to become, a calx or earthlike substance on being oxidized or burnt; as magnesium, calcium. etc. |
| calcigerous | adjective | Holding lime or other earthy salts; as, the calcigerous cells of the teeth. |
| calcimining | present participle & vb. noun | of Calcimine |
| calcination | noun | The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime., The act or process of reducing a metal to an oxide or metallic calx; oxidation. |
| calcinatory | noun | A vessel used in calcination. |
| calcivorous | adjective | Eroding, or eating into, limestone. |
| calcography | noun | The art of drawing with chalk. |
| calc-sinter | noun | See under Calcite. |
| calculating | present participle & vb. noun | of Calculate, Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations., Given to contrivance or forethought; forecasting; scheming; as, a cool calculating disposition., The act or process of making mathematical computations or of estimating results. |
| calculation | noun | The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate., An expectation based on circumstances. |
| calculative | adjective | Of or pertaining to calculation; involving calculation. |
| calculatory | adjective | Belonging to calculation. |
| calefacient | adjective | Making warm; heating., A substance that excites warmth in the parts to which it is applied, as mustard. |
| calefaction | noun | The act of warming or heating; the production of heat in a body by the action of fire, or by communication of heat from other bodies., The state of being heated. |
| calefactive | adjective | See Calefactory. |
| calefactory | adjective | Making hot; producing or communicating heat., An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room., A hollow sphere of metal, filled with hot water, or a chafing dish, placed on the altar in cold weather for the priest to warm his hands with. |
| calendaring | present participle & vb. noun | of Calendar |
| calendarial | adjective | Of or pertaining to the calendar or a calendar. |
| calendering | present participle & vb. noun | of Calender |
| calendrical | adjective | Of or pertaining to a calendar. |
| calibration | noun | The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more generally, the determination of the true value of the spaces in any graduated instrument. |
| californian | adjective | Of or pertaining to California., A native or inhabitant of California. |
| caligraphic | adjective | See Calligraphic. |
| calisthenis | adjective | Of or pertaining to calisthenics. |
| calligraphy | noun | Fair or elegant penmanship. |
| callosities | plural | of Callosity |
| calorifiant | adjective | See Calorificient. |
| calorimeter | noun | An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc., An apparatus for measuring the proportion of unevaporated water contained in steam. |
| calorimetry | noun | Measurement of the quantities of heat in bodies. |
| calorimotor | noun | A voltaic battery, having a large surface of plate, and producing powerful heating effects. |
| calumniated | imp. & past participle | of Calumniate |
| calumniator | noun | One who calumniates. |
| calvessnout | noun | Snapdragon. |
| calvinistic | adjective | Alt. of Calvinistical |
| calyculated | adjective | Having a set of bracts resembling a calyx. |
| campaniform | adjective | Bell-shaped. |
| campanology | noun | The art of ringing bells, or a treatise on the art. |
| campanulate | adjective | Bell-shaped. |
| campbellite | noun | A member of the denomination called Christians or Disciples of Christ. They themselves repudiate the term Campbellite as a nickname. See Christian, 3. |
| campestrian | adjective | Relating to an open fields; drowing in a field; growing in a field, or open ground. |
| canaanitish | adjective | Of or pertaining to Canaan or the Canaanites. |
| canaliculus | noun | A minute canal. |
| canary bird | A small singing bird of the Finch family (Serinus Canarius), a native of the Canary Islands. It was brought to Europe in the 16th century, and made a household pet. It generally has a yellowish body with the wings and tail greenish, but in its wild state it is more frequently of gray or brown color. It is sometimes called canary finch. | |
| cancellated | adjective | Crossbarred; marked with cross lines., Open or spongy, as some porous bones. |
| canceration | noun | The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into a cancer. |
| candelabrum | noun | A lamp stand of any sort., A highly ornamented stand of marble or other ponderous material, usually having three feet, — frequently a votive offering to a temple., A large candlestick, having several branches. |
| candescence | noun | See Incandescence. |
| candidating | noun | The taking of the position of a candidate; specifically, the preaching of a clergyman with a view to settlement. |
| candidature | noun | Candidacy. |
| candle coal | See Cannel coal. | |
| candlelight | noun | The light of a candle. |
| candlestick | noun | An instrument or utensil for supporting a candle. |
| canker rash | A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat. | |
| cannel coal | A kind of mineral coal of a black color, sufficiently hard and solid to be cut and polished. It burns readily, with a clear, yellow flame, and on this account has been used as a substitute for candles. | |
| cannibalism | noun | The act or practice of eating human flesh by mankind. Hence; Murderous cruelty; barbarity. |
| cannonading | present participle & vb. noun | of Cannonade |
| cannon bone | See Canon Bone. | |
| cannonering | noun | The use of cannon. |
| canonically | adverb | In a canonical manner; according to the canons. |
