cloverleaf | (noun) an interchange that does not require left-hand turns | - |
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cloveroot | (noun) hairy Eurasian plant with small yellow flowers and an astringent root formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: clover-root, Geum urbanum, herb bennet, wood avens |
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clowder | (noun) a group of cats | - |
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clown | (noun) a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior | Synonyms: buffoon, goof, goofball, merry andrew |
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(noun) a rude or vulgar fool | Synonyms: buffoon |
(verb) act as or like a clown | Synonyms: antic, clown around |
clowning | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, frivolity, harlequinade, japery, prank |
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(noun) a comic incident or series of incidents | Synonyms: comedy, drollery, funniness |
clownish | (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: buffoonish, clownlike, zany |
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clownlike | (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: buffoonish, clownish, zany |
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cloy | (verb) cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing | Synonyms: pall |
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(verb) supply or feed to surfeit | Synonyms: surfeit |
cloying | (adjective) overly sweet | Synonyms: saccharine, syrupy, treacly |
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cloyingly | (adverb) in an overly sweet manner | - |
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clozapine | (noun) an antipsychotic drug (trade name Clozaril) used as a sedative and for treatment-resistant schizophrenia; known to have few side effects | Synonyms: Clozaril |
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cloze | (adjective) based on or being a test of reading skill using the cloze procedure | - |
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contraclockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: anticlockwise, counterclockwise |
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counterclockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: anticlockwise, contraclockwise |
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(adverb) in a direction opposite to the direction in which the hands of a clock move | Synonyms: anticlockwise |
cycloalkene | (noun) alkene hydrocarbon which contains a closed ring of carbon atoms, but has no aromatic character. | Synonyms: cycloolefin |
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cyclobenzaprine | (noun) muscle relaxant (trade name Flexeril) used for muscle spasms or acute injury | Synonyms: Flexeril |
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cyclohexanol | (noun) a colorless oily alcohol that smells like camphor | - |
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cycloid | (adjective) resembling a circle | Synonyms: cycloidal |
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(noun) a line generated by a point on a circle rolling along a straight line | - |
cycloidal | (adjective) resembling a circle | Synonyms: cycloid |
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cyclonal | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a violent tropical storm | Synonyms: cyclonic, cyclonical |
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(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a low pressure center | Synonyms: cyclonic, cyclonical |
cyclone | (noun) a violent rotating windstorm | - |
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(noun) (meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the southern | - |
cyclonic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a violent tropical storm | Synonyms: cyclonal, cyclonical |
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(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a low pressure center | Synonyms: cyclonal, cyclonical |
cyclonical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a violent tropical storm | Synonyms: cyclonal, cyclonic |
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(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a low pressure center | Synonyms: cyclonal, cyclonic |
cycloolefin | (noun) alkene hydrocarbon which contains a closed ring of carbon atoms, but has no aromatic character. | Synonyms: cycloalkene |
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cyclooxygenase | (noun) either of two related enzymes that control the production of prostaglandins and are blocked by aspirin | Synonyms: Cox |
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cyclopaedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopedia, encyclopaedia, encyclopedia |
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cyclopean | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the Cyclops | - |
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cyclopedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, encyclopaedia, encyclopedia |
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cyclopia | (noun) a developmental abnormality in which there is only one eye | - |
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cyclopropane | (noun) a colorless flammable gas sometimes used as an inhalation anesthetic | - |
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cyclops | (noun) minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms | Synonyms: water flea |
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cyclorama | (noun) a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene | Synonyms: diorama, panorama |
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cycloserine | (noun) an antibiotic that is especially active against the tubercle bacillus | - |
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cyclosis | (noun) the circulation of cytoplasm within a cell | Synonyms: streaming |
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cyclostome | (noun) primitive aquatic vertebrate | - |
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cyclostyle | (noun) a writing implement with a small toothed wheel that cuts small holes in a stencil | - |
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(verb) print with an implement with small toothed wheels that cuts small holes in a stencil | - |
cyclothymia | (noun) a mild bipolar disorder that persists over a long time | Synonyms: cyclic disorder, cyclothymic disorder |
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cyclothymic | (adjective) of or relating to or exhibiting cyclothymia | - |
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cyclotron | (noun) an accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles | - |
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dicloxacillin | (noun) antibacterial (trade name Dynapen) used to treat staphylococcal infections that are resistant to penicillin | Synonyms: Dynapen |
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disclose | (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: break, bring out, discover, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
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(verb) reveal to view as by removing a cover | Synonyms: expose, uncover |
disclosed | (adjective) made known (especially something secret or concealed) | - |
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disclosure | (noun) the speech act of making something evident | Synonyms: revealing, revelation |
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dishcloth | (noun) a cloth for washing dishes | Synonyms: dishrag |
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dustcloth | (noun) a piece of cloth used for dusting | Synonyms: duster, dustrag |
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eclogue | (noun) a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life | Synonyms: bucolic, idyl, idyll |
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enclose | (verb) place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing | Synonyms: inclose, insert, introduce, put in, stick in |
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(verb) surround completely | Synonyms: close in, inclose, shut in |
(verb) enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering | Synonyms: enfold, envelop, enwrap, wrap |
(verb) close in | Synonyms: confine, hold in |
enclosed | (adjective) closed in or surrounded or included within | - |
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enclosing | (noun) the act of enclosing something inside something else | Synonyms: enclosure, envelopment, inclosure |
