English words: culicomorph to cumber ground
300 English words, part 187 of 202 of the words starting with C, A to Z. 41 have a page of their own.
English words culicomorph to cumber ground
- culicomorph noun: Any insect in the infraorder Culicomorpha, which includes mosquitos, blackflies, and many types of midges
- culifolin noun: The carboxylic acid (E)-3-[2,2-dimethyl-8-(3-methylbut-2-enyl)chromen-6-yl]prop-2-enoic acid present in propolis
- culilawan noun: An aromatic bark from the tree of species Cinnamomum culilawan.
- culinarian adjective, noun: A chef.
- culinarily adverb: In a culinary context.
- culinarily challenged adjective: Unable to cook.
- culinary adjective /ˈkʌlɪn(ə)ɹi/: Relating to the practice of cookery or the activity of cooking.
- culinary art noun: The art of cooking, generally.
- culinary artist noun: A practitioner of culinary art.
- culinary linguistics noun: A sub-branch of applied linguistics that is the study of food and language across various interdisciplinary fields.
- culinology noun: The blending of the culinary arts, food science, and food technology.
- Culkin proper noun: A surname from Irish.
- cull noun, verb /kʌl/: To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
- cullable adjective: Capable of being culled.
- cullage noun: That which is culled; material cut off.
- Cullen proper noun /ˈkʌlən/: A village and former royal burgh in Moray council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ5167).
- Cullen number noun: A natural number of the form n·2ⁿ+1.
- Cullen prime noun: A Cullen number that is prime.
- Cullen skink noun /ˌkʌlən ˈskɪŋk/: A thick soup made of smoked finnan haddock, milk, onions, and potatoes, a local speciality of Cullen in Moray, Scotland.
- Cullen stone noun: A form of black lava quarried in the Rhine Valley and used for millstones.
- cullender noun: Alternative form of colander.
- Cullenian adjective: Of or relating to William Cullen (1710–1790), Scottish physician, chemist and agriculturalist.
- Cullenmancer noun: A player who romances Cullen Rutherford during a playthrough of Dragon Age: Inquisition.
- Cullens proper noun: A surname
- culler noun /ˈkʌl.ə/: An inspector who selects wares suitable for market.
- Cullercoats proper noun: A coastal settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3671).
- Cullerian adjective: Of or relating to Jonathan Culler (born 1944), Professor of English who has published works on structuralism and literary theory.
- cullet noun /ˈkʌlɪt/: Scrap glass which is melted down for reuse.
- Culley proper noun: A surname from Irish.
- cullibility noun: Gullibility.
- cullible adjective: Easily deceived; gullible.
- Culliford proper noun: A surname.
- Culligan proper noun: A surname.
- Cullimore proper noun: A surname.
- cullin noun: Any of a family of proteins that have a role in protein degradation and ubiquitinylation
- Cullinan proper noun: A surname from Irish.
- Cullinane proper noun: A surname from Irish.
- culling noun, verb /ˈkʌlɪŋ/: The act by which things are culled; the process of selecting for acceptance or removal.
- cullingey noun: An obsolete unit of mass used in Karnataka state, India, equal to approximately 5.26 grams.
- Cullingworth proper noun: A village and civil parish with a village council in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0636).
- cullion noun /ˈkʌl.jən/: Synonym of testicle.
- cullionly adjective: mean, worthless, vulgar or otherwise inferior.
- cullis noun /ˈkʌlɪs/: A gutter in a roof.
- Cullison proper noun: A surname.
- Culliton proper noun: A surname from Irish.
- Cullman proper noun: A city, the county seat of Cullman County, Alabama, United States.
- Culloden proper noun: A village in Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NH7246). The Battle of Culloden took place on Culloden Moor nearby.
- Cullom proper noun: A surname.
- Cullompton proper noun /ˈkʌləmptən/: A town and civil parish with a town council in Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref ST0107).
- cullud adjective: Pronunciation spelling of coloured.
- cullud pusson noun: A colored person (one with black skin).
