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  • cash-starved — A cash-starved company or organization does not have enough money to operate properly, usually because another organization, such as the government, is not giving them the money that they need.
  • cathode rays — a stream of electrons emitted from the surface of a cathode in a valve
  • chafing dish — a vessel with a heating apparatus beneath it, for cooking or keeping food warm at the table
  • chambermaids — Plural form of chambermaid.
  • change hands — to pass from one owner to another
  • charles drew — Charles Richard, 1904–50, U.S. physician: developer of blood-bank technique.
  • cheerleaders — Plural form of cheerleader.
  • cheese board — A cheese board is a board from which cheese is served at a meal.
  • cheeseboards — Plural form of cheeseboard.
  • chef's salad — A chef's salad is a green salad with hard-boiled egg and strips of meat and cheese on top.
  • chickenheads — Plural form of chickenhead.
  • child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
  • child's play — something that is easy to do
  • chinese date — an Old World tree, Ziziphus jujuba, thriving in hot, dry regions.
  • chondroblast — a type of cell that develops into a chondrocyte or cartilage cell
  • chondrostian — relating to the class Chondrostei of fish with fin rays
  • 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
  • chowderheads — Plural form of chowderhead.
  • cigar-shaped — resembling a cigar in shape
  • 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.
  • clearsighted — seeing clearly
  • close-hauled — with the sails flat, so as to sail as close to the wind as possible
  • 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
  • code-sharing — a commercial agreement between two airlines that allows passengers to use a ticket from one airline to travel on another
  • cyanohydrins — Plural form of cyanohydrin.
  • dall's sheep — a white-haired wild sheep, Ovis dalli, of mountainous regions of northwestern North America, having curved horns.
  • damselfishes — Plural form of damselfish.
  • daniel shays — Daniel, 1747–1825, American Revolutionary War soldier: leader of a popular insurrection (Shays' Rebellion) in Massachusetts 1786–87.
  • dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
  • dasyphyllous — (of leaves) hairy or woolly
  • data exhaust — unstructured information or data that is a by-product of the online activities of Internet users: Collecting and analyzing data exhaust can provide valuable insight into the purchasing habits of consumers.
  • daughterless — Without a daughter.
  • day hospital — part of a hospital that offers therapeutic services, where patients usually attend all day but go home or to a hospital ward at night
  • de-emphasize — to remove emphasis from
  • death camass — any liliaceous plant of the genus Zygadenus (or Zigadenus), of the western US, that is poisonous to livestock, esp sheep
  • death duties — Death duties were a tax which had to be paid on the money and property of someone who had died. This tax is now called inheritance tax.
  • death spiral — a period of continuous deterioration that leads ultimately to catastrophic failure or destruction
  • death throes — The death throes of something are its final stages, just before it fails completely or ends.
  • death's-head — a human skull or a representation of one
  • deathmatches — Plural form of deathmatch.
  • deathwatches — Plural form of deathwatch.
  • debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
  • debaucherous — tending toward or involving debauchery, or excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures: a night of debaucherous fun.
  • decahydrates — Plural form of decahydrate.
  • deemphasized — Simple past tense and past participle of deemphasize.
  • deemphasizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deemphasize.
  • dehumanising — Present participle of dehumanise.
  • demographers — Plural form of demographer.
  • demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
  • demographies — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
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