| buccal | (adjective) of or involving the mouth or mouth region or the surface on which the mouth is located | Synonyms: oral |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or toward the cheek | - |
| bucketful | (noun) the quantity contained in a bucket | Synonyms: bucket |
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| buckyball | (noun) a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene | Synonyms: buckminsterfullerene |
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| buhl | (noun) an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork | Synonyms: boule, boulle |
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| bulbil | (noun) small bulb or bulb-shaped growth arising from the leaf axil or in the place of flowers | Synonyms: bulblet |
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| bulbul | (noun) nightingale spoken of in Persian poetry | - |
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| bull | (noun) a serious and ludicrous blunder | - |
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| (noun) uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle | - |
| (noun) mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle | - |
| (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bullshit, crap, dogshit, horseshit, Irish bull, shit |
| (noun) a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla) | Synonyms: papal bull |
| (noun) the center of a target | Synonyms: bull's eye |
| (noun) uncomplimentary terms for a policeman | Synonyms: cop, copper, fuzz, pig |
| (noun) an investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later | - |
| (noun) a large and strong and heavyset man | Synonyms: bruiser, Samson, strapper |
| (verb) advance in price | - |
| (verb) speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths | Synonyms: bullshit, fake, talk through one's hat |
| (verb) try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying | - |
| (verb) push or force | Synonyms: bull through |
| buntal | (noun) fine white Philippine fiber from stalks of unopened leaves of talipot palms; used in making hats | - |
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| burial | (noun) concealing something under the ground | Synonyms: burying |
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| (noun) the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave | Synonyms: entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture |
| burl | (noun) soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design | Synonyms: knot, slub |
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| (noun) a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree | - |
| (noun) the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer | - |
| (verb) remove the burls from cloth | - |
| bursal | (adjective) relating to or affecting a bursa | - |
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| bushel | (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 pecks | - |
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| (noun) a United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches | - |
| (verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on |
| butanol | (noun) a flammable alcohol derived from butanes and used for solvents | Synonyms: butyl alcohol |
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| butterball | (noun) small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage | Synonyms: Bucephela albeola, bufflehead, dipper |
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| (noun) a rotund individual | Synonyms: fat person, fatso, fatty, roly-poly |
| butyl | (noun) a hydrocarbon radical (C4H9) | - |
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| cabal | (noun) a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot) | Synonyms: conspiracy |
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| (noun) a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue | Synonyms: camarilla, faction, junto |
| (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: complot, conjure, conspire, machinate |
| cackel | (verb) make a cackling sound | - |
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| cacodyl | (noun) the univalent group derived from arsine | Synonyms: arsenic group, cacodyl group, cacodyl radical |
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| (noun) a poisonous oily liquid with a garlicky odor composed of 2 cacodyl groups; undergoes spontaneous combustion in dry air | Synonyms: tetramethyldiarsine |
| cacuminal | (adjective) pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate | Synonyms: retroflex |
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| cadastral | (adjective) of or relating to the records of a cadastre | - |
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| caecal | (adjective) of or like a cecum | Synonyms: cecal |
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| caesural | (adjective) of or relating to a caesura | - |
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| calcaneal | (adjective) relating to the heel bone or heel | - |
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| calciferol | (noun) a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets | Synonyms: cholecalciferol, D, ergocalciferol, viosterol, vitamin D |
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| calendrical | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or used in a calendar or time measurement | Synonyms: calendric |
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| call | (noun) (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee | - |
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| (noun) a visit in an official or professional capacity | - |
| (noun) a brief social visit | - |
| (noun) the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date | Synonyms: call option |
| (noun) a method of contacting a person by phone | Synonyms: phone call, telephone call |
| (noun) a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition | Synonyms: cry, outcry, shout, vociferation, yell |
| (noun) the characteristic sound produced by a bird | Synonyms: birdcall, birdsong, song |
