| callable | (adjective) subject to a demand for payment before due date | - |
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| calycine | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a calyx | Synonyms: calyceal, calycinal |
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| calyculate | (adjective) having a calyculus | Synonyms: calycled |
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| calyptrate | (adjective) having a calyptra | - |
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| (adjective) having calypters | - |
| campanulate | (adjective) shaped like a bell or campana | Synonyms: campanular, campanulated |
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| canaliculate | (adjective) having thin parallel channels | - |
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| cancellate | (adjective) having an open or latticed or porous structure | Synonyms: cancellated, cancellous |
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| (adjective) having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows | Synonyms: cancellated, clathrate |
| canine | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of members of the family Canidae | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a pointed conical tooth | Synonyms: laniary |
| cantabile | (adjective) smooth and flowing | Synonyms: singing |
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| capable | (adjective) (usually followed by `of') having capacity or ability | - |
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| (adjective) (followed by `of') having the temperament or inclination for | - |
| (adjective) having the requisite qualities for | Synonyms: adequate to, equal to, up to |
| (adjective) have the skills and qualifications to do things well | Synonyms: able |
| (adjective) possibly accepting or permitting | Synonyms: open, subject |
| capacitive | (adjective) of or relating to capacitance | - |
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| capitate | (adjective) being abruptly enlarged and globose at the tip | - |
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| caprine | (adjective) being or pertaining to or resembling a goat or goats | - |
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| capsulate | (adjective) used of seeds or spores that are enclosed in a capsule | Synonyms: capsulated |
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| captive | (adjective) giving or marked by complete attention to | Synonyms: absorbed, engrossed, enwrapped, intent, rapt, wrapped |
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| (adjective) being in captivity | Synonyms: confined, imprisoned, jailed |
| carefree | (adjective) cheerfully irresponsible | Synonyms: devil-may-care, freewheeling, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy |
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| (adjective) free of trouble and worry and care | Synonyms: unworried |
| carinate | (adjective) having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship | Synonyms: carinated, keeled, ridged |
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| carminative | (adjective) relieving gas in the alimentary tract (colic or flatulence or griping) | Synonyms: flatus-relieving |
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| carmine | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, cerise, cherry-red, cherry, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
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| carpellate | (adjective) bearing or consisting of carpels | Synonyms: pistillate |
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| carunculate | (adjective) having a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculated |
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| cashable | (adjective) able to be converted into ready money or the equivalent | Synonyms: redeemable |
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| catarrhine | (adjective) of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward | Synonyms: catarrhinian |
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| catenulate | (adjective) having a chainlike form | Synonyms: chainlike |
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| catkinate | (adjective) resembling a catkin | - |
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| caudate | (adjective) having a tail or taillike appendage | Synonyms: caudated |
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| (adjective) (of a leaf shape) tapering gradually into a long taillike tip | - |
| cauline | (adjective) especially of leaves; growing on a stem especially on the upper part of a stem | - |
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| (adjective) (of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground | Synonyms: caulescent, stemmed |
| causative | (adjective) producing an effect | - |
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| celibate | (adjective) abstaining from sexual intercourse | Synonyms: continent |
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| censurable | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blamable, blameable, blameful, blameworthy, culpable |
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| centigrade | (adjective) of or relating to a temperature scale on which the freezing point of water is 0 degrees and the boiling point of water is 100 degrees | - |
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| centre | (adjective) of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually | Synonyms: center |
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| (adjective) equally distant from the extremes | Synonyms: center, halfway, middle, midway |
| cerise | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cherry-red, cherry, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
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| certifiable | (adjective) capable of being guaranteed or certified | - |
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| (adjective) fit to be certified as insane (and treated accordingly) | Synonyms: certified |
| cervine | (adjective) relating to or resembling deer | - |
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| cespitose | (adjective) (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts | Synonyms: caespitose, tufted |
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| chafflike | (adjective) abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff | Synonyms: chaffy |
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| chainlike | (adjective) having a chainlike form | Synonyms: catenulate |
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| challengeable | (adjective) capable of being challenged | - |
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| chalybeate | (adjective) containing or impregnated with or tasting of iron | - |
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| champleve | (adjective) (for metals) having areas separated by metal and filled with colored enamel and fired | Synonyms: cloisonne |
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| chance | (adjective) occurring or appearing or singled out by chance | Synonyms: casual |
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| changeable | (adjective) such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change | Synonyms: changeful |
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| (adjective) capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature | Synonyms: mutable |
| (adjective) varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles | Synonyms: chatoyant, iridescent, shot |
| (adjective) subject to change | Synonyms: uncertain, unsettled |
| chantlike | (adjective) uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting | Synonyms: intoned, singsong |
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| chargeable | (adjective) liable to be accused, or cause for such liability | Synonyms: indictable |
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| (adjective) capable of being charged | - |
| charitable | (adjective) full of love and generosity | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characterized by charity | - |
| (adjective) showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity | Synonyms: benevolent, good-hearted, kindly, large-hearted, openhearted, sympathetic |
| chartreuse | (adjective) of something having the yellowish green color of Chartreuse liqueur | - |
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| chaste | (adjective) morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse) | - |
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| (adjective) abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse | - |
| (adjective) pure and simple in design or style | - |
| cheeselike | (adjective) having the consistency of cheese | - |
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| chelate | (adjective) having or resembling chelae or claws | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characterized by chelation | Synonyms: chelated |
