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- bunkering — a large bin or receptacle; a fixed chest or box: a coal bunker.
- buttering — the fatty portion of milk, separating as a soft whitish or yellowish solid when milk or cream is agitated or churned.
- cage bird — a pet bird kept in a cage
- cagebirds — Plural form of cagebird.
- cambering — a slight arching, upward curve, or convexity, as of the deck of a ship.
- cambridge — city in E Mass., across the Charles River from Boston: pop. 101,000
- campering — a person who camps out for recreation, especially in the wilderness.
- cankering — a gangrenous or ulcerous sore, especially in the mouth.
- cantering — an easy gallop.
- careening — Present participle of careen.
- careering — an occupation or profession, especially one requiring special training, followed as one's lifework: He sought a career as a lawyer.
- caregiver — A caregiver is someone who is responsible for looking after another person, for example, a person who has a disability, or is ill or very young.
- caressing — an act or gesture expressing affection, as an embrace or kiss, especially a light stroking or touching.
- carpeting — You use carpeting to refer to a carpet, or to the type of material that is used to make carpets.
- carriages — Plural form of carriage.
- carrigeen — Alternative form of carrageen.
- cartilage — Cartilage is a strong, flexible substance in your body, especially around your joints and in your nose.
- cartridge — A cartridge is a metal or cardboard tube containing a bullet and an explosive substance. Cartridges are used in guns.
- castering — a person or thing that casts.
- categoric — Categoric means the same as categorical.
- cellaring — Present participle of cellar.
- censoring — any person who supervises the manners or morality of others.
- censuring — strong or vehement expression of disapproval: The newspapers were unanimous in their censure of the tax proposal.
- centering — a temporary frame to support an arch or vault during construction
- centigram — one hundredth of a gram
- ceropegia — any of various, usually climbing or trailing, plants of the genus Ceropegia, native to the Old World tropics and often cultivated as houseplants.
- chagrined — If you are chagrined by something, it disappoints, upsets, or annoys you, perhaps because of your own failure.
- chernigov — a city in N central Ukraine, on the River Desna: tyres, pianos, consumer goods. Pop: 308 000 (2005 est)
- cheruping — Present participle of cherup.
- chirurgie — (archaic) surgery.
- cigarette — Cigarettes are small tubes of paper containing tobacco which people smoke.
- cigarlike — resembling a cigar
- ciguatera — food poisoning caused by a ciguatoxin in seafood
- cindering — Present participle of cinder.
- ciphering — calculating
- cisgender — of or relating to a person whose gender identity corresponds to their assigned birth gender
- citigrade — relating to (fast-moving) wolf spiders
- clavering — Present participle of claver.
- clearings — Plural form of clearing.
- clearwing — any moth of the family Sesiidae (or Aegeriidae), characterized by the absence of scales from the greater part of the wings. They are day-flying and some, such as the hornet clearwing (Sesia apiformis), resemble wasps and other hymenopterans
- clergical — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to the clergy; clerical; learned.
- clerkling — a young or inexperienced clerk
- cockering — Present participle of cocker.
- coffering — a box or chest, especially one for valuables.
- coleridge — Samuel Taylor. 1772–1834, English Romantic poet and critic, noted for poems such as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), Kubla Khan (1816), and Christabel (1816), and for his critical work Biographia Literaria (1817)
- compering — a host, master of ceremonies, or the like, especially of a stage revue or television program.
- concierge — (Britain) One who attends to the maintenance of a building and provides services to its tenants and visitors.
- configure — If you configure a piece of computer equipment, you set it up so that it is ready for use.
- congeries — a collection of objects or ideas; mass; heap
- consigner — a person or company that consigns goods, merchandise, etc.