First Names Rhyming CAERLION
English Words Rhyming CAERLION
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CAERLÝON AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CAERLÝON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (aerlion) - English Words That Ends with aerlion:
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (erlion) - English Words That Ends with erlion:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (rlion) - English Words That Ends with rlion:
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (lion) - English Words That Ends with lion:
| anthelion | noun (n.) A halo opposite the sun, consisting of a colored ring or rings around the shadow of the spectator's own head, as projected on a cloud or on an opposite fog bank. |
| aphelion | noun (n.) That point of a planet's or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion. |
| battalion | noun (n.) A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array. |
| | noun (n.) A regiment, or two or more companies of a regiment, esp. when assembled for drill or battle. |
| | noun (n.) An infantry command of two or more companies, which is the tactical unit of the infantry, or the smallest command which is self-supporting upon the battlefield, and also the unit in which the strength of the infantry of an army is expressed. |
| | verb (v. t.) To form into battalions. |
| billion | noun (n.) According to the French and American method of numeration, a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method, a million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See Numeration. |
| bullion | noun (n.) Uncoined gold or silver in the mass. |
| | noun (n.) Base or uncurrent coin. |
| | noun (n.) Showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc. |
| | noun (n.) Heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent. |
| cotillion | noun (n.) A brisk dance, performed by eight persons; a quadrille. |
| | noun (n.) A tune which regulates the dance. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of woolen material for women's skirts. |
| | noun (n.) A formal ball. |
| cullion | noun (n.) A mean wretch; a base fellow; a poltroon; a scullion. |
| dandelion | noun (n.) A well-known plant of the genus Taraxacum (T. officinale, formerly called T. Dens-leonis and Leontodos Taraxacum) bearing large, yellow, compound flowers, and deeply notched leaves. |
| decillion | noun (n.) According to the English notation, a million involved to the tenth power, or a unit with sixty ciphers annexed; according to the French and American notation, a thousand involved to the eleventh power, or a unit with thirty-three ciphers annexed. [See the Note under Numeration.] |
| ganglion | noun (n.) A mass or knot of nervous matter, including nerve cells, usually forming an enlargement in the course of a nerve. |
| | noun (n.) A node, or gland in the lymphatic system; as, a lymphatic ganglion. |
| | noun (n.) A globular, hard, indolent tumor, situated somewhere on a tendon, and commonly formed by the effusion of a viscid fluid into it; -- called also weeping sinew. |
| intermodillion | noun (n.) The space between two modillions. |
| lion | noun (n.) A large carnivorous feline mammal (Felis leo), found in Southern Asia and in most parts of Africa, distinct varieties occurring in the different countries. The adult male, in most varieties, has a thick mane of long shaggy hair that adds to his apparent size, which is less than that of the largest tigers. The length, however, is sometimes eleven feet to the base of the tail. The color is a tawny yellow or yellowish brown; the mane is darker, and the terminal tuft of the tail is black. In one variety, called the maneless lion, the male has only a slight mane. |
| | noun (n.) A sign and a constellation; Leo. |
| | noun (n.) An object of interest and curiosity, especially a person who is so regarded; as, he was quite a lion in London at that time. |
| mandilion | noun (n.) See Mandil. |
| maniglion | noun (n.) Either one of two handles on the back of a piece of ordnance. |
| medallion | noun (n.) A large medal or memorial coin. |
| | noun (n.) A circular or oval (or, sometimes, square) tablet bearing a figure or figures represented in relief. |
| million | noun (n.) The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, -- written 1,000, 000. See the Note under Hundred. |
| | noun (n.) A very great number; an indefinitely large number. |
| | noun (n.) The mass of common people; -- with the article the. |
| modillion | noun (n.) The enriched block or horizontal bracket generally found under the cornice of the Corinthian and Composite entablature, and sometimes, less ornamented, in the Ionic and other orders; -- so called because of its arrangement at regulated distances. |
| mullion | noun (n.) A slender bar or pier which forms the division between the lights of windows, screens, etc. |
| | noun (n.) An upright member of a framing. See Stile. |
| | verb (v. t.) To furnish with mullions; to divide by mullions. |
| nonillion | noun (n.) According to the French and American notation, a thousand octillions, or a unit with thirty ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, a million octillions, or a unit with fifty-four ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration. |
| obelion | noun (n.) The region of the skull between the two parietal foramina where the closure of the sagittal suture usually begins. |
| octillion | noun (n.) According to the French method of numeration (which method is followed also in the United States) the number expressed by a unit with twenty-seven ciphers annexed. According to the English method, the number expressed by a unit with forty-eight ciphers annexed. See Numeration. |
