First Names Rhyming CADWALLON
English Words Rhyming CADWALLON
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CADWALLON AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CADWALLON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 8 Letters (adwallon) - English Words That Ends with adwallon:
Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (dwallon) - English Words That Ends with dwallon:
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (wallon) - English Words That Ends with wallon:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (allon) - English Words That Ends with allon:
| gallon | noun (n.) A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure. |
| shallon | noun (n.) An evergreen shrub (Gaultheria Shallon) of Northwest America; also, its fruit. See Salal-berry. |
| stallon | noun (n.) A slip from a plant; a scion; a cutting. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (llon) - English Words That Ends with llon:
| bellon | noun (n.) Lead colic. |
| billon | noun (n.) An alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of copper or other base metal, used in coinage. |
| bouillon | noun (n.) A nutritious liquid food made by boiling beef, or other meat, in water; a clear soup or broth. |
| | noun (n.) An excrescence on a horse's frush or frog. |
| bullon | noun (n.) A West Indian fish (Scarus Croicensis). |
| 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. |
| cotillon | noun (n.) Alt. of Cotillion |
| fellon | noun (n.) Variant of Felon. |
| hersillon | noun (n.) A beam with projecting spikes, used to make a breach impassable. |
| moellon | noun (n.) Rubble masonry. |
| orillon | noun (n.) A semicircular projection made at the shoulder of a bastion for the purpose of covering the retired flank, -- found in old fortresses. |
| paillon | noun (n.) A thin leaf of metal, as for use in gilding or enameling, or to show through a translucent medium. |
| sillon | noun (n.) A work raised in the middle of a wide ditch, to defend it. |
| tenaillon | noun (n.) A work constructed on each side of the ravelins, to increase their strength, procure additional ground beyond the ditch, or cover the shoulders of the bastions. |
| vellon | noun (n.) A word occurring in the phrase real vellon. See the Note under Its Real. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (lon) - English Words That Ends with lon:
| abutilon | noun (n.) A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow. |
| aquilon | noun (n.) The north wind. |
| cephalon | noun (n.) The head. |
| chalon | noun (n.) A bed blanket. |
| coilon | noun (n.) A testicle. |
| colon | noun (n.) That part of the large intestines which extends from the caecum to the rectum. [See Illust of Digestion.] |
| | noun (n.) A point or character, formed thus [:], used to separate parts of a sentence that are complete in themselves and nearly independent, often taking the place of a conjunction. |
| confalon | noun (n.) One of a fraternity of seculars, also called Penitents. |
| diachylon | noun (n.) Alt. of Diachylum |
| diencephalon | noun (n.) The interbrain or thalamencephalon; -- sometimes abbreviated to dien. See Thalamencephalon. |
| decathlon | noun (n.) In the modern Olympic Games, a composite contest consisting of a 100-meter run, a broad jump, putting the shot, a running high-jump, a 400-meter run, throwing the discus, a 100-meter hurdle race, pole vaulting, throwing the javelin, and a 1500-meter run. |
| echelon | noun (n.) An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance. |
| | noun (n.) An arrangement of a fleet in a wedge or V formation. |
| | verb (v. t.) To place in echelon; to station divisions of troops in echelon. |
| | verb (v. i.) To take position in echelon. |
| eidolon | noun (n.) An image or representation; a form; a phantom; an apparition. |
| encephalon | noun (n.) The contents of the cranium; the brain. |
| epencephalon | noun (n.) The segment of the brain next behind the midbrain, including the cerebellum and pons; the hindbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to epen. |
| erythroxylon | noun (n.) A genus of shrubs or small trees of the Flax family, growing in tropical countries. E. Coca is the source of cocaine. See Coca. |
| felon | adjective (a.) A person who has committed a felony. |
| | adjective (a.) A person guilty or capable of heinous crime. |
| | adjective (a.) A kind of whitlow; a painful imflammation of the periosteum of a finger, usually of the last joint. |
