English Words: C
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A surname from Irish anglicized from Ó Caiside (“descendant of Caiside”). Caiside is a byname from Irish cas (“curly”) meaning “curly-haired”.
A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, magnesium, nickel, oxygen, and phosphorus.
An equation describing the effective contact angle for a liquid on a chemically heterogeneous surface.
Ptychoramphus aleuticus, a small seabird that ranges widely in the North Pacific.
Peucaea cassinii, a medium-sized sparrow found from western Nebraska to north-central Mexico.
A plane curve defined as the set (or locus) of points in the plane such that the product of the distances to two fixed points is constant (related to an ellipse, for which the sum of the distances is constant).
Proud wife of Cepheus and mother of Andromeda, queen of Ethiopia. When she boasted that her beauty was equal to that of the Nereids, she was punished by Poseidon.
A stinging-cell structure, composed of a layer of mainly nematocytes surrounding a core of dinoflagellates, amoebocytes and mesoglea, expelled within mucus by Rhizostomeae jellyfish to sting (and in some cases kill) prey in the surrounding water.
A generally black mineral, composed of tin oxide, SnO₂, which is an important ore of tin.
A player who romances Cassandra Pentaghast during a playthrough of Dragon Age: Inquisition.
An item of clerical clothing: a long, sheath-like, close-fitting, ankle-length robe worn by clergy members of some Christian denominations.
A village, the county seat of Cass County, Michigan, United States, located mostly in LaGrange Township.
Any large flightless bird of the genus Casuarius that is native to Australia and New Guinea, has a characteristic bony crest on its head, and can be very dangerous.
A type of pungent, bitter, aromatic ginger, Zingiber montanum, now considered a synonym of Zingiber cassumunar, native to Southeast Asia and the Malayan peninsula.
An aporphine derivative isolated from Cassytha filiformis, with antiparasitic activity.
To provoke an uneasy feeling which stops a conversation, as by an uncalled act or word.
A hard and brittle, but strong, alloy of iron, carbon, and silicon, formed by casting in a mould.
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The English alphabetical index for the letter C contains 43,570 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 872 pages, and you are currently viewing page 124. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
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