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  • cape pigeon — a species of seagoing petrel, Daption capensis, with characteristic white wing patches: a common winter visitor off the coasts of southern Africa: family Diomedeidae
  • capernoited — capricious
  • capernoitie — the head
  • captionless — (of a cartoon) having no caption
  • cargo plane — a plane carrying cargo
  • cenospecies — a species related to another by the ability to interbreed
  • centipoises — Plural form of centipoise.
  • cephalothin — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
  • ceratopsian — resembling or belonging to the Ceratopsia, a suborder of herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns, and neck frills
  • chairperson — The chairperson of a meeting, committee, or organization is the person in charge of it.
  • championess — a female champion
  • channel-hop — to change television channels repeatedly using a remote control device
  • chaperonage — The state of being a chaperon.
  • chaperoning — a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
  • chaperonins — Plural form of chaperonin.
  • cheap money — money lent at a low rate of interest
  • check up on — to examine the record, character, etc. of; investigate
  • checkpoints — Plural form of checkpoint.
  • chenopodium — (botany) Any member of the flowering plant genus Chenopodium.
  • chicken pox — a disease, commonly of children, caused by the varicella zoster virus and characterized by mild headache and fever, malaise, and eruption of blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.
  • chimney pot — A chimney pot is a short pipe which is fixed on top of a chimney.
  • chiropteran — of, relating to, or belonging to the Chiroptera, an order of placental mammals comprising the bats
  • chloroprene — a colourless liquid derivative of butadiene that is used in making neoprene rubbers; 2-chloro-1,2-butadiene. Formula: CH2:CHCCl:CH2
  • chlorphenol — chlorophenol.
  • choke point — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
  • chokepoints — Plural form of chokepoint.
  • chordophone — any musical instrument producing sounds through the vibration of strings, such as the piano, harp, violin, or guitar
  • chronoscope — an instrument that registers small intervals of time on a dial, cathode-ray tube, etc
  • cinemascope — an anamorphic process of wide-screen film projection in which an image of approximately twice the usual width is squeezed into a 35mm frame and then screened by a projector having complementary lenses
  • clay pigeon — Clay pigeons are discs of baked clay which are thrown into the air by a machine as targets for gun shooting practice.
  • clean up on — to defeat; beat
  • cleptomania — kleptomania
  • closed plan — an office floor plan consisting of fully enclosed office spaces.
  • clothes-pin — a device, such as a forked piece of wood or plastic, for fastening articles to a clothesline.
  • clothespins — Plural form of clothespin.
  • codependent — A codependent person is in an unsatisfactory relationship with someone who is ill or an addict, but does not want the relationship to end.
  • coleopteran — any of the insects of the cosmopolitan order Coleoptera, in which the forewings are modified to form shell-like protective elytra. The order includes the beetles and weevils
  • coleopteron — a member of a large order of insects having the front wings modified as hard wing-cases, and comprising the beetles and weevils
  • colonoscope — an instrument for examining the colon, consisting of a flexible lighted tube that is inserted in the colon to look for abnormalities and to remove them or take tissue samples
  • colophonies — Plural form of colophony.
  • comeuppance — If you say that someone has got their comeuppance, you approve of the fact that they have been punished or have suffered for something wrong that they have done.
  • commonplace — If something is commonplace, it happens often or is often found, and is therefore not surprising.
  • compactness — joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid: compact soil.
  • compaginate — to join or unite
  • companiable — sociable
  • companioned — Simple past tense and past participle of companion.
  • companywide — Extending throughout a company.
  • compartment — A compartment is one of the separate spaces into which a railway carriage is divided.
  • compearance — the act of appearing in court
  • compendious — containing or stating the essentials of a subject in a concise form; succinct
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