| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| calamander wood | A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros quaesita. Called also Coromandel wood. | |
| campylospermous | adjective | Having seeds grooved lengthwise on the inner face, as in sweet cicely. |
| caprifoliaceous | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Honeysuckle family of plants (Caprifoliacae. |
| cardigan jacket | A warm jacket of knit worsted with or without sleeves. | |
| carline thistle | A prickly plant of the genus Carlina (C. vulgaris), found in Europe and Asia. | |
| carte de visite | A visiting card., A photographic picture of the size formerly in use for a visiting card. | |
| cascara sagrada | Holy bark; the bark of the California buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshianus), used as a mild cathartic or laxative. | |
| cassinian ovals | See under Oval. | |
| categoricalness | noun | The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute. |
| catelectrotonic | adjective | Relating to, or characterized by, catelectrotonus. |
| catelectrotonus | noun | The condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it. |
| catharine wheel | See catherine wheel. | |
| catherine wheel | Same as Rose window and Wheel window. Called also Catherine-wheel window., A revolving piece of fireworks resembling in form the window of the same name. | |
| catheterization | noun | The operation of introducing a catheter. |
| catskill period | The closing subdivision of the Devonian age in America. The rocks of this period are well developed in the Catskill mountains, and extend south and west under the Carboniferous formation. See the Diagram under Geology. | |
| ceratobranchial | adjective | Pertaining to the bone, or cartilage, below the epibranchial in a branchial arch., A ceratobranchial bone, or cartilage. |
| ceremoniousness | noun | The quality, or practice, of being ceremonious. |
| chamberlainship | noun | Office of a chamberlain. |
| cheiropterygium | noun | The typical pentadactyloid limb of the higher vertebrates. |
| cheval-de-frise | noun | A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc. |
| chichling vetch | noun | A leguminous plant (Lathyrus sativus), with broad flattened seeds which are sometimes used for food. |
| chicken-hearted | adjective | Timid; fearful; cowardly. |
| chondrification | noun | Formation of, or conversion into, cartilage. |
| chondroganoidea | noun | An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; — so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton. |
| chondropterygii | noun pl. | A group of fishes, characterized by cartilaginous fins and skeleton. It includes both ganoids (sturgeons, etc.) and selachians (sharks), but is now often restricted to the latter. |
| christcross-row | The alphabet; — formerly so called, either from the cross usually set before it, or from a superstitious custom, sometimes practiced, of writing it in the form of a cross, by way of a charm. | |
| chronogrammatic | adjective | Alt. of Chronogrammatical |
| circumcursation | noun | The act of running about; also, rambling language. |
| circumesophagal | adjective | Surrounding the esophagus; — in Zool. said of the nerve commissures and ganglia of arthropods and mollusks. |
| circumferential | adjective | Pertaining to the circumference; encompassing; encircling; circuitous. |
| circumforaneous | adjective | Going about or abroad; walking or wandering from house to house. |
| circumgestation | noun | The act or process of carrying about. |
| circumincession | noun | The reciprocal existence in each other of the three persons of the Trinity. |
| circumnavigable | adjective | Capable of being sailed round. |
| circumnavigated | imp. & past participle | of Circumnavigate |
| circumnavigator | noun | One who sails round. |
| circumscribable | adjective | Capable of being circumscribed. |
| circumscription | noun | An inscription written around anything., The exterior line which determines the form or magnitude of a body; outline; periphery., The act of limiting, or the state of being limited, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit. |
| circumscriptive | adjective | Circumscribing or tending to circumscribe; marcing the limits or form of. |
| circumspectness | noun | Vigilance in guarding against evil from every quarter; caution. |
| circumstantiate | verb t. | To place in particular circumstances; to invest with particular accidents or adjuncts., To prove or confirm by circumstances; to enter into details concerning. |
| circumvallation | noun | The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart., A line of field works made around a besieged place and the besieging army, to protect the camp of the besiegers against the attack of an enemy from without. |
| cirrobranchiata | noun pl. | A division of Mollusca having slender, cirriform appendages near the mouth; the Scaphopoda. |
| cliff limestone | A series of limestone strata found in Ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be of one formation, but now known to be partly Silurian and partly Devonian. | |
| cloud-compeller | noun | Cloud-gatherer; — an epithet applied to Zeus. |