- cullum noun: Alternative form of coolung.
- Cullum number noun: A reference and identification number assigned to each West Point graduate.
- cully noun, verb /ˈkʌli/: A person who is easily tricked or imposed on; a dupe, a gullible person.
- cullyism noun: gullibility
- culm noun /ˈkʌlm/: Waste coal, used as a poor quality fuel.
- culmacanthid noun: Any fish in the family †Culmacanthidae.
- culmen noun: Top; summit.
- Culmer proper noun: A surname.
- culmicolous adjective: Growing on the culm or stalk of grasses.
- culmiferous adjective: Containing, or abounding in, culm or glance coal.
- culminal adjective: Pertaining to, or found on a culmen.
- culminant adjective: being vertical, or at the highest point of altitude
- culminate adjective, verb /ˈkʌl.mɪ.neɪt/: Of a heavenly body, to be at the highest point, reach its greatest altitude.
- culmination noun /ˌkʌl.mɪˈneɪ.ʃən/: The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavenly body; passage across the meridian; transit.
- culminativity noun: The property of having one main stress per word.
- culminicorn noun: A horny piece on a bird's beak that envelopes the culmen in some bird species, such as mollymawks.
- culmy adjective /ˈkʌlmi/: Resembling or characteristic of culm (a type of coal).
- culo noun: ass
- culotted adjective: Dressed in culottes.
- culottes noun /kjuːˈlɒts/: A type of loose shorts which look like a skirt; a divided skirt.
- Culp proper noun: A surname.
- culpa noun /ˈkʊlpə/: Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of...
- culpa lata noun: Gross negligence.
- culpa levis noun: A slight fault.
- culpability noun /ˌkʌlpəˈbɪləti/: The degree of one's blameworthiness in the commission of a crime or offence.
- culpable adjective /ˈkʌlpəbəl/: Meriting condemnation, censure or blame, especially as something wrong, harmful or injurious; blameworthy, guilty.
- culpable homicide noun: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see culpable, homicide.
- culpable negligence noun: Gross negligence subject to criminal liability.
- culpableness noun: The state or quality of being culpable.
- culpably adverb: In a culpable manner.
- culpatory adjective: Expressing blame; censuring.
- culpe noun: blameworthiness; fault
- culpeo noun /kʊlˈpeɪ.əʊ/: A canid of species (Lycalopex culpaeus), native to the Andes region of South America.
- Culpeper proper noun /ˈkʌlpɛpə(ɹ)/: A surname.
- Culpepper proper noun: A surname.
- Culpin proper noun: A surname.
- culprit noun /ˈkʌlpɹɪt/: The person or thing at fault for a problem or crime.
- culrage noun: smartweed
- Culross proper noun: A village in Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9886).
- culsageeite noun: A variety of jefferisite from Culsagee, North Carolina.
- Culshaw proper noun: A surname.
- cult adjective, noun /kʌlt/: The veneration, devotion, and religious rites given to a deity (especially in a historical polytheistic context), or (in a Christian context) to a saint; a...
- cult archaeology noun: Synonym of pseudoarchaeology.
- cult film noun: A film that has acquired a cult following.
- cult follower noun: A person who is part of a cult following.
- cult following noun: A group of fans who are highly dedicated to a specific area of culture.
- cult hero noun: A public figure who is popular despite limited success and/or talent.
- cult hit noun: Something (almost always a film, book, song, etc.) which is very popular among a specific, narrow audience.
- cult-like adjective: Alternative form of cultlike.
- cult of personality noun: A situation where a leader (often a dictator) has been idolized and made into a national or group icon and is revered as a result.
- cult stock noun: A stock in a failing company whose price per share is inappropriately high because the company used to be a market leader or previously had a well-known...
- cultbuster noun: One who attempts to destroy a cult or cults.
- cultch noun: Alternative spelling of culch
- cultdom noun: The state of being cult.
- culte du moi noun: The cult of the ego; ego worship.
- culteranismo noun: A literary style during the Baroque period of Spain, characterized by a very ornamental, ostentatious vocabulary and a message that is complicated by a sea...
