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  • counterprogram — to schedule (a broadcast on radio or television) to compete with one on another station.
  • 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
  • counterstained — Simple past tense and past participle of counterstain.
  • countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
  • courageousness — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
  • courier parent — a person who applies for residency in Canada with the aim of gaining residency for his or her offspring
  • cranberry bush — a North American caprifoliaceous shrub or small tree, Viburnum trilobum, producing acid red fruit
  • cranial suture — a type of immovable joint between the bones of the skull
  • creatureliness — creatural.
  • credit account — a credit system by means of which customers may obtain goods and services before payment
  • crimen injuria — an action that injures the dignity of another person, esp use of racially offensive language
  • cruising range — the distance an aircraft can fly before it needs to refuel
  • cuisenaire rod — one of a set of rods of various colours and lengths representing different numbers, used to teach arithmetic to young children
  • culzean castle — a Gothic Revival castle near Ayr in South Ayrshire, in SW Scotland: designed by Robert Adam (1772–92); includes a room dedicated to General Eisenhower
  • cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
  • cumulativeness — The state or quality of being cumulative.
  • currency snake — an exchange rate system that operated between various member countries of the EEC during the 1970s, in which exchange rates between the currencies of the participating states were only allowed to fluctuate within a restricted range
  • current assets — Current assets are assets which a company does not use on a continuous basis, such as stocks and debts, but which can be converted into cash within one year.
  • current rating — Current rating is the maximum current that a fuse will carry for an indefinite period without too much deterioration of the fuse element.
  • curtain raiser — a short play preceding a main play.
  • curtain speech — a talk given in front of the curtain after a stage performance, often by the author or an actor
  • curtain-raiser — A curtain-raiser is an event, especially a sporting event or a performance, that takes place before a more important one, or starts off a series of events.
  • curvaceousness — the quality of having an attractively curved figure
  • curvilinearity — consisting of or bounded by curved lines: a curvilinear figure.
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • customer's man — registered representative.
  • cutis anserina — goose bumps.
  • cutting garden — a household flower garden planted solely for growing flowers that are to be cut and displayed indoors.
  • cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
  • cyanoguanidine — dicyandiamide.
  • cybersquatting — Cybersquatting involves buying an Internet domain name that might be wanted by another person, business, or organization with the intention of selling it to them and making a profit.
  • cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
  • cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
  • deccan plateau — triangular tableland occupying most of the peninsula of India, between the Eastern Ghats & Western Ghats & south of the Narbada River
  • decompoundable — able to be broken down into its component parts
  • deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
  • deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
  • delaney clause — an amendment to a 1958 Federal law, prohibiting the use of any food additive found to cause cancer in people or animals
  • delta function — a generalized function having the value 0 except at 0, the value infinity at 0, and an integral from minus infinity to plus infinity of 1, used in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
  • denuclearizing — Present participle of denuclearize.
  • discontinuance — the act or state of discontinuing or the state of being discontinued; cessation: the discontinuance of a business.
  • discountenance — to disconcert, embarrass, or abash: With his composure, he survived every attempt to discountenance him.
  • discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
  • disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
  • diurnal circle — the apparent circle described by a heavenly body as a result of one rotation by the earth.
  • dna sequencing — the procedure of determining the order of base pairs in a section of DNA
  • documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
  • documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
  • documentations — (very,rare) Plural form of documentation.
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
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