English Words: C

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cackle-bladdernoun

A bladder containing (real or fake) blood, used to fake someone's death or injury, as in espionage or confidence tricks where a person is made to think that he is an accessory to murder.

cackle-fartnoun

A chicken's egg.

cackleberrynoun

An egg.

cacklernoun

A person or creature that cackles.

cacklinglyadv

While cackling; with a cackling sound.

cacklyadj

Resembling or characterised by cackling.

cacksverb

third-person singular simple present indicative of cack

cackyadj

Characterized by or pertaining to excrement.

caco-prefix

bad, defective

cacochylianoun

Defective formation or absorption of chyle.

cacochymianoun

A vitiated state of the humours, or bodily fluids.

cacochymicadj

Having the fluids of the body vitiated, especially the blood.

cacodaemonnoun

A wicked or malevolent spirit as opposed to agathodemon (a good spirit).

cacodaemoniacaladj

Demonic; evil.

cacodaemonicadj

daemonic

cacodemonnoun

An evil or malevolent spirit.

cacodemoniacadj

Demonic, evil.

cacodemonicadj

Demonic.

cacodemonomanianoun

The pathological belief that one is inhabited, or possessed, by an evil spirit or entity.

cacodorousadj

Having a bad smell.

cacodoxynoun

Incorrect doctrine or opinions.

cacodylnoun

The dimethylarsine radical (CH₃)₂As-

cacodylatenoun

Any salt or ester of cacodylic acid

cacodylicadj

Of or pertaining to cacodylic acid or its derivatives

cacodæmonnoun

Alternative spelling of cacodaemon.

cacodæmonicadj

Obsolete spelling of cacodaemonic.

cacoepistnoun

One who engages in cacoepy, especially frequently.

cacoepisticadj

Of or relating to mispronounced words.

cacoepynoun

The mispronunciation of words.

cacoethesnoun

Compulsion; mania.

cacoethicadj

Ill-conditioned, malignant; cacoethical.

cacoethicaladj

Ill-conditioned, malignant; cacoethic.

cacoethicallyadv

In a cacoethic (or cacoethical) manner.

cacoethicsnoun

Bad ethics or morals; bad habits.

cacogamynoun

any kind of socially unacceptable marriage

cacogastricadj

Troubled with bad digestion.

cacogenesisnoun

A morbid, monstrous, or pathological growth or product; an abnormality in structure; a monstrosity.

cacogenicadj

Of or relating to cacogenesis.

cacogenicsnoun

The aggregation of factors, through adverse sexual selection and reproduction, tending to promote inferior genetic characteristics in humans.

cacographynoun

Bad spelling or punctuation, especially unintuitive spellings considered as a feature of a whole language or dialect.

cacoletnoun

An open chair mounted to one side of a pack animal, balanced by another on the other side.

cacologynoun

Poor diction or choice of words.

cacomagicnoun

Magic used for unethical, wicked ends.

cacomagiciannoun

A practitioner of wicked magic; an evil sorcerer.

cacomistlenoun

Any of species Bassariscus sumichrasti or other arboreal relatives of racoons and other procyonids.

caconymnoun

An incorrect name for something, especially in taxonomic classification.

caconymousadj

Of, or pertaining to a caconym.

caconymynoun

The use of a caconym.

cacophemismnoun

dysphemism

cacophobianoun

The fear of ugliness or ugly people.

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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 8. 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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