Name Report For First Name CAM:
CAM
First name CAM's origin is Scottish. CAM means "crooked or crooked mouth". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with CAM below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of cam.(Brown names are of the same origin (Scottish) with CAM and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with CAM - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming CAM
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES CAM AS A WHOLE:
camarin cambria camelia cami camara camber camden hippocampus pityocamptes ilhicamina camaron cambrie came camella camellia camelot cameo cameron cameryn camila camilah camile camilla camille camillei cammi camraya camryn cambeul camdan camdene camdin camdyn camelon camero camey camhlaidh camp camren camron camshron campbell camlann cammeo cacamwriNAMES RHYMING WITH CAM (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (am) - Names That Ends with am:
esinam selam ahlam hayam ikram in'am maram siham mirjam lam tham afram al-sham dar-el-salam derham abdul-hakam abdul-salam adham bassam esam haytham hisham humam husam isam tamam bertram gwynham bram nizam bartram brigham william uilleam priam abraham ram shyam adinam chilam mariam maryam miriam myriam abiram abracham abram adam addam amram aram avraham barram barthram beckham beorhthram beornham brigbam briggebam caddaham cunningham dunham elam ephram fitzadam graham gram grisham isenham jonam joram jotham kam liam lyam maeadam odam oram orham pratham segenam windham wyndham yerucham zemariam venjam gersham aviram amikam macadam wickam isham hallam gresham grantham graeham farnham chatham briggeham tristramNAMES RHYMING WITH CAM (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ca) - Names That Begins with ca:
cabal cabe cable cacanisius cace cacey cachamwri caci cacia cadabyr cadan cadassi cadby cadda caddari caddaric caddarik caddawyc cade cadee cadell caden cadena cadence cadencia cadenza cadeo cadha cadhla cadi cadie cadis cadman cadmon cadmus cador cadwallon cady cadyna caedmon caedon caedwalla caelan caeli caellum caeneus caerleon caerlion caersewiella caesar caesare cafall caffar caffara caffaria caflice cagney cahal cahir cahira cai caidance cailean caileigh cailen cailey cailie cailin cailleach caillen caillic cailsey cailym cailyn caimbeaul cain caindale caine caira cairbre cairistiona caiseal cait caith caitie caitilin caitlan caitland caitlin caitlinn caitly caitlyn caitlynn caitrin caius cal cala caladh calais calanNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CAM:
First Names which starts with 'c' and ends with 'm':
calibom calibum callum calum carm chaim chayim chiram chisholm chrysostom cim colleem colm colum crom cruim culum cymEnglish Words Rhyming CAM
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CAM AS A WHOLE:
| anacamptic | adjective (a.) Reflecting of reflected; as, an anacamptic sound (and echo). |
| anacamptics | noun (n.) The science of reflected light, now called catoptrics. |
| noun (n.) The science of reflected sounds. |
| antepredicament | noun (n.) A prerequisite to a clear understanding of the predicaments and categories, such as definitions of common terms. |
| atacamite | noun (n.) An oxychloride of copper, usually in emerald-green prismatic crystals. |
| bicameral | adjective (a.) Consisting of, or including, two chambers, or legislative branches. |
| caimacam | noun (n.) The governor of a sanjak or district in Turkey. |
| cam | noun (n.) A turning or sliding piece which, by the shape of its periphery or face, or a groove in its surface, imparts variable or intermittent motion to, or receives such motion from, a rod, lever, or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it. |
| noun (n.) A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together. | |
| noun (n.) A projecting part of a wheel or other moving piece so shaped as to give alternate or variable motion to another piece against which it acts. | |
| noun (n.) A ridge or mound of earth. | |
| adjective (a.) Crooked. |
| camaieu | noun (n.) A cameo. |
| noun (n.) Painting in shades of one color; monochrome. |
| camail | noun (n.) A neck guard of chain mall, hanging from the bascinet or other headpiece. |
| noun (n.) A hood of other material than mail; | |
| noun (n.) a hood worn in church services, -- the amice, or the like. |
| camarasaurus | noun (n.) A genus of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebrae. |
| camarilla | noun (n.) The private audience chamber of a king. |
| noun (n.) A company of secret and irresponsible advisers, as of a king; a cabal or clique. |