| (noun) a request | - |
| (noun) a demand | Synonyms: claim |
| (noun) a demand for a show of hands in a card game | - |
| (noun) an instruction that interrupts the program being executed | - |
| (noun) a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement | Synonyms: margin call |
| (verb) rouse somebody from sleep with a call | - |
| (verb) challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of | - |
| (verb) consider or regard as being | - |
| (verb) utter in a loud voice or announce | - |
| (verb) ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality | - |
| (verb) get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone | Synonyms: call up, phone, ring, telephone |
| (verb) assign a specified (usually proper) name to | Synonyms: be known as, know as, name |
| (verb) utter a characteristic note or cry | - |
| (verb) send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message | - |
| (verb) order, request, or command to come | Synonyms: send for |
| (verb) indicate a decision in regard to | - |
| (verb) challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense | - |
| (verb) declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee | - |
| (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout, shout out, squall, yell |
| (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise |
| (verb) lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal | - |
| (verb) present for redemption before maturation | - |
| (verb) read aloud to check for omissions or absentees | - |
| (verb) order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role | - |
| (verb) order or request or give a command for | - |
| (verb) give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance | Synonyms: call off |
| (verb) make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands | Synonyms: bid |
| (verb) demand payment of (a loan) | Synonyms: call in |
| (verb) pay a brief visit | Synonyms: call in, visit |
| (verb) call a meeting; invite or command to meet | - |
| (verb) make a stop in a harbour | - |
| (verb) greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name | Synonyms: address |
| (verb) stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather | - |
| calligraphical | (adjective) of or relating to or expressed in calligraphy | Synonyms: calligraphic |
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| calomel | (noun) a tasteless colorless powder used medicinally as a cathartic | Synonyms: mercurous chloride |
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| calyceal | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a calyx | Synonyms: calycinal, calycine |
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| calycinal | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a calyx | Synonyms: calyceal, calycine |
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| camail | (noun) a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck | Synonyms: aventail, ventail |
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| cambial | (adjective) of or relating to or functioning as a cambium | - |
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| camel | (noun) cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions | - |
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| camgirl | (noun) a female performer who performs sexual acts by camera on the internet | - |
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| campestral | (adjective) of fields or open country | - |
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| campstool | (noun) a folding stool | - |
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| canal | (noun) long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation | - |
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| (noun) a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance | Synonyms: channel, duct, epithelial duct |
| (noun) (astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion | - |
| (verb) provide (a city) with a canal | Synonyms: canalise, canalize |
| cancel | (noun) a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat | Synonyms: natural |
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| (verb) make invalid for use | Synonyms: invalidate |
| (verb) remove or make invisible | Synonyms: delete |
| (verb) declare null and void; make ineffective | Synonyms: strike down |
| (verb) postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled | Synonyms: call off, scratch, scrub |
| (verb) make up for | Synonyms: offset, set off |
| canful | (noun) the quantity contained in a can | Synonyms: can |
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| canistel | (noun) ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies | Synonyms: eggfruit |
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| (noun) tropical tree of Florida and West Indies yielding edible fruit | Synonyms: canistel tree, Pouteria campechiana nervosa |
| cannibal | (noun) a person who eats human flesh | Synonyms: anthropophagite, anthropophagus, man-eater |
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| cannonball | (noun) a solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon | Synonyms: cannon ball, round shot |
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| canonical | (adjective) of or relating to or required by canon law | Synonyms: canonic |
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| (adjective) appearing in a biblical canon | Synonyms: canonic |
| (adjective) conforming to orthodox or recognized rules | Synonyms: canonic, sanctioned |
| (adjective) reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality | Synonyms: basic, canonic |
| cantonal | (adjective) of or relating to a canton | - |
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| capful | (noun) the quantity that a cap will hold | - |
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| capital | (adjective) of principal importance | - |
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| (adjective) first-rate | - |
| (adjective) uppercase | Synonyms: great, majuscule |