| quadrillion | noun (n.) According to the French notation, which is followed also upon the Continent and in the United States, a unit with fifteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the fourth power, or the number represented by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration. |
| | noun (n.) According to the French notation, which is followed also upon the Continent and in the United States, a unit with fifteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the fourth power, or the number represented by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration. |
| quintilllion | noun (n.) According to the French notation, which is used on the Continent and in America, the cube of a million, or a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, a number produced by involving a million to the fifth power, or a unit with thirty ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration. |
| | noun (n.) According to the French notation, which is used on the Continent and in America, the cube of a million, or a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, a number produced by involving a million to the fifth power, or a unit with thirty ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration. |
| padelion | noun (n.) A plant with pedately lobed leaves; the lady's mantle. |
| parhelion | noun (n.) A mock sun appearing in the form of a bright light, sometimes near the sun, and tinged with colors like the rainbow, and sometimes opposite to the sun. The latter is usually called an anthelion. Often several mock suns appear at the same time. Cf. Paraselene. |
| pavilion | noun (n.) A temporary movable habitation; a large tent; a marquee; esp., a tent raised on posts. |
| | noun (n.) A single body or mass of building, contained within simple walls and a single roof, whether insulated, as in the park or garden of a larger edifice, or united with other parts, and forming an angle or central feature of a large pile. |
| | noun (n.) A flag, colors, ensign, or banner. |
| | noun (n.) Same as Tent (Her.) |
| | noun (n.) That part of a brilliant which lies between the girdle and collet. See Illust. of Brilliant. |
| | noun (n.) The auricle of the ear; also, the fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube. |
| | noun (n.) A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky. |
| | verb (v. t.) To furnish or cover with, or shelter in, a tent or tents. |
| perduellion | noun (n.) Treason. |
| perihelion | noun (n.) Alt. of Perihelium |
| pillion | noun (n.) A panel or cushion saddle; the under pad or cushion of saddle; esp., a pad or cushion put on behind a man's saddle, on which a woman may ride. |
| pnigalion | noun (n.) Nightmare. |
| pommelion | noun (n.) The cascabel, or hindmost knob, of a cannon. |
| pompillion | noun (n.) An ointment or pomatum made of black poplar buds. |
| postilion | noun (n.) One who rides and guides the first pair of horses of a coach or post chaise; also, one who rides one of the horses when one pair only is used. |
| prillion | noun (n.) Tin extracted from the slag. |
| rapscallion | noun (n.) A rascal; a good-for-nothing fellow. |
| rascallion | noun (n.) A low, mean wretch. |
| scallion | noun (n.) A kind of small onion (Allium Ascalonicum), native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. |
| | noun (n.) Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. |
| scholion | noun (n.) A scholium. |
| scullion | noun (n.) A scalion. |
| | noun (n.) A servant who cleans pots and kettles, and does other menial services in the kitchen. |
| selion | noun (n.) A short piece of land in arable ridges and furrows, of uncertain quantity; also, a ridge of land lying between two furrows. |
| septillion | noun (n.) According to the French method of numeration (which is followed also in the United States), the number expressed by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed. According to the English method, the number expressed by a unit with forty-two ciphers annexed. See Numeration. |
| sextillion | noun (n.) According to the method of numeration (which is followed also in the United States), the number expressed by a unit with twenty-one ciphers annexed. According to the English method, a million raised to the sixth power, or the number expressed by a unit with thirty-six ciphers annexed. See Numeration. |
| slubberdegullion | noun (n.) A mean, dirty wretch. |
| stallion | noun (n.) A male horse not castrated; a male horse kept for breeding. |
| stellion | noun (n.) A lizard (Stellio vulgaris), common about the Eastern Mediterranean among ruins. In color it is olive-green, shaded with black, with small stellate spots. Called also hardim, and star lizard. |
| stillion | noun (n.) A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying. |
| tabellion | noun (n.) A secretary or notary under the Roman empire; also, a similar officer in France during the old monarchy. |
| talion | noun (n.) Retaliation. |
| tatterdemalion | noun (n.) A ragged fellow; a ragamuffin. |
| tourbillion | noun (n.) An ornamental firework which turns round, when in the air, so as to form a scroll of fire. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ion) - English Words That Ends with ion:
| abacination | noun (n.) The act of abacinating. |
| abaction | noun (n.) Stealing cattle on a large scale. |
| abalienation | noun (n.) The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement. |
| abannation | noun (n.) Alt. of Abannition |
| abannition | noun (n.) Banishment. |
| abarticulation | noun (n.) Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis. |
