| antiserum | (noun) blood serum containing antibodies against specific antigens; provides immunity to a disease | - |
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| cerulean | (adjective) of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky | Synonyms: azure, bright blue, sky-blue |
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| (noun) a light shade of blue | Synonyms: azure, lazuline, sapphire, sky-blue |
| cerumen | (noun) a soft yellow wax secreted by glands in the ear canal | Synonyms: earwax |
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| ceruminous | (adjective) relating to or secreting cerumen | - |
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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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| cherub | (noun) an angel of the second order whose gift is knowledge; usually portrayed as a winged child | - |
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| (noun) a sweet innocent baby | - |
| cherubic | (adjective) having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub | Synonyms: angelic, angelical, seraphic, sweet |
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| eruct | (verb) expel gas from the stomach | Synonyms: belch, bubble, burp |
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| (verb) eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical | Synonyms: spew, spew out |
| eructation | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belch, belching, burp, burping |
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| (noun) (of volcanoes) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed) | Synonyms: eruption, extravasation |
| erudite | (adjective) having or showing profound knowledge | Synonyms: learned |
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| eruditely | (adverb) with erudition; in an erudite manner | Synonyms: learnedly |
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| eruditeness | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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| erudition | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, eruditeness, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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| erupt | (verb) become active and spew forth lava and rocks | Synonyms: belch, extravasate |
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| (verb) start abruptly | Synonyms: break out |
| (verb) erupt or intensify suddenly | Synonyms: break open, burst out, flare, flare up, irrupt |
| (verb) become raw or open | Synonyms: break out, recrudesce |
| (verb) break out | Synonyms: break through, come out, push through |
| (verb) appear on the skin | - |
| (verb) force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up | Synonyms: break, burst |
| (verb) start to burn or burst into flames | Synonyms: catch fire, combust, conflagrate, ignite, take fire |
| eruption | (noun) the sudden occurrence of a violent discharge of steam and volcanic material | Synonyms: volcanic eruption |
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| (noun) a sudden very loud noise | Synonyms: bam, bang, blast, clap |
| (noun) the emergence of a tooth as it breaks through the gum | - |
| (noun) a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition) | Synonyms: irruption, outbreak |
| (noun) (of volcanoes) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed) | Synonyms: eructation, extravasation |
| (noun) symptom consisting of a breaking out and becoming visible | - |
| eruptive | (adjective) produced by the action of fire or intense heat | Synonyms: igneous |
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| (adjective) producing or characterized by eruptions | - |
| (adjective) actively spewing out lava | - |
| ferule | (noun) a switch (a stick or cane or flat paddle) used to punish children | - |
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| forerunner | (noun) something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone | Synonyms: harbinger, herald, precursor, predecessor |
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| (noun) a person who goes before or announces the coming of another | Synonyms: precursor |
| (noun) anything that precedes something similar in time | Synonyms: antecedent |
| gerund | (noun) a noun formed from a verb (such as the `-ing' form of an English verb when used as a noun) | - |
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| gerundial | (adjective) relating to or like a gerund | - |
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| glomerular | (adjective) of or relating to glomeruli | - |
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| glomerule | (noun) a compacted or sessile cyme | - |
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| glomerulonephritis | (noun) nephritis marked by inflammation of the glomeruli of the kidney; characterized by decreased production of urine and by the presence of blood and protein in the urine and by edema | - |
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| glomerulus | (noun) a small intertwined group of capillaries in the malpighian body; it filters the blood during urine formation | - |
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| humerus | (noun) bone extending from the shoulder to the elbow | - |
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| icterus | (noun) yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an accumulation of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood; can be a symptom of gallstones or liver infection or anemia | Synonyms: jaundice |
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| kernicterus | (noun) an abnormal accumulation of bile pigment in the brain and other nerve tissue; causes yellow staining and tissue damage | - |
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| kerugma | (noun) preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church | Synonyms: kerygma |
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| overuse | (noun) exploitation to the point of diminishing returns | Synonyms: overexploitation, overutilisation, overutilization |
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| (verb) make use of too often or too extensively | Synonyms: overdrive |
| overutilisation | (noun) exploitation to the point of diminishing returns | Synonyms: overexploitation, overuse, overutilization |
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| overutilization | (noun) exploitation to the point of diminishing returns | Synonyms: overexploitation, overuse, overutilisation |
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| peruke | (noun) a wig for men that was fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries | Synonyms: periwig |
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| peruked | (adjective) wearing a wig popular for men in the 17th and 18th centuries | Synonyms: periwigged |
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| perusal | (noun) reading carefully with intent to remember | Synonyms: perusing, poring over, studying |
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| peruse | (verb) examine or consider with attention and in detail | - |
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| perusing | (noun) reading carefully with intent to remember | Synonyms: perusal, poring over, studying |
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| puberulent | (adjective) covered with fine soft hairs or down | Synonyms: downy, pubescent, sericeous |
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| querulous | (adjective) habitually complaining | Synonyms: fretful, whiney, whiny |
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| querulously | (adverb) in a peevish manner | Synonyms: fractiously, peevishly |
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| querulousness | (noun) the quality of being given to complaining | - |
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| racerunner | (noun) very swift lizard of eastern and central United States | Synonyms: Cnemidophorus sexlineatus, race runner, six-lined racerunner |
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| rerun | (noun) a program that is broadcast again | - |
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| (verb) cause to perform again | - |
| (verb) broadcast again, as of a film | Synonyms: rebroadcast |
| (verb) run again for office | - |
| (verb) rerun a performance of a play, for example | - |
| serum | (noun) an amber, watery fluid, rich in proteins, that separates out when blood coagulates | Synonyms: blood serum |
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| spherule | (noun) a small sphere | - |
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| uterus | (noun) a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetus | Synonyms: womb |
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