| camass | noun (n.) A blue-flowered liliaceous plant (Camassia esculenta) of northwestern America, the bulbs of which are collected for food by the Indians. |
| noun (n.) A small prairie in a forest; a small grassy plain among hills. |
| camber | noun (n.) An upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has a high camber (said of a vessel having an unusual convexity of deck). |
| noun (n.) An upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. See Hogback. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cut bend to an upward curve; to construct, as a deck, with an upward curve. | |
| verb (v. i.) To curve upward. |
| cambering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Camber |
| camberkeeled | adjective (a.) Having the keel arched upwards, but not actually hogged; -- said of a ship. |
| cambial | adjective (a.) Belonging to exchanges in commerce; of exchange. |
| cambist | noun (n.) A banker; a money changer or broker; one who deals in bills of exchange, or who is skilled in the science of exchange. |
| cambistry | noun (n.) The science of exchange, weight, measures, etc. |
| cambium | noun (n.) A series of formative cells lying outside of the wood proper and inside of the inner bark. The growth of new wood takes place in the cambium, which is very soft. |
| noun (n.) A fancied nutritive juice, formerly supposed to originate in the blood, to repair losses of the system, and to promote its increase. |
| camblet | noun (n.) See Camlet. |
| camboge | noun (n.) See Gamboge. |
| camboose | noun (n.) See Caboose. |
| cambrasine | noun (n.) A kind of linen cloth made in Egypt, and so named from its resemblance to cambric. |
| cambrel | noun (n.) See Gambrel, n., 2. |
| cambria | noun (n.) The ancient Latin name of Wales. It is used by modern poets. |
| cambrian | noun (n.) A native of Cambria or Wales. |
| noun (n.) The Cambrian formation. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Cambria or Wales. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the lowest subdivision of the rocks of the Silurian or Molluscan age; -- sometimes described as inferior to the Silurian. It is named from its development in Cambria or Wales. See the Diagram under Geology. |
| cambric | noun (n.) A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen. |
| noun (n.) A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures of various colors; -- also called cotton cambric, and cambric muslin. |
| came | noun (n.) A slender rod of cast lead, with or without grooves, used, in casements and stained-glass windows, to hold together the panes or pieces of glass. |
| () imp. of Come. | |
| (imp.) of Come |
| camel | noun (n.) A large ruminant used in Asia and Africa for carrying burdens and for riding. The camel is remarkable for its ability to go a long time without drinking. Its hoofs are small, and situated at the extremities of the toes, and the weight of the animal rests on the callous. The dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) has one bunch on the back, while the Bactrian camel (C. Bactrianus) has two. The llama, alpaca, and vicu–a, of South America, belong to a related genus (Auchenia). |
| noun (n.) A water-tight structure (as a large box or boxes) used to assist a vessel in passing over a shoal or bar or in navigating shallow water. By admitting water, the camel or camels may be sunk and attached beneath or at the sides of a vessel, and when the water is pumped out the vessel is lifted. |
| cameleon | noun (n.) See Chaceleon. |
| camellia | noun (n.) An Asiatic genus of small shrubs, often with shining leaves and showy flowers. Camellia Japonica is much cultivated for ornament, and C. Sassanqua and C. oleifera are grown in China for the oil which is pressed from their seeds. The tea plant is now referred to this genus under the name of Camellia Thea. |
| noun (n.) An ornamental greenhouse shrub (Thea japonica) with glossy evergreen leaves and roselike red or white double flowers. |
| camelopard | noun (n.) An African ruminant; the giraffe. See Giraffe. |
| camelot | noun (n.) See Camelet. |
| camelshair | adjective (a.) Of camel's hair. |
| cameo | noun (n.) A carving in relief, esp. one on a small scale used as a jewel for personal adornment, or like. |
| camera | noun (n.) A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Camera obscura. |
| camerade | noun (n.) See Comrade. |
| cameralistic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to finance and public revenue. |
| cameralistics | noun (n.) The science of finance or public revenue. |
| camerzting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Camerate |
| cameration | noun (n.) A vaulting or arching over. |
