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- carbon fibre — a black silky thread of pure carbon made by heating and stretching textile fibres and used because of its lightness and strength at high temperatures for reinforcing resins, ceramics, and metals, esp in turbine blades and for fishing rods
- carbon paper — Carbon paper is thin paper with a dark substance on one side. You use it to make copies of letters, bills, and other papers.
- carbon steel — steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
- carbon value — an empirical measurement of the tendency of a lubricant to form carbon when in use
- carbonaceous — of, resembling, or containing carbon
- carbonadoing — Present participle of carbonado.
- carbonatites — Plural form of carbonatite.
- carillonneur — a person who plays a carillon
- carpetmonger — a person who frequently visits women's boudoirs
- carrion crow — a common predatory and scavenging European crow, Corvus corone, similar to the rook but having a pure black bill
- carry-on bag — a small bag that is taken inside an aircraft by hand personally by a passenger
- carryings-on — wild, extravagant, or immoral behavior
- cartoonishly — in a cartoonish manner
- cash economy — an economic system, or part of one, in which financial transactions are carried out in cash rather than via direct debit, standing order, bank transfer, or credit card
- castellation — Architecture. built like a castle, especially with turrets and battlements.
- castigations — Plural form of castigation.
- cationically — in a cationic manner
- cattleperson — Someone who works with, or rears cattle.
- causationism — the theory of universal causation
- causationist — a person who believes in the theory of universal causation
- cefoperazone — A cephalosporin antibiotic.
- celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
- centillionth — (in Britain and Germany) a number equal to 10–600
- centuriation — the process or act of dividing land into centuries or equal areas undertaken by the Romans
- cerebrations — Plural form of cerebration.
- cerebrotonia — a personality type characterized by restraint, alertness, and an intellectual approach to life: said to be correlated with an ectomorph body type
- cerebrotonic — relating to or resembling a personality type characterized by shyness, introspection, and emotional restraint, and often associated with an ectomorphic physique
- ceremonially — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
- cessationism — The concept, amongst most Christians, that the works of the Holy Spirit (speaking in tongues, prophecy, healing, and miracles) ceased at some point in history.
- cessationist — One who subscribes to cessationism.
- chairpersons — Plural form of chairperson.
- championship — A championship is a competition to find the best player or team in a particular sport.
- change front — to redeploy (a force in the field) so that its main weight of weapons points in another direction
- channel iron — a rolled-steel bar with a U-shaped cross section
- cheesemonger — a person dealing in cheese, butter, etc
- cheluviation — the leaching of chelates through soil
- cherrystones — Plural form of cherrystone.
- chicharrones — A Hispanic dish; made of fried pork rinds.
- chiffonniere — a worktable of the 18th century, having several tiers of shallow drawers.
- chiliahedron — a thousand-sided polyhedron
- chirurgeonly — in the manner of a surgeon
- chlorination — Chemistry. to combine or treat with chlorine. to introduce chlorine atoms into an organic compound by an addition or substitution reaction.
- chlorocarbon — a chemical compound containing carbon and chlorine, as carbon tetrachloride, or containing carbon, chlorine, and hydrogen, as chloroform.
- chondriosome — mitochondrion
- chondroblast — a type of cell that develops into a chondrocyte or cartilage cell
- chondrophore — a medusoid hydrozoan that resembles a jellyfish
- chondrostian — relating to the class Chondrostei of fish with fin rays
- chordophones — Plural form of chordophone.
- chordophonic — of or relating to a chordophone
- chromonemata — a chromosome thread that is relatively uncoiled at early prophase but assumes a spiral form at metaphase.