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  • caesalpinoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caesalpinoideae, a mainly tropical subfamily of leguminous plants that have irregular flowers: includes carob, senna, brazil, cassia, and poinciana
  • calycoideous — calycoid
  • camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
  • cancelpoodle — (messaging)   (Or Cancelbunny) A manifestation of the Cancelmoose in the form of a more selective (and probably not automated) way to cancel Usenet articles. The term became common during the alt.religion.scientology wars of the mid-90s, during which Cancelpoodles were used. The "poodle" part is an allusion to one of the parties obliquely involved in the fray, who an earlier well-known witticism had compared to "a psychotic poodle".
  • candleholder — a candlestick
  • cannonballed — Simple past tense and past participle of cannonball.
  • cape colored — a South African of mixed European and African or Malayan ancestry.
  • cape delgado — a headland on the NE coast of Mozambique
  • capped elbow — a swelling of the elbow of a horse due to irritation caused by the hoof striking the elbow when lying down.
  • carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
  • cardiomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
  • cardioplegia — deliberate arrest of the action of the heart, as by hypothermia or the injection of chemicals, to enable complex heart surgery to be carried out
  • carload rate — a special low rate for shipment by carloads
  • catalog code — the principles, rules, and regulations for entering and describing books or other library material in a catalog.
  • cathode glow — a luminous region between the Aston dark space and the Crookes dark space in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
  • cecil rhodes — Cecil John, 1853–1902, English colonial capitalist and government administrator in southern Africa.
  • cedrelaceous — resembling or having the characteristics of a citron fruit
  • centrolinead — a drafting instrument for drawing lines converging on a vanishing point outside the drawing.
  • cephalopodic — relating to or resembling a cephalopod
  • chalcogenide — a binary compound consisting of a chalcogen and at least one other electropositive element
  • child record — (database)   A record lower in the hierarchical tree than a parent record; it is also directly liked to the parent and hierarchical databases.
  • childproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of childproof.
  • chili powder — Chili powder is a very hot-tasting powder made mainly from dried chilies. It is used in cooking.
  • chiliahedron — a thousand-sided polyhedron
  • chloralamide — (chemistry) A compound of chloral and formic amide, used to induce sleep.
  • chloroformed — Simple past tense and past participle of chloroform.
  • chorus pedal — an electronic device that creates the effect of more than one sound from a single source by combining a short delay with slight deviations in pitch
  • chrysomelids — Plural form of chrysomelid.
  • cigar holder — a mouthpiece of wood, ivory, etc, used for holding a cigar while it is smoked
  • cinder block — A cinder block is a large grey brick made from coal cinders and cement which is used for building.
  • circumvolved — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvolve.
  • cladogenesis — adaptive evolution leading to a greater variety of species
  • cladogenetic — relating to cladogenesis
  • clam chowder — chowder containing clams
  • clapperboard — A clapperboard consists of two pieces of wood that are connected by a hinge and hit together before each scene when making a film, to make it easier to match the sound and pictures of different scenes.
  • class method — (programming)   1. A method that operates on a class object (an object of class "class"). A class method is really just an ordinary object method that happens to operate on class objects. A class method might, for example, return a list of objects representing the methods and attributes of the given class. 2. A static method.
  • claude monet — Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
  • clean bowled — bowled by a ball that breaks the wicket without hitting the batsman or his bat
  • cleidoic egg — egg of birds and insects
  • clerodendrum — any of numerous tropical trees or shrubs of the genus Clerodendrum, having clusters of variously colored flowers.
  • clipped form — a shortened form of a word, as for example doc for doctor
  • cloddishness — The quality of being cloddish.
  • close-fisted — very careful with money; mean
  • close-hauled — with the sails flat, so as to sail as close to the wind as possible
  • close-lipped — not talking or revealing much
  • close-reefed — having most or all of the sail reefs taken in.
  • closed chain — any structural arrangement, used in the models and formulas of molecules, consisting of a chain of atoms that forms a closed geometric figure; ring
  • closed cycle — a heat engine in which the working substance is continuously circulated and does not need replenishment
  • closed shell — (in atomic structure) a shell that contains the maximum number of electrons permitted by the exclusion principle.
  • closed union — a labor union in which admission of new members is restricted by rigid requirements.
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