| camerlingo | noun (n.) The papal chamberlain; the cardinal who presides over the pope's household. He has at times possessed great power. |
| cameronian | noun (n.) A follower of the Rev. Richard Cameron, a Scotch Covenanter of the time of Charles II. |
| camis | noun (n.) A light, loose dress or robe. |
| camisade | noun (n.) Alt. of Camisado |
| camisado | noun (n.) A shirt worn by soldiers over their uniform, in order to be able to recognize one another in a night attack. |
| noun (n.) An attack by surprise by soldiers wearing the camisado. |
| camisard | noun (n.) One of the French Protestant insurgents who rebelled against Louis XIV, after the revocation of the edict of Nates; -- so called from the peasant's smock (camise) which they wore. |
| camisated | adjective (a.) Dressed with a shirt over the other garments. |
| camisole | noun (n.) A short dressing jacket for women. |
| noun (n.) A kind of straitjacket. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CAM (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (am) - English Words That Ends with am:
| aam | noun (n.) A Dutch and German measure of liquids, varying in different cities, being at Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, at Antwerp 36 1/2, at Hamburg 38 1/4. |
| adam | noun (n.) The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race. |
| noun (n.) "Original sin;" human frailty. |
| amalgam | noun (n.) An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; as, an amalgam of tin, bismuth, etc. |
| noun (n.) A mixture or compound of different things. | |
| noun (n.) A native compound of mercury and silver. | |
| verb (v. t. / i.) To amalgamate. |
| anagram | noun (n.) Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law. |
| verb (v. t.) To anagrammatize. |
| anemogram | noun (n.) A record made by an anemograph. |
| ascham | noun (n.) A sort of cupboard, or case, to contain bows and other implements of archery. |
| actinogram | noun (n.) A record made by the actinograph. |
| bairam | noun (n.) The name of two Mohammedan festivals, of which one is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and the other seventy days after the fast. |
| noun (n.) Either of two Mohammedan festivals, of which one (the Lesser Bairam) is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and the other (the Greater Bairam) seventy days after the fast. |
| balaam | noun (n.) A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out a newspaper column; -- an allusion to the miracle of Balaam's ass speaking. |
| balsam | noun (n.) A resin containing more or less of an essential or volatile oil. |
| noun (n.) A species of tree (Abies balsamea). | |
| noun (n.) An annual garden plant (Impatiens balsamina) with beautiful flowers; balsamine. | |
| noun (n.) Anything that heals, soothes, or restores. | |
| verb (v. t.) To treat or anoint with balsam; to relieve, as with balsam; to render balsamic. |
| bam | noun (n.) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax. |
| verb (v. t.) To cheat; to wheedle. |
| bantam | noun (n.) A variety of small barnyard fowl, with feathered legs, probably brought from Bantam, a district of Java. |
| bartram | noun (n.) See Bertram. |
| beam | noun (n.) Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use. |
| noun (n.) One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship. | |
| noun (n.) The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more beam than another. | |
| noun (n.) The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended. | |
| noun (n.) The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers, or branches. | |
| noun (n.) The pole of a carriage. | |
| noun (n.) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam. | |
| noun (n.) The straight part or shank of an anchor. | |
| noun (n.) The main part of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it. | |
| noun (n.) A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called also working beam or walking beam. | |
| noun (n.) A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat. | |
| noun (n.) Fig.: A ray; a gleam; as, a beam of comfort. | |
| noun (n.) One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk; -- called also beam feather. | |
| verb (v. t.) To send forth; to emit; -- followed ordinarily by forth; as, to beam forth light. | |
| verb (v. i.) To emit beams of light. |
| bedlam | noun (n.) A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse. |
| noun (n.) An insane person; a lunatic; a madman. | |
| noun (n.) Any place where uproar and confusion prevail. | |
| adjective (a.) Belonging to, or fit for, a madhouse. |
| beldam | noun (n.) Alt. of Beldame |