| | adjective (a.) Characteristic of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious; cruel; traitorous; disloyal. |
| flon | noun (n. pl.) See Flo. |
| | (pl. ) of Flo |
| gonfalon | noun (n.) Alt. of Gonfanon |
| haematoxylon | noun (n.) A genus of leguminous plants containing but a single species, the H. Campechianum or logwood tree, native in Yucatan. |
| idolon | noun (n.) Appearance or image; a phantasm; a spectral image; also, a mental image or idea. |
| mamelon | noun (n.) A rounded hillock; a rounded elevation or protuberance. |
| matfelon | noun (n.) The knapweed (Centaurea nigra). |
| melon | noun (n.) The juicy fruit of certain cucurbitaceous plants, as the muskmelon, watermelon, and citron melon; also, the plant that produces the fruit. |
| | noun (n.) A large, ornamental, marine, univalve shell of the genus Melo. |
| merlon | noun (n.) One of the solid parts of a battlemented parapet; a battlement. See Illust. of Battlement. |
| mesencephalon | noun (n.) The middle segment of the brain; the midbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to mesen. See Brain. |
| mesocephalon | noun (n.) The pons Varolii. |
| mesocolon | noun (n.) The fold of peritoneum, or mesentery, attached to the colon. |
| metencephalon | noun (n.) The posterior part of the brain, including the medulla; the afterbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to meten. |
| monoxylon | noun (n.) A canoe or boat made from one piece of timber. |
| mouflon | noun (n.) A wild sheep (Ovis musimon), inhabiting the mountains of Sardinia, Corsica, etc. Its horns are very large, with a triangular base and rounded angles. It is supposed by some to be the original of the domestic sheep. Called also musimon or musmon. |
| muflon | noun (n.) See Mouflon. |
| muskmelon | noun (n.) The fruit of a cucubritaceous plant (Cicumis Melo), having a peculiar aromatic flavor, and cultivated in many varieties, the principal sorts being the cantaloupe, of oval form and yellowish flesh, and the smaller nutmeg melon with greenish flesh. See Illust. of Melon. |
| myelencephalon | noun (n.) The brain and spinal cord; the cerebro-spinal axis; the neuron. Sometimes abbreviated to myelencephal. |
| | noun (n.) The metencephalon. |
| myelon | noun (n.) The spinal cord. (Sometimes abbrev. to myel.) |
| myroxylon | noun (n.) A genus of leguminous trees of tropical America, the different species of which yield balsamic products, among which are balsam of Peru, and balsam of Tolu. The species were formerly referred to Myrospermum. |
| pademelon | noun (n.) See Wallaby. |
| pentathlon | noun (n.) A fivefold athletic performance peculiar to the great national games of the Greeks, including leaping, foot racing, wrestling, throwing the discus, and throwing the spear. |
| | noun (n.) In the modern Olympic Games, a composite contest made up of a running broad jump, throwing the javelin, a 200-meter run, throwing the discus, and a 1500-meter run. |
| postencephalon | noun (n.) The metencephalon. |
| propylon | noun (n.) The porch, vestibule, or entrance of an edifice. |
| prosencephalon | noun (n.) The anterior segment of the brain, including the cerebrum and olfactory lobes; the forebrain. |
| | noun (n.) The cerebrum. |
| pylon | noun (n.) A low tower, having a truncated pyramidal form, and flanking an ancient Egyptian gateway. |
| | noun (n.) An Egyptian gateway to a large building (with or without flanking towers). |
| | noun (n.) A tower, commonly of steelwork, for supporting either end of a wire, as for a telegraph line, over a long span. |
| | noun (n.) Formerly, a starting derrick (the use of which is now abandoned) for an aeroplane. |
| | noun (n.) A post, tower, or the like, as on an aerodrome, or flying ground, serving to bound or mark a prescribed course of flight. |
| pilon | noun (n.) A conical loaf of sugar. |
| | noun (n.) A gratuity given by tradesmen to customers settling their accounts. |
| rhinencephalon | noun (n.) The division of the brain in front of the prosencephalon, consisting of the two olfactory lobes from which the olfactory nerves arise. |
| salon | noun (n.) An apartment for the reception of company; hence, in the plural, fashionable parties; circles of fashionable society. |
