| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| cyanate | noun | A salt of cyanic acid. |
| cyanean | adjective | Having an azure color. |
| cyanide | noun | A compound formed by the union of cyanogen with an element or radical. |
| cyanine | noun | One of a series of artificial blue or red dyes obtained from quinoline and lepidine and used in calico printing. |
| cyanite | noun | A mineral occuring in thin-bladed crystals and crystalline aggregates, of a sky-blue color. It is a silicate of aluminium. |
| cycling | present participle & vb. noun | of Cycle, The act, art, or practice, of riding a cycle, esp. a bicycle or tricycle. |
| cyclide | noun | A surface of the fourth degree, having certain special relations to spherical surfaces. The tore or anchor ring is one of the cyclides. |
| cyclist | noun | A cycler. |
| cycloid | noun | A curve generated by a point in the plane of a circle when the circle is rolled along a straight line, keeping always in the same plane., Of or pertaining to the Cycloidei., One of the Cycloidei. |
| cyclone | noun | A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This center moves onward, often with a velocity of twenty or thirty miles an hour. |
| cyclops | noun sing. & pl. | One of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan, under Mt. Etna., A genus of minute Entomostraca, found both in fresh and salt water. See Copepoda., A portable forge, used by tinkers, etc. |
| cydonin | noun | A peculiar mucilaginous substance extracted from the seeds of the quince (Cydonia vulgaris), and regarded as a variety of amylose. |
| cymbium | noun | A genus of marine univalve shells; the gondola. |
| cymenol | noun | See Carvacrol. |
| cymling | noun | Alt. of Cymbling |
| cynical | adjective | Having the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious; currish., Pertaining to the Dog Star; as, the cynic, or Sothic, year; cynic cycle., Belonging to the sect of philosophers called cynics; having the qualities of a cynic; pertaining to, or resembling, the doctrines of the cynics., Given to sneering at rectitude and the conduct of life by moral principles; disbelieving in the reality of any human purposes which are not suggested or directed by self-interest or self-indulgence; as, a cynical man who scoffs at pretensions of integrity; characterized by such opinions; as, cynical views of human nature. |
| cyperus | noun | A large genus of plants belonging to the Sedge family, and including the species called galingale, several bulrushes, and the Egyptian papyrus. |
| cypraea | noun | A genus of mollusks, including the cowries. See Cowrie. |
| cypress | noun | A coniferous tree of the genus Cupressus. The species are mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability. |
| cyprian | adjective | Belonging to Cyprus., Of, pertaining, or conducing to, lewdness., A native or inhabitant of Cyprus, especially of ancient Cyprus; a Cypriot., A lewd woman; a harlot. |
| cyprine | adjective | Of or pertaining to the cypress., Cyprinoid. |
| cypriot | noun | A native or inhabitant of Cyprus. |
| cypsela | noun | A one-seeded, one-celled, indehiscent fruit; an achene with the calyx tube adherent. |
| cystine | noun | A white crystalline substance, C3H7NSO2, containing sulphur, occuring as a constituent of certain rare urinary calculi, and occasionally found as a sediment in urine. |
| cystoid | noun | Alt. of Cystoidean |
| cystose | adjective | Containing, or resembling, a cyst or cysts; cystic; bladdery. |