- cultic adjective: ritual, relating to cult (religious ritual)
- cultically adverb: In a cultic way.
- cultiform noun: A cultivated form of a species or variety.
- cultigen noun /ˈkʌl.tɪ.d͡ʒɛn/: A plant that has been deliberately altered or selected by humans, that is it has resulted from artificial rather than natural selection.
- cultigenic adjective: Relating to a cultigen.
- cultigroup noun: A formal taxonomic category for assembling cultivars, individual plants or assemblages of plants on the basis of defined similarity, formerly denoted by...
- cultimulch verb: To simultaneously cultivate and mulch agricultural soil
- cultimulcher noun: An agricultural machine that cultimulches
- cultipack verb: To compress soil with a cultipacker.
- cultipacker noun: A piece of agricultural equipment that crushes dirt clods, removes air pockets, and presses down small stones, forming a smooth, firm seedbed.
- cultirostral adjective: Having a bill shaped like the coulter of a plough, or like a knife.
- cultishly adverb: In a cultish manner.
- cultishness noun: The property of being cultish.
- cultism noun: The system or practice of a cult.
- cultispecies noun: A species that is part of a culture (of cells, tissue etc)
- cultist noun /ˈkʌltɪst/: A member of a cult.
- cultivability noun: The quality or degree of being cultivable.
- cultivable adjective: Capable of being cultivated or farmed.
- cultivage noun: The art or act of cultivating; cultivation.
- cultivar noun /ˈkʌltɪvɑɹ/: A cultivated (not necessarily botanical) variety of a plant species or hybrid of two species.
- cultivatability noun: cultivability
- cultivatable adjective: cultivable.
- cultivate verb /ˈkʌltɪveɪt/: To grow plants, notably crops.
- cultivated adjective, verb /ˈkʌltɪveɪtɪd/: Of a person, cultured, refined, educated.
- cultivated mushroom noun: Synonym of button mushroom.
- cultivation noun /ˌkʌltɪˈveɪʃən/: Tillage: plowing, sowing and raising crops.
- cultivation theory noun: The theory that people who are regularly exposed to mass media eventually come to perceive the world's social realities as presented by the media, affecting...
- cultivational adjective: Relating to cultivation.
- cultivator noun: Any of several devices used to loosen or stir the soil, either to remove weeds or to provide aeration and drainage.
- cultivatorship noun: The state of being a cultivator.
- cultlike adjective: Resembling a cult.
- cultorist noun: A writer in the culteranismo literary style.
- Cultra proper noun: A suburban area near Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland (Irish grid ref J 4080).
- cultrate adjective: Sharp-edged and pointed; shaped like a pruning knife
- cultrated adjective: cultrate
- cultriform adjective: Shaped like a pruning knife; cultrate.
- cultship noun: The state or condition of a cult.
- culturability noun: The quality or degree of being culturable.
- culturable adjective: Able to be cultured (grown in a suitable environment)
- culturacide noun: Alternative form of culturicide.
- culturagram noun: A graphical representation of various aspects of an individual's or family's culture, used in social work.
- cultural adjective /ˈkʌl.tʃ(ʊ.)ɹəl/: Pertaining to culture.
- cultural anthropologist noun: An anthropologist who specializes in cultural anthropology.
- cultural anthropology noun /ˌkʊltʃəɹəl ˌænθɹəˈpɑlədʒi/: The field of anthropology that studies human behavior, culture, and social interaction; one of four commonly recognized fields of anthropology.
- cultural appropriation noun /ˈkʌlt͡ʃ(ə)ɹəl əˌpɹoʊpɹiˈeɪʃən/: The (often financially) exploitative, oppressive and/or inaccurate cooption of elements of one culture by members of a different culture, often of those...
- cultural appropriator noun: One who engages in cultural appropriation.
- cultural arbitrary noun: arbitrary cultural constructions and beliefs that exist in the unconscious of an individual belonging to a culture
- cultural Bolshevik noun: Someone accused of cultural Bolshevism.
