buttressing | (noun) a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building | Synonyms: buttress |
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cabinetry | (noun) the craft of making furniture (especially furniture of high quality) | Synonyms: cabinetwork |
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cadastral | (adjective) of or relating to the records of a cadastre | - |
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cadastre | (noun) a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land; made for the purpose of taxation | Synonyms: cadaster |
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calorimetric | (adjective) of or relating to the measurement of heat | - |
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calorimetry | (noun) measurement of quantities of heat | - |
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caltrop | (noun) tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed | Synonyms: devil's weed, Tribulus terestris |
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(noun) Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales; naturalized in America | Synonyms: Centauria calcitrapa, star-thistle |
(noun) a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits | Synonyms: water chestnut, water chestnut plant |
calyptra | (noun) the hood or cap covering the calyx of certain plants: e.g., the California poppy | - |
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calyptrate | (adjective) having a calyptra | - |
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(adjective) having calypters | - |
campestral | (adjective) of fields or open country | - |
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campylotropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) curved with the micropyle near the base almost touching its stalk | - |
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carpentry | (noun) the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood | Synonyms: woodwork, woodworking |
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cartridge | (noun) ammunition consisting of a cylindrical casing containing an explosive charge and a bullet; fired from a rifle or handgun | - |
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(noun) an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable | Synonyms: pickup |
(noun) a module designed to be inserted into a larger piece of equipment | - |
(noun) a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required | Synonyms: magazine |
cartroad | (noun) any road or path affording passage especially a rough one | Synonyms: cart track, track |
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castrate | (noun) a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction | Synonyms: eunuch |
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(verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: demasculinise, demasculinize, emasculate |
(verb) remove the ovaries of | Synonyms: alter, neuter, spay |
(verb) deprive of strength or vigor | Synonyms: emasculate |
(verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, expurgate, shorten |
castrated | (adjective) deprived of sexual capacity or sexual attributes | Synonyms: unsexed |
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castration | (noun) neutering a male animal by removing the testicles | Synonyms: emasculation |
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(noun) surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men) | - |
(noun) the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work | Synonyms: expurgation |
castrato | (noun) a male singer who was castrated before puberty and retains a soprano or alto voice | - |
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casuistry | (noun) moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas | - |
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(noun) argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading | - |
catastrophe | (noun) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune | Synonyms: calamity, cataclysm, disaster, tragedy |
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(noun) a sudden violent change in the earth's surface | Synonyms: cataclysm |
(noun) a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune | Synonyms: disaster |
catastrophic | (adjective) extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin | Synonyms: ruinous |
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catastrophically | (adverb) with unfortunate consequences | - |
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catoptric | (adjective) of or relating to catoptrics; produced by or based on mirrors | Synonyms: catoptrical |
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catoptrical | (adjective) of or relating to catoptrics; produced by or based on mirrors | Synonyms: catoptric |
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catoptrics | (noun) branch of optics dealing with formation of images by mirrors | - |
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ceftriaxone | (noun) a parenteral cephalosporin (trade name Rocephin) used for severe infection of the lungs or throat or ears or urinary tract | Synonyms: Rocephin |
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centilitre | (noun) a metric unit of volume equal to one hundredth of a liter | Synonyms: centiliter, cl |
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centimetre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter | Synonyms: centimeter, cm |
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central | (adjective) in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area | - |
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(adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: cardinal, fundamental, key, primal |
(noun) a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication | Synonyms: exchange, telephone exchange |
centralisation | (noun) the act of consolidating power under a central control | Synonyms: centralization |
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(noun) gathering to a center | Synonyms: centralization |
centralise | (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralize, concentrate |
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centralised | (adjective) drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority | Synonyms: centralized |
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centralising | (adjective) tending to draw to a central point | Synonyms: centralizing |
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centralism | (noun) the political policy of concentrating power in a central organization | - |
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centralist | (adjective) advocating centralization | Synonyms: centralistic |
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centralistic | (adjective) advocating centralization | Synonyms: centralist |