| | noun (n.) An apartment for the reception and exhibition of works of art; hence, an annual exhibition of paintings, sculptures, etc., held in Paris by the Society of French Artists; -- sometimes called the Old Salon. New Salon is a popular name for an annual exhibition of paintings, sculptures, etc., held in Paris at the Champs de Mars, by the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts (National Society of Fine Arts), a body of artists who, in 1890, seceded from the Societe des Artistes Francais (Society of French Artists). |
| semicolon | noun (n.) The punctuation mark [;] indicating a separation between parts or members of a sentence more distinct than that marked by a comma. |
| sideroxylon | noun (n.) A genus of tropical sapotaceous trees noted for their very hard wood; ironwood. |
| solon | noun (n.) A celebrated Athenian lawmaker, born about 638 b. c.; hence, a legislator; a publicist; -- often used ironically. |
| stolon | noun (n.) A trailing branch which is disposed to take root at the end or at the joints; a stole. |
| | noun (n.) An extension of the integument of the body, or of the body wall, from which buds are developed, giving rise to new zooids, and thus forming a compound animal in which the zooids usually remain united by the stolons. Such stolons are often present in Anthozoa, Hydroidea, Bryozoa, and social ascidians. See Illust. under Scyphistoma. |
| talon | noun (n.) The claw of a predaceous bird or animal, especially the claw of a bird of prey. |
| | noun (n.) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of molding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; -- usually called an ogee. |
| | noun (n.) The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CADWALLON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 8 Letters (cadwallo) - Words That Begins with cadwallo:
Rhyming Words According to First 7 Letters (cadwall) - Words That Begins with cadwall:
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (cadwal) - Words That Begins with cadwal:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (cadwa) - Words That Begins with cadwa:
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (cadw) - Words That Begins with cadw:
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (cad) - Words That Begins with cad:
| cad | noun (n.) A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards. |
| | noun (n.) A lowbred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow. |
| cadastral | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to landed property. |
| cadastre | noun (n.) Alt. of Cadaster |
| cadaster | noun (n.) An official statement of the quantity and value of real estate for the purpose of apportioning the taxes payable on such property. |
| cadaver | noun (n.) A dead human body; a corpse. |
| cadaveric | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity. |
| cadaverous | adjective (a.) Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to, or having the qualities of, a dead body. |
| cadbait | noun (n.) See Caddice. |
| caddice | noun (n.) Alt. of Caddis |
| caddis | noun (n.) The larva of a caddice fly. These larvae generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces of broken shells, gravel, bits of wood, etc. They are a favorite bait with anglers. Called also caddice worm, or caddis worm. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of worsted lace or ribbon. |
| caddish | adjective (a.) Like a cad; lowbred and presuming. |
| caddow | noun (n.) A jackdaw. |
| caddy | noun (n.) A small box, can, or chest to keep tea in. |
| cade | noun (n.) A barrel or cask, as of fish. |
| | noun (n.) A species of juniper (Juniperus Oxycedrus) of Mediterranean countries. |
| | adjective (a.) Bred by hand; domesticated; petted. |
| | verb (v. t.) To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame. |
| cadence | noun (n.) The act or state of declining or sinking. |
| | noun (n.) A fall of the voice in reading or speaking, especially at the end of a sentence. |
| | noun (n.) A rhythmical modulation of the voice or of any sound; as, music of bells in cadence sweet. |
| | noun (n.) Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse. |
| | noun (n.) See Cadency. |
| | noun (n.) Harmony and proportion in motions, as of a well-managed horse. |
| | noun (n.) A uniform time and place in marching. |
| | noun (n.) The close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord. |
| | noun (n.) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy. |
| | verb (v. t.) To regulate by musical measure. |
