calash | (noun) the folding hood of a horse-drawn carriage | Synonyms: calash top, caleche |
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(noun) a woman's large folded hooped hood; worn in the 18th century | Synonyms: caleche |
calceolaria | (noun) any garden plant of the genus Calceolaria having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lip | Synonyms: slipperwort |
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calceolate | (adjective) of slipper-shaped blossoms | Synonyms: calceiform |
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calculability | (noun) The quality of being subject to or ascertainable by calculation. | - |
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calculable | (adjective) able to be calculated or estimated | - |
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calculate | (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: cipher, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out |
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(verb) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public | Synonyms: aim, direct |
(verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: count on, estimate, figure, forecast, reckon |
(verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, count, depend, look, reckon, rely, swear |
(verb) predict in advance | Synonyms: forecast |
(verb) keep an account of | Synonyms: account |
calculated | (adjective) carefully thought out in advance | Synonyms: deliberate, measured |
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calculating | (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculative, conniving, scheming, shrewd |
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calculatingly | (adverb) in a calculating manner | - |
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calculation | (noun) the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods | Synonyms: computation, computing |
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(noun) problem solving that involves numbers or quantities | Synonyms: computation, figuring, reckoning |
(noun) planning something carefully and intentionally | Synonyms: deliberation |
calculative | (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculating, conniving, scheming, shrewd |
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calculator | (noun) a small machine that is used for mathematical calculations; can be mechanical or electronic | Synonyms: calculating machine |
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(noun) an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines) | Synonyms: computer, estimator, figurer, reckoner |
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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calicular | (adjective) relating to or resembling a calyculus | Synonyms: calycular |
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calla | (noun) South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix | Synonyms: arum lily, calla lily, Zantedeschia aethiopica |
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callable | (adjective) subject to a demand for payment before due date | - |
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callathump | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callithump, charivari, chivaree, shivaree |
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(noun) a noisy boisterous parade | Synonyms: callithump, callithump parade |
calycular | (adjective) relating to or resembling a calyculus | Synonyms: calicular |
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calyculate | (adjective) having a calyculus | Synonyms: calycled |
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camarilla | (noun) a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue | Synonyms: cabal, faction, junto |
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camouflage | (noun) the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance | Synonyms: disguise |
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(noun) device or stratagem for concealment or deceit | - |
(noun) fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan; intended to make the wearer of a garment made of this fabric hard to distinguish from the background | Synonyms: camo |
(noun) an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something | Synonyms: disguise |
(verb) disguise by camouflaging; exploit the natural surroundings to disguise something | - |
camouflaged | (adjective) made invisible by means of protective coloring | - |
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campanula | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: bellflower |
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campanular | (adjective) shaped like a bell or campana | Synonyms: campanulate, campanulated |
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campanulate | (adjective) shaped like a bell or campana | Synonyms: campanular, campanulated |
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campanulated | (adjective) shaped like a bell or campana | Synonyms: campanular, campanulate |
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canafistola | (noun) deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia | Synonyms: canafistula, Cassia fistula, drumstick tree, golden shower tree, pudding pipe tree, purging cassia |
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canafistula | (noun) deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia | Synonyms: canafistola, Cassia fistula, drumstick tree, golden shower tree, pudding pipe tree, purging cassia |
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canalicular | (adjective) relating to or like or having a canaliculus | - |
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canaliculate | (adjective) having thin parallel channels | - |
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cancellate | (adjective) having an open or latticed or porous structure | Synonyms: cancellated, cancellous |
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(adjective) having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows | Synonyms: cancellated, clathrate |
cancellated | (adjective) having an open or latticed or porous structure | Synonyms: cancellate, cancellous |
