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- captivity — Captivity is the state of being kept imprisoned or enclosed.
- carbonite — An explosive manufactured from a variety of materials, including nitroglycerine, wood meal and nitrates.
- cariosity — (medicine) caries.
- carmelite — a member of an order of mendicant friars founded about 1154; White Friar
- carnality — pertaining to or characterized by the flesh or the body, its passions and appetites; sensual: carnal pleasures.
- carnitine — a white betaine, C7H15NO3, found in the liver and required for transporting fatty acids from the cytosol into the mitochondria
- carnosity — an abnormal fleshy protrusion growing on any part of the body
- carnotite — a radioactive yellow mineral consisting of hydrated uranium potassium vanadate: occurs in sedimentary rocks and is a source of uranium, radium, and vanadium. Formula: K2(UO2)2(VO4)2.3H2O
- catamites — Plural form of catamite.
- catch pit — a pit in a drainage system in which matter that might otherwise block a sewer is collected so that it may periodically be removed
- catstitch — catch stitch.
- causality — Causality is the relationship of cause and effect.
- cavitands — Plural form of cavitand.
- cavitated — Simple past tense and past participle of cavitate.
- cd writer — A CD writer is a piece of computer equipment that you use for copying data from a computer onto a CD.
- cefoxitin — a broad-spectrum, crystalline, semisynthetic cephalosporin antibiotic, C 16 H 17 N 3 O 7 , used in the treatment of serious infections caused by susceptible Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria.
- celebrity — A celebrity is someone who is famous, especially in areas of entertainment such as films, music, writing, or sport.
- celestite — a white, red, or blue mineral consisting of strontium sulphate in orthorhombic crystalline form: a source of strontium compounds. Formula: SrSO4
- cellulite — Cellulite is lumpy fat which people may get under their skin, especially on their thighs.
- celsitude — the position or stance of dignity or loftiness
- cementite — the hard brittle compound of iron and carbon that forms in carbon steels and some cast irons. Formula: Fe3C
- cenobites — Plural form of cenobite.
- cenobitic — Of or pertaining to a cenobite.
- ceratitis — Alternative spelling of keratitis.
- certitude — Certitude is the same as certainty.
- cerussite — a usually white mineral, found in veins. It is a source of lead. Composition: lead carbonate. Formula: PbCO3. Crystal structure: orthorhombic
- cespitose — growing in dense, matlike clumps without creeping stems, as moss, grass, etc.
- cespitous — Turfy; resembling turf.
- ceylonite — a dark blue or black form of spinel
- cgs units — a metric system of units based on the centimetre, gram, and second. For scientific and technical purposes these units have been replaced by SI units
- chabasite — Alternative form of chabazite.
- chabazite — a pink, white, or colourless zeolite mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate of calcium, sodium, potassium, and aluminium in hexagonal crystalline form. Formula: Ca2Al2Si4O12.6H2O
- chalkpits — Plural form of chalkpit.
- chalybite — siderite (def 1).
- chamosite — a mineral of the chlorite group, hydrous aluminum silicate of iron, occurring in gray or black crystals in oolitic iron ore.
- chance it — take a chance or risk
- chapiters — Plural form of chapiter.
- charities — Plural form of charity.
- check bit — a binary digit used as part of a unit of information that is intended to indicate whether or not an error has occurred in the transmission or storage of the information.
- cheese it — to stop; desist.
- cheilitis — an inflammation of the lip or lips
- chemitype — an obsolete chemical process by which a relief impression was obtained from an engraving or etching
- chemitypy — the process of chemitype
- chemonite — a solution consisting of copper hydroxide, arsenic trioxide, ammonia, acetic acid, and water: used as a wood preservative.
- cheralite — a rare monazite mineral consisting of thorium and calcium
- chick lit — Chick lit is modern fiction about the lives and romantic problems of young women, usually written by young women.
- chirality — the configuration or handedness (left or right) of an asymmetric, optically active chemical compound
- chit-chat — Chit-chat is informal talk about things that are not very important.
- chitchats — Plural form of chitchat.
- chitinase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyzes chitin.