| (noun) the upper part of a column that supports the entablature | Synonyms: cap, chapiter |
| (noun) one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis | Synonyms: capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase |
| (noun) a seat of government | - |
| (noun) a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product | - |
| (noun) wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value | - |
| (noun) assets available for use in the production of further assets | Synonyms: working capital |
| capitol | (noun) a building occupied by a state legislature | - |
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| captopril | (noun) a drug (trade name Capoten) that blocks the formation of angiotensin in the kidneys resulting in vasodilation; used in the treatment of hypertension and congestive heart failure | Synonyms: Capoten |
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| caracal | (noun) of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia | Synonyms: desert lynx, Lynx caracal |
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| caracul | (noun) hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur | Synonyms: broadtail, karakul |
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| caramel | (adjective) having the color of caramel; of a moderate yellow-brown | Synonyms: caramel brown |
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| (noun) a medium to dark tan color | Synonyms: buff, caramel brown, raw sienna, yellowish brown |
| (noun) firm chewy candy made from caramelized sugar and butter and milk | - |
| (noun) burnt sugar; used to color and flavor food | Synonyms: caramelized sugar |
| carbonyl | (adjective) relating to or containing the carbonyl group | Synonyms: carbonylic |
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| (noun) a compound containing metal combined with carbon monoxide | - |
| carboxyl | (adjective) relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl radical | Synonyms: carboxylic |
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| (noun) the univalent radical -COOH; present in and characteristic of organic acids | Synonyms: carboxyl group |
| cardinal | (adjective) being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order | - |
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| (adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: central, fundamental, key, primal |
| (noun) crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male | Synonyms: cardinal grosbeak, Cardinalis cardinalis, redbird, Richmondena Cardinalis |
| (noun) a variable color averaging a vivid red | Synonyms: carmine |
| (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes | - |
| (noun) the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order | Synonyms: cardinal number |
| careful | (adjective) exercising caution or showing care or attention | - |
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| (adjective) cautiously attentive | Synonyms: heedful |
| (adjective) mindful of the future in spending money | Synonyms: thrifty |
| (adjective) full of cares or anxiety | - |
| (adjective) unhurried and with care and dignity | Synonyms: deliberate, measured |
| carful | (noun) the quantity that a car will hold | - |
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| carinal | (adjective) relating to or resembling a carina | - |
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| carnal | (adjective) of or relating to the body or flesh | - |
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| (adjective) marked by the appetites and passions of the body | Synonyms: animal, fleshly, sensual |
| carnassial | (adjective) (of a tooth) adapted for shearing flesh | - |
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| carnival | (noun) a festival marked by merrymaking and processions | - |
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| (noun) a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc. | Synonyms: fair, funfair |
| (noun) a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment | Synonyms: circus |
| carol | (noun) a joyful song (usually celebrating the birth of Christ) | - |
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| (noun) joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ | Synonyms: Christmas carol |
| (verb) sing carols | - |
| carousal | (noun) revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party | Synonyms: bender, booze-up, carouse, toot |
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| carousel | (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carrousel, merry-go-round, roundabout, whirligig |
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| (noun) a conveyer belt that carries luggage to be claimed by air travelers | Synonyms: carrousel, luggage carousel, luggage carrousel |
| carpal | (adjective) of or relating to the wrist | - |
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| (noun) any of the eight small bones of the wrist of primates | Synonyms: carpal bone, wrist bone |
| carpel | (noun) a simple pistil or one element of a compound pistil | - |
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| carrel | (noun) small individual study area in a library | Synonyms: carrell, cubicle, stall |
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| carrell | (noun) small individual study area in a library | Synonyms: carrel, cubicle, stall |
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| carrousel | (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carousel, merry-go-round, roundabout, whirligig |
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| (noun) a conveyer belt that carries luggage to be claimed by air travelers | Synonyms: carousel, luggage carousel, luggage carrousel |
| carryall | (noun) a capacious bag or basket | Synonyms: holdall, tote, tote bag |
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| cartel | (noun) a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service | Synonyms: combine, corporate trust, trust |
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| cartographical | (adjective) of or relating to the making of maps or charts | Synonyms: cartographic |
