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- crepitating — Present participle of crepitate.
- crepitation — the act of crepitating
- crested tit — a small European songbird, Parus cristatus, that has a greyish-brown plumage with a prominent speckled black-and-white crest: family Paridae (tits)
- crib-biting — a harmful habit of horses in which the animal leans on the manger or seizes it with the teeth and swallows a gulp of air
- criminality — the state or quality of being criminal
- crithomancy — a form of divination in which grain or meal used in a sacrifice is analysed
- criticality — the state of being critical
- criticaster — a lowly or petty critic
- criticising — to censure or find fault with.
- criticizing — Present participle of criticize.
- crocidolite — a blue fibrous amphibole mineral consisting of sodium iron silicate: a variety of asbestos used in cement products and pressure piping
- cryptarithm — a type of mathematical puzzle in which the digits of an equation have been substituted by letters
- cryptozoite — a malarial parasite at the stage of development in its host before it enters the red blood cells
- crystallite — any of the minute rudimentary or imperfect crystals occurring in many glassy rocks
- cuckoo spit — a white frothy mass on the stems and leaves of many plants, produced by froghopper larvae (cuckoo spit insects), which feed on the plant juices
- cuckoo-spit — Also called frog spit. a frothy secretion found on plants, exuded by the young of certain insects, as the froghoppers, and serving as a protective covering.
- cuitlacoche — corn smut.
- culpability — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.
- culver city — a city in SW California, W of Los Angeles.
- curiosities — Plural form of curiosity.
- cut it fine — to allow little margin of time, space, etc
- cyclicality — the property or characteristic of being cyclical
- cystolithic — a mass of calcium carbonate on the cellulose wall.
- daffynition — A form of pun involving the reinterpretation of an existing word, on the basis that it sounds like another word or phrase.
- das kapital — a work (1867) by Karl Marx, dealing with economic, social, and political relations within society and containing the tenets on which modern communism is based.
- debilitated — in a severely weakened state
- debilitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of debilitate.
- decapitated — With the head removed.
- decapitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decapitate.
- decapitator — One who decapitates.
- deceitfully — given to deceiving: A deceitful person cannot keep friends for long.
- declivities — a downward slope, as of ground (opposed to acclivity).
- declivitous — fairly steep
- decomposite — a composite element that is itself composed of other elements
- decondition — to take away or cancel conditioned responses in (a person)
- decrepitate — to heat (a substance, such as a salt) until it emits a crackling sound or until this sound stops
- decrepitude — Decrepitude is the state of being very old and in poor condition.
- decumbiture — the act of lying recumbent and, in particular, as a sick patient in bed
- deep-litter — denoting a system in which a number of hens are housed in one covered enclosure, within which they can move about freely, on a layer of straw or wood shavings several centimetres deep
- definitions — the formal statement of the meaning or significance of a word, phrase, idiom, etc., as found in dictionaries. An online dictionary resource, such as Dictionary.com, can give users direct, immediate access to the definitions of a term, allowing them to compare definitions from various dictionaries and stay up to date with an ever-expanding vocabulary.
- definitives — Plural form of definitive.
- deformities — Plural form of deformity.
- deglutition — the act of swallowing
- deglutitory — of or relating to swallowing
- delimitated — Simple past tense and past participle of delimitate.
- delitescent — concealed; hidden; latent.
- demolitions — explosives, as when used to blow up bridges, etc
- dendritical — Alternative form of dendritic.
- deniability — the condition of being deniable
- denitration — Chemistry. to free from nitric acid or nitrates; remove oxides of nitrogen from.