| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| cabinetmaking | noun | The art or occupation of making the finer articles of household furniture. |
| calcariferous | adjective | Lime-yielding; calciferous |
| calcification | noun | The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; — normally, as in the formation of bone and of teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue. |
| calcispongiae | noun pl. | An order of marine sponges, containing calcareous spicules. See Porifera. |
| calisaya bark | A valuable kind of Peruvian bark obtained from the Cinchona Calisaya, and other closely related species. | |
| calligraphist | noun | A calligrapher |
| callisthenics | noun | See Calisthenic, Calisthenics. |
| callithumpian | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a callithump. |
| calorifacient | adjective | See Calorificient. |
| calorificient | adjective | Having, or relating to the power of producing heat; — applied to foods which, being rich in carbon, as the fats, are supposed to give rise to heat in the animal body by oxidation. |
| calvinistical | adjective | Of or pertaining to Calvin, or Calvinism; following Calvin; accepting or Teaching Calvinism. |
| cambro-briton | noun | A Welshman. |
| cameralistics | noun | The science of finance or public revenue. |
| camera lucida | An instrument which by means of a prism of a peculiar form, or an arrangement of mirrors, causes an apparent image of an external object or objects to appear as if projected upon a plane surface, as of paper or canvas, so that the outlines may conveniently traced. It is generally used with the microscope. | |
| campaniliform | adjective | Bell-shaped; campanulate; campaniform. |
| campanologist | noun | One skilled in campanology; a bell ringer. |
| campanularian | noun | A hydroid of the family ampanularidae, characterized by having the polyps or zooids inclosed in bell-shaped calicles or hydrothecae. |
| camphoraceous | adjective | Of the nature of camphor; containing camphor. |
| canaliculated | adjective | Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms. |
| candidateship | noun | Candidacy. |
| canonicalness | noun | The quality of being canonical; canonicity. |
| capaciousness | noun | The quality of being capacious, as of a vessel, a reservoir a bay, the mind, etc. |
| capellmeister | noun | The musical director in royal or ducal chapel; a choir-master. |
| capillariness | noun | The quality of being capillary. |
| capitan pasha | Alt. of Pacha | |
| capping plane | A plane used for working the upper surface of staircase rails. | |
| caprification | noun | The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects. |
| caravansaries | plural | of Caravansary |
| carbonatation | noun | The saturation of defecated beet juice with carbonic acid gas. |
| carboniferous | adjective | Producing or containing carbon or coal. |
| carbonization | noun | The act or process of carbonizing. |
| carburization | noun | The act, process, or result of carburizing. |
| carcinomatous | adjective | Of or pertaining to carcinoma. |
| cardiographic | adjective | Of or pertaining to, or produced by, a cardiograph. |
| carnal-minded | adjective | Worldly-minded. |
| carnification | noun | The act or process of turning to flesh, or to a substance resembling flesh. |
| carnivoracity | noun | Greediness of appetite for flesh. |
| carolina pink | See Pinkboot. | |
| carte blanche | A blank paper, with a person’s signature, etc., at the bottom, given to another person, with permission to superscribe what conditions he pleases. Hence: Unconditional terms; unlimited authority. | |
| cartilaginous | adjective | Of or pertaining to cartilage; gristly; firm and tough like cartilage., Having the skeleton in the state of cartilage, the bones containing little or no calcareous matter; said of certain fishes, as the sturgeon and the sharks. |
| caryophyllous | adjective | Caryophyllaceous. |
| casehardening | noun | The act or process of converting the surface of iron into steel. |
| castlebuilder | noun | Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes. |
| catadioptrics | noun | The science which treats of catadioptric phenomena, or of the used of catadioptric instruments. |
| catanadromous | adjective | Ascending and descending fresh streams from and to the sea, as the salmon; anadromous. |
| catastrophism | noun | The doctrine that the geological changes in the earth’s crust have been caused by the sudden action of violent physical causes; — opposed to the doctrine of uniformism. |
| catastrophist | noun | One who holds the theory or catastrophism. |
| catechisation | noun | The act of catechising. |
| catechistical | adjective | Of or pertaining to a catechist or to a catechism. |
| catechumenate | noun | The state or condition of a catechumen or the time during which one is a catechumen. |
| catechumenist | noun | A catechumen. |
| categorematic | adjective | Capable of being employed by itself as a term; — said of a word. |
| categorically | adverb | Absolutely; directly; expressly; positively; as, to affirm categorically. |
| catheterizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Catheterize |
| catoptromancy | noun | A species of divination, which was performed by letting down a mirror into water, for a sick person to look at his face in it. If his countenance appeared distorted and ghastly, it was an ill omen; if fresh and healthy, it was favorable. |
| causelessness | noun | The state of being causeless. |
| cauterization | noun | The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application. |
| celluliferous | adjective | Bearing or producing little cells. |
| centesimation | noun | The infliction of the death penalty upon one person in every hundred, as in cases of mutiny. |
| centicipitous | adjective | Hundred-headed. |
| centrifugence | noun | The property or quality of being centrifugal. |
| centripetence | noun | Centripetency. |
