| butyric | (adjective) relating to or producing butyric acid | - |
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| cabalistic | (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cryptic, cryptical, kabbalistic, qabalistic, sibylline |
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| cachectic | (adjective) relating to or having the symptoms of cachexia | - |
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| cacodaemonic | (adjective) of or relating to evil spirits | Synonyms: cacodemonic |
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| cacodemonic | (adjective) of or relating to evil spirits | Synonyms: cacodaemonic |
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| cacodylic | (adjective) of or relating to cacodyl | - |
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| cacogenic | (adjective) pertaining to or causing degeneration in the offspring produced | Synonyms: dysgenic |
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| cacophonic | (adjective) having an unpleasant sound | Synonyms: cacophonous |
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| cadaveric | (adjective) of or relating to a cadaver or corpse | Synonyms: cadaverous |
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| caffeinic | (adjective) of or containing caffein | - |
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| calcic | (adjective) derived from or containing calcium or lime | - |
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| calcific | (adjective) involving or resulting from calcification | - |
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| calcitic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing calcite | - |
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| calendric | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or used in a calendar or time measurement | Synonyms: calendrical |
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| calisthenic | (adjective) of or relating to calisthenics | - |
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| calligraphic | (adjective) of or relating to or expressed in calligraphy | Synonyms: calligraphical |
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| caloric | (adjective) relating to or associated with heat | Synonyms: thermal, thermic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to calories in food | - |
| calorific | (adjective) heat-generating | - |
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| calorimetric | (adjective) of or relating to the measurement of heat | - |
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| cambric | (noun) a finely woven white linen | - |
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| camphoric | (adjective) relating to or derived from or containing camphor | - |
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| cannibalic | (adjective) marked by barbarity suggestive of a cannibal; rapaciously savage | - |
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| cannibalistic | (adjective) characteristic of cannibals or exhibiting cannibalism | - |
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| canonic | (adjective) of or relating to or required by canon law | Synonyms: canonical |
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| (adjective) appearing in a biblical canon | Synonyms: canonical |
| (adjective) conforming to orthodox or recognized rules | Synonyms: canonical, sanctioned |
| (adjective) reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality | Synonyms: basic, canonical |
| capitalistic | (adjective) favoring or practicing capitalism | Synonyms: capitalist |
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| (adjective) of or relating to capitalism or capitalists | Synonyms: capitalist |
| carbocyclic | (adjective) having or relating to or characterized by a ring composed of carbon atoms | - |
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| carbonic | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonaceous, carboniferous, carbonous |
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| carbonylic | (adjective) relating to or containing the carbonyl group | Synonyms: carbonyl |
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| carboxylic | (adjective) relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl radical | Synonyms: carboxyl |
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| carcinogenic | (adjective) causing or tending to cause cancer | - |
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| cardiographic | (adjective) of or relating to a cardiograph | - |
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| cardiologic | (adjective) of or relating to or used in or practicing cardiology | - |
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| carposporic | (adjective) relating to or resembling a carpospore | - |
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| cartographic | (adjective) of or relating to the making of maps or charts | Synonyms: cartographical |
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| casuistic | (adjective) of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems | Synonyms: casuistical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or practicing casuistry | Synonyms: casuistical |
| catabatic | (adjective) of an air current or wind; moving downward or down a slope because of cooling especially at night | Synonyms: katabatic |
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| catabolic | (adjective) characterized by destructive metabolism | Synonyms: katabolic |
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| (adjective) relating to or characterized by catabolism | Synonyms: katabolic |
| catacaustic | (noun) a caustic curve formed by light reflecting from a curved surface. | - |
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| catachrestic | (adjective) constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis | Synonyms: catachrestical |
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| cataclysmic | (adjective) severely destructive | Synonyms: cataclysmal |
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| catalatic | (adjective) of or relating to the enzyme catalase | - |
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| catalectic | (adjective) (verse) metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot | - |
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| (noun) (prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot | - |
| cataleptic | (adjective) of or having characteristics of or affected with catalepsy | - |
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| (noun) a person suffering from catalepsy | - |
| catalytic | (adjective) relating to or causing or involving catalysis | - |
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| cataphatic | (adjective) of or relating to the religious belief that God can be known to humans positively or affirmatively | - |
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| cataphoretic | (adjective) of or relating to electrophoresis | Synonyms: electrophoretic |
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| cataplastic | (adjective) of or relating to cataplasia | - |
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| catapultic | (adjective) of or like a catapult | Synonyms: catapultian |
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| catastrophic | (adjective) extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin | Synonyms: ruinous |
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| catatonic | (adjective) characterized by catatonia especially either rigidity or extreme laxness of limbs | - |
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| catechetic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a rigorous catechism | Synonyms: catechistic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or involving catechesis | Synonyms: catechetical |
| catechistic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a rigorous catechism | Synonyms: catechetic |
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| categorematic | (adjective) of a term or phrase capable of standing as the subject or (especially) the predicate of a proposition | - |
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| categoric | (adjective) relating to or included in a category or categories | Synonyms: categorical |
