English Words: C

43,570 words · Page 166 of 872

Celikname

A surname from Turkish.

Celinaname

A female given name from Latin.

Celinaissancename

The period of rejuvenation of singer Celine Dion's popularity and singing career, since the 2010s.

Celindaname

A female given name originating as a coinage.

Celinename

A female given name from Latin.

celiohysterectomynoun

laparotomic hysterectomy

celivaronenoun

An experimental drug being tested for use in pharmacological antiarrhythmic therapy.

Celjename

A city and municipality in Styria, Slovenia.

cellnoun

A single-room dwelling for a hermit.

cell countnoun

The number of cells in a volume of liquid.

cell groupnoun

A collection of cells that work together to perform a specific, coordinated function within a multicellular organism.

cell phonenoun

A portable, wireless telephone, which changes antenna connections seamlessly during travel from one radio reception cell to another without losing the party-to-party call connection.

cell sapnoun

The liquid enclosed inside the vacuole of a plant cell.

cell therapynoun

cytotherapy.

cell upverb

To share a cell with someone.

cell wallnoun

A rigid, non-living structural layer located outside the cell membrane in certain cells, such as those of plants, fungi, bacteria, and some algae, providing support, shape, and protection.

cell yellnoun

The act of speaking loudly or yelling into a cell phone or mobile.

cell-adhesion moleculenoun

Any of a class of cell-surface proteins, typically glycoproteins, which enable and/or stabilize physical connections between cells or between a cell and an acellular material, such as an extracellular matrix

cell-freeadj

Lacking cells; not involving cells.

cellanoun

The central, enclosed part of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticos.

cellarnoun

An enclosed underground space, often under a building, used for storage or shelter.

cellar doornoun

A door leading to a cellar.

cellar dwellernoun

A team at the bottom of a league, or in a lower league.

cellar flapnoun

Synonym of double shuffle.

cellarableadj

Capable or worthy of being stored in a cellar.

cellaragenoun

The space or storerooms of a cellar.

cellaredadj

Provided with a cellar.

cellarernoun

The person, usually in a monastery, responsible for providing food and drink

cellaressnoun

A woman in charge of the cellar in a convent.

cellaretnoun

A deep, often metal-lined drawer in a sideboard used for storing wines and liquors.

cellarettenoun

A drinks cabinet

cellarfulnoun

Enough to fill a cellar.

cellariiformadj

Composed of colonies with jointed subcylindrical internodes of several zooids

cellaristnoun

A cellarer.

cellariumnoun

A cellar used for storage in an abbey.

cellarlessadj

Having no cellar (especially no wine cellar)

cellarlikeadj

resembling a cellar

cellarmannoun

A person in charge of the alcoholic drinks (traditionally the wine cellar) in a tavern etc.

cellarmasternoun

The person in charge of a wine cellar.

cellarousadj

Like or belonging to a cellar.

cellarwaynoun

A passage leading to a cellar.

cellaryadj

Characteristic of a cellar; musty, gloomy, etc.

cellblocknoun

A wing of a prison containing cells for the inmates.

cellboundadj

Confined to a prison cell.

cellconoun

A cellular telecommunications company.

Cellename

A town and rural district of Lower Saxony, Germany.

celledadj

Containing cells; cellular.

celleporiformadj

Multilaminate, made up of many single layers of roughly circular subcolonies of zooids.

cellerynoun

Obsolete spelling of celery.

cellevisionnoun

An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of visual images, and often sound, to wireless handheld electronic devices.

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