| coachwhip snake | A large, slender, harmless snake of the southern United States (Masticophis flagelliformis). | |
| coestablishment | noun | Joint establishment. |
| coinstantaneous | adjective | Happening at the same instant. |
| colliquefaction | noun | A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion. |
| colonizationist | noun | A friend to colonization, esp. (U. S. Hist) to the colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the United States. |
| colorado beetle | A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; — called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle. | |
| combustibleness | noun | Combustibility. |
| comfortableness | noun | State of being comfortable. |
| commentatorship | noun | The office or occupation of a commentator. |
| commissionnaire | noun | An agent or factor; a commission merchant., One of a class of attendants, in some European cities, who perform miscellaneous services for travelers. |
| commonplaceness | noun | The quality of being commonplace; commonness. |
| communicability | noun | The quality of being communicable; capability of being imparted. |
| compassionating | present participle & vb. noun | of Compassionate |
| compassionately | adverb | In a compassionate manner; mercifully. |
| compendiousness | noun | The state or quality of being compendious. |
| complimentative | adjective | Complimentary. |
| comprehensively | adverb | In a comprehensive manner; with great extent of scope. |
| compressibility | noun | The quality of being compressible of being compressible; as, the compressibility of elastic fluids. |
| compromissorial | adjective | Relating to compromise. |
| compunctionless | adjective | Without compunction. |
| concavo-concave | adjective | Concave or hollow on both sides; double concave. |
| conceptionalist | noun | A conceptualist. |
| conchyliologist | noun | Alt. of Conchyliology |
| concupiscential | adjective | Relating to concupiscence. |
| condescendingly | adverb | In a condescending manner. |
| conferruminated | adjective | Closely united by the coalescence, or sticking together, of contiguous faces, as in the case of the cotyledons of the live-oak acorn. |
| confessionalism | noun | An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith. |
| confessionalist | noun | A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession. |
| conformableness | noun | The quality of being conformable; conformability. |
| confraternities | plural | of Confraternity |
| congreve rocket | See under Rocket. | |
| conjunctiveness | noun | The state or quality of being conjunctive. |
| connoisseurship | noun | State of being a connoisseur. |
| conscientiously | adverb | In a conscientious manner; as a matter of conscience; hence; faithfully; accurately; completely. |
| consecutiveness | noun | The state or quality of being consecutive. |
| consequentially | adverb | With just deduction of consequence; with right connection of ideas; logically., By remote consequence; not immediately; eventually; as, to do a thing consequentially., In a regular series; in the order of cause and effect; with logical concatenation; consecutively; continuously., With assumed importance; pompously. |
| constitutionist | noun | One who adheres to the constitution of the country. |
| constructionist | noun | One who puts a certain construction upon some writing or instrument, as the Constitutions of the United States; as, a strict constructionist; a broad constructionist. |
| consubstantiate | verb t. | To cause to unite, or to regard as united, in one common substance or nature., To profess or belive the doctrine of consubstantion., Partaking of the same substance; united; consubstantial. |
| consumptiveness | noun | A state of being consumptive, or a tendency to a consumption. |
| contemplatively | adverb | With contemplation; in a contemplative manner. |
| contemporaneity | noun | The state of being contemporaneous. |
| contemporaneous | adjective | Living, existing, or occurring at the same time; contemporary. |
| contemptibility | noun | The quality of being contemptible; contemptibleness. |
| contortuplicate | adjective | Plaited lengthwise and twisted in addition, as the bud of the morning-glory. |
| contractibility | noun | Capability of being contracted; quality of being contractible; as, the contractibility and dilatability of air. |
| contradictional | adjective | Contradictory; inconsistent; opposing. |
| contradictorily | adverb | In a contradictory manner. |
| contradictories | plural | of Contradictory |
| contraindicated | imp. & past participle | of Contraindicate |
| contrastimulant | adjective | Counteracting the effects of stimulants; relating to a course of medical treatment based on a theory of contrastimulants., An agent which counteracts the effect of a stimulant. |
| contravallation | noun | A trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by besiegers, to secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged. |
| controllability | noun | Capability of being controlled; controllableness. |
| controversially | adverb | In a controversial manner. |