| cantharidal | adjective | Of or pertaining to cantharides or made of cantharides; as, cantharidal plaster. |
| cantharides | noun pl. | See Cantharis., of Cantharis |
| cantharidin | noun | The active principle of the cantharis, or Spanish fly, a volatile, acrid, bitter solid, crystallizing in four-sided prisms. |
| capableness | noun | The quality or state of being capable; capability; adequateness; competency. |
| capacitated | imp. & past participle | of Capacitate |
| caparisoned | imp. & past participle | of Caparison |
| capillament | noun | A filament., Any villous or hairy covering; a fine fiber or filament, as of the nerves. |
| capillarity | noun | The quality or condition of being capillary., 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 attraction. |
| capillation | noun | A capillary blood vessel. |
| capillature | noun | A bush of hair; frizzing of the hair. |
| capilliform | adjective | In the shape or form of, a hair, or of hairs. |
| capitalized | imp. & past participle | of Capitalize |
| capitalness | noun | The quality of being capital; preeminence. |
| capitellate | adjective | Having a very small knoblike termination, or collected into minute capitula. |
| capitularly | adverb | In the manner or form of an ecclesiastical chapter. |
| capitulated | imp. & past participle | of Capitulate |
| capitulator | noun | One who capitulates. |
| caprigenous | adjective | Of the goat kind. |
| captainship | noun | The condition, rank, post, or authority of a captain or chief commander., Military skill; as, to show good captainship. |
| captivating | present participle & vb. noun | of Captivate, Having power to captivate or charm; fascinating; as, captivating smiles. |
| captivation | noun | The act of captivating. |
| caravansary | noun | A kind of inn, in the East, where caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court. |
| carbazotate | noun | A salt of carbazotic or picric acid; a picrate. |
| carbonadoed | imp. & past participle | of Carbonade |
| carbonadoes | plural | of Carbonado |
| carbonarism | noun | The principles, practices, or organization of the Carbonari. |
| carbonizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Carbonize |
| carbostyril | noun | A white crystalline substance, C9H6N.OH, of acid properties derived from one of the amido cinnamic acids. |
| carbuncular | adjective | Belonging to a carbuncle; resembling a carbuncle; red; inflamed. |
| carburetted | of Carburet | |
| carbureting | present participle & vb. noun | of Carburet |
| carburetant | noun | Any volatile liquid used in charging illuminating gases. |
| carburizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Carburize |
| carcavelhos | noun | A sweet wine. See Calcavella. |
| carcel lamp | A French mechanical lamp, for lighthouses, in which a superabundance of oil is pumped to the wick tube by clockwork. | |
| carcinology | noun | The department of zoology which treats of the Crustacea (lobsters, crabs, etc.); — called also malacostracology and crustaceology. |
| cardiagraph | noun | See Cardiograph. |
| cardinalate | noun | The office, rank, or dignity of a cardinal. |
| cardinalize | verb t. | To exalt to the office of a cardinal. |
| cardiograph | noun | An instrument which, when placed in contact with the chest, will register graphically the comparative duration and intensity of the heart’s movements. |
| cardiometry | noun | Measurement of the heart, as by percussion or auscultation. |
| carefulness | noun | Quality or state of being careful. |
| caressingly | ad. | In caressing manner. |
| caricatured | imp. & past participle | of Caricature |
| carminative | adjective | Expelling wind from the body; warming; antispasmodic., A substance, esp. an aromatic, which tends to expel wind from the alimentary canal, or to relieve colic, griping, or flatulence. |
| carnalizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Carnalize |
| carnationed | adjective | Having a flesh color. |
| carnivorous | adjective | Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics. |
| carousingly | adverb | In the manner of a carouser. |
| carpologist | noun | One who describes fruits; one versed in carpology. |
| cartography | noun | The art or business of forming charts or maps. |
| cartularies | plural | of Cartulary |
| carunculous | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or like, a caruncle; furnished with caruncles. |
| carunculate | adjective | Alt. of Carunculated |
| carvelbuilt | adjective | Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel. |
| cascarillin | noun | A white, crystallizable, bitter substance extracted from oil of cascarilla. |
| cashmerette | noun | A kind of dress goods, made with a soft and glossy surface like cashmere. |
| casse paper | Broken paper; the outside quires of a ream. | |
| cassioberry | noun | The fruit of the Viburnum obovatum, a shrub which grows from Virginia to Florida. |
| cassiterite | noun | Native tin dioxide; tin stone; a mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of reddish brown color, and brilliant adamantine luster; also massive, sometimes in compact forms with concentric fibrous structure resembling wood (wood tin), also in rolled fragments or pebbly (Stream tin). It is the chief source of metallic tin. See Black tin, under Black. |
| cassowaries | plural | of Cassowary |
| cassumuniar | noun | A pungent, bitter, aromatic, gingerlike root, obtained from the East Indies. |
| castellated | adjective | Inclosed within a building; as, a fountain or cistern castellated., Furnished with turrets and battlements, like a castle; built in the style of a castle. |
