| anaclinal | (adjective) of valleys and rivers; progressing in a direction opposite to the dip in surrounding rock strata | - |
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| anemoclinometer | (noun) A type of instrument which measures the inclination of the wind to the horizontal plane. | - |
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| anticlinal | (adjective) sloping downward away from a common crest | - |
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| bicycling | (noun) riding a bicycle | - |
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| cataclinal | (adjective) of valleys and rivers; running in the direction of the dip in surrounding rock strata | - |
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| chlortetracycline | (noun) a yellow crystalline antibiotic (trade name Aureomycin) used to treat certain bacterial and rickettsial diseases | Synonyms: Aureomycin |
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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 |
| (verb) settle conclusively | - |
| (verb) flatten the ends (of nails and rivets) | - |
| (verb) secure or fasten by flattening the ends of nails or bolts | - |
| (verb) hold in a tight grasp | Synonyms: clench |
| (verb) embrace amorously | - |
| (verb) hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to prevent punches | - |
| clinched | (adjective) closed or squeezed together tightly | Synonyms: clenched |
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| 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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| (verb) come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation | Synonyms: adhere, cleave, cohere, stick |
| (verb) hold on tightly or tenaciously | Synonyms: hang |
| (verb) to remain emotionally or intellectually attached | - |
| 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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| clingy | (adjective) excessively emotional and attached | - |
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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 | - |
| clinical | (adjective) relating to a clinic or conducted in or as if in a clinic and depending on direct observation of patients | - |
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| (adjective) scientifically detached; unemotional | - |
| clinically | (adverb) in a clinical manner | - |
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| 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 |
| (verb) make or emit a high sound | Synonyms: chink, tink, tinkle |
| (verb) make a high sound typical of glass | - |
| 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 |
| (verb) turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning | - |
| (verb) clear out the cinders and clinker from | - |
| clinking | (adjective) like the light sharp ringing sound of glasses being tapped | - |
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| 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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| clinquant | (adjective) glittering with gold or silver | Synonyms: tinseled, tinselly |
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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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| cycling | (noun) the sport of traveling on a bicycle or motorcycle | - |
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| declination | (noun) a polite refusal of an invitation | Synonyms: regrets |
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| (noun) (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial body north or to the south of the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere | Synonyms: celestial latitude, dec |
| (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, decline, declivity, descent, downslope, fall |
| (noun) a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline | Synonyms: decline |
| decline | (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, declivity, descent, downslope, fall |
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| (noun) a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current | Synonyms: decay |
| (noun) change toward something smaller or lower | Synonyms: diminution |
| (noun) a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline | Synonyms: declination |
| (verb) grow smaller | Synonyms: go down, wane |
| (verb) grow worse | Synonyms: worsen |
| (verb) show unwillingness towards | Synonyms: refuse |
| (verb) inflect for number, gender, case, etc. | - |
| (verb) go down | - |
| (verb) fall in value | Synonyms: correct, slump |
| (verb) not accept as true | Synonyms: pass up, refuse, reject, turn down |
| declinometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring magnetic declination | Synonyms: transit declinometer |
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| diclinous | (adjective) having pistils and stamens in separate flowers | - |
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| disinclination | (noun) a certain degree of unwillingness | Synonyms: hesitancy, hesitation, indisposition, reluctance |
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| (noun) that toward which you are inclined to feel dislike | - |
| disincline | (verb) make unwilling | Synonyms: indispose |
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| disinclined | (adjective) unwilling because of mild dislike or disapproval | - |
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| doxycycline | (noun) an antibiotic derived from tetracycline that is effective against many infections | Synonyms: Vibramycin |
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| encircling | (adjective) being all around the edges; enclosing | Synonyms: skirting |
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| hydroxytetracycline | (noun) a yellow crystalline antibiotic (trademark Terramycin) obtained from a soil actinomycete; used to treat various bacterial and rickettsial infections | Synonyms: oxytetracycline, oxytetracycline hydrochloride, Terramycin |
