clianthus | (noun) any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Clianthus having compound leaves and pea-like red flowers in drooping racemes | Synonyms: glory pea |
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cliche | (noun) a trite or obvious remark | Synonyms: banality, bromide, commonplace, platitude |
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click | (noun) depression of a button on a computer mouse | Synonyms: mouse click |
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(noun) a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward | Synonyms: detent, dog, pawl |
(noun) a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu) | Synonyms: suction stop |
(noun) a short light metallic sound | Synonyms: chink, clink |
client | (noun) (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network | Synonyms: guest, node |
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(noun) a person who seeks the advice of a lawyer | - |
(noun) someone who pays for goods or services | Synonyms: customer |
clientage | (noun) relation of a client to a patron | - |
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clientele | (noun) customers collectively | Synonyms: business, patronage |
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cliff | (noun) a steep high face of rock | Synonyms: drop-off, drop |
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cliffhanger | (noun) an episode that ends in suspense | - |
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(noun) a contest whose outcome is uncertain up to the very end | - |
climacteric | (noun) the time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends | Synonyms: change of life, menopause |
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(noun) a period in a man's life corresponding to menopause | - |
climate | (noun) the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time | Synonyms: clime |
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(noun) the prevailing psychological state | Synonyms: mood |
climatologist | (noun) someone who is expert in climatology | - |
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climatology | (noun) meteorology of climates and their phenomena | - |
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climax | (noun) the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: coming, orgasm, sexual climax |
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(noun) the decisive moment in a novel or play | Synonyms: culmination |
(noun) arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness | - |
(noun) the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding | Synonyms: flood tide |
(noun) the most severe stage of a disease | - |
climb | (noun) the act of climbing something | Synonyms: mount |
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(noun) an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) | Synonyms: climbing, mounting |
(noun) an upward slope or grade (as in a road) | Synonyms: acclivity, ascent, raise, rise, upgrade |
climber | (noun) an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing | Synonyms: climbing iron, crampon, crampoon |
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(noun) someone who climbs as a sport; especially someone who climbs mountains | - |
(noun) someone seeking social prominence by obsequious behavior | Synonyms: social climber |
(noun) someone who ascends on foot | Synonyms: mounter |
(noun) a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants | - |
climbing | (noun) an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) | Synonyms: climb, mounting |
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clime | (noun) the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time | Synonyms: climate |
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clinch | (noun) (boxing) the act of one boxer holding onto the other to avoid being hit and to rest momentarily | - |
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(noun) a tight or amorous embrace | Synonyms: hug, squeeze |
(noun) the flattened part of a nail or bolt or rivet | - |
(noun) a small slip noose made with seizing | Synonyms: clench |
(noun) a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together | Synonyms: clamp |
clincher | (noun) a tool used to clinch nails or bolts or rivets | - |
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(noun) a point or fact or remark that settles something conclusively | Synonyms: decisive factor |
(noun) an argument that is conclusive | Synonyms: determiner, determining factor |
cling | (noun) fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit | Synonyms: clingstone |
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clingfilm | (noun) a thin plastic film made of saran (trade name Saran Wrap) that sticks to itself; used for wrapping food | Synonyms: cling film, Saran Wrap |
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clingfish | (noun) very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc. | - |
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clingstone | (noun) fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit | Synonyms: cling |
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clinic | (noun) a healthcare facility for outpatient care | - |
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(noun) meeting for diagnosis of problems and instruction or remedial work in a particular activity | - |
(noun) a medical establishment run by a group of medical specialists | - |
clinician | (noun) a practitioner (of medicine or psychology) who does clinical work instead of laboratory experiments | - |
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clinid | (noun) mostly small blennioid fishes of coral reefs and seagrass beds | Synonyms: clinid fish |
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clink | (noun) a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) | Synonyms: gaol, jail, jailhouse, pokey, poky, slammer |
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(noun) a short light metallic sound | Synonyms: chink, click |
clinker | (noun) a hard brick used as a paving stone | Synonyms: clinker brick |
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(noun) a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire | Synonyms: cinder |
clinocephalism | (noun) a congenital defect in which the top of the head is depressed (concave instead of convex) | Synonyms: clinocephaly |
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clinocephaly | (noun) a congenital defect in which the top of the head is depressed (concave instead of convex) | Synonyms: clinocephalism |
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clinodactyly | (noun) a congenital defect in which one or more toes or fingers are abnormally positioned | - |
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clinometer | (noun) an instrument used by surveyors in order to measure an angle of inclination or elevation | Synonyms: inclinometer |
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clintonia | (noun) any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries | Synonyms: Clinton's lily |
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clip | (noun) the act of clipping or snipping | Synonyms: clipping, snip |
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(noun) a sharp slanting blow | - |
(noun) a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun | Synonyms: cartridge clip, cartridge holder, magazine |
(noun) any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together | - |
(noun) an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress | - |
(noun) an instance or single occasion for some event | Synonyms: time |
clipboard | (noun) a small writing board with a clip at the top for holding papers | - |
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clipper | (noun) scissors for cutting hair or finger nails | - |
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(noun) shears for cutting grass or shrubbery | - |
(noun) a fast sailing ship used in former times | Synonyms: clipper ship |
(noun) (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform) | Synonyms: limiter |
clipping | (noun) the act of clipping or snipping | Synonyms: clip, snip |
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(noun) cutting down to the desired size or shape | Synonyms: trim, trimming |
(noun) an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: cutting, newspaper clipping, press clipping, press cutting |
clique | (noun) an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose | Synonyms: camp, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack |
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cliquishness | (noun) tendency to associate with only a select group | Synonyms: clannishness, exclusiveness |
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clit | (noun) a female sexual organ homologous to the penis | Synonyms: button, clitoris |
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clitic | (noun) a word that is treated in pronunciation as forming a part of a neighboring word and that is often unaccented or contracted. | - |
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clitoridectomy | (noun) excision of the clitoris | Synonyms: female circumcision |
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clitoris | (noun) a female sexual organ homologous to the penis | Synonyms: button, clit |
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clivers | (noun) annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia | Synonyms: catchweed, cleavers, Galium aparine, goose grass, spring cleavers |
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