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  • ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
  • cerumenolysis — (medicine) The process of softening cerumen (earwax) for removal.
  • 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.
  • changefulness — Propensity to change.
  • charnel house — A charnel house is a place where the bodies and bones of dead people are stored.
  • chestnut clam — Astarte (def 2).
  • 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)
  • clamorousness — The state or quality of being clamorous.
  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • 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.
  • column inches — the amount of coverage given to a story in a newspaper
  • commensurable — having a common factor
  • commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
  • communalities — the state or condition of being communal.
  • compendiously — of or like a compendium; containing the substance of a subject, often an exclusive subject, in a brief form; concise: a compendious history of the world.
  • compound lens — a lens consisting of more than one component lens
  • conceptualise — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • conceptualism — the philosophical theory that the application of general words to a variety of objects reflects the existence of some mental entity through which the application is mediated and which constitutes the meaning of the term
  • conceptualist — any of several doctrines existing as a compromise between realism and nominalism and regarding universals as concepts. Compare nominalism, realism (def 5).
  • conchylaceous — Of or relating to shells; resembling a shell.
  • concupiscible — characterized or driven by sexual desire
  • congratulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of congratulate.
  • consanguineal — having the same ancestry or descent; related by blood.
  • consecutively — following one another in uninterrupted succession or order; successive: six consecutive numbers, such as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
  • consequential — Consequential means the same as consequent.
  • consimilitude — the quality of resembling or of being mutually alike
  • constituently — serving to compose or make up a thing; component: the constituent parts of a motor.
  • constructible — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
  • consuetudinal — According to custom; customary; usual.
  • consumptively — In a consumptive manner.
  • contentiously — tending to argument or strife; quarrelsome: a contentious crew.
  • contextualise — to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
  • contextualism — (in motion-picture criticism) the theory that all incidents in a film must be viewed in the social, political, and cultural context with which the film concerns itself and in which it was made.
  • contextualist — (in motion-picture criticism) the theory that all incidents in a film must be viewed in the social, political, and cultural context with which the film concerns itself and in which it was made.
  • convolvuluses — Plural form of convolvulus.
  • coralligenous — producing coral
  • cost a bundle — If you say that something costs a bundle, or costs someone a bundle, you are emphasizing that it is expensive.
  • coterminously — having the same border or covering the same area.
  • council house — In Britain, a council house is a house that is owned by a local council and that people can rent at a low cost.
  • councilperson — a member of a city or local legislative council.
  • counselorship — The function and rank or office of a counselor.
  • counterblasts — Plural form of counterblast.
  • counterclaims — Plural form of counterclaim.
  • country blues — acoustic folk blues with a guitar accompaniment
  • crapulousness — The state or quality of being crapulous.
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