- cultural Bolshevism noun: Culture, and art in particular, that the Nazi party considered to be undesirable or degenerate (entartet) and undermining (zersetzen) the völkisch ideology...
- cultural capital noun: The social assets of a person, such as education, intellect, style of speech or dress, etc. that promote social mobility.
- cultural center noun: An organization, building or complex that promotes culture and arts.
- cultural centre noun: Alternative spelling of cultural center.
- cultural Christian noun: A person who is not a religious believer but appreciates and often accommodates Christian cultural values (e.g., Christlike service to others and humility)....
- cultural cringe noun: In Australia, a formerly widespread belief that Australian cultural works, especially in literature and the arts, were inferior to those produced in Britain...
- cultural diffusion noun: the spread and adoption of a culture in a region
- cultural divide noun: A difference between the customs and beliefs of different cultures or subcultures.
- cultural ecology noun: A geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships.
- cultural evolutionism noun: Following of cultural evolution.
- cultural genocide noun: Culturicide.
- cultural identity noun: An identity or feeling of belonging to a group.
- cultural imperialism noun: The imposition of a dominant nation's culture onto a nondominant nation, often through the export of cultural products such as film and music.
- cultural learning noun: The method by which a society imparts and acquires information, with learning styles often shaped by how a culture engages with its youth.
- cultural literacy noun: Knowledge of and ability to discuss the history of and major concepts underlying a culture, particularly one's own and those of one's peers.
- cultural marxism noun: Marxist analysis applied to culture and cultural phenomena.
- cultural mosaic noun: A mix of ethnic groups, languages, and cultures that coexist within a society.
- cultural patrimony noun: Objects possessing continuing cultural, traditional, or historical importance to the heritage of a group, particularly those considered inalienable by the...
- cultural pessimism noun: An attitude that sees sociocultural changes (in general or in the present situation) as predominantly tending towards a less moral, less constructive, or...
- cultural phylogenetics noun: The use of techniques from phylogenetics to study the evolutionary history of relationships between humans and between groups of humans, as well as of...
- cultural practitioner noun: One who demonstrates and interprets cultural practices to people from other cultures, often as a means of cultural preservation.
- cultural script noun: A person's set of behaviors for interacting with others in certain situations according to cultural norms.
- cultural shock noun: Synonym of culture shock (its previous form)
- cultural studies noun: A diverse field of study which examines representations of culture through a variety of academic theories.
- cultural victory noun: The triumph of one entity, idea, or person, at the cost of all rivals, especially in the realm of popular culture.
- cultural wealth noun: The collection of arts, architecture, etc. that help to define the culture of a region.
- Cultural Zionism noun: A strain of Zionism focused on creating a center in historic Palestine with its own secular Jewish culture and national history.
- culturalisation noun: Alternative form of culturalization.
- culturalise verb: Alternative form of culturalize.
- culturalism noun: A belief system that emphasizes the role of culture.
- culturalist noun: One who subscribes to culturalism.
- culturalistic adjective: Of or relating to culturalism.
- culturality noun: The quality of being cultural.
- culturalization noun: The process of culturalizing.
- culturalize verb: To adapt to the norms of a particular culture.
- culturalizer noun: One who culturalizes.
- culturally adverb: In a cultural way.
- culturally appropriate verb: To engage in cultural appropriation.
- culturally appropriative adjective: Characteristic of cultural appropriation.
- culturalness noun: The quality of being cultural.
- culturati noun /ˌkʌlt͡ʃəˈɹɑti/: Well-educated people who are interested in cultural activities.
- culturcidal adjective: Alternative form of culturicidal.
- culturcide noun: Alternative form of culturicide.
- culture noun, verb /ˈkʌlt͡ʃə/: The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.
- culture-bound adjective: Confined to a specific human culture.
- culture-fair adjective: Free from biases that would give people from certain cultures a greater chance of success.
- culture god noun: A god that is believed to have brought culture (arts, literature, technology, etc.) to a people.
