| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| curable | verb t. | Capable of being cured; admitting remedy. |
| curacao | noun | Alt. of Curacoa |
| curacoa | noun | A liqueur, or cordial, flavored with orange peel, cinnamon, and mace; — first made at the island of Curaccao. |
| curator | noun | One who has the care and superintendence of anything, as of a museum; a custodian; a keeper., One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee; a guardian. |
| curbing | present participle & vb. noun | of Curb |
| curcuma | noun | A genus of plants of the order Scitamineae, including the turmeric plant (Curcuma longa). |
| curding | present participle & vb. noun | of Curd |
| curdled | imp. & past participle | of Curdle |
| cureall | noun | A remedy for all diseases, or for all ills; a panacea. |
| curette | noun | A scoop or ring with either a blunt or a cutting edge, for removing substances from the walls of a cavity, as from the eye, ear, or womb. |
| curioso | noun | A virtuoso. |
| curious | adjective | Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact., Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill., Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; — sometimes with after or of., Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare. |
| curling | present participle & vb. noun | of Curl, The act or state of that which curls; as, the curling of smoke when it rises; the curling of a ringlet; also, the act or process of one who curls something, as hair, or the brim of hats., A scottish game in which heavy weights of stone or iron are propelled by hand over the ice towards a mark. |
| currant | noun | A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; — used in cookery., The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant., A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum. |
| current | adjective | Running or moving rapidly., Now passing, as time; as, the current month., Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common; as, a current coin; a current report; current history., Commonly estimated or acknowledged., Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable., A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current of electricity., General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc. |
| curried | noun | Dressed by currying; cleaned; prepared., Prepared with curry; as, curried rice, fowl, etc., of Curry |
| currier | noun | One who curries and dresses leather, after it is tanned. |
| currish | adjective | Having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal. |
| cursing | present participle & vb. noun | of Curse |
| curship | noun | The state of being a cur; one who is currish. |
| cursive | adjective | Running; flowing., A character used in cursive writing., A manuscript, especially of the New Testament, written in small, connected characters or in a running hand; — opposed to uncial. |
| cursory | adjective | Running about; not stationary., Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless. |
| curtail | verb t. | To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce., The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc. |
| curtain | noun | A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage., That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion., That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc., A flag; an ensign; — in contempt., To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains. |
| curtana | noun | The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; — also called the sword of Edward the Confessor. |
| curtate | adjective | Shortened or reduced; — said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular, let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic, meets the ecliptic. |
| curtein | noun | Same as Curtana. |
| curtesy | noun | the life estate which a husband has in the lands of his deceased wife, which by the common law takes effect where he has had issue by her, born alive, and capable of inheriting the lands. |
| curvant | present participle | Bowed; bent; curved. |
| curvate | adjective | Alt. of Curvated |
| curving | present participle & vb. noun | of Curve |
| curvity | noun | The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness. |