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  • calorimetry — measurement of the quantity of heat
  • camaraderie — Camaraderie is a feeling of trust and friendship among a group of people who have usually known each other for a long time or gone through some kind of experience together.
  • cambric tea — a hot drink of milk, sugar, and water or, often, weak tea
  • camel train — a series of camels tied in single file, used to transport goods or passengers
  • cameroonian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Republic of Cameroon or its inhabitants
  • camino real — a main road; highway.
  • campaigners — Plural form of campaigner.
  • campestrian — Relating to open fields; growing in a field, or open ground.
  • camphor ice — an ointment consisting of camphor, white wax, spermaceti, and castor oil, used to treat skin ailments, esp chapped skin
  • caramelized — Simple past tense and past participle of caramelize.
  • caramelizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of caramelize.
  • carbamidine — guanidine.
  • carbimazole — a drug that inhibits the synthesis of the hormone thyroxine, used in the management of hyperthyroidism
  • carbutamide — An antidiabetic drug.
  • carbylamine — any of a group of organic cyanides containing the radical NC
  • cardiectomy — excision of the heart.
  • carminative — able to relieve flatulence
  • cashierment — the action of rejecting or dismissing
  • cavalierism — the principles or practice of cavaliers
  • centigramme — Alternative spelling of centigram.
  • centimorgan — a unit of chromosome length, used in genetic mapping, equal to the length of chromosome over which crossing over occurs with 1 per cent frequency
  • ceramic hob — (on an electric cooker) a flat ceramic cooking surface having heating elements fitted on the underside, usually patterned to show the areas where heat is produced
  • ceramicists — Plural form of ceramicist.
  • cerebralism — the theory that physical phenomena arise from the action of the brain
  • ceremonials — Plural form of ceremonial.
  • chairwarmer — an office holder, committee member, or employee who is inactive and ineffective
  • chamberlain — A chamberlain is the person who is in charge of the household affairs of a king, queen, or person of high social rank.
  • chambermaid — A chambermaid is a woman who cleans and tidies the bedrooms in a hotel.
  • chamfer bit — a bit for beveling the edge of a hole.
  • champerties — Plural form of champerty.
  • charchemish — an ancient city in S Turkey, on the upper Euphrates: important city in the Mitanni kingdom; later the capital of the Hittite empire.
  • charientism — (rhetoric) A figure of speech wherein a taunting expression is softened by a jest; an insult veiled in grace.
  • chemigraphy — any technique for making engravings or etchings using chemicals and without the aid of photography.
  • chiromancer — A palm reader, one who practices chiromancy.
  • chloramines — Plural form of chloramine.
  • choirmaster — A choirmaster is a person whose job is to train a choir.
  • chrominance — the quality of light that causes the sensation of colour. It is determined by comparison with a reference source of the same brightness and of known chromaticity
  • cine camera — a camera in which a strip of film moves past the lens, usually to give 16 or 24 exposures per second, thus enabling moving pictures to be taken
  • cinemagoers — Plural form of cinemagoer.
  • clamdiggers — Close-fitting women’s casual pants hemmed at mid-calf.
  • clericalism — a policy of upholding the power of the clergy
  • clickstream — a record of the path taken by users through a website, enabling designers to access the use being made of their website
  • climacteric — a critical event or period
  • cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
  • comic opera — a play largely set to music, employing comic effects or situations
  • comic-opera — comically vainglorious; having farcically self-important aspects: a comic-opera army, proud in its ceremonial splendor but inept on the battlefield.
  • comisserate — Obsolete spelling of commiserate.
  • commercials — Plural form of commercial.
  • commiserate — If you commiserate with someone, you show them pity or sympathy when something unpleasant has happened to them.
  • commissaire — (in professional cycle racing) a referee who travels in an open-topped car with the riders to witness any infringement of the rules
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