| abbreviation | noun (n.) The act of shortening, or reducing. |
| | noun (n.) The result of abbreviating; an abridgment. |
| | noun (n.) The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America. |
| | noun (n.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers. |
| abdication | noun (n.) The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority. |
| abduction | noun (n.) The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away. |
| | noun (n.) The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body. |
| | noun (n.) The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being; as, the abduction of a child, the abduction of an heiress. |
| | noun (n.) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is evident, but the minor is only probable. |
| aberration | noun (n.) The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type. |
| | noun (n.) A partial alienation of reason. |
| | noun (n.) A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and daily or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4", and in the latter, to 0.3". Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of the planet relative to the earth. |
| | noun (n.) The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; called spherical aberration, when due to the spherical form of the lens or mirror, such form giving different foci for central and marginal rays; and chromatic aberration, when due to different refrangibilities of the colored rays of the spectrum, those of each color having a distinct focus. |
| | noun (n.) The passage of blood or other fluid into parts not appropriate for it. |
| | noun (n.) The producing of an unintended effect by the glancing of an instrument, as when a shot intended for A glances and strikes B. |
| abevacuation | noun (n.) A partial evacuation. |
| abirritation | noun (n.) A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia. |
| abjection | noun (n.) The act of bringing down or humbling. |
| | noun (n.) The state of being rejected or cast out. |
| | noun (n.) A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation. |
| abjudication | noun (n.) Rejection by judicial sentence. |
| abjuration | noun (n.) The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return. |
| | noun (n.) A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of heresy. |
| ablactation | noun (n.) The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam. |
| | noun (n.) The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach. |
| ablaqueation | noun (n.) The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water. |
| ablation | noun (n.) A carrying or taking away; removal. |
| | noun (n.) Extirpation. |
| | noun (n.) Wearing away; superficial waste. |
| ablegation | noun (n.) The act of sending abroad. |
| abligurition | noun (n.) Prodigal expense for food. |
| ablution | noun (n.) The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite. |
| | noun (n.) The water used in cleansing. |
| | noun (n.) A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest. |
| abluvion | noun (n.) That which is washed off. |
| abnegation | noun (n.) a denial; a renunciation. |
| abnodation | noun (n.) The act of cutting away the knots of trees. |
| abolition | noun (n.) The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc. |
| abomination | noun (n.) The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination. |
| | noun (n.) That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution. |
| | noun (n.) A cause of pollution or wickedness. |
| abortion | noun (n.) The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage. |
| | noun (n.) The immature product of an untimely birth. |
| | noun (n.) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed. |
| | noun (n.) Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his attempt proved an abortion. |
| abrasion | noun (n.) The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins. |
| | noun (n.) The substance rubbed off. |
| | noun (n.) A superficial excoriation, with loss of substance under the form of small shreds. |
| abrenunciation | noun (n.) Absolute renunciation or repudiation. |
| abreption | noun (n.) A snatching away. |
| abrogation | noun (n.) The act of abrogating; repeal by authority. |
| abruption | noun (n.) A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies. |
| abscession | noun (n.) A separating; removal; also, an abscess. |
| abscision | noun (n.) See Abscission. |
| abscission | noun (n.) The act or process of cutting off. |
| | noun (n.) The state of being cut off. |
| | noun (n.) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, "He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more." |
| absentation | noun (n.) The act of absenting one's self. |
| absolution | noun (n.) An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense. |
| | noun (n.) An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent. |
| | noun (n.) The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven. |
| | noun (n.) An absolving from ecclesiastical penalties, -- for example, excommunication. |
| | noun (n.) The form of words by which a penitent is absolved. |
| | noun (n.) Delivery, in speech. |
| absorbition | noun (n.) Absorption. |
| absorption | noun (n.) The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger. |
| | noun (n.) An imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action; as, the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc. |
| | noun (n.) In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs. |
| | noun (n.) Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment. |