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centrality | (noun) the property of being central | - |
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centralization | (noun) the act of consolidating power under a central control | Synonyms: centralisation |
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(noun) gathering to a center | Synonyms: centralisation |
centralize | (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralise, concentrate |
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centralized | (adjective) drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority | Synonyms: centralised |
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centralizing | (adjective) tending to draw to a central point | Synonyms: centralising |
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centrally | (adverb) in or near or toward a center or according to a central role or function | - |
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centrarchid | (noun) small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies, black bass, bluegills, pumpkinseed | Synonyms: sunfish |
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centre | (adjective) of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually | Synonyms: center |
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(noun) a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the jump that starts the game | Synonyms: center |
(noun) (American football) the position of the player on the line of scrimmage who puts the ball in play | Synonyms: center |
(noun) the position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game | Synonyms: center |
(noun) a building dedicated to a particular activity | Synonyms: center |
(noun) the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher | Synonyms: center, center field, centerfield |
(noun) mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace | Synonyms: center, mall, plaza, shopping center, shopping centre, shopping mall |
(noun) a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process | Synonyms: center, nerve center, nerve centre |
(noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
(noun) the object upon which interest and attention focuses | Synonyms: center, center of attention, centre of attention |
(noun) the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering | Synonyms: center |
(noun) politically moderate persons; centrists | Synonyms: center |
(noun) the middle of a military or naval formation | Synonyms: center |
(noun) a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure | Synonyms: center, midpoint |
(noun) an area that is approximately central within some larger region | Synonyms: center, eye, heart, middle |
(noun) a place where some particular activity is concentrated | Synonyms: center |
(noun) (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback | Synonyms: center, snapper |
(noun) (basketball) the person who plays center on a basketball team | Synonyms: center |
(noun) (ice hockey) the person who plays center on a hockey team | Synonyms: center |
(adjective) equally distant from the extremes | Synonyms: center, halfway, middle, midway |
(verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: center, concentrate, focus, pore, rivet |
(verb) move into the center | Synonyms: center |
(verb) center upon | Synonyms: center, center on, concentrate on, focus on, revolve about, revolve around |
centreboard | (noun) a retractable fin keel used on sailboats to prevent drifting to leeward | Synonyms: centerboard, drop keel, sliding keel |
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centred | (adjective) being or placed in the center | Synonyms: centered |
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centrefold | (noun) a magazine center spread; especially a foldout of a large photograph or map or other feature | Synonyms: centerfold |
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centrepiece | (noun) something placed at the center of something else (as on a table) | Synonyms: centerpiece |
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(noun) the central or most important feature | Synonyms: centerpiece |
centrex | (noun) (CENTRal EXchange) a kind of telephone exchange | - |
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centric | (adjective) having or situated at or near a center | Synonyms: centrical |
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centrical | (adjective) having or situated at or near a center | Synonyms: centric |
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centrifugal | (adjective) tending to move away from a center | - |
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(adjective) tending away from centralization, as of authority | - |
(adjective) conveying information to the muscles from the CNS | Synonyms: motor |
centrifugate | (verb) rotate at very high speed in order to separate the liquids from the solids | Synonyms: centrifuge |
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centrifugation | (noun) the process of separating substances of different densities by the use of a centrifuge | - |
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centrifuge | (noun) an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension | Synonyms: extractor, separator |
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(verb) rotate at very high speed in order to separate the liquids from the solids | Synonyms: centrifugate |
centring | (noun) (American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back | Synonyms: centering, snap |
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(noun) the concentration of attention or energy on something | Synonyms: centering, direction, focal point, focus, focusing, focussing |
centriole | (noun) one of a pair of small cylindrical cell organelles near the nucleus in animal cells; composed of nine triplet microtubules and form the asters during mitosis | - |
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centripetal | (adjective) tending to move toward a center | - |
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(adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system | Synonyms: receptive, sensory |
(adjective) tending to unify | Synonyms: unifying |
centrism | (noun) a political philosophy of avoiding the extremes of left and right by taking a moderate position or course of action | Synonyms: moderatism |
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centrist | (adjective) supporting or pursuing a course of action that is neither liberal nor conservative | Synonyms: middle-of-the-road |
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(noun) a person who takes a position in the political center | Synonyms: middle of the roader, moderate, moderationist |
centroid | (noun) the center of mass of an object of uniform density | - |
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centroidal | (adjective) of or relating to (especially passing through) a centroid | - |
