Select a letter for some words
Cad
A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards.
Caliduct
A pipe or duct used to convey hot air or steam.
Cancellation
The act, process, or result of canceling; .
Cannon
A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force.
Cannon
See .
Cantine
See .
Capitulate
To surrender or transfer, as an army or a fortress, on certain conditions.
Caple
See .
Carnate
Invested with, or embodied in, flesh.
cartonful
the quantity contained in a carton.
Cater-cousin
A remote relation. See .
Cat's-eye
A variety of quartz or chalcedony, exhibiting opalescent reflections from within, like the eye of a cat. The name is given to other gems affording like effects, esp. the chrysoberyl.
Cellule
A small cell.
Centipede
A species of the ; esp. the large, flattened, venomous kinds of the order , found in tropical climates. they are many-jointed, and have a great number of feet.
centrifuge
to drive out; to subject to the action of a centrifuge.
ceras
one of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the backs of nudibranchs and other related mollusks that serve as gills.
Cetologist
One versed in cetology.
Charm
To make music upon; to tune.
Chessel
The wooden mold in which cheese is pressed.
chewing
biting your food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow.
Chiliad
A thousand; the aggregate of a thousand things; especially, a period of a thousand years.
Chinch
The bedbug ().
Chirp
To make a shop, sharp, cheerful, as of small birds or crickets.
Chrysanthemum
A genus of composite plants, mostly perennial, and of many species including the many varieties of garden chrysanthemums (annual and perennial), and also the feverfew and the oxeye daisy.
Cion
See .
Circummure
To encompass with a wall.
Citrate
A salt of citric acid.
Clamatorial
Like or pertaining to the Clamatores.
Coacher
A coachman.
Cob
To strike
Codger
A miser or mean person.
Coilon
A testicle.
Collards
Young cabbage, used as greens; esp. the leaves of a kind cultivated for that purpose, the collard or colewort.
Collectional
Of or pertaining to collecting.
Columbic
Pertaining to, or containing, columbium or niobium; niobic.
Comber
One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc.
Combined
United closely; confederated; chemically united.
Competitory
Acting in competition; competing; rival.
Complexional
Of or pertaining to constitutional complexion.
Component
Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.
Comptometer
A calculating machine; an arithmometer.
Conciliabule
An obscure ecclesiastical council; a conciliable.
Conducible
Conducive; tending; contributing.
Conductibility
Capability of being conducted; .
Conformator
An apparatus for taking the conformation of anything, as of the head for fitting a hat, or, in craniometry, finding the largest horizontal area of the head.
Confutation
The act or process of confuting; refutation.
Conglobe
To gather into a ball; to collect into a round mass.
Congruous
Suitable or concordant; accordant; fit; harmonious; correspondent; consistent.
Connivent
Forbearing to see; designedly inattentive; .
Consentaneous
Consistent; agreeable; suitable; accordant to; harmonious; concurrent.
Considerate
Given to consideration or to sober reflection; regardful of consequences or circumstances; circumspect; careful; esp. careful of the rights, claims, and feelings of others.
Contrapuntal
Pertaining to, or according to the rules of, counterpoint.
Convexo-plane
Convex on one side, and flat on the other; plano-convex.
Cornice
Any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; .
Corpus
A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing.
Cotrustee
A joint trustee.
Counterpoise
To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.
Coussinet
A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch.
Covering
Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc.
crappy
of very poor quality.
Crate
A large basket or hamper of wickerwork, used for the transportation of china, crockery, and similar wares.
Creaght
To graze.
Crownpiece
A piece or part which passes over the head, as in a bridle.
Crumple
To contract irregularly; to show wrinkles after being crushed together; .
Culpon
A shred; a fragment; a strip of wood.
Cupidity
A passionate desire; love.
Curled
Having curls; curly; sinuous; wavy; .
Currycomb
To comb with a currycomb.
Cyanuric acid
an organic acid, , first obtained by heating acid or , and called ; afterwards obtained from . It is a white crystalline substance, odorless and almost tasteless; -- called also .