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  • brigham young — Andrew (Jackson, Jr.) born 1932, U.S. clergyman, civil-rights leader, politician, and diplomat: mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, 1981–89.
  • cacographical — Synonym of cacographic.
  • card clothing — a very sturdy fabric with a leather or rubber fillet imbedded with wire teeth for disentangling and cleaning textile fibers, used to cover the rollers or flats of a carding machine.
  • cardiographic — (physiology) Of or pertaining to, or produced by, a cardiograph.
  • cash holdings — the assets that you hold in ready cash, as opposed to property, shares, bonds, etc
  • casting couch — a couch on which a casting director is said to seduce women seeking a part in a film or play
  • cervicography — a method of cervical screening in which the neck of the uterus is photographed to facilitate the early detection of cancer
  • chaise longue — A chaise longue is a kind of sofa with only one arm and usually a back along half its length.
  • chaise lounge — A chaise lounge is the same as a chaise longue.
  • chang tso-lin — 1873–1928, Chinese general: military ruler of Manchuria 1918–28.
  • changchiak'ou — Zhangjiakou.
  • changing room — A changing room is a room where you can change your clothes and usually have a shower, for example at a sports centre.
  • changing tone — cambiata.
  • changing-note — cambiata.
  • charing cross — a district of London, in the city of Westminster: the modern cross (1863) in front of Charing Cross railway station replaces the one erected by Edward I (1290), the last of twelve marking the route of the funeral procession of his queen, Eleanor
  • chart-topping — very popular; coming top in the charts
  • chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
  • chicago ridge — a town in NE Illinois.
  • chicago steak — a strip steak or, sometimes, a shell steak.
  • chicago style — a style of jazz flourishing in Chicago especially in the early 1920s, constituting a direct offshoot of New Orleans style, and differing from its predecessor chiefly in the diminished influence of native folk sources, the greater tension of its group improvisation, the increased emphasis on solos, and the regular use of the tenor saxophone as part of the ensemble.
  • chirographist — a person who studies or who is knowledgeable about handwriting styles
  • chlorargyrite — a mineral, the naturally occurring form of silver chloride, formed in the oxidation process of silver
  • cholangiogram — an X-ray of the bile duct performed after administering dye into the ducts that shows up on the X-ray
  • choreographic — Choreographic means relating to or connected with choreography.
  • chronographic — a timepiece fitted with a recording device, as a stylus and rotating drum, used to mark the exact instant of an occurrence, especially in astronomy.
  • chronological — If things are described or shown in chronological order, they are described or shown in the order in which they happened.
  • chthonophagia — (disease) A disease characterized by the impulsive consumption of dirt, observed in some parts of the southern United States as well as the West Indies.
  • cinematograph — a combined camera, printer, and projector
  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • climatography — an account of a region's climate
  • coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
  • cohomological — of or relating to cohomology
  • colleagueship — workplace companionship
  • collieshangie — a quarrel
  • conchological — Of or pertaining to conchology.
  • copyrightable — the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 70 years after his or her death.
  • core handling — Core handling is the way that a core is dealt with to make sure it maintains its properties for testing.
  • coronagraphic — Of, pertaining to, or employing a coronagraph.
  • cough and die — (jargon)   barf. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight. "The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died." Compare die, die horribly, scream and die.
  • court hearing — an official meeting held in court
  • crosshatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
  • cryptographic — Relating to cryptography.
  • dancing shoes — shoes worn by dancers
  • das rheingold — an opera by Wagner (1869), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
  • demographical — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
  • demothballing — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
  • depathologize — (transitive) To cease to treat as a medical disorder.
  • dephlegmation — the act of dephlegmating
  • dermographism — dermatographia.
  • diphthongally — in a diphthongal manner
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