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  • coelanaglyphic — (of pottery) decorated with sunken relief
  • coffee machine — a machine that makes coffee from ground coffee
  • coherent light — light in which the electromagnetic waves maintain a fixed and predictable phase relationship with each other over a period of time.
  • come down with — If you come down with an illness, you get it.
  • community home — a home provided by a local authority for children who cannot remain with parents or relatives, or be placed with foster parents
  • comprehendible — comprehensible
  • comprehensible — Something that is comprehensible can be understood.
  • comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • comprehensions — Plural form of comprehension.
  • comprehensives — Plural form of comprehensive.
  • conchyliaceous — Alternative form of conchylaceous.
  • coniferophytes — Plural form of coniferophyte.
  • container ship — A container ship is a ship that is designed for carrying goods that are packed in large metal or wooden boxes.
  • context switch — (operating system)   When a multitasking operating system stops running one process and starts running another. Many operating systems implement concurrency by maintaining separate environments or "contexts" for each process. The amount of separation between processes, and the amount of information in a context, depends on the operating system but generally the OS should prevent processes interfering with each other, e.g. by modifying each other's memory. A context switch can be as simple as changing the value of the program counter and stack pointer or it might involve resetting the MMU to make a different set of memory pages available. In order to present the user with an impression of parallism, and to allow processes to respond quickly to external events, many systems will context switch tens or hundreds of times per second.
  • controllership — an employee, often an officer, of a business firm who checks expenditures, finances, etc.; comptroller.
  • coppersmithing — The work of a coppersmith; the forging of copper.
  • coquettishness — The state or quality of being coquettish.
  • cotton thistle — Scotch thistle.
  • cough medicine — Cough medicine is liquid medicine that you take when you have a cough.
  • 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
  • counterweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweigh.
  • counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
  • counting house — a room or building used by the accountants of a business
  • cremnitz white — lead white.
  • crepe de chine — a very thin crepe of silk or a similar light fabric
  • crime fighting — the series of measures and actions taken by the forces of the law to combat crime
  • crimean gothic — a form of the Gothic language that survived in the Crimea after the extinction of Gothic elsewhere in Europe, known only from a list of words and phrases recorded in the 16th century.
  • cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
  • curtain speech — a talk given in front of the curtain after a stage performance, often by the author or an actor
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • cyberchondriac — A hypochondriac who researches his/her potential medical condition on the Internet.
  • cyproheptadine — a type of antihistamine drug used in the treatment of allergies
  • cytopathogenic — causing cytopathy
  • death instinct — the destructive or aggressive instinct, based on a compulsion to return to an earlier harmonious state and, ultimately, to nonexistence
  • dechlorination — the removal of chlorine from a substance
  • dechristianize — to make non-Christian
  • deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
  • dennis ritchie — (person)   Dennis M. Ritchie, co-author of the Unix operating system, inventor of the C programming language and demigod. See also K&R, Core War, If you want X, you know where to find it.
  • desynchronized — Simple past tense and past participle of desynchronize.
  • dichloroethane — a colourless toxic liquid compound that is used chiefly as a solvent. Formula: C2H4Cl2
  • dihydrocodeine — a synthetic drug similar to codeine, used as an analgesic, an antidiarrhoeal, and to relieve coughing, or used recreationally
  • dining kitchen — a room where meals are eaten and prepared
  • discount house — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
  • disenchantment — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
  • disenchantress — a woman who disenchants
  • disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
  • disinheritance — Law. to exclude from inheritance (an heir or a next of kin).
  • drainage ditch — a ditch that excess water drains into
  • drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
  • dutch medicine — patent medicine, esp made of herbs
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