| bertram | noun (n.) Pellitory of Spain (Anacyclus pyrethrum). |
| bigam | noun (n.) A bigamist. |
| bokadam | noun (n.) See Cerberus. |
| bream | noun (n.) A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known. |
| noun (n.) An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Pomotis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. See Pondfish. | |
| noun (n.) A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera. See Sea Bream. | |
| verb (v. t.) To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping. |
| breastbeam | noun (n.) The front transverse beam of a locomotive. |
| brougham | noun (n.) A light, close carriage, with seats inside for two or four, and the fore wheels so arranged as to turn short. |
| buckram | noun (n.) A coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise. |
| noun (n.) A plant. See Ramson. | |
| adjective (a.) Made of buckram; as, a buckram suit. | |
| adjective (a.) Stiff; precise. | |
| verb (v. t.) To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff. |
| barogram | noun (n.) A tracing, usually made by the barograph, showing graphically the variations of atmospheric pressure for a given time. |
| cablegram | noun (n.) A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable. |
| centigram | noun (n.) Alt. of Centigramme |
| cham | noun (n.) The sovereign prince of Tartary; -- now usually written khan. |
| verb (v. t.) To chew. |
| chronogram | noun (n.) An inscription in which certain numeral letters, made to appear specially conspicuous, on being added together, express a particular date or epoch, as in the motto of a medal struck by Gustavus Adolphus in 1632: ChrIstVs DVX; ergo trIVMphVs.- the capitals of which give, when added as numerals, the sum 1632. |
| noun (n.) The record or inscription made by a chronograph. |
| chunam | noun (n.) Quicklime; also, plaster or mortar. |
| clam | noun (n.) Claminess; moisture. |
| noun (n.) A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once. | |
| verb (v. t.) A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve. | |
| verb (v. t.) Strong pinchers or forceps. | |
| verb (v. t.) A kind of vise, usually of wood. | |
| verb (v. t.) To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang. |
| cofferdam | noun (n.) A water-tight inclosure, as of piles packed with clay, from which the water is pumped to expose the bottom (of a river, etc.) and permit the laying of foundations, building of piers, etc. |
| commendam | noun (n.) A vacant living or benefice commended to a cleric (usually a bishop) who enjoyed the revenue until a pastor was provided. A living so held was said to be held in commendam. The practice was abolished by law in 1836. |
| cram | noun (n.) The act of cramming. |
| noun (n.) Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination. | |
| noun (n.) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed. | |
| verb (v. t.) To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fill with food to satiety; to stuff. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor. | |
| verb (v. i.) To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study. |
| cream | noun (n.) The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is obtained. |
| noun (n.) The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface. | |
| noun (n.) A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream. | |
| noun (n.) A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation. | |
| noun (n.) The best or choicest part of a thing; the quintessence; as, the cream of a jest or story; the cream of a collection of books or pictures. | |
| verb (v. t.) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream. | |
| verb (v. t.) To take off the best or choicest part of. | |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish with, or as with, cream. | |
| verb (v. i.) To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to mantle. |
| crossbeam | noun (n.) A girder. |
| noun (n.) A beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is fastened when riding at anchor. |
| cryptogam | noun (n.) A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia. |
| cryptogram | noun (n.) A cipher writing. Same as Cryptograph. |
| cardiogram | noun (n.) The curve or tracing made by a cardiograph. |
| cartogram | noun (n.) A map showing geographically, by shades or curves, statistics of various kinds; a statistical map. |
| dam | noun (n.) A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother. |
| noun (n.) A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts. | |
| noun (n.) A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water. | |