| centripetency | noun | Tendency toward the center. |
| centrostaltic | adjective | A term applied to the action of nerve force in the spinal center. |
| centuplicated | imp. & past participle | of Centuplicate |
| cephalanthium | noun | Same as Anthodium. |
| cephalization | noun | Domination of the head in animal life as expressed in the physical structure; localization of important organs or parts in or near the head, in animal development. |
| cephalocercal | adjective | Relating to the long axis of the body. |
| cephalopodous | adjective | Belonging to, or resembling, the cephalopods. |
| cephalothorax | noun | The anterior portion of any one of the Arachnida and higher Crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax. |
| cephalotripsy | noun | The act or operation of crushing the head of a fetus in the womb in order to effect delivery. |
| cephalotrocha | noun | A kind of annelid larva with a circle of cilia around the head. |
| ceremonialism | noun | Adherence to external rites; fondness for ceremony. |
| ceremoniously | adverb | In a ceremonious way. |
| cerographical | adjective | Of or pertaining to cerography. |
| certificating | present participle & vb. noun | of Certificate |
| certification | noun | The act of certifying. |
| chalaziferous | adjective | Having or bearing chalazas. |
| chalcographer | noun | Alt. of Chalcographist |
| challengeable | adjective | That may be challenged. |
| chance-medley | noun | The killing of another in self-defense upon a sudden and unpremeditated encounter. See Chaud-Medley., Luck; chance; accident. |
| changeability | noun | Changeableness. |
| chansonnettes | plural | of Chansonnette |
| characterized | imp. & past participle | of Characterize |
| characterless | adjective | Destitute of any distinguishing quality; without character or force. |
| charlatanical | adjective | Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; empirical; pretentious; quackish. |
| chartographer | noun | Alt. of Chartography |
| chartographic | noun | Alt. of Chartography |
| cheatableness | noun | Capability of being cheated. |
| chef-d’oeuvre | noun | A masterpiece; a capital work in art, literature, etc. |
| cheiropterous | adjective | Belonging to the Cheiroptera, or Bat family. |
| cheirotherium | noun | A genus of extinct animals, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| chelerythrine | noun | An alkaloidal principle obtained from the celandine, and named from the red color of its salts. It is a colorless crystalline substance, and acts as an acrid narcotic poison. It is identical with sanguinarine. |
| chessy copper | The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons; called also chessylite. | |
| chest founder | A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration. | |
| chiaroscurist | noun | A painter who cares for and studies light and shade rather than color. |
| chiaro-oscuro | noun | The arrangement of light and dark parts in a work of art, such as a drawing or painting, whether in monochrome or in color., The art or practice of so arranging the light and dark parts as to produce a harmonious effect. Cf. Clair-obscur. |
| chief justice | The presiding justice, or principal judge, of a court. | |
| chieftainship | noun | The rank, dignity, or office of a chieftain. |
| childlessness | noun | The state of being childless. |
| chimney-piece | noun | A decorative construction around the opening of a fireplace. |
| chipping bird | The chippy. | |
| chirographist | noun | A chirographer; a writer or engrosser., One who tells fortunes by examining the hand. |
| chiromantical | adjective | Of or pertaining to chiromancy. |
| chitinization | noun | The process of becoming chitinous. |
| chlorocruorin | noun | A green substance, supposed to be the cause of the green color of the blood in some species of worms. |
| chloroforming | present participle & vb. noun | of Chloroform |
| chloroleucite | noun | Same as Chloroplastid. |
| chloroplastid | noun | A granule of chlorophyll; — also called chloroleucite. |
| chondrigenous | adjective | Affording chondrin. |
| chorepiscopal | adjective | Pertaining to a chorepiscopus or his change or authority. |
| chorepiscopus | noun | A “country” or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district. |
| chrematistics | noun | The science of wealth; the science, or a branch of the science, of political economy. |
| chreotechnics | noun | The science of the useful arts, esp. agriculture, manufactures, and commerce. |
| chrestomathic | adjective | Teaching what is useful. |
| christianized | imp. & past participle | of Christianize |
| christianlike | adjective | Becoming to a Christian. |
| christianness | noun | Consonance with the doctrines of Christianity. |
| christmastide | noun | The season of Christmas. |
| chromatically | adverb | In a chromatic manner. |
| chromatophore | noun | A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods., One of the granules of protoplasm, which in mass give color to the part of the plant containing them. |
| chromatoscope | noun | A reflecting telescope, part of which is made to rotate eccentrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point; — used in studying the scintillation of the stars. |
| chromoleucite | noun | A chromoplastid. |
| chromoplastid | noun | A protoplasmic granule of some other color than green; — also called chromoleucite. |
| chromospheric | adjective | Of or pertaining to the chromosphere. |
| chronographer | noun | One who writes a chronography; a chronologer. |
| chronographic | adjective | Of or pertaining to a chronograph. |
| chronological | adjective | Relating to chronology; containing an account of events in the order of time; according to the order of time; as, chronological tables. |
| chrysanthemum | noun | A genus of composite plants, mostly perennial, and of many species including the many varieties of garden chrysanthemums (annual and perennial), and also the feverfew and the oxeye daisy. |
