cacao | (noun) tropical American tree producing cacao beans | Synonyms: cacao tree, chocolate tree, Theobroma cacao |
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cachalot | (noun) large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil; also a source of ambergris | Synonyms: black whale, Physeter catodon, sperm whale |
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cache | (noun) a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons) | - |
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(noun) (computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics | Synonyms: memory cache |
(noun) a secret store of valuables or money | Synonyms: hoard, stash |
(verb) save up as for future use | Synonyms: hive up, hoard, lay away, squirrel away, stash |
cachectic | (adjective) relating to or having the symptoms of cachexia | - |
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cachet | (noun) a seal on a letter | - |
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(noun) an indication of approved or superior status | Synonyms: seal, seal of approval |
(noun) a warrant formerly issued by a French king who could warrant imprisonment or death in a signed letter under his seal | Synonyms: lettre de cachet |
cachexia | (noun) any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease | Synonyms: cachexy, wasting |
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cachexy | (noun) any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease | Synonyms: cachexia, wasting |
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cachinnate | (verb) laugh loudly and in an unrestrained way | - |
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cachinnation | (noun) loud convulsive laughter | - |
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cachou | (noun) a scented lozenge used to sweeten the breath (e.g. to conceal the odor of tobacco) | - |
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cacique | (noun) black-and-red or black-and-yellow orioles of the American tropics | Synonyms: cazique |
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cackel | (verb) make a cackling sound | - |
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cackle | (noun) a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle | - |
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(noun) noisy talk | Synonyms: chatter, yack, yak, yakety-yak |
(noun) the sound made by a hen after laying an egg | - |
(verb) emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing | - |
(verb) squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens | - |
(verb) talk or utter in a cackling manner | - |
(verb) make a noise characteristic of a goose | Synonyms: gaggle |
cackler | (noun) a hen that has just laid an egg and emits a shrill squawk | - |
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(noun) any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song; in some classifications considered members of the family Muscicapidae | Synonyms: babbler |
cackly | (adjective) like the cackles or squawks a hen makes especially after laying an egg | Synonyms: squawky |
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cacodaemon | (noun) an evil spirit | Synonyms: cacodemon |
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cacodaemonic | (adjective) of or relating to evil spirits | Synonyms: cacodemonic |
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cacodemon | (noun) an evil spirit | Synonyms: cacodaemon |
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cacodemonic | (adjective) of or relating to evil spirits | Synonyms: cacodaemonic |
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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 |
cacodylic | (adjective) of or relating to cacodyl | - |
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cacoethes | (noun) an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action | Synonyms: mania, passion |
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cacogenesis | (noun) inability to produce hybrids that are both viable and fertile | - |
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cacogenic | (adjective) pertaining to or causing degeneration in the offspring produced | Synonyms: dysgenic |
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cacogenics | (noun) the study of the operation of factors causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced | Synonyms: dysgenics |
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cacography | (noun) poor handwriting | Synonyms: scratch, scrawl, scribble |
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cacomistle | (noun) raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings | Synonyms: Bassariscus astutus, bassarisk, cacomixle, civet cat, coon cat, miner's cat, raccoon fox, ring-tailed cat, ringtail |
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cacomixle | (noun) raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings | Synonyms: Bassariscus astutus, bassarisk, cacomistle, civet cat, coon cat, miner's cat, raccoon fox, ring-tailed cat, ringtail |
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cacophonic | (adjective) having an unpleasant sound | Synonyms: cacophonous |
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cacophonous | (adjective) having an unpleasant sound | Synonyms: cacophonic |
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cacophony | (noun) loud confusing disagreeable sounds | - |
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(noun) a loud harsh or strident noise | Synonyms: blare, blaring, clamor, din |
cactus | (noun) any succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World and usually having spines | - |
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cacuminal | (adjective) pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate | Synonyms: retroflex |
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