| noun (n.) A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace. | |
| verb (v. t.) To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; -- generally used with in or up. | |
| verb (v. t.) To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain. |
| daydream | noun (n.) A vain fancy speculation; a reverie; a castle in the air; unfounded hope. |
| decagram | noun (n.) Alt. of Decagramme |
| decigram | noun (n.) Alt. of Decigramme |
| dekagram | noun (n.) Same as Decagram. |
| diagram | noun (n.) A figure or drawing made to illustrate a statement, or facilitate a demonstration; a plan. |
| noun (n.) Any simple drawing made for mathematical or scientific purposes, or to assist a verbal explanation which refers to it; a mechanical drawing, as distinguished from an artistical one. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put into the form of a diagram. |
| digram | noun (n.) A digraph. |
| dram | noun (n.) A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce, or 27.34375 grains. |
| noun (n.) A minute quantity; a mite. | |
| noun (n.) As much spirituous liquor as is usually drunk at once; as, a dram of brandy; hence, a potation or potion; as, a dram of poison. | |
| noun (n.) A Persian daric. | |
| verb (v. i. & t.) To drink drams; to ply with drams. |
| dream | noun (n.) The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision. |
| noun (n.) A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; -- in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth. | |
| noun (n.) To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; -- often with of; as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend. | |
| noun (n.) To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have a visionary notion or idea; to imagine. | |
| verb (v. t.) To have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; -- often followed by an objective clause. |
| durham | noun (n.) One or a breed of short-horned cattle, originating in the county of Durham, England. The Durham cattle are noted for their beef-producing quality. |
| dynam | noun (n.) A unit of measure for dynamical effect or work; a foot pound. See Foot pound. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CAM (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (ca) - Words That Begins with ca:
| caaba | noun (n.) The small and nearly cubical stone building, toward which all Mohammedans must pray. |
| caas | noun (n. sing. & pl.) Case. |
| cab | noun (n.) A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle. |
| noun (n.) The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station. | |
| noun (n.) A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints. |
| cabal | noun (n.) Tradition; occult doctrine. See Cabala |
| noun (n.) A secret. | |
| noun (n.) A number of persons united in some close design, usually to promote their private views and interests in church or state by intrigue; a secret association composed of a few designing persons; a junto. | |
| noun (n.) The secret artifices or machinations of a few persons united in a close design; intrigue. | |
| verb (v. i.) To unite in a small party to promote private views and interests by intrigue; to intrigue; to plot. |
| caballing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cabal |
| cabala | noun (n.) A kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain mediaeval Christians, which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence. It assumes that every letter, word, number, and accent of Scripture contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings. The cabalists pretend even to foretell events by this means. |
| noun (n.) Secret science in general; mystic art; mystery. |
| cabalism | noun (n.) The secret science of the cabalists. |
| noun (n.) A superstitious devotion to the mysteries of the religion which one professes. |
| cabalist | noun (n.) One versed in the cabala, or the mysteries of Jewish traditions. |
| cabalistic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Cabalistical |
| cabalistical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the cabala; containing or conveying an occult meaning; mystic. |
| caballer | noun (n.) One who cabals. |
| caballine | noun (n.) Caballine aloes. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a horse. |
| cabaret | noun (n.) A tavern; a house where liquors are retailed. |
| noun (n.) a type of restaurant where liquor and dinner is served, and entertainment is provided, as by musicians, dancers, or comedians, and providing space for dancing by the patrons; -- similar to a nightclub. The term cabaret is often used in the names of such an establishment. | |