| castigating | present participle & vb. noun | of Castigate |
| castigation | noun | Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism., Emendation; correction. |
| castigatory | adjective | Punitive in order to amendment; corrective., An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; — called also a ducking stool, or trebucket. |
| castor bean | The bean or seed of the castor-oil plant (Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi.) | |
| castrensial | adjective | Belonging to a camp. |
| castrensian | adjective | Castrensial. |
| casuistieal | adjective | Of or pertaining to casuists or casuistry. |
| catabaptist | noun | One who opposes baptism, especially of infants. |
| catacaustic | adjective | Relating to, or having the properties of, a caustic curve formed by reflection. See Caustic, a., A caustic curve formed by reflection of light. |
| catachresis | noun | A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, “To take arms against a sea of troubles”. Shak. “Her voice was but the shadow of a sound.” Young. |
| cataclysmal | adjective | Alt. of Cataclysmic |
| cataclysmic | adjective | Of or pertaining to a cataclysm. |
| catacoustic | noun | That part of acoustics which treats of reflected sounds or echoes See Acoustics. |
| catadromous | adjective | Having the lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one; — said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to anadromous., Living in fresh water, and going to the sea to spawn; — opposed to anadromous, and said of the eel. |
| cataloguing | present participle & vb. noun | of Catalogue |
| cataphonics | noun | That branch of acoustics which treats of reflected sounds; catacoustics. |
| cataractous | adjective | Of the nature of a cataract in the eye; affected with cataract. |
| catastaltic | adjective | Checking evacuations through astringent or styptic qualities. |
| catasterism | noun | A placing among the stars; a catalogue of stars. |
| catastrophe | noun | An event producing a subversion of the order or system of things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune., The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy., A violent and widely extended change in the surface of the earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of some part of it, effected by internal causes. |
| catch-basin | noun | A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to catch bulky matters which would not pass readily through the sewer. |
| catchweight | adverb | Without any additional weight; without being handicapped; as, to ride catchweight. |
| catechetics | noun | The science or practice of instructing by questions and answers. |
| catechising | present participle & vb. noun | of Catechise |
| catechismal | adjective | Of or pertaining to a catechism, having the form of questions and answers; catechetical. |
| catechistic | adjective | Alt. of Catechistical |
| categorical | adjective | Of or pertaining to a category., Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer. |
| caterpillar | noun | The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the sawflies, which are also called false caterpillars. The true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs, and several pairs of abdominal fleshy legs (prolegs) armed with hooks. Some are hairy, others naked. They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent vegetables, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly called worms, as the cutworm, cankerworm, army worm, cotton worm, silkworm., A plant of the genus Scorpiurus, with pods resembling caterpillars. |
| caterwauled | imp. & past participle | of Caterwaul |
| cat-harping | noun | One of the short ropes or iron cramps used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so a to give freer sweep to the yards. |
| cathedralic | adjective | Cathedral. |
| cathedrated | adjective | Relating to the chair or office of a teacher. |
| catheterism | noun | Alt. of Catheterization |
| catheterize | verb t. | To operate on with a catheter. |
| catholicism | noun | The state or quality of being catholic or universal; catholicity., Liberality of sentiment; breadth of view., The faith of the whole orthodox Christian church, or adherence thereto., The doctrines or faith of the Roman Catholic church, or adherence thereto. |
| catholicity | noun | The state or quality of being catholic; universality., Liberality of sentiments; catholicism., Adherence or conformity to the system of doctrine held by all parts of the orthodox Christian church; the doctrine so held; orthodoxy., Adherence to the doctrines of the church of Rome, or the doctrines themselves. |
| catholicize | verb t. & i. | To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic. |
| catoptrical | adjective | Of or pertaining to catoptrics; produced by reflection. |
| cauda galli | A plume-shaped fossil, supposed to be a seaweed, characteristic of the lower Devonian rocks; as, the cauda galli grit. | |
| cauliflower | noun | An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage, of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable., The edible head or “curd” of a cauliflower plant. |
| causatively | adverb | In a causative manner. |
| caustically | adverb | In a caustic manner. |
| causticness | noun | The quality of being caustic; causticity. |
| cauterizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Cauterize |
| cavalierish | adjective | Somewhat like a cavalier. |
| cavalierism | noun | The practice or principles of cavaliers. |
| cavernulous | adjective | Full of little cavities; as, cavernulous metal. |
| cavillation | noun | Frivolous or sophistical objection. |