| alcalescent | (adjective) tending to become alkaline; slightly alkaline | Synonyms: alkalescent |
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| calean | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| caleche | (noun) the folding hood of a horse-drawn carriage | Synonyms: calash, calash top |
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| (noun) a woman's large folded hooped hood; worn in the 18th century | Synonyms: calash |
| calefacient | (adjective) producing the sensation of heat when applied to the body | Synonyms: warming |
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| calefaction | (noun) the property of being warming | Synonyms: incalescence |
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| calefactive | (adjective) serving to heat | Synonyms: calefactory |
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| calefactory | (adjective) serving to heat | Synonyms: calefactive |
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| calendar | (noun) a list or register of events (appointments or social events or court cases etc) | - |
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| (noun) a tabular array of the days (usually for one year) | - |
| (noun) a system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year | - |
| (verb) enter into a calendar | - |
| calender | (noun) a machine that smooths or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers | - |
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| (verb) press between rollers or plates so as to smooth, glaze, or thin into sheets | - |
| calendered | (adjective) (of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and shiny especially by pressing between rollers | Synonyms: glossy |
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| calendric | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or used in a calendar or time measurement | Synonyms: calendrical |
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| calendrical | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or used in a calendar or time measurement | Synonyms: calendric |
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| calendula | (noun) any of numerous chiefly annual herbs of the genus Calendula widely cultivated for their yellow or orange flowers; often used for medicinal and culinary purposes | - |
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| decalescence | (noun) phenomenon that occurs when a metal is being heated and there is a sudden slowing in the rate of temperature increase; slowing is caused by a change in the internal crystal structure of the metal | - |
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| decalescent | (adjective) absorbing heat without increase in temperature when heated beyond a certain point | - |
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| descale | (verb) remove the scales from | Synonyms: scale |
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| downscale | (adjective) intended for people with low incomes | - |
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| incalescence | (noun) the property of being warming | Synonyms: calefaction |
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| locale | (noun) the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting) | Synonyms: locus, venue |
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| percale | (noun) a fine closely woven cotton fabric | - |
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| rescale | (verb) establish on a new scale | - |
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| scale | (noun) a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals | - |
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| (noun) an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks | - |
| (noun) a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass | Synonyms: weighing machine |
| (noun) a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) | Synonyms: plate, shell |
| (noun) (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave) | Synonyms: musical scale |
| (noun) a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin | Synonyms: exfoliation, scurf |
| (noun) a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin | Synonyms: scale leaf |
| (noun) relative magnitude | - |
| (noun) the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it | - |
| (noun) an ordered reference standard | Synonyms: graduated table, ordered series, scale of measurement |
| (verb) measure with or as if with scales | - |
| (verb) size or measure according to a scale | - |
| (verb) remove the scales from | Synonyms: descale |
| (verb) pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard | - |
| (verb) climb up by means of a ladder | - |
| (verb) reach the highest point of | Synonyms: surmount |
| (verb) take by attacking with scaling ladders | - |
| (verb) measure by or as if by a scale | - |
| scaled | (adjective) (used of armor) having overlapping metal plates attached to a leather backing | - |
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| (adjective) having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles | Synonyms: scaley, scaly |
| scaleless | (adjective) destitute of scales | - |
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| scalelike | (adjective) reduced to a small appressed thing that resembles a scale | - |
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| scalene | (adjective) of or relating to any of the scalene muscles | - |
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| (adjective) of a triangle having three sides of different lengths | - |
| scalenus | (noun) any of four pairs of muscles extending from the cervical vertebrae to the second rib; involved in moving the neck and in breathing | Synonyms: musculus scalenus, scalene muscle |
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| scaler | (noun) an electronic pulse counter used to count pulses that occur too rapidly to be recorded individually | - |
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| scaley | (adjective) having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles | Synonyms: scaled, scaly |
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| upscale | (adjective) appropriate for people with good incomes | - |
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