| noun (n.) the type of entertainment provided in a cabaret{2}. | |
| noun (n.) In the United States, a cafe or restaurant where the guests are entertained by performers who dance or sing on the floor between the tables, after the practice of a certain class of French taverns; hence, an entertainment of this nature. |
| cabas | noun (n.) A flat basket or frail for figs, etc.; hence, a lady's flat workbasket, reticule, or hand bag; -- often written caba. |
| cabassou | noun (n.) A species of armadillo of the genus Xenurus (X. unicinctus and X. hispidus); the tatouay. |
| cabbage | noun (n.) An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The common cabbage has a compact head of leaves. The cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, etc., are sometimes classed as cabbages. |
| noun (n.) The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used, like, cabbage, for food. See Cabbage tree, below. | |
| noun (n.) The cabbage palmetto. See below. | |
| noun (n.) Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments. | |
| verb (v. i.) To form a head like that the cabbage; as, to make lettuce cabbage. | |
| verb (v. i.) To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer. |
| cabbaging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cabbage |
| cabbler | noun (n.) One who works at cabbling. |
| cabbling | noun (n.) The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be reheated and wrought into bar iron. |
| cabeca | noun (n.) Alt. of Cabesse |
| cabesse | noun (n.) The finest kind of silk received from India. |
| caber | noun (n.) A pole or beam used in Scottish games for tossing as a trial of strength. |
| noun (n.) A pole or beam, esp. one used in Gaelic games for tossing as a trial of strength. |
| cabezon | noun (n.) A California fish (Hemilepidotus spinosus), allied to the sculpin. |
| cabiai | noun (n.) The capybara. See Capybara. |
| cabin | noun (n.) A cottage or small house; a hut. |
| noun (n.) A small room; an inclosed place. | |
| noun (n.) A room in ship for officers or passengers. | |
| verb (v. i.) To live in, or as in, a cabin; to lodge. | |
| verb (v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a cabin. |
| cabining | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cabin |
| cabinet | noun (n.) A hut; a cottage; a small house. |
| noun (n.) A small room, or retired apartment; a closet. | |
| noun (n.) A private room in which consultations are held. | |
| noun (n.) The advisory council of the chief executive officer of a nation; a cabinet council. | |
| noun (n.) A set of drawers or a cupboard intended to contain articles of value. Hence: | |
| noun (n.) A decorative piece of furniture, whether open like an etagere or closed with doors. See Etagere. | |
| noun (n.) Any building or room set apart for the safe keeping and exhibition of works of art, etc.; also, the collection itself. | |
| adjective (a.) Suitable for a cabinet; small. | |
| verb (v. i.) To inclose |
| cabineting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cabinet |
| cabinetmaker | noun (n.) One whose occupation is to make cabinets or other choice articles of household furniture, as tables, bedsteads, bureaus, etc. |
| cabinetmaking | noun (n.) The art or occupation of making the finer articles of household furniture. |
| cabinetwork | noun (n.) The art or occupation of working upon wooden furniture requiring nice workmanship; also, such furniture. |
| cabirean | noun (n.) One of the Cabiri. |
| cabbiri | noun (n. pl.) Certain deities originally worshiped with mystical rites by the Pelasgians in Lemnos and Samothrace and afterwards throughout Greece; -- also called sons of Hephaestus (or Vulcan), as being masters of the art of working metals. |
| cabirian | adjective (a.) Same as Cabiric. |
| cabiric | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cabiri, or to their mystical worship. |
| cable | noun (n.) A large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used to retain a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. It is made of hemp, of steel wire, or of iron links. |
| noun (n.) A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension bridge; a telegraphic cable. | |
| noun (n.) A molding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope; -- called also cable molding. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fasten with a cable. | |
| verb (v. t.) To ornament with cabling. See Cabling. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To telegraph by a submarine cable |
| cabling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cable |
| noun (n.) The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft. |