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centromere | (noun) a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape | Synonyms: kinetochore |
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centromeric | (adjective) pertaining to the dense specialized portion of a chromosome to which the spindle attaches during mitosis | - |
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centrosome | (noun) small region of cytoplasm adjacent to the nucleus; contains the centrioles and serves to organize the microtubules | Synonyms: central body |
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centrosomic | (adjective) of or relating to a centrosome | - |
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centrosymmetric | (adjective) having a symmetrical arrangement of radiating parts about a central point | Synonyms: radially symmetrical |
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centrum | (noun) the main body of a vertebra | - |
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cephalometry | (noun) measurement of human heads | - |
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cetrimide | (noun) a cationic detergent that is a powerful disinfectant | - |
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chantry | (noun) a chapel endowed for singing Masses for the soul of the donor | - |
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(noun) an endowment for the singing of Masses | - |
chartreuse | (adjective) of something having the yellowish green color of Chartreuse liqueur | - |
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(noun) a shade of green tinged with yellow | Synonyms: Paris green, pea green, yellow green, yellowish green |
chatroom | (noun) a site on the internet where a number of users can communicate in real time (typically one dedicated to a particular topic) | Synonyms: chat room |
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chemistry | (noun) the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions | Synonyms: chemical science |
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(noun) the way two individuals relate to each other | Synonyms: alchemy, interpersonal chemistry |
(noun) the chemical composition and properties of a substance or object | - |
chemoattractant | (noun) a substance inducing positive chemotaxis in motile cells. | - |
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chemoautotroph | (noun) An organism that depends on chemicals for its energy and principally on carbon dioxide for its carbon. | Synonyms: chemotrophic autotroph |
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chetrum | (noun) 100 chetrums equal 1 ngultrum in Bhutan | - |
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chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile | (noun) a tear gas that is stronger than CN gas but wears off faster; can be deployed by grenades or cluster bombs; can cause skin burns and fatal pulmonary edema | Synonyms: CS gas |
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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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chondrodystrophy | (noun) an inherited skeletal disorder beginning before birth; cartilage is converted to bone resulting in dwarfism | Synonyms: achondroplasia, achondroplasty, osteosclerosis congenita |
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cicatrice | (noun) a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue | Synonyms: cicatrix, scar |
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cicatrise | (verb) form a scar, after an injury | Synonyms: cicatrize |
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cicatrix | (noun) a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue | Synonyms: cicatrice, scar |
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cicatrize | (verb) form a scar, after an injury | Synonyms: cicatrise |
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cilantro | (noun) parsley-like herb used as seasoning or garnish | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, coriander |
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(noun) Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, coriander, coriander plant, Coriandrum sativum |
circuitry | (noun) electronic equipment consisting of a system of circuits | - |
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cirrostratus | (noun) a thin uniform layer of hazy cloud at high altitude | Synonyms: cirrostratus cloud |
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cistron | (noun) (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity | Synonyms: factor, gene |
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citrange | (noun) more aromatic and acid tasting than oranges; used in beverages and marmalade | - |
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(noun) more aromatic and acidic than oranges | Synonyms: citrange tree, Citroncirus webberi |
citrate | (noun) a salt or ester of citric acid | - |
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(verb) cause to form a salt or ester of citric acid | - |
citric | (adjective) of or related to citric acid | - |
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citrin | (noun) a vitamin that maintains the resistance of cell and capillary walls to permeation | Synonyms: bioflavinoid, vitamin P |
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citrine | (noun) semiprecious yellow quartz resembling topaz | - |
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citron | (noun) large lemonlike fruit with thick aromatic rind; usually preserved | - |
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(noun) thorny evergreen small tree or shrub of India widely cultivated for its large lemonlike fruits that have thick warty rind | Synonyms: citron tree, Citrus medica |
citronwood | (noun) wood of a citron tree | - |
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(noun) durable fragrant wood; used in building (as in the roof of the cathedral at Cordova, Spain) | Synonyms: sandarac |
citrous | (adjective) of or relating to or producing fruit of the plants of the genus Citrus | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to plants of the genus Citrus | - |
citrulline | (noun) an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is an intermediate in the conversion of ornithine to arginine | - |
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citrus | (noun) any of numerous fruits of the genus Citrus having thick rind and juicy pulp; grown in warm regions | Synonyms: citrous fruit, citrus fruit |
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(noun) any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds | Synonyms: citrus tree |
claptrap | (noun) pompous or pretentious talk or writing | Synonyms: blah, bombast, fustian, rant |
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claustrophobe | (noun) a person suffering from claustrophobia | - |
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