| chthonophagia | noun | Alt. of Chthonophagy |
| chuckleheaded | adjective | Having a large head; thickheaded; dull; stupid. |
| churchmanship | noun | The state or quality of being a churchman; attachment to the church. |
| chylification | noun | The formation of chyle. See Chylifaction. |
| chylificatory | adjective | Chylifactive. |
| chymification | noun | The conversion of food into chyme by the digestive action of gastric juice. |
| cicatrization | noun | The process of forming a cicatrix, or the state of being cicatrized. |
| ciceronianism | noun | Imitation of, or resemblance to, the style or action Cicero; a Ciceronian phrase or expression. |
| cinchonaceous | adjective | Allied or pertaining to cinchona, or to the plants that produce it. |
| circumagitate | verb t. | To agitate on all sides. |
| circumambient | adjective | Surrounding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing. |
| circumclusion | noun | Act of inclosing on all sides. |
| circumduction | noun | A leading about; circumlocution., An annulling; cancellation., The rotation of a limb round an imaginary axis, so as to describe a concial surface. |
| circumference | noun | The line that goes round or encompasses a circular figure; a periphery., A circle; anything circular., The external surface of a sphere, or of any orbicular body., To include in a circular space; to bound. |
| circumflected | imp. & past participle | of Circumflect |
| circumflexing | present participle & vb. noun | of Circumflex |
| circumflexion | noun | The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form., A winding about; a turning; a circuity; a fold. |
| circumfluence | noun | A flowing round on all sides; an inclosing with a fluid. |
| circumfulgent | adjective | Shining around or about. |
| circumjacence | noun | Condition of being circumjacent, or of bordering on every side. |
| circumscribed | imp. & past participle | of Circumscribe |
| circumscriber | noun | One who, or that which, circumscribes. |
| circumspectly | adverb | In a circumspect manner; cautiously; warily. |
| circumstanced | p. adjective | Placed in a particular position or condition; situated., Governed by events or circumstances. |
| circumvallate | verb t. | To surround with a rampart or wall., Surrounded with a wall; inclosed with a rampart., Surrounded by a ridge or elevation; as, the circumvallate papillae, near the base of the tongue. |
| circumvection | noun | The act of carrying anything around, or the state of being so carried. |
| circumventing | present participle vb. noun | of Circumvent |
| circumvention | noun | The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion. |
| circumventive | adjective | Tending to circumvent; deceiving by artifices; deluding. |
| circumvolving | present participle vb. noun | of Circumvolve |
| cirro-cumulus | noun | See under Cloud. |
| cirro-stratus | noun | See under Cloud. |
| clandestinity | noun | Privacy or secrecy. |
| clare-obscure | noun | See Chiaroscuro. |
| clarification | noun | The act or process of making clear or transparent, by freeing visible impurities; as, the clarification of wine., The act of freeing from obscurities. |
| claro-obscuro | noun | See Chiaroscuro. |
| classicalness | noun | The quality of being classical. |
| clear-shining | adjective | Shining brightly. |
| clear-sighted | adjective | Seeing with clearness; discerning; as, clear-sighted reason |
| clearstarched | imp. & past participle | of Clearstarch |
| clearstarcher | noun | One who clearstarches. |
| cleavelandite | noun | A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure. |
| cleistogamous | adjective | Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; — said of certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds, the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self-fertilization. |
| climacterical | adjective & noun | See Climacteric. |
| climatography | noun | A description of climates. |
| climatologist | noun | One versed in, or who studies, climatology. |
| clinker-built | adjective | Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak. |
| clinodiagonal | noun | That diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle with the vertical axis. See Crystallization., Pertaining to, or the direction of, the clinodiagonal. |
| clinopinacoid | noun | The plane in crystals of the monoclinic system which is parallel to the vertical and the inclined lateral (clinidiagonal) axes. |
| close-tongued | adjective | Closemouthed; silent. |
| cloven-footed | adjective | Alt. of Cloven-hoofed |
| cloven-hoofed | adjective | Having the foot or hoof divided into two parts, as the ox. |
| clowe-gilofre | noun | Spice clove. |
| cluniacensian | adjective | Cluniac. |
| coadjutorship | noun | The state or office of a coadjutor; joint assistance. |
| coagmentation | noun | The act of joining, or the state of being joined, together; union. |
| coagulability | noun | The quality of being coagulable; capacity of being coagulated. |
| cobaltiferous | adjective | Containing cobalt. |
| cobelligerent | adjective | Carrying on war in conjunction with another power., A nation or state that carries on war in connection with another. |
| coccobacteria | plural | of Coccobacterium |
| cochineal fig | A plant of Central and Southern America, of the Cactus family, extensively cultivated for the sake of the cochineal insect, which lives on it. | |
| coelospermous | adjective | Hollow-seeded; having the ventral face of the seedlike carpels incurved at the ends, as in coriander seed. |
| cognomination | noun | A cognomen or surname. |
| coinheritance | noun | Joint inheritance. |
| coinquination | noun | Defilement. |
| collaborateur | noun | See Collaborator. |
| collaboration | noun | The act of working together; united labor. |
| colleagueship | noun | Partnership in office. |