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(adjective) having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows | Synonyms: cancellate, clathrate |
cancellation | (noun) the act of cancelling; calling off some arrangement | - |
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(noun) the speech act of revoking or annulling or making void | - |
candela | (noun) the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin | Synonyms: candle, cd, standard candle |
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candelabra | (noun) branched candlestick; ornamental; has several lights | Synonyms: candelabrum |
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candelabrum | (noun) branched candlestick; ornamental; has several lights | Synonyms: candelabra |
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candelilla | (noun) wax-coated shrub of northern Mexico and southwestern United States | Synonyms: Euphorbia antisyphilitica |
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(noun) wax-coated Mexican shrub related to Euphorbia antisyphilitica | Synonyms: Pedilanthus bracteatus, Pedilanthus pavonis |
canella | (noun) highly aromatic inner bark of the Canella winterana used as a condiment and a tonic | Synonyms: canella bark, white cinnamon |
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canicular | (adjective) relating to or especially immediately preceding or following the heliacal rising of Canicula (the Dog Star) | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the dog days of summer | - |
cannula | (noun) a small flexible tube inserted into a body cavity for draining off fluid or introducing medication | - |
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cannular | (adjective) constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids) | Synonyms: tube-shaped, tubelike, tubular, vasiform |
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cannulate | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulise, cannulize, canulate, intubate |
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cannulation | (noun) the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ | Synonyms: cannulisation, cannulization, canulation, canulisation, canulization, intubation |
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canola | (noun) vegetable oil made from rapeseed; it is high in monounsaturated fatty acids | Synonyms: canola oil |
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cantala | (noun) Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine | Synonyms: Agave cantala, maguey |
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(noun) hard fiber used in making coarse twine; from Philippine agave plants | Synonyms: Cebu maguey, manila maguey |
cantillate | (verb) recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm | Synonyms: chant, intonate, intone |
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cantillation | (noun) liturgical chanting | - |
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canulate | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulise, cannulize, intubate |
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canulation | (noun) the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ | Synonyms: cannulation, cannulisation, cannulization, canulisation, canulization, intubation |
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capelan | (noun) very small northern fish; forage for sea birds and marine mammals and other fishes | Synonyms: capelin, caplin |
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capillarity | (noun) a phenomenon associated with surface tension and resulting in the elevation or depression of liquids in capillaries | Synonyms: capillary action |
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capillary | (adjective) of or relating to hair | - |
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(adjective) long and slender with a very small internal diameter | Synonyms: hairlike |
(noun) a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action | Synonyms: capillary tube, capillary tubing |
(noun) any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules | Synonyms: capillary vessel |
capitula | (noun) a short scripture reading; done after a psalmody. | - |
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capitular | (adjective) of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter | Synonyms: capitulary |
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capitulary | (adjective) of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter | Synonyms: capitular |
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capitulate | (verb) surrender under agreed conditions | - |
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capitulation | (noun) the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions) | Synonyms: fall, surrender |
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(noun) a summary that enumerates the main parts of a topic | - |
(noun) a document containing the terms of surrender | - |
capsular | (adjective) of or relating to a capsule | - |
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(adjective) resembling a capsule | - |
capsulate | (adjective) used of seeds or spores that are enclosed in a capsule | Synonyms: capsulated |
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(verb) enclose in a capsule | Synonyms: capsule, capsulise, capsulize |
capsulated | (adjective) used of seeds or spores that are enclosed in a capsule | Synonyms: capsulate |
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carambola | (noun) deeply ridged yellow-brown tropical fruit; used raw as a vegetable or in salad or when fully ripe as a dessert | Synonyms: star fruit |
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(noun) East Indian tree bearing deeply ridged yellow-brown fruit | Synonyms: Averrhoa carambola, carambola tree |
carbolated | (adjective) containing or treated with carbolic acid | - |
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carboxylate | (verb) treat (a chemical compound) with carboxyl or carboxylic acid | - |
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carbuncular | (adjective) afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle | Synonyms: carbuncled |
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cardinalate | (noun) the office of cardinal | Synonyms: cardinalship |
