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  • clearing sale — the auction of plant, stock, and effects of a country property, esp after the property has changed hands
  • clearing-line — either of a pair of landmarks or marks on a mariner's chart lying upon a line (clearing line) along which a vessel can sail to avoid navigational hazards.
  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • climbing fern — any of several chiefly tropical, vinelike ferns of the genus Lygodium, having climbing or trailing stems.
  • climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
  • clinging vine — a woman who displays excessive emotional dependence on a man
  • clonogenicity — (uncountable) The ability of a cell to form clones.
  • close-fitting — Close-fitting clothes fit tightly and show the shape of your body.
  • close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
  • closing error — the amount by which a closed traverse fails to satisfy the requirements of a true mathematical figure, as the length of line joining the true and computed position of the same point.
  • closing price — On the stock exchange, the closing price of a share is its price at the end of a day's business.
  • cloud seeding — any technique of adding material to a cloud to alter its natural development, usually to increase or obtain precipitation.
  • coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
  • cobelligerent — a country fighting in a war on the side of another country
  • cobol fingers — (jargon)   /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
  • coco language — (language)   (Cocol) A language for writing left-attributed LL1 grammars, used as the input language for the Coco LL1 parser generator, which produces Modula-2 table-driven parsers as output. Cocol-2 is a version for the Coco-2 generator. Cocol/R is an improvement over the original Cocol and Cocol-2.
  • cogent prolog — (language)   A full Edinburgh standard Prolog with debugger, listener, DCG, many built-ins, text windows, support for modules, and support for both 16-bit and 32-bit protected mode. Contact: Dennis C. Merritt.
  • college-bound — intending to go to college
  • collieshangie — a quarrel
  • cologne brown — Vandyke brown.
  • complementing — something that completes or makes perfect: A good wine is a complement to a good meal.
  • complimenting — an expression of praise, commendation, or admiration: A sincere compliment boosts one's morale.
  • conflagrative — That produces conflagration.
  • congenialness — The state or quality of being congenial.
  • conglomerated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglomerate.
  • conglomerates — anything composed of heterogeneous materials or elements.
  • conglomeratic — of or relating to a conglomerate
  • conglomerator — a conglomerateur
  • conglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglutinate.
  • congratulable — worthy of congratulation
  • congratulated — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
  • congratulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of congratulate.
  • congressional — A congressional policy, action, or person relates to the United States Congress.
  • consanguineal — having the same ancestry or descent; related by blood.
  • consideringly — in a considering manner
  • contemplating — to think studiously; meditate; consider deliberately.
  • cooling tower — A cooling tower is a very large, round, high building which is used to cool water from factories or power stations.
  • coralligenous — producing coral
  • core handling — Core handling is the way that a core is dealt with to make sure it maintains its properties for testing.
  • coreligionist — an adherent of the same religion as another
  • cove lighting — indirect lighting directed upward from an interior cornice or the like toward a cove at the edge of the ceiling.
  • credentialing — Usually, credentials. evidence of authority, status, rights, entitlement to privileges, or the like, usually in written form: Only those with the proper credentials are admitted.
  • cross-selling — to sell or try to sell (similar or related products or services) to an existing customer.
  • cryogenically — in a cryogenic manner
  • curling stone — a large, heavy, ellipsoidal stone or a similar object made of iron, usually having one rough side and one smooth side with a hole in the center of each for screwing in a handle by which the stone is released, for use in the game of curling.
  • cyberbullying — Cyberbullying is the use of the Internet to frighten or upset someone, usually by sending them unpleasant messages.
  • cyberslacking — (informal) Use of the Internet during work hours for unrelated tasks.
  • cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
  • cycle billing — a method of billing customers at monthly intervals in which statements are prepared on each working day of the month and mailed to a designated fraction of the total number of customers.
  • cytogenetical — of or related to cytogenetics
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