| collectedness | noun | A collected state of the mind; self-possession. |
| collectorship | noun | The office of a collector of customs or of taxes. |
| colloquialism | noun | A colloquial expression, not employed in formal discourse or writing. |
| colloquialize | verb t. | To make colloquial and familiar; as, to colloquialize one’s style of writing. |
| cologne earth | An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter; an earthy variety of lignite, or brown coal. | |
| columbatz fly | See Buffalo fly, under Buffalo. | |
| columbiferous | adjective | Producing or containing columbium. |
| columelliform | adjective | Shaped like a little column, or columella. |
| combativeness | noun | The quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel., A cranial development supposed to indicate a combative disposition. |
| comet- seeker | noun | A telescope of low power, having a large field of view, used for finding comets. |
| cometographer | noun | One who describes or writes about comets. |
| commandership | noun | The office of a commander. |
| commeasurable | adjective | Having the same measure; commensurate; proportional. |
| commemorating | present participle & vb. noun | of Commemorate |
| commemoration | noun | The act of commemorating; an observance or celebration designed to honor the memory of some person or event., Whatever serves the purpose of commemorating; a memorial. |
| commemorative | adjective | Tending or intended to commemorate. |
| commemoratory | adjective | Serving to commemorate; commemorative. |
| commensurable | adjective | Having a common measure; capable of being exactly measured by the same number, quantity, or measure. |
| commensurably | adverb | In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable. |
| commensurated | imp. & past participle | of Commensurate |
| commentitious | adjective | Fictitious or imaginary; unreal; as, a commentitious system of religion. |
| commercialism | noun | The commercial spirit or method. |
| commiserating | present participle & vb. noun | of Commiserate |
| commiseration | noun | The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion. |
| commiserative | adjective | Feeling or expressing commiseration. |
| commissioning | p. pr & vb. noun | of Commission |
| commissionary | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or conferring, a commission; conferred by a commission or warrant. |
| commissionate | verb t. | To commission |
| communalistic | adjective | Pertaining to communalism. |
| communicating | present participle & vb. noun | of Communicate |
| communication | noun | The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret., Intercourse by words, letters, or messages; interchange of thoughts or opinions, by conference or other means; conference; correspondence., Association; company., Means of communicating; means of passing from place to place; a connecting passage; connection., That which is communicated or imparted; intelligence; news; a verbal or written message., Participation in the Lord’s supper., A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you. |
| communicative | adjective | Inclined to communicate; ready to impart to others. |
| communicatory | adjective | Imparting knowledge or information. |
| commutability | noun | The quality of being commutable. |
| compactedness | noun | A state of being compact. |
| compagination | noun | Union of parts; structure. |
| companionable | adjective | Fitted to be a companion; fit for good fellowship; agreeable; sociable. |
| companionless | adjective | Without a companion. |
| companionship | noun | Fellowship; association; the act or fact of keeping company with any one. |
| comparatively | adverb | According to estimate made by comparison; relatively; not positively or absolutely. |
| compassionate | adjective | Having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful., Complaining; inviting pity; pitiable., To have compassion for; to pity; to commiserate; to sympathize with. |
| compatibility | noun | The quality or power of being compatible or congruous; congruity; as, a compatibility of tempers; a compatibility of properties. |
| compatriotism | noun | The condition of being compatriots. |
| compendiously | adverb | In a compendious manner. |
| complacential | adjective | Marked by, or causing, complacence. |
| complementary | adjective | Serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary numbers., One skilled in compliments. |
| complexedness | noun | The quality or state of being complex or involved; complication. |
| complexionary | adjective | Pertaining to the complexion, or to the care of it. |
| complimentary | adjective | Expressive of regard or praise; of the nature of, or containing, a compliment; as, a complimentary remark; a complimentary ticket. |
| complutensian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Complutum (now Alcala de Henares) a city near Madrid; as, the Complutensian Bible. |
| comprehending | present participle & vb. noun | of Comprehend |
| comprehension | noun | The act of comprehending, containing, or comprising; inclusion., That which is comprehended or inclosed within narrow limits; a summary; an epitome., The capacity of the mind to perceive and understand; the power, act, or process of grasping with the intellect; perception; understanding; as, a comprehension of abstract principles., The complement of attributes which make up the notion signified by a general term., A figure by which the name of a whole is put for a part, or that of a part for a whole, or a definite number for an indefinite. |
| comprehensive | adjective | Including much; comprising many things; having a wide scope or a full view., Having the power to comprehend or understand many things., Possessing peculiarities that are characteristic of several diverse groups. |
| compromitting | present participle & vb. noun | of Compromit |
