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  • containerizing — Present participle of containerize.
  • contemporising — to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
  • contour flying — the technique of flying at a constant altitude of less than 22.8 metres (75 feet) above the ground.
  • conventiongoer — A person attending a convention.
  • copolymerizing — Present participle of copolymerize.
  • coppersmithing — The work of a coppersmith; the forging of copper.
  • coreligionists — Plural form of coreligionist.
  • cornucopia leg — a leg used on pieces in the Directoire and Empire styles, curving downward from the piece and curving upward again to a point and having a foot or caster at the lowest part of the curve.
  • counter-gambit — a countermove
  • counterfeiting — the making of fraudulent copies; forgery
  • countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • country singer — a singer of country and western music
  • courting chair — a chair or small upholstered sofa for two persons.
  • covering power — the maximum area of a scene that can be recorded with good definition by a particular lens.
  • 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.
  • criminological — the study of crime and criminals: a branch of sociology.
  • criminologists — Plural form of criminologist.
  • cross bridging — bridging composed of crisscross pieces of wood.
  • cross holdings — the holding of shares by one company in another company
  • 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.
  • cross training — training in two or more sports to improve performance, esp on one's main sport
  • cross-breeding — the process of causing animals to mate with another species, or of causing plants to reproduce with another species
  • cross-dressing — the wearing of clothes normally associated with the opposite sex
  • cross-hatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
  • cross-indexing — to provide with cross references or with a cross-referenced index.
  • crossing guard — school (crossing) guard
  • crossing point — a place where people cross a road, border, or river
  • crowning glory — the greatest achievement
  • cryopreserving — Present participle of cryopreserve.
  • cuprotungstite — (mineral) A tetragonal mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and tungsten.
  • cycling shorts — tight-fitting shorts reaching partway to the knee for cycling, sport, etc
  • dano-norwegian — Bokmål.
  • dead reckoning — a method of establishing one's position using the distance and direction travelled rather than astronomical observations
  • deconsecrating — Present participle of deconsecrate.
  • deconstructing — Present participle of deconstruct.
  • dehydrogenized — Simple past tense and past participle of dehydrogenize.
  • demoralizingly — in a demoralizing manner
  • deregistration — The process of which an employee is removed from work registrant status.
  • deuteragonists — Plural form of deuteragonist.
  • diamond geezer — a very nice or good man
  • disafforesting — Present participle of disafforest.
  • disaggregation — to separate (an aggregate or mass) into its component parts.
  • disapprovingly — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
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