| cadency | noun (n.) Descent of related families; distinction between the members of a family according to their ages. |
| cadene | noun (n.) A species of inferior carpet imported from the Levant. |
| cadent | adjective (a.) Falling. |
| cadenza | noun (n.) A parenthetic flourish or flight of ornament in the course of a piece, commonly just before the final cadence. |
| cader | noun (n.) See Cadre. |
| cadet | noun (n.) The younger of two brothers; a younger brother or son; the youngest son. |
| | noun (n.) A gentleman who carries arms in a regiment, as a volunteer, with a view of acquiring military skill and obtaining a commission. |
| | noun (n.) A young man in training for military or naval service; esp. a pupil in a military or naval school, as at West Point, Annapolis, or Woolwich. |
| | noun (n.) In New Zealand, a young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station. |
| | noun (n.) A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels. |
| cadetship | noun (n.) The position, rank, or commission of a cadet; as, to get a cadetship. |
| cadew | noun (n.) Alt. of Cadeworm |
| cadeworm | noun (n.) A caddice. See Caddice. |
| cadging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cadge |
| cadge | noun (n.) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale. |
| | verb (v. t. & i.) To carry, as a burden. |
| | verb (v. t. & i.) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc. |
| | verb (v. t. & i.) To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg. |
| cadger | noun (n.) One who carries hawks on a cadge. |
| | verb (v. t.) A packman or itinerant huckster. |
| | verb (v. t.) One who gets his living by trickery or begging. |
| cadgy | adjective (a.) Cheerful or mirthful, as after good eating or drinking; also, wanton. |
| cadi | noun (n.) An inferior magistrate or judge among the Mohammedans, usually the judge of a town or village. |
| cadie | noun (n.) Alt. of Caddie |
| caddie | noun (n.) A Scotch errand boy, porter, or messenger. |
| | noun (n.) A cadet. |
| | noun (n.) A lad; young fellow. |
| | noun (n.) One who does errands or other odd jobs. |
| | noun (n.) An attendant who carries a golf player's clubs, tees his ball, etc. |
| cadilesker | noun (n.) A chief judge in the Turkish empire, so named originally because his jurisdiction extended to the cases of soldiers, who are now tried only by their own officers. |
| cadillac | noun (n.) A large pear, shaped like a flattened top, used chiefly for cooking. |
| cadis | noun (n.) A kind of coarse serge. |
| cadmean | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Cadmus, a fabulous prince of Thebes, who was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet -- /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /. These are called Cadmean letters. |
| cadmia | noun (n.) An oxide of zinc which collects on the sides of furnaces where zinc is sublimed. Formerly applied to the mineral calamine. |
| cadmian | adjective (a.) See Cadmean. |
| cadmic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cadmium; as, cadmic sulphide. |
| cadmium | noun (n.) A comparatively rare element related to zinc, and occurring in some zinc ores. It is a white metal, both ductile and malleable. Symbol Cd. Atomic weight 111.8. It was discovered by Stromeyer in 1817, who named it from its association with zinc or zinc ore. |
| cadrans | noun (n.) An instrument with a graduated disk by means of which the angles of gems are measured in the process of cutting and polishing. |
| cadre | noun (n.) The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff. |
| caducary | adjective (a.) Relating to escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation. |
| caducean | adjective (a.) Of or belonging to Mercury's caduceus, or wand. |
| caduceus | noun (n.) The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two wings at the top. |
| caducibranchiate | adjective (a.) With temporary gills: -- applied to those Amphibia in which the gills do not remain in adult life. |
| caducity | noun (n.) Tendency to fall; the feebleness of old age; senility. |
| caduke | adjective (a.) Perishable; frail; transitory. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CADWALLON:
English Words which starts with 'cadw' and ends with 'llon':
English Words which starts with 'cad' and ends with 'lon':
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. |
| 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. |
