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  • calcium blocker — any of a group of drugs that prevent the influx of calcium into excitable tissues such as smooth muscle of the heart or arterioles, used in the treatment of angina, hypertension, and certain arrhythmias.
  • calcium carbide — a grey salt of calcium used in the production of acetylene (by its reaction with water) and calcium cyanamide. Formula: CaC2
  • calcium citrate — the calcium salt of citric acid, used as a food additive
  • calcium cyanide — a white or grayish-black compound, Ca(CN) 2, used as an insecticide and rodent poison.
  • calcium lactate — a salt of lactic acid. Formula: Ca(C3H5O3)2·5H2O
  • calcium nitrate — a white, deliquescent solid, Ca(NO 3) 2 , used chiefly in the manufacture of fertilizers, fireworks, matches, and explosives.
  • calcium oxalate — a white, crystalline powder, CaC 2 O 4 , insoluble in water, used in making oxalic acid.
  • calcium sulfate — Calcium sulfate is a white crystalline salt, used as a tablet diluent.
  • calcium sulfide — a yellow to light-gray, slightly water-soluble powder, CaS, having the odor of rotten eggs when moist: used chiefly in the preparation of luminous paint, hydrogen sulfide, and as a depilatory in cosmetics.
  • camelback truss — a roof truss having upper and lower chords curving upward from a common point at each side.
  • camp counsellor — an adult supervisor assigned to a group of campers at a summer camp
  • canterbury lamb — New Zealand lamb exported chilled or frozen to the United Kingdom
  • cardinal number — A cardinal number is a number such as 1, 3, or 10 that tells you how many things there are in a group but not what order they are in. Compare ordinal number.
  • chamber counsel — a counsel who advises in private and does not plead in court
  • champagne flute — a tall, thin champagne glass
  • charles coulomb — Charles Augustin de [sharl oh-gy-stan duh] /ʃarl oʊ güˈstɛ̃ də/ (Show IPA), 1736–1806, French physicist and inventor.
  • chenopodium oil — a colorless or yellowish oil obtained from the seeds and leaves of Mexican tea, used chiefly in medicine as an agent for killing or expelling intestinal worms.
  • chromium-plated — having been plated with chromium
  • circumambiently — in a circumambient manner
  • circumambulated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumambulate.
  • circumambulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumambulate.
  • circumferential — of, at, or near the circumference; surrounding; lying along the outskirts.
  • circumnavigable — Able to be circumnavigated.
  • claims adjuster — A claims adjuster is someone who is employed by an insurance company to decide how much money a person making a claim should receive.
  • cleistogamously — in a cleistogamous manner
  • close communion — a communion service in which only members of the same denomination or the same church can participate.
  • clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
  • collenchymatous — Relating to collenchyma.
  • combustibleness — The state or quality of being combustible.
  • come up smiling — to recover cheerfully from misfortune
  • comma butterfly — an orange-brown European vanessid butterfly, Polygonia c-album, with a white comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
  • common multiple — an integer or polynomial that is a multiple of each integer or polynomial in a group
  • common shelduck — a large, brightly coloured gooselike duck of the Old World, Tadorna tadorna
  • communal aerial — a television or radio receiving aerial from which received signals are distributed by cable to several outlets
  • communicatively — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
  • communion plate — a flat plate held under the chin of a communicant in order to catch any fragments of the consecrated Host
  • communion table — (in a Christian church) the table at which people take communion
  • commutative law — a law asserting that the order in which certain logical operations are performed is indifferent.
  • compound flower — a flower head made up of many small flowers appearing as a single bloom, as in the daisy
  • conventual mass — the Mass celebrated daily in a convent church for all members of the conventual community.
  • core curriculum — a group of subjects that all students in a certain type of school or of a certain age must study
  • costume jewelry — Costume jewelry is jewelry made from cheap materials.
  • coulometrically — in a coulometric manner
  • council chamber — the room in which council meetings are held
  • counterclaimant — a claim made to offset another claim, especially one made by the defendant in a legal action.
  • counterclaiming — Present participle of counterclaim.
  • counterexamples — Plural form of counterexample.
  • countermandable — able to be countermanded
  • critical volume — the volume occupied by one mole or unit mass of a substance in its critical state
  • cry blue murder — to make an outcry
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