ceramic | (noun) an artifact made of hard brittle material produced from nonmetallic minerals by firing at high temperatures | - |
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ceramicist | (noun) a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them in a kiln | Synonyms: ceramist, potter, thrower |
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ceramics | (noun) the art of making and decorating pottery | - |
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ceramist | (noun) a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them in a kiln | Synonyms: ceramicist, potter, thrower |
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ceras | (noun) one of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the back of the nudibranch (and other related mollusks) that serve as gills | - |
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cerastes | (noun) highly venomous viper of northern Africa and southwestern Asia having a horny spine above each eye | Synonyms: Cerastes cornutus, horned asp, horned viper, sand viper |
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cerate | (noun) a hard medicated paste made of lard or oil mixed with wax or resin | - |
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ceratin | (noun) a fibrous scleroprotein that occurs in the outer layer of the skin and in horny tissues such as hair, feathers, nails, and hooves | Synonyms: keratin |
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ceratodus | (noun) extinct lungfish | - |
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ceratopsian | (noun) any of several four-footed herbivorous dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls; of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia | Synonyms: horned dinosaur |
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ceratosaur | (noun) primitive medium-sized theropod; swift-running bipedal carnivorous dinosaur having grasping hands with sharp claws and a short horn between the nostrils; Jurassic in North America | Synonyms: ceratosaurus |
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ceratosaurus | (noun) primitive medium-sized theropod; swift-running bipedal carnivorous dinosaur having grasping hands with sharp claws and a short horn between the nostrils; Jurassic in North America | Synonyms: ceratosaur |
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ceratozamia | (noun) a small cycad of the genus Ceratozamia having a short scaly woody trunk and fernlike foliage and woody cones; Mexico | - |
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cercaria | (noun) tadpole-shaped parasitic larva of a trematode worm; tail disappears in adult stage | - |
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cere | (noun) the fleshy, waxy covering at the base of the upper beak of some birds | - |
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cereal | (noun) a breakfast food prepared from grain | - |
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(noun) foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses | Synonyms: food grain, grain |
(noun) grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet | Synonyms: cereal grass |
cerebellum | (noun) a major division of the vertebrate brain; situated above the medulla oblongata and beneath the cerebrum in humans | - |
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cerebration | (noun) the process of using your mind to consider something carefully | Synonyms: intellection, mentation, thinking, thought, thought process |
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cerebromeningitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges | Synonyms: encephalomeningitis, meningoencephalitis |
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cerebroside | (noun) A cerebroside is any of various organic lipid compounds containing glucose or galactose and glucose; it occurs in the myelin sheath of cerebrospinal neurons. | - |
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cerebrum | (noun) anterior portion of the brain consisting of two hemispheres; dominant part of the brain in humans | - |
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cerecloth | (noun) a waterproof waxed cloth once used as a shroud | - |
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cerement | (noun) burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped | Synonyms: pall, shroud, winding-clothes, winding-sheet |
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ceremonial | (noun) a formal event performed on a special occasion | Synonyms: ceremonial occasion, ceremony, observance |
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ceremoniousness | (noun) a ceremonial manner | - |
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ceremony | (noun) the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion | - |
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(noun) any activity that is performed in an especially solemn elaborate or formal way | - |
(noun) a formal event performed on a special occasion | Synonyms: ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, observance |
ceresin | (noun) a white wax extracted from ozokerite | - |
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ceriman | (noun) tropical cylindrical fruit resembling a pinecone with pineapple-banana flavor | Synonyms: monstera |
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(noun) tropical American vine having roots that hang like cords and cylindrical fruit with a pineapple and banana flavor | Synonyms: Monstera deliciosa |
cerise | (noun) a red the color of ripe cherries | Synonyms: cherry, cherry red |
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cerium | (noun) a ductile grey metallic element of the lanthanide series; used in lighter flints; the most abundant of the rare-earth group | Synonyms: atomic number 58, Ce |
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cerivastatin | (noun) an oral drug (trade name Baycol) to reduce blood cholesterol levels | Synonyms: Baycol |
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cero | (noun) large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters | Synonyms: kingfish, pintado, Scomberomorus regalis |
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(noun) large mackerel with long pointed snout; important food and game fish of the eastern Atlantic coast southward to Brazil | Synonyms: cavalla, king mackerel, Scomberomorus cavalla |
cerography | (noun) the art of engraving on a waxed plate on which a printing surface is created by electrotyping. | - |
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ceroplastics | (noun) the art of modeling in wax. | - |
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cert | (noun) an absolute certainty | - |
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certainty | (noun) something that is certain | Synonyms: foregone conclusion, sure thing |
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(noun) the state of being certain | - |
certificate | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certification, credential, credentials |
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(noun) a formal declaration that documents a fact of relevance to finance and investment; the holder has a right to receive interest or dividends | Synonyms: security |
certification | (noun) the act of certifying or bestowing a franchise on | Synonyms: enfranchisement |
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(noun) validating the authenticity of something or someone | Synonyms: authentication |
(noun) confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence | Synonyms: corroboration, documentation |
(noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, credential, credentials |
certiorari | (noun) a common law writ issued by a superior court to one of inferior jurisdiction demanding the record of a particular case | Synonyms: writ of certiorari |
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certitude | (noun) total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant | Synonyms: cocksureness, overconfidence |
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cerulean | (noun) a light shade of blue | Synonyms: azure, lazuline, sapphire, sky-blue |
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cerumen | (noun) a soft yellow wax secreted by glands in the ear canal | Synonyms: earwax |
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ceruse | (noun) a poisonous white pigment that contains lead | Synonyms: lead carbonate, white lead |
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cerussite | (noun) a mineral consisting of lead carbonate that is an important source of lead | Synonyms: white lead ore |
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cervicitis | (noun) inflammation of the uterine cervix | - |
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cervid | (noun) distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers | Synonyms: deer |
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cervix | (noun) the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body | Synonyms: neck |
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(noun) necklike opening to the uterus | Synonyms: cervix uteri, uterine cervix |