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(noun) (Roman Catholic Church) the body of all cardinals of the church; elects and advises the pope | Synonyms: College of Cardinals, Sacred College, Sacred College of Cardinals |
cardiovascular | (adjective) of or pertaining to or involving the heart and blood vessels | - |
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carpellary | (adjective) belonging to or forming or containing carpels | - |
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carpellate | (adjective) bearing or consisting of carpels | Synonyms: pistillate |
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cartilage | (noun) tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults | Synonyms: gristle |
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cartilaginification | (noun) abnormal formation of cartilage from other tissues; observed in some Asians | - |
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cartilaginous | (adjective) of or relating to cartilage | - |
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(adjective) difficult to chew | Synonyms: gristly, rubbery |
caruncula | (noun) an outgrowth on a plant or animal such as a fowl's wattle or a protuberance near the hilum of certain seeds | Synonyms: caruncle |
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caruncular | (adjective) resembling a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculous |
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carunculate | (adjective) having a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculated |
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carunculated | (adjective) having a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculate |
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caryophyllaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to plants of the family Caryophyllaceae | - |
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cascarilla | (noun) West Indian shrub with aromatic bark | Synonyms: Croton eluteria |
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castellated | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: battlemented, castled, crenelated, embattled |
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catalase | (noun) enzyme found in most plant and animal cells that functions as an oxidative catalyst; decomposes hydrogen peroxide into oxygen and water | - |
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catalatic | (adjective) of or relating to the enzyme catalase | - |
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cataplasia | (noun) (biology) degenerative reversion of cells or tissue to a less differentiated or more primitive form | - |
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cataplasm | (noun) a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc. | Synonyms: plaster, poultice |
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cataplastic | (adjective) of or relating to cataplasia | - |
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catclaw | (noun) erect shrub with small if any spines having racemes of white to yellow flowers followed by curved pointed pods and black shiny seeds; West Indies and Florida | Synonyms: black bead, cat's-claw, Pithecellobium unguis-cati |
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catecholamine | (noun) any of a group of chemicals including epinephrine and norepinephrine that are produced in the medulla of the adrenal gland | - |
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catenulate | (adjective) having a chainlike form | Synonyms: chainlike |
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(verb) arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores | Synonyms: catenate |
caterpillar | (noun) a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth | - |
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cavalla | (noun) large mackerel with long pointed snout; important food and game fish of the eastern Atlantic coast southward to Brazil | Synonyms: cero, king mackerel, Scomberomorus cavalla |
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cedilla | (noun) a diacritical mark (,) placed below the letter c to indicate that it is pronounced as an s | - |
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celandine | (noun) perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers | Synonyms: Chelidonium majus, greater celandine, swallow wort, swallowwort |
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(noun) North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil | Synonyms: Impatiens capensis, jewelweed, lady's earrings, orange balsam, touch-me-not |
cellar | (noun) the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage | Synonyms: basement |
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(noun) storage space where wines are stored | Synonyms: wine cellar |
(noun) an excavation where root vegetables are stored | Synonyms: root cellar |
cellarage | (noun) a storage area in a cellar | - |
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(noun) a charge for storing goods in a cellar | - |
cellaret | (noun) sideboard with compartments for holding bottles | Synonyms: minibar |
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cellular | (adjective) characterized by or divided into or containing cells or compartments (the smallest organizational or structural unit of an organism or organization) | - |
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(adjective) relating to cells | - |
cellularity | (noun) the state of having cells | - |
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cephalalgia | (noun) pain in the head caused by dilation of cerebral arteries or muscle contractions or a reaction to drugs | Synonyms: head ache, headache |
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cephalaspid | (noun) extinct jawless fish of the Devonian with armored head | Synonyms: osteostracan |
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cerebellar | (adjective) relating to or associated with the cerebellum | - |
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cerebrovascular | (adjective) of or relating to the brain and the blood vessels that supply it | - |
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ceroplastics | (noun) the art of modeling in wax. | - |
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