| comprovincial | adjective | Belonging to, or associated in, the same province., One who belongs to the same province. |
| compsognathus | noun | A genus of Dinosauria found in the Jurassic formation, and remarkable for having several birdlike features. |
| concameration | noun | An arch or vault., A chamber of a multilocular shell. |
| concatenating | present participle & vb. noun | of Concatenate |
| concatenation | noun | A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession. |
| conceitedness | noun | The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity. |
| concentrating | present participle & vb. noun | of Concentrate |
| concentration | noun | The act or process of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated; concentration., The act or process of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation., The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water. |
| concentrative | adjective | Serving or tending to concentrate; characterized by concentration. |
| concentricity | noun | The state of being concentric. |
| conceptualism | noun | A theory, intermediate between realism and nominalism, that the mind has the power of forming for itself general conceptions of individual or single objects. |
| conceptualist | noun | One who maintains the theory of conceptualism. |
| concessionist | noun | One who favors concession. |
| conchological | adjective | Pertaining to, or connected with, conchology. |
| concho-spiral | noun | A kind of spiral curve found in certain univalve shells. |
| conchylaceous | adjective | Alt. of Conchyliaceous |
| conchyliology | noun | See Conchologist, and Conchology. |
| concomitantly | adverb | In company with others; unitedly; concurrently. |
| concretionary | adjective | Pertaining to, or formed by, concretion or aggregation; producing or containing concretions. |
| concubinarian | adjective & noun | Concubinary. |
| concubinaries | plural | of Concubinary |
| concupiscence | noun | Sexual lust; morbid carnal passion. |
| concupiscible | adjective | Exciting to, or liable to be affected by, concupiscence; provoking lustful desires., Exciting desire, good or evil. |
| condescending | present participle & vb. noun | of Condescend |
| condescension | noun | The act of condescending; voluntary descent from one’s rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior; courtesy toward inferiors. |
| conditionally | adverb | In a conditional manner; subject to a condition or conditions; not absolutely or positively. |
| conducibility | noun | The state or quality of being conducible; conducibleness. |
| conduciveness | noun | The quality of conducing. |
| confabulating | present participle & vb. noun | of Confabulate |
| confabulation | noun | Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation. |
| confabulatory | adjective | Of the nature of familiar talk; in the form of a dialogue. |
| confarreation | noun | A form of marriage among the Romans, in which an offering of bread was made, in presence of the high priest and at least ten witnesses. |
| confectionary | noun | A confectioner., Prepared as a confection. |
| confectionery | noun | Sweetmeats, in general; things prepared and sold by a confectioner; confections; candies., A place where candies, sweetmeats, and similar things are made or sold. |
| confederacies | plural | of Confederacy |
| confederating | present participle & vb. noun | of Confederate |
| confederation | noun | The act of confederating; a league; a compact for mutual support; alliance, particularly of princes, nations, or states., The parties that are confederated, considered as a unit; a confederacy. |
| confederative | adjective | Of or pertaining to a confederation. |
| confervaceous | adjective | Belonging to the confervae. |
| confessionary | noun | A confessional., Pertaining to auricular confession; as, a confessionary litany. |
| confessionist | noun | One professing a certain faith. |
| confessorship | noun | The act or state of suffering persecution for religious faith. |
| confidentness | noun | The quality of being confident. |
| configuration | noun | Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing’ shape; figure., Relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time. |
| confirmedness | noun | A fixed state. |
| conflagration | noun | A fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning. |
| confraternity | noun | A society of body of men united for some purpose, or in some profession; a brotherhood. |
| confrontation | noun | Act of confrontating. |
| confusability | noun | Capability of being confused. |
| congealedness | noun | The state of being congealed. |
| congenialness | noun | Congeniality. |
| conglaciation | noun | The act or process of changing into ice, or the state of being converted to ice; a freezing; congelation; also, a frost. |
| conglomerated | imp. & past participle | of Conglomerate |
| conglutinated | imp. & past participle | of Conglutinate |
| congratulated | imp. & past participle | of Congratulate |
| congratulator | noun | One who offers congratulation. |
| congressional | adjective | Of or pertaining to a congress, especially, to the Congress of the United States; as, congressional debates. |
| conjecturable | adjective | Capable of being conjectured or guessed. |
| conjecturally | noun | That which depends upon guess; guesswork., In a conjectural manner; by way of conjecture. |
| conjugational | adjective | relating to conjugation. |
| conjunctional | adjective | Relating to a conjunction. |
| conjunctively | adverb | In conjunction or union; together. |
| connaturality | noun | Participation of the same nature; natural union or connection. |
| connaturalize | verb t. | To bring to the same nature as something else; to adapt. |
| conning tower | noun | The shot-proof pilot house of a war vessel. |
| connotatively | adverb | In a connotative manner; expressing connotation. |
| connumeration | noun | A reckoning together. |