| abstention | adjective (a.) The act of abstaining; a holding aloof. |
| abstersion | noun (n.) Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging. |
| abstraction | adjective (a.) The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal. |
| | adjective (a.) The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects. |
| | adjective (a.) An idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical nature; as, to fight for mere abstractions. |
| | adjective (a.) A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction. |
| | adjective (a.) Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects. |
| | adjective (a.) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining. |
| | adjective (a.) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation. |
| abstrusion | noun (n.) The act of thrusting away. |
| absumption | noun (n.) Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction. |
| acceleration | noun (n.) The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; -- opposed to retardation. |
| accension | noun (n.) The act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition. |
| accentuation | noun (n.) Act of accentuating; applications of accent. |
| | noun (n.) pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy. |
| acceptation | noun (n.) Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable. |
| | noun (n.) The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received; as, term is to be used according to its usual acceptation. |
| acceptilation | noun (n.) Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission. |
| acception | noun (n.) Acceptation; the received meaning. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CAERLÝON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 7 Letters (caerlio) - Words That Begins with caerlio:
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (caerli) - Words That Begins with caerli:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (caerl) - Words That Begins with caerl:
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (caer) - Words That Begins with caer:
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (cae) - Words That Begins with cae:
| caeca | noun (n. pl.) See Caecum. |
| | (pl. ) of Caecum |
| caecal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the caecum, or blind gut. |
| | adjective (a.) Having the form of a caecum, or bag with one opening; baglike; as, the caecal extremity of a duct. |
| caecias | noun (n.) A wind from the northeast. |
| caecilian | noun (n.) A limbless amphibian belonging to the order Caeciliae or Ophimorpha. See Ophiomorpha. |
| caecum | noun (n.) A cavity open at one end, as the blind end of a canal or duct. |
| | noun (n.) The blind part of the large intestine beyond the entrance of the small intestine; -- called also the blind gut. |
| caenozoic | adjective (a.) See Cenozoic. |
| caesar | noun (n.) A Roman emperor, as being the successor of Augustus Caesar. Hence, a kaiser, or emperor of Germany, or any emperor or powerful ruler. See Kaiser, Kesar. |
| caesarean | adjective (a.) Alt. of Caesarian |
| caesarian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Caesar or the Caesars; imperial. |
| caesarism | noun (n.) A system of government in which unrestricted power is exercised by a single person, to whom, as Caesar or emperor, it has been committed by the popular will; imperialism; also, advocacy or support of such a system of government. |
| caesious | adjective (a.) Of the color of lavender; pale blue with a slight mixture of gray. |
| caesium | noun (n.) A rare alkaline metal found in mineral water; -- so called from the two characteristic blue lines in its spectrum. It was the first element discovered by spectrum analysis, and is the most strongly basic and electro-positive substance known. Symbol Cs. Atomic weight 132.6. |
| caespitose | adjective (a.) Same as Cespitose. |
| caesura | noun (n.) A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle of a foot. Also, a long syllable on which the caesural accent rests, or which is used as a foot. |
| caesural | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a caesura. |
| caelatura | noun (n.) Art of producing metal decorative work other than statuary, as reliefs, intaglios, engraving, chasing, etc. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CAERLÝON:
English Words which starts with 'cae' and ends with 'ion':
English Words which starts with 'ca' and ends with 'on':
| cabezon | noun (n.) A California fish (Hemilepidotus spinosus), allied to the sculpin. |
| cachinnation | noun (n.) Loud or immoderate laughter; -- often a symptom of hysterical or maniacal affections. |
| cacodemon | noun (n.) An evil spirit; a devil or demon. |
| | noun (n.) The nightmare. |
| cacoon | noun (n.) One of the seeds or large beans of a tropical vine (Entada scandens) used for making purses, scent bottles, etc. |
| caisson | noun (n.) A chest to hold ammunition. |
| | noun (n.) A four-wheeled carriage for conveying ammunition, consisting of two parts, a body and a limber. In light field batteries there is one caisson to each piece, having two ammunition boxes on the body, and one on the limber. |
| | noun (n.) A chest filled with explosive materials, to be laid in the way of an enemy and exploded on his approach. |
| | noun (n.) A water-tight box, of timber or iron within which work is carried on in building foundations or structures below the water level. |
| | noun (n.) A hollow floating box, usually of iron, which serves to close the entrances of docks and basins. |
| | noun (n.) A structure, usually with an air chamber, placed beneath a vessel to lift or float it. |
| | noun (n.) A sunk panel of ceilings or soffits. |
