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- counter-demand — to ask for with proper authority; claim as a right: He demanded payment of the debt.
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- counteractions — Plural form of counteraction.
- counterassault — a counterattack
- counterattacks — Plural form of counterattack; Alternative spelling of counter-attacks.
- counterbalance — To counterbalance something means to balance or correct it with something that has an equal but opposite effect.
- counterchanged — Exchanged.
- countercharged — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharge.
- countercharges — Plural form of countercharge.
- countercharmed — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharm.
- counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
- counterexample — an example or fact that is inconsistent with a hypothesis and may be used in argument against it
- counterfactual — expressing what has not happened but could, would, or might under differing conditions
- countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
- countermarched — Simple past tense and past participle of countermarch.
- countermarches — Plural form of countermarch.
- countermeasure — A countermeasure is an action that you take in order to weaken the effect of another action or a situation, or to make it harmless.
- counterparties — Plural form of counterparty.
- counterprogram — to schedule (a broadcast on radio or television) to compete with one on another station.
- 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
- counterstained — Simple past tense and past participle of counterstain.
- countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
- courageousness — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
- courier parent — a person who applies for residency in Canada with the aim of gaining residency for his or her offspring
- courting chair — a chair or small upholstered sofa for two persons.
- credit account — a credit system by means of which customers may obtain goods and services before payment
- criminal court — A criminal court is a law court that deals with criminal offences.
- crossing guard — school (crossing) guard
- cubic zirconia — a synthetic crystalline compound of zirconium oxide, fashioned to resemble diamonds, etc.
- cuisenaire rod — one of a set of rods of various colours and lengths representing different numbers, used to teach arithmetic to young children
- currant tomato — a Peruvian plant, Lycopersicum pimpinellifolium, of the nightshade family, having numerous bell-shaped, yellow flowers and small, currantlike, red fruit.
- curvaceousness — the quality of having an attractively curved figure
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
- custodian bank — A custodian bank is a bank that holds customer assets in safety.
- customer's man — registered representative.
- cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
- cyanoguanidine — dicyandiamide.
- cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
- cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
- decompoundable — able to be broken down into its component parts
- deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
- deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
- delta function — a generalized function having the value 0 except at 0, the value infinity at 0, and an integral from minus infinity to plus infinity of 1, used in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
- discolouration — (UK) alternative spelling of discoloration.
- discontinuance — the act or state of discontinuing or the state of being discontinued; cessation: the discontinuance of a business.
- discountenance — to disconcert, embarrass, or abash: With his composure, he survived every attempt to discountenance him.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
- documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
- documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.