| connutritious | adjective | Nutritious by force of habit; — said of certain kinds of food. |
| consanguineal | adjective | Of the same blood; related by birth. |
| consanguinity | noun | The relation of persons by blood, in distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity; collateral consanguinity. |
| conscientious | adjective | Influenced by conscience; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong; — said of a person., Characterized by a regard to conscience; conformed to the dictates of conscience; — said of actions. |
| consciousness | noun | The state of being conscious; knowledge of one’s own existence, condition, sensations, mental operations, acts, etc., Immediate knowledge or perception of the presence of any object, state, or sensation. See the Note under Attention., Feeling, persuasion, or expectation; esp., inward sense of guilt or innocence. |
| consectaneous | adjective | Following as a matter of course. |
| consecutively | adverb | In a consecutive manner; by way of sequence; successively. |
| consentaneity | noun | Mutual agreement. |
| consentaneous | adjective | Consistent; agreeable; suitable; accordant to; harmonious; concurrent. |
| consequencing | noun | Drawing inference. |
| consequential | adjective | Following as a consequence, result, or logical inference; consequent., Assuming or exhibiting an air of consequence; pretending to importance; pompous; self-important; as, a consequential man. See Consequence, n., 4. |
| conservatoire | noun | A public place of instruction in any special branch, esp. music and the arts. [See Conservatory, 3]. |
| consideration | noun | The act or process of considering; continuous careful thought; examination; contemplation; deliberation; attention., Attentive respect; appreciative regard; — used especially in diplomatic or stately correspondence., Thoughtful or sympathetic regard or notice., Claim to notice or regard; some degree of importance or consequence., The result of delibration, or of attention and examonation; matured opinion; a reflection; as, considerations on the choice of a profession., That which is, or should be, taken into account as a ground of opinion or action; motive; reason., The cause which moves a contracting party to enter into an agreement; the material cause of a contract; the price of a stripulation; compensation; equivalent. |
| considerative | adjective | Considerate; careful; thoughtful. |
| consideringly | adverb | With consideration or deliberation. |
| consimilitude | noun | Alt. of Consimility |
| consolidating | present participle & vb. noun | of Consolidate |
| consolidation | noun | The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination., To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation., The combination of several actions into one. |
| consolidative | adjective | Tending or having power to consolidate; healing. |
| consonantness | noun | The quality or condition of being consonant, agreeable, or consistent. |
| conspissation | noun | A making thick or viscous; thickness; inspissation. |
| conspurcation | noun | The act of defiling; defilement; pollution. |
| constableship | noun | The office or functions of a constable. |
| constablewick | noun | The district to which a constable’s power is limited. |
| constellation | noun | A cluster or group of fixed stars, or dvision of the heavens, designated in most cases by the name of some animal, or of some mythologial personage, within whose imaginary outline, as traced upon the heavens, the group is included., An assemblage of splendors or excellences., Fortune; fate; destiny. |
| consternation | noun | Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay. |
| constrainable | adjective | Capable of being constrained; liable to constraint, or to restraint. |
| constrainedly | adverb | By constraint or compulsion; in a constrained manner. |
| constraintive | adjective | Constraining; compulsory. |
| construprated | imp. & past participle | of Constuprate |
| constuprating | past participle & vb. noun | of Constuprate |
| constupration | noun | The act of ravishing; violation; defilement. |
| consuetudinal | adjective | According to custom; customary; usual. |
| consumptively | adverb | In a way tending to or indication consumption. |
| contaminating | present participle & vb. noun | of Contaminate |
| contamination | noun | The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates. |
| contemplating | present participle & vb. noun | of Contemplate |
| contemplation | noun | The act of the mind in considering with attention; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject; meditation; musing; study., Holy meditation., The act of looking forward to an event as about to happen; expectation; the act of intending or purposing. |
| contemplatist | noun | A contemplator. |
| contemplative | adjective | Pertaining to contemplation; addicted to, or employed in, contemplation; meditative., Having the power of contemplation; as, contemplative faculties., A religious or either sex devoted to prayer and meditation, rather than to active works of charity. |
| conterminable | adjective | Having the same bounds; terminating at the same time or place; conterminous. |
| conterraneous | adjective | Of or belonging to the same country. |
| contingencies | plural | of Contingency |
| contertionist | noun | One who makes or practices contortions. |
| contourniated | adjective | Having furrowed edges, as if turned in a lathe. |
| contrabandism | noun | Traffic in contraband goods; smuggling. |
| contrabandist | noun | One who traffics illegally; a smuggler. |
| contractility | noun | The quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract., The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening. |
| contradicting | present participle & vb. noun | of Contradict |
| contradiction | noun | An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying., Direct opposition or repugnancy; inconsistency; incongruity or contrariety; one who, or that which, is inconsistent. |