| calamistration | noun (n.) The act or process of curling the hair. |
| calcedon | noun (n.) A foul vein, like chalcedony, in some precious stones. |
| calcification | noun (n.) The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and of teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue. |
| calcination | noun (n.) The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime. |
| | noun (n.) The act or process of reducing a metal to an oxide or metallic calx; oxidation. |
| calcitration | noun (n.) Act of kicking. |
| calculation | noun (n.) The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate. |
| | noun (n.) An expectation based on circumstances. |
| caldron | noun (n.) A large kettle or boiler of copper, brass, or iron. [Written also cauldron.] |
| calefaction | noun (n.) The act of warming or heating; the production of heat in a body by the action of fire, or by communication of heat from other bodies. |
| | noun (n.) The state of being heated. |
| calibration | noun (n.) The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more generally, the determination of the true value of the spaces in any graduated instrument. |
| caligation | noun (n.) Dimness; cloudiness. |
| callisection | noun (n.) Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection. |
| calorification | noun (n.) Production of heat, esp. animal heat. |
| calumniation | noun (n.) False accusation of crime or offense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name. |
| calyon | noun (n.) Flint or pebble stone, used in building walls, etc. |
| cameleon | noun (n.) See Chaceleon. |
| cameration | noun (n.) A vaulting or arching over. |
| campion | noun (n.) A plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus bacciferus), bearing berries regarded as poisonous. |
| canalization | noun (n.) Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals. |
| cancellation | noun (n.) The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself. |
| | noun (n.) The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor. |
| canceration | noun (n.) The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into a cancer. |
| cannon | noun (n.) A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force. |
| | noun (n.) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of type. See Canon. |
| | noun (n. & v.) See Carom. |
| | verb (v. i.) To discharge cannon. |
| | verb (v. i.) To collide or strike violently, esp. so as to glance off or rebound; to strike and rebound. |
| | (pl. ) of Cannon |
| canon | noun (n.) A law or rule. |
| | noun (n.) A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority. |
| | noun (n.) The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures, called the sacred canon, or general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible; also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See Canonical books, under Canonical, a. |
| | noun (n.) In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order. |
| | noun (n.) A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church. |
| | noun (n.) A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church. |
| | noun (n.) A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation. |
| | noun (n.) The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church. |
| | noun (n.) The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank. |
| | noun (n.) See Carom. |
| ca–on | noun (n.) A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses. |
| canonization | noun (n.) The final process or decree (following beatifacation) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation. |
| | noun (n.) The state of being canonized or sainted. |
| cantation | noun (n.) A singing. |
| cantillation | noun (n.) A chanting; recitation or reading with musical modulations. |
| cantion | noun (n.) A song or verses. |
| canton | noun (n.) A song or canto |
| | noun (n.) A small portion; a division; a compartment. |
| | noun (n.) A small community or clan. |
| | noun (n.) A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement. |
| | noun (n.) A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side. |
| | verb (v. i.) To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division. |
| | verb (v. i.) To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops. |
| cantoon | noun (n.) A cotton stuff showing a fine cord on one side and a satiny surface on the other. |
| canyon | noun (n.) The English form of the Spanish word Ca–on. |
| caparison | noun (n.) An ornamental covering or housing for a horse; the harness or trappings of a horse, taken collectively, esp. when decorative. |
| | noun (n.) Gay or rich clothing. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cover with housings, as a horse; to harness or fit out with decorative trappings, as a horse. |
| | verb (v. t.) To aborn with rich dress; to dress. |
| capillation | noun (n.) A capillary blood vessel. |
| capitalization | noun (n.) The act or process of capitalizing. |
| capitation | noun (n.) A numbering of heads or individuals. |
| | noun (n.) A tax upon each head or person, without reference to property; a poll tax. |
| capitulation | noun (n.) A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement. |
| | noun (n.) The act of capitulating or surrendering to an emeny upon stipulated terms. |
| | noun (n.) The instrument containing the terms of an agreement or surrender. |
| capon | noun (n.) A castrated cock, esp. when fattened; a male chicken gelded to improve his flesh for the table. |
| | verb (v. t.) To castrate; to make a capon of. |
| caprification | noun (n.) The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects. |