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| cartonful | (noun) the quantity contained in a carton | Synonyms: carton |
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| cartwheel | (noun) acrobatic revolutions with the body turned sideways and the arms and legs outstretched like the spokes of a wheel | - |
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| (noun) a wheel that has wooden spokes and a metal rim | - |
| (noun) a dollar made of silver | Synonyms: silver dollar |
| (verb) do cartwheels: perform an acrobatic movement using both hands and feet | - |
| carvedilol | (noun) beta blocker that can reduce the progression of heart failure in individuals whose disease is not advanced | - |
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| cascabel | (noun) a bell attached to a sleigh, or to the harness of a horse that is pulling a sleigh | Synonyms: sleigh bell |
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| caseful | (noun) the quantity contained in a case | Synonyms: case |
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| caskful | (noun) the quantity a cask will hold | Synonyms: cask |
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| casquetel | (noun) a light open casque without a visor or beaver | Synonyms: casquet |
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| casual | (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: cursory, passing, perfunctory, superficial |
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| (adjective) not showing effort or strain | Synonyms: effortless |
| (adjective) occurring on a temporary or irregular basis | Synonyms: occasional |
| (adjective) marked by blithe unconcern | Synonyms: insouciant, nonchalant |
| (adjective) appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions | Synonyms: daily, everyday |
| (adjective) occurring or appearing or singled out by chance | Synonyms: chance |
| (adjective) natural and unstudied | Synonyms: free-and-easy |
| (adjective) characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility | Synonyms: fooling |
| (adjective) without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand | - |
| casuistical | (adjective) of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems | Synonyms: casuistic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or practicing casuistry | Synonyms: casuistic |
| catachrestical | (adjective) constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis | Synonyms: catachrestic |
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| cataclinal | (adjective) of valleys and rivers; running in the direction of the dip in surrounding rock strata | - |
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| cataclysmal | (adjective) severely destructive | Synonyms: cataclysmic |
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| catamenial | (adjective) of or relating to menstruation or the menses | Synonyms: menstrual |
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| cataphyll | (noun) a reduced or scarcely developed leaf at the start of a plant's life (i.e., cotyledons) or in the early stages of leaf development | - |
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| catarrhal | (adjective) of or relating to a catarrh | - |
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| catcall | (noun) a cry expressing disapproval | - |
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| (verb) utter catcalls at | - |
| catchall | (noun) an enclosure or receptacle for odds and ends | - |
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| catechetical | (adjective) of or relating to or involving catechesis | Synonyms: catechetic |
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| catechismal | (adjective) of or relating to a catechism summarizing the principles of Christianity | - |
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| categorial | (adjective) of or relating to the concept of categories | - |
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| categorical | (adjective) relating to or included in a category or categories | Synonyms: categoric |
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| (adjective) not modified or restricted by reservations | Synonyms: categoric, flat, unconditional |
| caterwaul | (noun) the yowling sound made by a cat in heat | - |
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| (verb) utter shrieks, as of cats | Synonyms: yowl |
| cathedral | (adjective) relating to or containing or issuing from a bishop's office or throne | - |
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| (noun) any large and important church | - |
| (noun) the principal Christian church building of a bishop's diocese | Synonyms: duomo |
| catoptrical | (adjective) of or relating to catoptrics; produced by or based on mirrors | Synonyms: catoptric |
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| cattail | (noun) tall erect herbs with sword-shaped leaves; cosmopolitan in fresh and salt marshes | - |
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| caudal | (adjective) constituting or relating to a tail | - |
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| (adjective) resembling a tail | Synonyms: taillike |
| (adjective) situated in or directed toward the part of the body from which the tail arises | - |
| (adverb) toward the posterior end of the body | Synonyms: caudally |
| caul | (noun) the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth) | Synonyms: embryonic membrane, veil |
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| (noun) part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines | Synonyms: gastrocolic omentum, greater omentum |
| causal | (adjective) involving or constituting a cause; causing | - |
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| cavil | (noun) an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections | Synonyms: quibble, quiddity |
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| (verb) raise trivial objections | Synonyms: carp, chicane |