| cabled | adjective (a.) Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope. |
| adjective (a.) Adorned with cabling. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Cable |
| cablelaid | adjective (a.) Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable. |
| adjective (a.) Twisted after the manner of a cable; as, a cable-laid gold chain. |
| cablet | noun (n.) A little cable less than ten inches in circumference. |
| cabman | noun (n.) The driver of a cab. |
| cabob | noun (n.) A small piece of mutton or other meat roasted on a skewer; -- so called in Turkey and Persia. |
| noun (n.) A leg of mutton roasted, stuffed with white herrings and sweet herbs. | |
| verb (v. t.) To roast, as a cabob. |
| caboched | adjective (a.) Showing the full face, but nothing of the neck; -- said of the head of a beast in armorial bearing. |
| caboodle | noun (n.) The whole collection; the entire quantity or number; -- usually in the phrase the whole caboodle. |
| caboose | noun (n.) A house on deck, where the cooking is done; -- commonly called the galley. |
| noun (n.) A car used on freight or construction trains for brakemen, workmen, etc.; a tool car. |
| cabotage | noun (n.) Navigation along the coast; the details of coast pilotage. |
| cabree | noun (n.) The pronghorn antelope. |
| cabrerite | noun (n.) An apple-green mineral, a hydrous arseniate of nickel, cobalt, and magnesia; -- so named from the Sierra Cabrera, Spain. |
| cabrilla | noun (n.) A name applied to various species of edible fishes of the genus Serranus, and related genera, inhabiting the Meditarranean, the coast of California, etc. In California, some of them are also called rock bass and kelp salmon. |
| cabriole | noun (n.) A curvet; a leap. See Capriole. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CAM:
English Words which starts with 'c' and ends with 'm':
| cadeworm | noun (n.) A caddice. See Caddice. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| caladium | noun (n.) A genus of aroideous plants, of which some species are cultivated for their immense leaves (which are often curiously blotched with white and red), and others (in Polynesia) for food. |
| calamistrum | noun (n.) A comblike structure on the metatarsus of the hind legs of certain spiders (Ciniflonidae), used to curl certain fibers in the construction of their webs. |
| calcaneum | noun (n.) One of the bones of the tarsus which in man, forms the great bone of the heel; -- called also fibulare. |
| calceiform | adjective (a.) Shaped like a slipper, as one petal of the lady's-slipper; calceolate. |
| calciform | adjective (a.) In the form of chalk or lime. |
| calcium | noun (n.) An elementary substance; a metal which combined with oxygen forms lime. It is of a pale yellow color, tenacious, and malleable. It is a member of the alkaline earth group of elements. Atomic weight 40. Symbol Ca. |
| calistheneum | noun (n.) A gymnasium; esp. one for light physical exercise by women and children. |
| callosum | noun (n.) The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus. |
| calm | noun (n.) Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility; stillness; quiet; serenity. |
| noun (n.) To make calm; to render still or quiet, as elements; as, to calm the winds. | |
| noun (n.) To deliver from agitation or excitement; to still or soothe, as the mind or passions. | |
| (super.) Not stormy; without motion, as of winds or waves; still; quiet; serene; undisturbed. | |
| (super.) Undisturbed by passion or emotion; not agitated or excited; tranquil; quiet in act or speech. |
| calvinism | noun (n.) The theological tenets or doctrines of John Calvin (a French theologian and reformer of the 16th century) and his followers, or of the so-called calvinistic churches. |
| calyciform | adjective (a.) Having the form or appearance of a calyx. |
| calyptriform | adjective (a.) Having the form a calyptra, or extinguisher. |
| campaniform | adjective (a.) Bell-shaped. |
| campaniliform | adjective (a.) Bell-shaped; campanulate; campaniform. |
| cancriform | adjective (a.) Having the form of, or resembling, a crab; crab-shaped. |
| adjective (a.) Like a cancer; cancerous. |
| candelabrum | noun (n.) A lamp stand of any sort. |
| noun (n.) A highly ornamented stand of marble or other ponderous material, usually having three feet, -- frequently a votive offering to a temple. | |
| noun (n.) A large candlestick, having several branches. |
| cankerworm | noun (n.) The larva of two species of geometrid moths which are very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating, and often entirely destroying, the foliage. Other similar larvae are also called cankerworms. |