| contradictive | adjective | Contradictory; inconsistent. |
| contradictory | adjective | Affirming the contrary; implying a denial of what has been asserted; also, mutually contradicting; inconsistent., Opposing or opposed; repugnant., A proposition or thing which denies or opposes another; contrariety., propositions with the same terms, but opposed to each other both in quality and quantity. |
| contrafagetto | noun | The double bassoon, an octave deeper than the bassoon. |
| contrafissure | noun | A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it. |
| contranatural | adjective | Opposed to or against nature; unnatural. |
| contrapuntist | noun | One skilled in counterpoint. |
| contrariantly | adverb | Contrarily. |
| contrarieties | plural | of Contrariety |
| contrariously | adverb | Contrarily; oppositely. |
| contravention | noun | The act of contravening; opposition; obstruction; transgression; violation. |
| contraversion | noun | A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe. |
| contributable | adjective | Capable of being contributed. |
| controversary | adjective | Controversial. |
| controversial | adjective | Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity. |
| controversion | noun | Act of controverting; controversy. |
| controversies | plural | of Controversy |
| controverting | present participle & vb. noun | of Controvert |
| controvertist | noun | One skilled in or given to controversy; a controversialist. |
| convalescence | noun | Alt. of Convalescency |
| convalescency | noun | The recovery of heath and strength after disease; the state of a body renewing its vigor after sickness or weakness; the time between the subsidence of a disease and complete restoration to health. |
| convallamarin | noun | A white, crystalline, poisonous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the lily of the valley (Convallaria Majalis). Its taste is first bitter, then sweet. |
| conventicling | adjective | Belonging or going to, or resembling, a conventicle. |
| conventionary | adjective | Acting under contract; settled by express agreement; as, conventionary tenants. |
| conventionist | noun | One who enters into a convention, covenant, or contract. |
| conversazioni | plural | of Conversazi-one |
| convexo-plane | adjective | Convex on one side, and flat on the other; plano-convex. |
| convicinities | plural | of Convicinity |
| convocational | adjective | Of or pertaining to a convocation. |
| convulsionary | adjective | Pertaining to convulsion; convulsive., A convulsionist. |
| convulsionist | noun | One who has convulsions; esp., one of a body of fanatics in France, early in the eighteenth century, who went into convulsions under the influence of religious emotion; as, the Convulsionists of St. Medard. |
| coparcenaries | plural | of Coparcenary |
| copartnership | noun | The state of being a copartner or of having a joint interest in any matter., A partnership or firm; as, A. and B. have this day formed a copartnership. |
| copper-nickel | noun | Niccolite. |
| coralliferous | adjective | Containing or producing coral. |
| coralligenous | adjective | producing coral; coralligerous; coralliferous. |
| coralligerous | adjective | Producing coral; coralliferous. |
| co-respondent | noun | One who is called upon to answer a summons or other proceeding jointly with another. |
| cornification | noun | Conversion into, or formation of, horn; a becoming like horn. |
| corni inglesi | plural | of Corno Inglese |
| corno inglese | A reed instrument, related to the oboe, but deeper in pitch; the English horn. | |
| cornu ammonis | A fossil shell, curved like a ram’s horn; an obsolete name for an ammonite. | |
| corollifloral | adjective | Alt. of Corolliflorous |
| corporalities | plural | of Corporality |
| corporealness | noun | Corporeality; corporeity. |
| corpora lutea | plural | of Corpus |
| correlatively | adverb | In a correlative relation. |
| corresponding | present participle & vb. noun | of Correspond, Answering; conformable; agreeing; suiting; as, corresponding numbers., Carrying on intercourse by letters. |
| correspondent | adjective | Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous; conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing., One with whom intercourse is carried on by letter., One who communicates information, etc., by letter or telegram to a newspaper or periodical., One who carries on commercial intercourse by letter or telegram with a person or firm at a distance. |
| corresponsive | adjective | Corresponding; conformable; adapted. |
| corrigibility | noun | Quality of being corrigible; capability of being corrected; corrigibleness. |
| corroborating | present participle & vb. noun | of Corroborate |
| corroboration | noun | The act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming; addition of strength; confirmation; as, the corroboration of an argument, or of information., That which corroborates. |
| corroborative | adjective | Tending to strengthen of confirm., A medicine that strengthens; a corroborant. |
| corroboratory | adjective | Tending to strengthen; corroborative; as, corroboratory facts. |
| corrodibility | noun | The quality of being corrodible. |
| corrosibility | noun | Corrodibility. |
| corruptionist | noun | One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. |
| corticiferous | adjective | Producing bark or something that resembling that resembles bark., Having a barklike c/nenchyms. |
| corymbiferous | adjective | Bearing corymbs of flowers or fruit. |
| cosignitaries | plural | of Cosignitary |
| cosmographies | plural | of Cosmography |
| cosmopolitism | noun | The condition or character of a cosmopolite; disregard of national or local peculiarities and prejudices. |
| costal-nerved | adjective | Having the nerves spring from the midrib. |