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enclosure | (noun) the act of enclosing something inside something else | Synonyms: enclosing, envelopment, inclosure |
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(noun) a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose | - |
(noun) something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter | Synonyms: inclosure |
(noun) a naturally enclosed space | Synonyms: natural enclosure |
enclothe | (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog |
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encyclopaedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopedia |
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encyclopaedic | (adjective) comprehensive in scope or content (as an encyclopedia) | Synonyms: encyclopedic |
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encyclopaedism | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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encyclopaedist | (noun) a person who compiles information for encyclopedias | Synonyms: encyclopedist |
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encyclopedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopaedia |
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encyclopedic | (adjective) comprehensive in scope or content (as an encyclopedia) | Synonyms: encyclopaedic |
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encyclopedism | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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encyclopedist | (noun) a person who compiles information for encyclopedias | Synonyms: encyclopaedist |
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epicycloid | (noun) a line generated by a point on a circle rolling around another circle | - |
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foreclose | (verb) subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage | - |
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(verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, forestall, preclude, prevent |
foreclosure | (noun) the legal proceedings initiated by a creditor to repossess the collateral for loan that is in default | - |
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haircloth | (noun) cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments | Synonyms: hair |
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horsecloth | (noun) a cloth for the trapping of a horse | - |
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hypocycloid | (noun) a line generated by a point on a circle that rolls around inside another circle | - |
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inclose | (verb) place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing | Synonyms: enclose, insert, introduce, put in, stick in |
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(verb) surround completely | Synonyms: close in, enclose, shut in |
inclosure | (noun) the act of enclosing something inside something else | Synonyms: enclosing, enclosure, envelopment |
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(noun) something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter | Synonyms: enclosure |
iproclozide | (noun) an antidepressant drug that acts as a monoamine oxidase inhibitor | - |
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loincloth | (noun) a garment that provides covering for the loins | Synonyms: breechcloth, breechclout |
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meclofenamate | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (trade name Meclomen) used to treat arthritis | Synonyms: meclofenamate sodium, Meclomen |
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monoclonal | (adjective) forming or derived from a single clone | - |
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(noun) any of a class of antibodies produced in the laboratory by a single clone of cells or a cell line and consisting of identical antibody molecules | Synonyms: monoclonal antibody |
myoclonus | (noun) a clonic spasm of a muscle or muscle group | - |
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neckcloth | (noun) an ornamental white cravat | Synonyms: stock |
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nightclothes | (noun) garments designed to be worn in bed | Synonyms: nightwear, sleepwear |
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oilcloth | (noun) cloth treated on one side with a drying oil or synthetic resin | - |
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overclock | (verb) To run a processor (CPU), or any electronic logic device, at a speed higher than is recommended by the manufacturer. | - |
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overclothe | (verb) dress too warmly | Synonyms: overdress |
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overclothes | (noun) clothing for use outdoors | Synonyms: outerwear |
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overcloud | (verb) make unintelligible or unclear | Synonyms: bedim, obscure |
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(verb) become covered with clouds | Synonyms: cloud over, cloud up |
plainclothesman | (noun) a detective who wears civilian clothes on duty | - |
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sackcloth | (noun) a coarse cloth resembling sacking | - |
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(noun) a garment made of coarse sacking; formerly worn as an indication of remorse | - |
saddlecloth | (noun) stable gear consisting of a blanket placed under the saddle | Synonyms: horse blanket, saddle blanket |
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sailcloth | (noun) a strong fabric (such as cotton canvas) used for making sails and tents | - |
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synchrocyclotron | (noun) cyclotron that achieves relativistic velocities by modulating the frequency of the accelerating electric field | - |
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tablecloth | (noun) a covering spread over a dining table | - |
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terrycloth | (noun) a pile fabric (usually cotton) with uncut loops on both sides; used to make bath towels and bath robes | Synonyms: terry, terry cloth |
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thundercloud | (noun) a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity; associated with thunderstorms | Synonyms: cumulonimbus, cumulonimbus cloud |
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uncloak | (verb) remove a cloak from | - |
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(verb) reveal the true nature of | Synonyms: unmask |
unclog | (verb) become or cause to become unobstructed | - |
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unclogged | (adjective) freed of obstructions | - |
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unclothe | (verb) get undressed | Synonyms: discase, disrobe, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, undress |
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(verb) take the covers off | - |
(verb) strip | - |
unclothed | (adjective) not wearing clothing | - |
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unclouded | (adjective) not made opaque or cloudy by sediment | - |
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(adjective) not mentally disordered | - |
(adjective) (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims | Synonyms: clean, clear, light |
(adjective) free from clouds | Synonyms: cloudless |
uncloudedness | (noun) the quality of clear water | Synonyms: clarity, clearness |
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underclothed | (adjective) inadequately clothed | Synonyms: half-clothed, scantily clad |
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underclothes | (noun) undergarment worn next to the skin and under the outer garments | Synonyms: underclothing, underwear |
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underclothing | (noun) undergarment worn next to the skin and under the outer garments | Synonyms: underclothes, underwear |
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undisclosed | (adjective) not made known | Synonyms: unrevealed |
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unenclosed | (adjective) not closed in or surrounded or included | - |
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waistcloth | (noun) a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers | Synonyms: cincture, girdle, sash, waistband |
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