| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| cedriret | noun | Same as Coerulignone. |
| celature | noun | The act or art of engraving or embossing., That which is engraved. |
| celeriac | noun | Turnip-rooted celery, a from of celery with a large globular root, which is used for food. |
| celerity | noun | Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness. |
| celibacy | noun | The state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a bachelor, or of one bound by vows not to marry. |
| celibate | noun | Celibate state; celibacy., One who is unmarried, esp. a bachelor, or one bound by vows not to marry., Unmarried; single; as, a celibate state. |
| cellarer | noun | A steward or butler of a monastery or chapter; one who has charge of procuring and keeping the provisions. |
| cellaret | noun | A receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal. |
| cellular | adjective | Consisting of, or containing, cells; of or pertaining to a cell or cells. |
| celotomy | noun | The act or operation of cutting, to relieve the structure in strangulated hernia. |
| cemented | imp. & past participle | of Cement |
| cemental | adjective | Of or pertaining to cement, as of a tooth; as, cemental tubes. |
| cementer | noun | A person or thing that cements. |
| cemetery | noun | A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis. |
| cenanthy | noun | The absence or suppression of the essential organs (stamens and pistil) in a flower. |
| cenation | noun | Meal-taking; dining or supping. |
| cenatory | adjective | Of or pertaining to dinner or supper. |
| cenobite | noun | One of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude. |
| cenogamy | noun | The state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members, as in certain societies practicing communism. |
| cenotaph | noun | An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere. |
| cenozoic | adjective | Belonging to the most recent division of geological time, including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age of man. [Written also caenozoic, cainozoic, kainozoic.] See Geology. |
| censured | imp. & past participle | of Censure |
| censurer | noun | One who censures. |
| centaury | noun | A gentianaceous plant not fully identified. The name is usually given to the Erytheraea Centaurium and the Chlora perfoliata of Europe, but is also extended to the whole genus Sabbatia, and even to the unrelated Centaurea. |
| centered | imp. & past participle | of Centre |
| centring | of Centre, See Centring. | |
| centiare | noun | See centare. |
| centinel | noun | Sentinel. |
| centiped | noun | A species of the Myriapoda; esp. the large, flattened, venomous kinds of the order Chilopoda, found in tropical climates. they are many-jointed, and have a great number of feet. |
| centrale | noun | The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or or tarsus. In the tarsus of man it is represented by the navicular. |
| centrode | noun | In two figures having relative motion, one of the two curves which are the loci of the instantaneous center. |
| centroid | noun | The center of mass, inertia, or gravity of a body or system of bodies. |
| centrums | plural | of Centrum |
| centuple | adjective | Hundredfold., To increase a hundredfold. |
| cephalad | adverb | Forwards; towards the head or anterior extremity of the body; opposed to caudad. |
| cephalic | adjective | Of or pertaining to the head. See the Note under Anterior., A medicine for headache, or other disorder in the head. |
| cephalon | noun | The head. |
| ceramics | noun | The art of making things of baked clay; as pottery, tiles, etc., Work formed of clay in whole or in part, and baked; as, vases, urns, etc. |
| cerastes | noun | A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper. |
| ceratine | adjective | Sophistical. |
| cerberus | noun | A monster, in the shape of a three-headed dog, guarding the entrance into the infernal regions, Hence: Any vigilant custodian or guardian, esp. if surly., A genus of East Indian serpents, allied to the pythons; the bokadam. |
| cercarle | plural | of Cercaria |
| cercaria | noun | The larval form of a trematode worm having the shape of a tadpole, with its body terminated by a tail-like appendage. |
| cercopod | noun | One of the jointed antenniform appendages of the posterior somites of certain insects. |
| cerealia | noun pl. | Public festivals in honor of Ceres., The cereals. |
| cerealin | noun | A nitrogenous substance closely resembling diastase, obtained from bran, and possessing the power of converting starch into dextrin, sugar, and lactic acid. |
| cerebral | adjective | Of or pertaining to the cerebrum., One of a class of lingual consonants in the East Indian languages. See Lingual, n. |
| cerebric | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the brain. |
| cerebrin | noun | A nonphosphorized, nitrogenous substance, obtained from brain and nerve tissue by extraction with boiling alcohol. It is uncertain whether it exists as such in nerve tissue, or is a product of the decomposition of some more complex substance. |
| cerebrum | noun | The anterior, and in man the larger, division of the brain; the seat of the reasoning faculties and the will. See Brain. |
| cerement | noun | A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed., Any shroud or wrapping for the dead. |
| ceremony | noun | Ar act or series of acts, often of a symbolical character, prescribed by law, custom, or authority, in the conduct of important matters, as in the performance of religious duties, the transaction of affairs of state, and the celebration of notable events; as, the ceremony of crowning a sovereign; the ceremonies observed in consecrating a church; marriage and baptismal ceremonies., Behavior regulated by strict etiquette; a formal method of performing acts of civility; forms of civility prescribed by custom or authority., A ceremonial symbols; an emblem, as a crown, scepter, garland, etc., A sign or prodigy; a portent. |
| cernuous | adjective | Inclining or nodding downward; pendulous; drooping; — said of a bud, flower, fruit, or the capsule of a moss. |
| cerolite | noun | A hydrous silicate of magnesium, allied to serpentine, occurring in waxlike masses of a yellow or greenish color. |
| cerotene | noun | A white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by the distillation of cerotin. |
| cerulean | adjective | Sky-colored; blue; azure. |
| cerusite | noun | Alt. of Cerussite |
| cervelat | noun | An ancient wind instrument, resembling the bassoon in tone. |
| cervical | adjective | Of or pertaining to the neck; as, the cervical vertebrae. |
| cervixes | plural | of Cervix |
| cervices | plural | of Cervix |
| cesarean | adjective | Alt. of Cesarian |
| cesarian | adjective | Same as Caesarean, Caesarian. |
| cesarism | noun | See Caesarism. |
| cessavit | noun | A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure. |
| cessible | adjective | Giving way; yielding. |
| cessment | verb t. | An assessment or tax. |
| cesspipe | noun | A pipe for carrying off waste water, etc., from a sink or cesspool. |
| cesspool | noun | A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle of filth. |
| cetacean | noun | One of the Cetacea. |
| ceterach | noun | A species of fern with fronds (Asplenium Ceterach). |
| cetewale | noun | Same as Zedoary. |
| cetology | noun | The description or natural history of cetaceous animals. |
| cetraric | adjective | Pertaining to, or derived from, the lichen, Iceland moss (Cetaria Islandica). |
| cetrarin | noun | A white substance extracted from the lichen, Iceland moss (Cetraria Islandica). It consists of several ingredients, among which is cetraric acid, a white, crystalline, bitter substance. |