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  • corticonuclear — Of or pertaining to the cerebral cortex and the motor nuclei in the brainstem.
  • corticosterone — a glucocorticoid hormone secreted by the adrenal cortex. Formula: C21H30O4
  • corticotrophin — (hormone) adrenocorticotropic hormone.
  • cosi fan tutte — a comic opera (1790) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
  • cost of living — The cost of living is the average amount of money that people in a particular place need in order to be able to afford basic food, housing, and clothing.
  • cost-conscious — having an awareness of costs; careful about spending
  • cost-efficient — cost-effective.
  • cotransduction — the simultaneous transfer of multiple genes from one bacterium to another by a single bacteriophage
  • cottage window — a double-hung window with an upper sash smaller than the lower.
  • cotton batting — cotton wadding, as used in quilt making
  • cotton stainer — any of various heteropterous insects of the genus Dysdercus: serious pests of cotton, piercing and staining the cotton bolls: family Pyrrhocoridae
  • cotton thistle — Scotch thistle.
  • cotton-picking — Cotton-picking is used by some people to emphasize what they are saying.
  • cottonseed oil — a yellowish or dark red oil with a nutlike smell, extracted or expelled from cottonseed, used in cooking and in the manufacture of paints, soaps, etc
  • council estate — a housing development built by a local council
  • council of ten — the governing council of Venice from 1310 until its overthrow in 1797, composed originally of 10 and later 17 members.
  • council tenant — a tenant who rents a council house or council flat
  • count palatine — originally an official who administered the king's domains or his justice
  • counter-gambit — a countermove
  • counteractions — Plural form of counteraction.
  • counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
  • counterfeiters — Plural form of counterfeiter.
  • counterfeiting — the making of fraudulent copies; forgery
  • countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
  • counterparties — Plural form of counterparty.
  • counterpointed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterpoint.
  • counterpoising — Present participle of counterpoise.
  • countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
  • countersigning — Present participle of countersign.
  • countersinking — Present participle of countersink.
  • counterstained — Simple past tense and past participle of counterstain.
  • countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
  • counterweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweigh.
  • counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
  • counting house — a room or building used by the accountants of a business
  • country cousin — If you refer to someone as a country cousin, you think that they are unsophisticated because they come from the country.
  • country singer — a singer of country and western music
  • county council — A county council is an organization which runs local government in a county in Britain.
  • county cricket — (in Britain) cricket played between county teams competing in the county cricket championship
  • courier parent — a person who applies for residency in Canada with the aim of gaining residency for his or her offspring
  • court-bouillon — a stock made from root vegetables, water, and wine or vinegar, used primarily for poaching fish
  • courting chair — a chair or small upholstered sofa for two persons.
  • credit account — a credit system by means of which customers may obtain goods and services before payment
  • credit control — (in a business) the practice of maximizing revenue by making sure that customers are a good credit risk
  • cricoarytenoid — A muscle connecting the cricoid cartilage and arytenoid cartilage.
  • crimean gothic — a form of the Gothic language that survived in the Crimea after the extinction of Gothic elsewhere in Europe, known only from a list of words and phrases recorded in the 16th century.
  • criminal court — A criminal court is a law court that deals with criminal offences.
  • criminologists — Plural form of criminologist.
  • critical point — the point on a phase diagram that represents the critical state of a substance
  • cross matching — the testing for compatibility of a donor's and a recipient's blood prior to transfusion, in which serum of each is mixed with red blood cells of the other and observed for hemagglutination.
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