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| inclination | (noun) the act of inclining; bending forward | Synonyms: inclining |
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| (noun) a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect | Synonyms: tendency |
| (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical | Synonyms: lean, leaning, list, tilt |
| (noun) an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others | Synonyms: disposition, tendency |
| (noun) that toward which you are inclined to feel a liking | - |
| (noun) (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon | Synonyms: angle of dip, dip, magnetic dip, magnetic inclination |
| (noun) (geometry) the angle formed by the x-axis and a given line (measured counterclockwise from the positive half of the x-axis) | Synonyms: angle of inclination |
| (noun) (astronomy) the angle between the plane of the orbit and the plane of the ecliptic stated in degrees | Synonyms: inclination of an orbit |
| incline | (noun) an inclined surface connecting two levels | Synonyms: ramp |
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| (noun) an elevated geological formation | Synonyms: side, slope |
| (verb) make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief | Synonyms: dispose |
| (verb) feel favorably disposed or willing | - |
| (verb) be at an angle | Synonyms: pitch, slope |
| (verb) lower or bend (the head or upper body), as in a nod or bow | - |
| (verb) bend or turn (one's ear) towards a speaker in order to listen well | - |
| (verb) have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined | Synonyms: be given, lean, run, tend |
| inclined | (adjective) at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position | - |
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| (adjective) (often followed by `to') having a preference, disposition, or tendency | - |
| (adjective) having made preparations | Synonyms: disposed, fain, prepared |
| inclining | (noun) the act of inclining; bending forward | Synonyms: inclination |
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| inclinometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the angle of magnetic dip (as from an airplane) | Synonyms: dip circle |
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| (noun) an instrument showing the angle that an aircraft makes with the horizon | - |
| (noun) an instrument used by surveyors in order to measure an angle of inclination or elevation | Synonyms: clinometer |
| isoclinal | (adjective) having equal magnetic inclinations | Synonyms: isoclinic |
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| (noun) an isogram connecting points of equal magnetic inclination | Synonyms: isoclinic line |
| isoclinic | (adjective) having equal magnetic inclinations | Synonyms: isoclinal |
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| minocycline | (noun) tetracycline antibiotic (trade name Minocin) used to treat a variety of bacterial and rickettsial infections | Synonyms: Minocin |
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| monoclinal | (adjective) of a geological structure in which all strata are inclined in the same direction | - |
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| monocline | (noun) a geological formation in which all strata are inclined in the same direction | - |
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| monoclinic | (adjective) having three unequal crystal axes with one oblique intersection | - |
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| monoclinous | (adjective) having pistils and stamens in the same flower | - |
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| motorcycling | (noun) riding a motorcycle | - |
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| oxytetracycline | (noun) a yellow crystalline antibiotic (trademark Terramycin) obtained from a soil actinomycete; used to treat various bacterial and rickettsial infections | Synonyms: hydroxytetracycline, oxytetracycline hydrochloride, Terramycin |
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| preclinical | (adjective) of or relating to the early phases of a disease when accurate diagnosis is not possible because symptoms of the disease have not yet appeared | Synonyms: presymptomatic |
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| recline | (verb) lean in a comfortable resting position | Synonyms: recumb, repose |
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| (verb) cause to recline | - |
| (verb) move the upper body backwards and down | Synonyms: lean back |
| recliner | (noun) an armchair whose back can be lowered and foot can be raised to allow the sitter to recline in it | Synonyms: lounger, reclining chair |
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| reclining | (noun) the act of assuming or maintaining a reclining position | - |
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| recycling | (noun) the act of processing used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products | - |
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| (noun) used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products | - |
| subclinical | (adjective) relating to the stage in the development of a disease before the symptoms are observed | - |
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| synclinal | (adjective) sloping downward toward each other to create a trough | - |
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| tetracycline | (noun) an antibiotic (trade name Achromycin) derived from microorganisms of the genus Streptomyces and used broadly to treat infections | Synonyms: Achromycin |
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| triclinic | (adjective) having three unequal crystal axes intersecting at oblique angles | Synonyms: anorthic |
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| triclinium | (noun) a dining table with couches along three sides in ancient Rome | - |
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| (noun) a dining room (especially a dining room containing a dining table with couches along three sides) | - |