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  • cambridgeshire — a county of E England, in East Anglia: includes the former counties of the Isle of Ely and Huntingdon and lies largely in the Fens: Peterborough became an independent unitary authority in 1998. Administrative centre: Cambridge. Pop (excluding Peterborough): 571 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Peterborough): 3068 sq km (184 sq miles)
  • campaign chest — money collected and set aside for use in a campaign, especially a political one; a campaign fund.
  • carriage horse — a horse trained and groomed to draw carriages.
  • carriage house — coach house.
  • casinghead gas — natural gas obtained from an oil well.
  • catch sight of — to make out by means of the eyes; discern; see
  • changeableness — The condition of being changeable.
  • changelessness — The state or quality of being changeless.
  • characterising — Present participle of characterise.
  • charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
  • charles wright — Charles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
  • chauvinist pig — a sexist man
  • chicago school — a group of Chicago architects active between c1880 and c1910 and known for major developments in skyscraper design and for experiments in a modern architectural style appropriate especially to business and industrial buildings: two of the best-known members were Louis Sullivan and John Wellborn Root.
  • cholecystogram — the production of x-ray photographs of the gallbladder following administration of a radiopaque substance that is secreted by the liver into the gallbladder.
  • choreographers — Plural form of choreographer.
  • choreographies — Plural form of choreography.
  • christiansburg — a town in SW Virginia.
  • chromatic sign — Music. accidental (def 5).
  • clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
  • clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
  • cloister garth — garth (def 1).
  • clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
  • coaching glass — a small drinking glass of the early 19th century having no foot.
  • cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
  • cosmographical — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
  • costume change — a change of costume by an actor
  • cottage cheese — Cottage cheese is a soft, white, lumpy cheese made from sour milk.
  • countercharges — Plural form of countercharge.
  • countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
  • credit charges — the charges applied by credit card companies to customers buying goods on credit
  • cross matching — the testing for compatibility of a donor's and a recipient's blood prior to transfusion, in which serum of each is mixed with red blood cells of the other and observed for hemagglutination.
  • cross-hatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
  • cruising yacht — a yacht which is used for holiday trips
  • cryptographers — Plural form of cryptographer.
  • cryptographist — the science or study of the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods, and the like. Compare cryptanalysis (def 2).
  • crystal growth — Crystal growth is the process of making a crystal grow by continuing to remove a component from a solution.
  • cuyahoga falls — a city in NE Ohio, near Akron.
  • darning stitch — a stitch used in darning that imitates the texture of the fabric that is to be mended
  • daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
  • daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
  • daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
  • dead to rights — in an undeniably incriminating situation; red-handed
  • dehydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrogenate.
  • discharge head — The discharge head is the pressure at the discharge of a pump, measured as a height.
  • discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
  • discharge rate — The discharge rate is the rate at which a process produces waste or a product.
  • discharge tube — gas tube.
  • discographical — Of or pertaining to discography.
  • disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
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