| captation | noun (n.) A courting of favor or applause, by flattery or address; a captivating quality; an attraction. |
| caption | noun (n.) A caviling; a sophism. |
| | noun (n.) The act of taking or arresting a person by judicial process. |
| | noun (n.) That part of a legal instrument, as a commission, indictment, etc., which shows where, when, and by what authority, it was taken, found, or executed. |
| | noun (n.) The heading of a chapter, section, or page. |
| captivation | noun (n.) The act of captivating. |
| carbon | noun (n.) An elementary substance, not metallic in its nature, which is present in all organic compounds. Atomic weight 11.97. Symbol C. it is combustible, and forms the base of lampblack and charcoal, and enters largely into mineral coals. In its pure crystallized state it constitutes the diamond, the hardest of known substances, occuring in monometric crystals like the octahedron, etc. Another modification is graphite, or blacklead, and in this it is soft, and occurs in hexagonal prisms or tables. When united with oxygen it forms carbon dioxide, commonly called carbonic acid, or carbonic oxide, according to the proportions of the oxygen; when united with hydrogen, it forms various compounds called hydrocarbons. Compare Diamond, and Graphite. |
| | noun (n.) A carbon rod or pencil used in an arc lamp; also, a plate or piece of carbon used as one of the elements of a voltaic battery. |
| carbonatation | noun (n.) The saturation of defecated beet juice with carbonic acid gas. |
| carbonization | noun (n.) The act or process of carbonizing. |
| carbunculation | noun (n.) The blasting of the young buds of trees or plants, by excessive heat or cold. |
| carburization | noun (n.) The act, process, or result of carburizing. |
| cardoon | noun (n.) A large herbaceous plant (Cynara Cardunculus) related to the artichoke; -- used in cookery and as a salad. |
| cargason | noun (n.) A cargo. |
| carillon | noun (n.) A chime of bells diatonically tuned, played by clockwork or by finger keys. |
| | noun (n.) A tune adapted to be played by musical bells. |
| carnation | noun (n.) The natural color of flesh; rosy pink. |
| | noun (n.) Those parts of a picture in which the human body or any part of it is represented in full color; the flesh tints. |
| | noun (n.) A species of Dianthus (D. Caryophyllus) or pink, having very beautiful flowers of various colors, esp. white and usually a rich, spicy scent. |
| carnification | noun (n.) The act or process of turning to flesh, or to a substance resembling flesh. |
| carrion | noun (n.) The dead and putrefying body or flesh of an animal; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food. |
| | noun (n.) A contemptible or worthless person; -- a term of reproach. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to dead and putrefying carcasses; feeding on carrion. |
| cartilaginification | noun (n.) The act or process of forming cartilage. |
| carton | noun (n.) Pasteboard for paper boxes; also, a pasteboard box. |
| cartoon | noun (n.) A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael. |
| | noun (n.) A large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine; esp. a pictorial caricature; as, the cartoons of "Puck." |
| caseation | noun (n.) A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass. |
| cassation | noun (n.) The act of annulling. |
| castellation | noun (n.) The act of making into a castle. |
| castigation | noun (n.) Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism. |
| | noun (n.) Emendation; correction. |
| castrametation | noun (n.) The art or act of encamping; the making or laying out of a camp. |
| castration | noun (n.) The act of castrating. |
| catabasion | noun (n.) A vault under altar of a Greek church. |
| catechisation | noun (n.) The act of catechising. |
| catenation | noun (n.) Connection of links or union of parts, as in a chain; a regular or connected series. See Concatenation. |
| catheterization | noun (n.) The operation of introducing a catheter. |
| catholicon | noun (n.) A remedy for all diseases; a panacea. |
| cation | noun (n.) An electro-positive substance, which in electro-decomposition is evolved at the cathode; -- opposed to anion. |
| catoptron | noun (n.) A reflecting optical glass or instrument; a mirror. |
| catopron | noun (n.) See Catopter. |
| causation | noun (n.) The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced. |
| cauterization | noun (n.) The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application. |
| caution | noun (n.) A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness. |
| | noun (n.) Security; guaranty; bail. |
| | noun (n.) Precept or warning against evil of any kind; exhortation to wariness; advice; injunction. |
| | noun (n.) A pledge, bond, or other security for the performance of an obligation either in or out of judicial proceedings; the promise or contract of one not for himself but another; security. |
| | verb (v. t.) To give notice of danger to; to warn; to exhort [one] to take heed. |
| cavesson | noun (n.) Alt. of Cavezon |
| cavezon | noun (n.) A kind of noseband used in breaking and training horses. |
| cavillation | noun (n.) Frivolous or sophistical objection. |
| caxon | noun (n.) A kind of wig. |
| caxton | noun (n.) Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer. |
| cabochon | noun (n.) A stone of convex form, highly polished, but not faceted; also, the style of cutting itself. Such stones are said to be cut en cabochon. |
| cascaron | noun (n.) Lit., an eggshell; hence, an eggshell filled with confetti to be thrown during balls, carnivals, etc. |