- culture hero noun: A mythical character or real person who is renowned as the exemplar of the values or achievements of a society, group, or time period.
- culture-historical adjective: Of or relating to an archaeological theory that emphasizes defining historical societies into distinct ethnic and cultural groupings according to their...
- culture-jack verb: To appropriate aspects of popular culture for commercial purposes.
- culture jamming noun: Any of various methods of modifying mass media (especially advertisements) to convey a different message.
- culture maker noun: Alternative form of culturemaker.
- culture medium noun: A liquid or gel, containing nutrients, that is used to cultivate microorganisms.
- culture of death noun: In contemporary cultural discourse, a culture asserted to be inconsistent with the concept of a "culture of life," such as cultures that support...
- culture shock noun /ˈkʰʌlt͡ʃʰɚ ʃɑːk/: A state of anxious confusion experienced by someone exposed to an alien or unfamiliar environment.
- culture victory noun: Alternative form of cultural victory.
- culture vulture noun /ˈkʌlt͡ʃə ˌvʌlt͡ʃə/: A person with a rapacious, sometimes inauthentic, interest in the arts.
- culture war noun: A political struggle for control over cultural institutions.
- culture warrior noun: One engaged in a culture war.
- culturecidal adjective: Alternative form of culturicidal.
- culturecide noun: Alternative form of culturicide.
- cultured adjective, verb /ˈkʌlt͡ʃɚd/: Learned in the ways of civilized society; civilized; refined.
- cultured meat noun: Meat that is grown in cell culture instead of being produced by slaughtering animals.
- cultured stone noun: An engineered stone replacement product, composed of polyester resin with embedded stone dust, and dyes to make the plastic resin composite appear like the...
- culturedly adverb: In a cultured manner.
- culturedness noun: The state or condition of being cultured.
- cultureful adjective: Focused on culture.
- culturejack verb: Alternative form of culture-jack.
- cultureless adjective: Devoid of culture.
- culturelessly adverb: Without culture.
- culturelessness noun: Absence of culture.
- culturelike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of culture.
- culturemaker noun: one involved in the formulation of culture and socialization, especially celebrities, artists and those involved in a medium.
- cultureme noun: A segmentable unit of culture.
- culturescape noun: Cultural context.
- cultureshed noun: A region felt to have close cultural affinities and relations.
- culturette noun: A swab used to collect bacterias cultures from the skin
- cultureware noun: glassware and other equipment used in the culture of cells or tissue
- culturewide adjective, adverb: Throughout a culture.
- culturewise adjective: In terms of culture.
- culturgen noun: One of the propagating mutating cultural units that form the subject of memetics.
- culturicidal adjective /kʌlˈt͡ʃʊəɹɪˌsaɪdəl/: Destroying a culture.
- culturicide noun /kʌlˈt͡ʃʊəɹɪˌsaɪd/: The systematic destruction of a culture, particularly one unique to a specific ethnicity, or a political, religious, or social group.
- culturing noun, verb: An act or an instance of growing or maintaining a culture (especially of bacteria).
- culturism noun: A trend or tendency to promote one culture over the other cultures.
- culturist adjective, noun: One who raises or cultures something; a cultivator.
- culturization noun: The process of culturizing.
- culturize verb: To adapt to the rules or norms of a culture; to make cultural.
- culturo-scientific adjective: Pertaining or related to culture and science; cultural and scientific.
- culturocidal adjective: Killing or destroying a culture.
- culturocide noun: Alternative form of culturicide.
- culturohistorical adjective: Pertaining to cultural history.
- culturohistorically adverb: In culturohistorical terms.
- culturological adjective: Relating to culturology.
- culturologically adverb: In terms of culturology.
- culturologist noun: One who studies culturology.
- culturology noun: A branch of social sciences concerned with the scientific description and analysis of cultures as a whole.
- culturome noun: All the bacterial cultures of an organism
- culturomic adjective: Relating to culturomics.
- culturomics noun: A form of computational lexicology that studies human behavior and cultural trends through the quantitative analysis of digitized texts.