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| (adjective) not modified or restricted by reservations | Synonyms: categorical, flat, unconditional |
| cathartic | (adjective) emotionally purging (of e.g. art) | Synonyms: releasing |
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| (adjective) strongly laxative | Synonyms: evacuant, purgative |
| (adjective) emotionally purging | Synonyms: psychotherapeutic |
| (noun) a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: aperient, physic, purgative |
| cathectic | (adjective) of or relating to cathexis | - |
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| cathodic | (adjective) of or at or pertaining to a cathode | - |
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| catholic | (adjective) free from provincial prejudices or attachments | - |
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| cationic | (adjective) of or relating to cations | - |
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| catoptric | (adjective) of or relating to catoptrics; produced by or based on mirrors | Synonyms: catoptrical |
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| caustic | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: corrosive, erosive, mordant, vitriolic |
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| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
| (noun) the envelope of light rays reflected or refracted by a curved surface or object | - |
| (noun) any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue | - |
| cellulosic | (noun) a plastic made from cellulose (or a derivative of cellulose) | - |
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| cenobitic | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living | Synonyms: cenobitical, coenobitic, coenobitical |
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| cenogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to cenogenesis | - |
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| centralistic | (adjective) advocating centralization | Synonyms: centralist |
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| centric | (adjective) having or situated at or near a center | Synonyms: centrical |
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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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| 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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| cephalic | (adjective) of or relating to the head | - |
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| ceramic | (adjective) of or relating to or made from a ceramic | - |
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| (noun) an artifact made of hard brittle material produced from nonmetallic minerals by firing at high temperatures | - |
| ceric | (adjective) of or relating to or containing cerium especially with valence 4 | - |
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| chaotic | (adjective) of or relating to a sensitive dependence on initial conditions | - |
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| (adjective) lacking a visible order or organization | Synonyms: helter-skelter |
| (adjective) completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing | Synonyms: disorderly |
| characteristic | (adjective) typical or distinctive | - |
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| (noun) a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something | - |
| (noun) any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions | Synonyms: device characteristic |
| (noun) a prominent attribute or aspect of something | Synonyms: feature |
| (noun) the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2 | - |
| charismatic | (adjective) possessing an extraordinary ability to attract | Synonyms: magnetic |
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| chauvinistic | (adjective) of or relating to persons convinced of the superiority of their own gender or kind | - |
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| (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: flag-waving, jingoistic, nationalistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
| chemic | (adjective) relating to or used in chemistry | Synonyms: chemical |
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| chemotherapeutic | (adjective) of or relating to chemotherapy | Synonyms: chemotherapeutical |
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| cherubic | (adjective) having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub | Synonyms: angelic, angelical, seraphic, sweet |
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| chiasmatic | (adjective) of or relating to a chiasm | Synonyms: chiasmal, chiasmic |
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| chiasmic | (adjective) of or relating to a chiasm | Synonyms: chiasmal, chiasmatic |
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| chic | (adjective) elegant and stylish | Synonyms: smart, voguish |
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| (noun) elegance by virtue of being fashionable | Synonyms: chichi, chicness, last word, modishness, smartness, stylishness, swank |
| chiliastic | (adjective) relating to or believing in the millennium of peace and happiness | Synonyms: millenarian |
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| chimeric | (adjective) being or relating to or like a chimera | Synonyms: chimeral, chimerical |
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| chiromantic | (adjective) of or relating to palmistry | - |
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| chiropractic | (noun) a method of treatment that manipulates body structures (especially the spine) to relieve low back pain or even headache or high blood pressure | - |
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| chivalric | (adjective) characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: knightly, mediaeval, medieval |
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| chlorotic | (adjective) of or pertaining to or suffering from chlorosis | Synonyms: greensick |
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| choleraic | (adjective) relating to or resulting from or resembling cholera | - |
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| choleric | (adjective) characterized by anger | Synonyms: irascible |
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| (adjective) quickly aroused to anger | Synonyms: hot-tempered, hotheaded, irascible, quick-tempered, short-tempered |
| (adjective) easily moved to anger | - |
| cholinergic | (adjective) releasing or activated by acetylcholine or a related compound | - |
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| chondritic | (adjective) having a granular structure like that of chondrites | Synonyms: granular |
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| choragic | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of a choragus | - |
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| choreographic | (adjective) of or concerned with choreography | - |
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| choric | (adjective) relating to or written for or in the style of a Greek chorus | - |
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| chorionic | (adjective) of or relating to a chorion | - |
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| chromatic | (adjective) being or having or characterized by hue | - |
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| (adjective) based on a scale consisting of 12 semitones | - |
| (adjective) able to refract light without spectral color separation | - |
| chromatinic | (adjective) (of substance of a cell nucleus) readily colored by stains | - |
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| chromatographic | (adjective) of or relating to chromatography | Synonyms: chromatographical |
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| chronic | (adjective) being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering | - |
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| (adjective) persisting for a long time | Synonyms: continuing |
| (adjective) habitual | Synonyms: inveterate |