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  • carotid sinus — specialized nerve end organs producing a slight dilatation of the carotid artery where it branches into the external and internal carotid arteries, responding to changes in blood pressure by mediating changes in the heartbeat rate.
  • carrantuohill — a mountain in SW Republic of Ireland, in Macgillicuddy's Reeks in Kerry: the highest peak in Ireland. Height: 1041 m (3414 ft)
  • cartilaginous — of or like cartilage; gristly
  • cartiliginous — Alternative form of cartilaginous.
  • cash discount — a discount granted to a purchaser who pays before a stipulated date
  • casting couch — a couch on which a casting director is said to seduce women seeking a part in a film or play
  • casualisation — (economics) The process by which employment shifts from a preponderance of full-time and permanent or contract positions to higher levels of casual positions.
  • casualization — the altering of working practices so that regular workers are re-employed on a casual or short-term basis
  • cat and mouse — Also called cat and rat. a children's game in which players in a circle keep a player from moving into or out of the circle and permit a second player to move into or out of the circle to escape the pursuing first player.
  • cat-and-mouse — denoting a fight or contest in which participants attempt to confuse or deceive each other in a cruel or teasing way, esp before a final act of cruelty or unkindness
  • caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
  • cause offence — If you cause offence or give offence to someone, you say or do something rude which upsets or embarrasses them.
  • cauterisation — Alt form cauterization.
  • cauterization — to burn with a hot iron, electric current, fire, or a caustic, especially for curative purposes; treat with a cautery.
  • caution money — a sum of money deposited as security for good conduct, against possible debts, etc
  • cavernicolous — inhabiting caves or cavelike places
  • center around — to have as a central point, focus of attention, etc.
  • centre ground — the nominal space in the political spectrum that is neither right or left
  • centuries-old — hundreds of years old
  • ceremoniously — If someone does something ceremoniously, they do it in an extremely formal way.
  • ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
  • cerumenolysis — (medicine) The process of softening cerumen (earwax) for removal.
  • cerumenolytic — (pharmacology) A chemical that softens or removes cerumen (earwax).
  • chaise longue — A chaise longue is a kind of sofa with only one arm and usually a back along half its length.
  • chaise lounge — A chaise lounge is the same as a chaise longue.
  • changchiak'ou — Zhangjiakou.
  • charnel house — A charnel house is a place where the bodies and bones of dead people are stored.
  • checkout line — A checkout line is a line of customers waiting to pay at a checkout counter.
  • chestnut coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 3/16 to 1 5/8 inch (3 to 4 cm).
  • chewing louse — See under louse (def 2).
  • chicken louse — a louse, Menopon pallidum (or gallinae); a parasite of poultry: order Mallophaga (bird lice)
  • chlorocruorin — an oxygen-carrying substance that is found in the tissues of members of the division Annelida that is green in colour when oxygen is not present
  • chondromatous — a benign cartilaginous tumor or growth.
  • chun doo hwan — born 1931, South Korean political leader: president 1980–88.
  • churchpersons — Plural form of churchperson.
  • churn molding — a molding decorated with chevrons.
  • cinchonaceous — relating to cinchona
  • circumcisions — Plural form of circumcision.
  • circumduction — the action of turning anything on its axis
  • circumflexion — The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form.
  • circumvention — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
  • circumvolving — Present participle of circumvolve.
  • clamorousness — The state or quality of being clamorous.
  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • clock puncher — a worker with a routine job in a factory or office, as one who punches a time clock at the beginning and end of a work shift.
  • cloud seeding — any technique of adding material to a cloud to alter its natural development, usually to increase or obtain precipitation.
  • cloudlessness — Absence of clouds.
  • cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
  • co-occurrence — the fact of two things happening at the same time
  • co-production — a film, play, television programme, etc, produced by two or more people or organizations
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