- culturopolitical adjective: Pertaining to culture and politics.
- cultus noun /ˈkʌl.təs/: Established or accepted religious rites or customs of worship; state of religious development.
- cultus cod noun /ˈkʌl.təs ˈkɑd/: Synonym of lingcod (Ophiodon elongatus).
- culty adjective /ˈkʌlti/: Resembling a cult.
- -culum suffix: Alternative form of -cule (diminutive suffix).
- -culus suffix: Alternative form of -cule (diminutive suffix).
- culver noun /ˈkʌlvə/: A dove or pigeon, now specifically of the species Columba palumbus.
- Culver's physic noun: Synonym of Culver's root.
- Culver's root noun: The root of the herb Veronicastrum virginicum, used as a cathartic and emetic.
- culverhouse noun: a dovecote, particularly a large one on an estate
- culverin noun /ˈkʌlvəɹɪn/: A kind of handgun.
- culverineer noun: The operator of a culverin.
- culvering noun: Alternative form of culverin.
- culverkey noun /ˈkʌlvə(ɹ)ki/: An English meadow plant, perhaps the columbine or the bluebell squill (Hyacinthoides non-scripta).
- culvert noun, verb /ˈkʌlvə(ɹ)t/: A channel crossing under a road or railway for the draining of water.
- culvertage noun: The degradation of a vassal to the position of a serf.
- culvertail noun: A dovetail joint.
- culvertailed adjective: dovetailed
- Culverwell proper noun: A surname from Old English.
- culverwort noun: common columbine (Aquilegia vulgaris).
- cum adjective, noun, preposition, verb /kʌm/: Used in indicating a thing or person which has two or more roles, functions, or natures, or which has changed from one to another.
- cum div. noun: Abbreviation of cum dividend.
- cum dividend adjective: Of a declared dividend, belonging to the buyer rather than the seller.
- cum drunk adjective: Alternative spelling of cumdrunk.
- cum-ex adjective: Being or relating to a tax fraud scheme in which traders buy shares cum dividend and sell them ex dividend, yielding above-normal profits.
- cum grano salis adverb: With a grain of salt; with a bit of common sense and skepticism.
- cum hoc ergo propter hoc noun: The logical fallacy of assuming that two events that occur at the same time have a cause-and-effect relationship.
- cum laude adverb /ˌkumˈlaʊdə/: With praise; an honor added to a diploma or degree for work that is above average.
- cum sports noun: Alternative form of cumsports.
- cumacean adjective, noun /kjuˈmeɪ.ʃən/: Any small marine crustacean of the order Cumacea, closely related to tanaidaceans.
- Cumae proper noun /ˈkjuːmi/: An ancient Greek, and then Roman, settlement near Naples famed for its sibyl.
- Cumaean adjective, noun /kjuːˈmiː.ən/: Of, from or relating to Cumae
- cumai noun: A construction method for brazing steel sheets together by sandwiching copper sheets between them and performing an ersatz forge weld, for making...
- cumaldehyde noun: Synonym of cuminaldehyde.
- Cuman noun /ˈk(j)uːmən/: A member of a nomadic Turkic people of central Asia who ruled parts of Eurasia and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages.
- Cumanagoto noun: A member of a Native American people of South America, whose territory originally extended over the ancient province of Nueva Andalucía (Cumaná and...
- cumaric adjective: Alternative form of coumaric.
- cumarin noun: Alternative form of coumarin.
- cumaru noun: Alternative form of coumarou.
- cumaryl noun: The radical 4-[(E)-3-hydroxyprop-1-enyl]-phenyl
- cumate noun: Any salt or ester of cumic acid
- Cumb proper noun: University of Cumbria, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.
- cumbent adjective /ˈkʌmbənt/: lying down, recumbent
- cumber noun, verb /ˈkʌmbə/: To slow down; to hinder; to burden; to encumber.
- cumber ground noun: Alternative spelling of cumberground.
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Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under C: 60,525 words, in 202 parts.