| chelicerate | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling chelicerae | Synonyms: cheliceral |
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| chemisorptive | (adjective) having the capacity to adsorb by chemical as contrasted with physical forces | Synonyms: chemosorptive |
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| chemoreceptive | (adjective) of or relating to chemoreceptors | - |
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| chemosorptive | (adjective) having the capacity to adsorb by chemical as contrasted with physical forces | Synonyms: chemisorptive |
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| chewable | (adjective) able to be chewed or cut | Synonyms: cuttable |
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| childlike | (adjective) exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity | Synonyms: dewy-eyed, round-eyed, simple, wide-eyed |
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| (adjective) befitting a young child | Synonyms: childly |
| chlorophyllose | (adjective) relating to or being or containing chlorophyll | Synonyms: chlorophyllous |
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| choice | (adjective) of superior grade | Synonyms: prime, prize, quality, select |
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| (adjective) appealing to refined taste | - |
| chordate | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the Chordata | - |
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| christlike | (adjective) resembling or showing the spirit of Christ | Synonyms: christly |
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| churrigueresque | (adjective) having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation | Synonyms: baroque, churrigueresco |
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| chylifactive | (adjective) producing or converting into chyle | Synonyms: chylifactory, chylific |
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| ciliate | (adjective) of or relating to the human eyelash | Synonyms: ciliary |
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| (adjective) of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell | Synonyms: cilial, ciliary |
| (adjective) having a margin or fringe of hairlike projections | Synonyms: ciliated |
| circinate | (adjective) shaped like a ring | Synonyms: annular, annulate, annulated, doughnut-shaped, ring-shaped, ringed |
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| circulative | (adjective) of or relating to circulation | Synonyms: circulatory |
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| cisalpine | (adjective) on the Italian or Roman side of the Alps | Synonyms: ultramontane |
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| cismontane | (adjective) on this (the speaker's) side of the mountains | - |
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| citywide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a city | - |
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| clandestine | (adjective) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | Synonyms: cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground |
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| classifiable | (adjective) capable of being classified | Synonyms: distinctive |
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| clathrate | (adjective) designating or relating to a compound in which one component is physically enclosed within the crystal structure of another | - |
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| (adjective) having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows | Synonyms: cancellate, cancellated |
| clawlike | (adjective) resembling a claw | - |
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| cleanable | (adjective) capable of being cleaned | - |
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| cleavable | (adjective) capable of being cleaved | - |
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| climbable | (adjective) capable of being surmounted | Synonyms: surmountable |
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| (adjective) capable of being ascended | Synonyms: ascendable, ascendible |
| clockwise | (adjective) in the same direction as the rotating hands of a clock | - |
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| cloisonne | (adjective) (for metals) having areas separated by metal and filled with colored enamel and fired | Synonyms: champleve |
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| close | (adjective) at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other | - |
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| (adjective) close in relevance or relationship | - |
| (adjective) not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances | Synonyms: near, nigh |
| (adjective) marked by fidelity to an original | Synonyms: faithful |
| (adjective) rigorously attentive; strict and thorough | - |
| (adjective) crowded | Synonyms: confining |
| (adjective) (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched | Synonyms: tight |
| (adjective) of textiles | Synonyms: tight |
| (adjective) confined to specific persons | - |
| (adjective) strictly confined or guarded | - |
| (adjective) used of hair or haircuts | - |
| (adjective) giving or spending with reluctance | Synonyms: cheeseparing, near, penny-pinching, skinny |
| (adjective) fitting closely but comfortably | Synonyms: close-fitting, snug |
| (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: closelipped, closemouthed, secretive, tightlipped |
| (adjective) lacking fresh air | Synonyms: airless, stuffy, unaired |
| cloudlike | (adjective) resembling a cloud | Synonyms: nebular |
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| clownlike | (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: buffoonish, clownish, zany |
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| cloze | (adjective) based on or being a test of reading skill using the cloze procedure | - |
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| clubable | (adjective) inclined to club together | Synonyms: clubbable |
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| clubbable | (adjective) inclined to club together | Synonyms: clubable |
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| coagulable | (adjective) capable of coagulating and becoming thick | - |
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| coagulate | (adjective) transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass | Synonyms: coagulated, curdled, grumose, grumous |
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| coarctate | (adjective) (of an insect pupa) enclosed in a rigid case | - |
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| coarse | (adjective) of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles | Synonyms: harsh |
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| (adjective) of low or inferior quality or value | Synonyms: common |
| (adjective) lacking refinement or cultivation or taste | Synonyms: common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar |
| coastwise | (adjective) along or following a coast | Synonyms: coastal |
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| cockamamie | (adjective) informal term for ridiculous and implausible | Synonyms: cockamamy |
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| cocksure | (adjective) marked by excessive confidence | Synonyms: overconfident, positive |
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| coercive | (adjective) serving or intended to coerce | - |
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| coextensive | (adjective) being of equal extent or scope or duration | Synonyms: conterminous, coterminous |
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| cogitable | (adjective) capable of being thought about | Synonyms: ponderable |
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| cogitative | (adjective) of or relating to having capacities for cogitation | - |
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| (adjective) given to cogitation | - |
| cognate | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin |
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| (adjective) having the same ancestral language | - |
| (adjective) related in nature | Synonyms: connate |
| cognisable | (adjective) capable of being known | Synonyms: cognizable, cognoscible, knowable |
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| cognitive | (adjective) of or being or relating to or involving cognition | - |
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| cognizable | (adjective) capable of being known | Synonyms: cognisable, cognoscible, knowable |
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| cognoscible | (adjective) capable of being known | Synonyms: cognisable, cognizable, knowable |
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| cohesive | (adjective) causing cohesion | - |
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| (adjective) cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated | - |