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  • circumambulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumambulate.
  • citrus whitefly — See under whitefly.
  • civil liberties — A person's civil liberties are the rights they have to say, think, and do what they want as long as they respect other people's rights.
  • claims adjuster — A claims adjuster is someone who is employed by an insurance company to decide how much money a person making a claim should receive.
  • clandestineness — The state or quality of being clandestine.
  • clare of assisi — Saint. 1194–1253, Italian nun; founder of the Franciscan Order of Poor Clares. Feast day: Aug 11
  • class hierarchy — (programming)   In object-oriented programming, a set of classes related by inheritance. Each class is a "subclass" of another class - its "superclass". The subclass contains all the features of its superclass, but may add new features or redefine existing features. The features of a class are the set of attributes (or "properties") that an object of that class has and the methods that can be invoked on it. If each class has a just one superclass, this is called single inheritance. The opposite is multiple inheritance, under which a class may have multiple superclasses. Single inheritance gives the class hierarchy a tree structure whereas multiple inheritance gives a directed graph. Typically there is one class at the top of the hierarchy which is the "object" class, the most general class that is an ancestor of all others and which has no superclass. In computing, as in genealogy, trees grow downwards, which is why subclasses are considered to be "below" their superclasses. When invoking a method on an object, the method is first looked for in the object's class, then the superclass of that class, and so on up the hierarchy until it is found. Thus a class need only define those methods which are specific to it and it will inherit all other methods from all its superclasses. An object of the subclass can do everything that an object of the superclass can and possible more.
  • class president — the student president of a school or college class
  • class structure — social hierarchy
  • classical greek — the form of Greek used in classical literature, especially the literary Attic Greek of the 5th and 4th centuries b.c.
  • clear the decks — to prepare for action, as by removing obstacles from a field of activity or combat
  • clearheadedness — The quality of being clearheaded.
  • cleavage-planes — the act of cleaving or splitting.
  • cleistogamously — in a cleistogamous manner
  • cleptoparasites — Plural form of cleptoparasite.
  • climb the walls — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
  • close communion — a communion service in which only members of the same denomination or the same church can participate.
  • close the books — to balance accounts in order to prepare a statement or report
  • closed fracture — simple fracture.
  • closed interval — an interval on the real line including its end points, as [0, 1], the set of reals between and including 0 and 1
  • closed position — (in ballet, modern dance, and jazz dance) any position in which the feet touch each other.
  • closed sentence — a formula that contains no free occurrence of any variable
  • closed traverse — a traverse ending at its point of origin.
  • closed universe — (in cosmology) a hypothetical expanding universe that contains sufficient matter to reverse the observed expansion through its gravitational contraction.
  • closed-end fund — A closed-end fund is an investment with a limited number of shares that does not allow new investors.
  • closed-end loan — A closed-end loan is a loan such as an auto loan, with fixed terms, and where the money is lent all at once and paid back by a particular date.
  • clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
  • cluster college — a small residential college affiliated with a university but semi-independent and specializing in one field of study.
  • coast artillery — artillery used for defending coastal areas.
  • cocktail shaker — a container in which cocktails are mixed
  • coeliac disease — a chronic intestinal disorder caused by sensitivity to the protein gliadin contained in the gluten of cereals, characterized by distention of the abdomen and frothy and pale foul-smelling stools
  • coffee granules — instant coffee in the form of grains
  • collected works — the works of a particular writer brought together into one volume or a set of volumes
  • college of arms — any of several institutions in the United Kingdom having a royal charter to deal with matters of heraldry, grant armorial bearings, record and trace genealogies, etc
  • college station — a city in E central Texas.
  • college student — a student at a university or college
  • collenchymatous — Relating to collenchyma.
  • color blindness — inability to distinguish one or several chromatic colors, independent of the capacity for distinguishing light and shade.
  • colorado desert — an arid region of SE California and NW Mexico, west of the Colorado River. Area: over 5000 sq km (2000 sq miles)
  • colour sergeant — a sergeant who carries the regimental, battalion, or national colours, as in a colour guard
  • colour-reversal — (of film or photographic paper) designed to produce a positive image directly from a positive subject
  • combustibleness — The state or quality of being combustible.
  • come to oneself — to recover one's senses
  • come up smiling — to recover cheerfully from misfortune
  • comfortableness — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
  • commendableness — The state or quality of being commendable.
  • commercialising — Present participle of commercialise.
  • commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
  • common shelduck — a large, brightly coloured gooselike duck of the Old World, Tadorna tadorna
  • common-sensible — sound practical judgment that is independent of specialized knowledge, training, or the like; normal native intelligence.
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