| conventionalism | noun | That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage., The principles or practice of conventionalizing. See Conventionalize, v. t. |
| conventionalist | noun | One who adheres to a convention or treaty., One who is governed by conventionalism. |
| conventionality | noun | The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life. |
| conventionalizw | verb t. | To make conventional; to bring under the influence of, or cause to conform to, conventional rules; to establish by usage., To represent by selecting the important features and those which are expressible in the medium employed, and omitting the others., To represent according to an established principle, whether religious or traditional, or based upon certain artistic rules of supposed importance. |
| conventionalize | verb i. | To make designs in art, according to conventional principles. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t., 2. |
| conventionalily | adverb | In a conventional manner. |
| conversableness | noun | The quality of being conversable; disposition to converse; sociability. |
| conversationism | noun | A word or phrase used in conversation; a colloquialism. |
| conversationist | noun | One who converses much, or who excels in conversation. |
| convertibleness | noun | The state of being convertible; convertibility. |
| convexo-concave | adjective | Convex on one side, and concave on the other. The curves of the convex and concave sides may be alike or may be different. See Meniscus. |
| convolvulaceous | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the bindweed and the morning-glory are common examples. |
| copper-bottomed | adjective | Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship. |
| copper-fastened | adjective | Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship. |
| cornet-a-piston | noun | A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet. |
| corpora callosa | plural | of Corpus |
| corpora striata | plural | of Corpus |
| correlativeness | noun | Quality of being correlative. |
| correspondently | adverb | In a a corresponding manner; conformably; suitably. |
| correspondingly | adverb | In a corresponding manner; conformably. |
| cosignificative | adjective | Having the same signification. |
| cosmopolitanism | noun | The quality of being cosmopolitan; cosmopolitism. |
| counteractibely | adverb | By counteraction. |
| counterbalanced | imp. & past participle | of Counterbalance |
| counterchanging | present participle & vb. noun | of Counterchange |
| countercharming | present participle & vb. noun | of Countercharm |
| counterchecking | present participle & vb. noun | of Countercheck |
| counter-compony | adjective | See Compony. |
| counter-courant | adjective | Running in opposite directions; — said of animals borne in a coast of arms. |
| counterfaisance | noun | See Counterfesance. |
| counterirritant | noun | Alt. of Counterirritation |
| counterirritate | verb t. | To produce counter irritation in; to treat with one morbid process for the purpose of curing another. |
| countermandable | adjective | Capable of being countermanded; revocable. |
| countermarching | present participle & vb. noun | of Countermarch |
| countermovement | A movement in opposition to another. | |
| counterplotting | present participle & vb. noun | of Counterplot |
| counter-salient | adjective | Leaping from each other; — said of two figures on a coast of arms. |
| countertrippant | adjective | Trippant in opposite directions. See Trippant. |
| countertripping | adjective | Same as Countertrippant. |
| court-martialed | imp. & past participle | of Court-martial |
| cowper’s glands | Two small glands discharging into the male urethra. | |
| credit mobilier | A joint stock company, formed for general banking business, or for the construction of public works, by means of loans on personal estate, after the manner of the credit foncier on real estate. In practice, however, this distinction has not been strictly observed. | |
| crincum-crancum | noun | A twist; a whimsey or whim. |
| cross-examining | present participle & vb. noun | of Cross-examine |
| crossopterygian | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii., One of the Crossopterygii. |
| crustaceologist | noun | One versed in crustaceology; a crustalogist. |
| crustaceousness | noun | The state or quality of being crustaceous or having a crustlike shell. |
| cryptographical | adjective | Relating to cryptography; written in secret characters or in cipher, or with sympathetic ink. |
| crystallization | noun | The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized., The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations. |
| crystallography | noun | The doctrine or science of crystallization, teaching the system of forms among crystals, their structure, and their methods of formation., A discourse or treatise on crystallization. |
| cubo-octahedral | adjective | Presenting a combination of a cube and an octahedron. |
| cubo-octahedron | noun | A combination of a cube and octahedron, esp. one in which the octahedral faces meet at the middle of the cubic edges. |
| cyclobranchiate | adjective | Having the gills around the margin of the body, as certain limpets. |