| costardmonger | noun | A costermonger. |
| cotemporaries | plural | of Cotemporary |
| counselorship | noun | The function and rank or office of a counselor. |
| countenancing | present participle & vb. noun | of Countenance |
| counteracting | present participle & vb. noun | of Counteract |
| counteraction | noun | Action in opposition; hindrance resistance. |
| counteractive | adjective | Tending to counteract., One who, or that which, counteracts. |
| counter brace | The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel., A brace, in a framed structure, which resists a strain of a character opposite to that which a main brace is designed to receive. | |
| countercaster | noun | A caster of accounts; a reckoner; a bookkeeper; — used contemptuously. |
| counterchange | verb t. | To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange., To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2., Exchange; reciprocation. |
| countercharge | noun | An opposing charge. |
| counterfeited | imp. & past participle | of Counterfeit |
| counterfeiter | noun | One who counterfeits; one who copies or imitates; especially, one who copies or forges bank notes or coin; a forger., One who assumes a false appearance or semblance; one who makes false pretenses. |
| counterfeitly | adverb | By forgery; falsely. |
| counterfleury | adjective | Counterflory. |
| counterjumper | noun | A salesman in a shop; a shopman; — used contemptuously. |
| countermanded | imp. & past participle | of Countermand |
| countermining | present participle & vb. noun | of Countermine |
| countermuring | present participle & vb. noun | of Countermure |
| counterpoised | imp. & past participle | of Counterpoise |
| counterproved | imp. & past participle | of Counterprove |
| countersealed | imp. & past participle | of Counterseal |
| countersecure | verb t. | To give additional security to or for. |
| countersigned | imp. & past participle | of Countersign |
| counterstroke | noun | A stroke or blow in return. |
| counter tenor | One of the middle parts in music, between the tenor and the treble; high tenor. | |
| countervailed | imp. & past participle | of Countervail |
| countinghouse | verb | Alt. of Countingroom |
| countourhouse | noun | A merchant’s office; a countinghouse. |
| countretaille | noun | A counter tally; correspondence (in sound). |
| country-dance | noun | See Contradance. |
| couple-beggar | noun | One who makes it his business to marry beggars to each other. |
| couple-closes | plural | of Couple-close |
| courteousness | noun | The quality of being courteous; politeness; courtesy. |
| courtesanship | noun | Harlotry. |
| court-martial | noun | A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law., To subject to trial by a court-martial. |
| court-plaster | noun | Sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass and glycerin. |
| cousin-german | noun | A first cousin. See Note under Cousin, 1. |
| coversed sine | The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions. | |
| crack-brained | adjective | Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. |
| craftsmanship | noun | The work of a craftsman. |
| craniological | adjective | Of or pertaining to craniology. |
| cranioscopist | noun | One skilled in, or who practices, cranioscopy. |
| cream-colored | adjective | Of the color of cream; light yellow. |
| crebricostate | adjective | Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. |
| crebrisulcate | adjective | Marked with closely set transverse furrows. |
| credulousness | noun | Readiness to believe on slight evidence; credulity. |
| crinicultural | adjective | Relating to the growth of hair. |
| cross-examine | verb t. | To examine or question, as a witness who has been called and examined by the opposite party. |
| crosshatching | noun | In drawing and line engraving, shading with lines that cross one another at an angle. |
| cross-purpose | noun | A counter or opposing purpose; hence, that which is inconsistent or contradictory., A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. |
| cross-reading | noun | The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns, thus producing a ludicrous combination of ideas. |
| crotchetiness | noun | The state or character of being crotchety, or whimsical. |
| crustaceology | noun | That branch of Zoology which treats of the Crustacea; malacostracology; carcinology. |
| crustalogical | adjective | Pertaining to crustalogy. |
| cryptographal | adjective | Pertaining to cryptography; cryptographical. |
| cryptographer | noun | One who writes in cipher, or secret characters. |
| cryptographic | adjective | Alt. of Cryptographical |
| crystallizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Crystallize |
| crystallogeny | noun | The science which pertains to the production of crystals. |
| cristallology | noun | The science of the crystalline structure of inorganic bodies. |
| cucking stool | A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; — called also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool. | |
| culpabilities | plural | of Culpability |
| cumulostratus | noun | A form of cloud. See Cloud. |
| curvilinearly | adverb | In a curvilinear manner. |
| custodianship | noun | Office or duty of a custodian. |
| customariness | noun | Quality of being customary. |
| cyanuric acid | an organic acid, C3O3N3H3, first obtained by heating uric acid or urea, and called pyrouric acid; afterwards obtained from isocyanic acid. It is a white crystalline substance, odorless and almost tasteless; — called also tricarbimide. | |
| cycloganoidei | noun pl. | An order of ganoid fishes, having cycloid scales. The bowfin (Amia calva) is a living example. |
| cylindraceous | adjective | Cylindrical, or approaching a cylindrical form. |
| cylindrically | adverb | In the manner or shape of a cylinder; so as to be cylindrical. |
| cynarctomachy | noun | Bear baiting with a dog. |