English Words: C
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Destructive (lytic) metabolism or metabolization, usually including the release of energy and breakdown of materials.
The complete set of catabolites found in a biological sample; especially that found in a person's body under normal conditions, and when suffering from a disease
A misuse of a word; an application of a term to something which it does not properly denote.
The recharacterization of the present in terms of inexorable outcomes in the future.
One who believes that the most important geological phenomena were produced by cataclysms.
An underground system of tunnels and chambers with recesses for graves, used (in former times) as a cemetery; a tunnel system used for burying the dead, as in Paris or Ancient Rome.
Of or pertaining to optical systems that employ both reflective (catoptric) and refractive (dioptric) elements.
A city on the Nile river, a few miles above Aga-nagara; the site of the first cataract of the Nile.
An American dog of a breed traditionally used in hunting feral boars, usually muscular with a rectangular-shaped body and variegated coloration.
One of 64 parishes in Louisiana, cUSA, the equivalent of a county in other US states. Parish seat: Harrisonburg.
In combinatorial mathematics, any of a sequence of natural numbers that occur in various counting problems, often involving recursively defined objects; the nᵗʰ Catalan number is equal to (2n choose n) over (n+1).
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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 131. 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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