| cannibalism | noun (n.) The act or practice of eating human flesh by mankind. Hence; Murderous cruelty; barbarity. |
| capilliform | adjective (a.) In the shape or form of, a hair, or of hairs. |
| capitatim | adjective (a.) Of so much per head; as, a capitatim tax; a capitatim grant. |
| capitulum | noun (n.) A thick head of flowers on a very short axis, as a clover top, or a dandelion; a composite flower. A capitulum may be either globular or flat. |
| noun (n.) A knoblike protuberance of any part, esp. at the end of a bone or cartilage. [See Illust. of Artiodactyla.] |
| capriform | adjective (a.) Having the form of a goat. |
| capsicum | noun (n.) A genus of plants of many species, producing capsules or dry berries of various forms, which have an exceedingly pungent, biting taste, and when ground form the red or Cayenne pepper of commerce. |
| carbonarism | noun (n.) The principles, practices, or organization of the Carbonari. |
| cardamom | noun (n.) The aromatic fruit, or capsule with its seeds, of several plants of the Ginger family growing in the East Indies and elsewhere, and much used as a condiment, and in medicine. |
| noun (n.) A plant which produces cardamoms, esp. Elettaria Cardamomum and several species of Amomum. |
| carnalism | noun (n.) The state of being carnal; carnality; sensualism. |
| carom | noun (n.) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball. In England it is called cannon. |
| verb (v. i.) To make a carom. |
| carpellum | noun (n.) A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See Illust of Carpaphore. |
| carrom | noun (n.) See Carom. |
| cartesianism | noun (n.) The philosophy of Descartes. |
| caseum | noun (n.) Same as Casein. |
| caseworm | noun (n.) A worm or grub that makes for itself a case. See Caddice. |
| castoreum | noun (n.) A peculiar bitter orange-brown substance, with strong, penetrating odor, found in two sacs between the anus and external genitals of the beaver; castor; -- used in medicine as an antispasmodic, and by perfumers. |
| casualism | noun (n.) The doctrine that all things exist or are controlled by chance. |
| cataclysm | noun (n.) An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge. |
| noun (n.) Any violent catastrophe, involving sudden and extensive changes of the earth's surface. |
| catapasm | noun (n.) A compound medicinal powder, used by the ancients to sprinkle on ulcers, to absorb perspiration, etc. |
| cataplasm | noun (n.) A soft and moist substance applied externally to some part of the body; a poultice. |
| catasterism | noun (n.) A placing among the stars; a catalogue of stars. |
| catastrophism | noun (n.) The doctrine that the geological changes in the earth's crust have been caused by the sudden action of violent physical causes; -- opposed to the doctrine of uniformism. |
| catechism | noun (n.) A form of instruction by means of questions and answers. |
| noun (n.) A book containing a summary of principles, especially of religious doctrine, reduced to the form of questions and answers. |
| catheterism | noun (n.) Alt. of Catheterization |
| catholicism | noun (n.) The state or quality of being catholic or universal; catholicity. |
| noun (n.) Liberality of sentiment; breadth of view. | |
| noun (n.) The faith of the whole orthodox Christian church, or adherence thereto. | |
| noun (n.) The doctrines or faith of the Roman Catholic church, or adherence thereto. |
| cauliform | adjective (a.) Having the form of a caulis. |
| cauterism | noun (n.) The use or application of a caustic; cautery. |
| cavalierism | noun (n.) The practice or principles of cavaliers. |
| celticism | noun (n.) A custom of the Celts, or an idiom of their language. |
| cenobitism | noun (n.) The state of being a cenobite; the belief or practice of a cenobite. |
| centesm | noun (n.) Hundredth. |
| centonism | noun (n.) The composition of a cento; the act or practice of composing a cento or centos. |
| centralism | noun (n.) The state or condition of being central; the combination of several parts into one whole; centralization. |
| noun (n.) The system by which power is centralized, as in a government. |
| centrum | noun (n.) The body, or axis, of a vertebra. See Vertebra. |
| cephalanthium | noun (n.) Same as Anthodium. |
| cerebellum | noun (n.) The large lobe of the hind brain in front of and above the medulla; the little brain. It controls combined muscular action. See Brain. |
| cerebralism | noun (n.) The doctrine or theory that psychical phenomena are functions or products of the brain only. |
| cerebriform | adjective (a.) Like the brain in form or substance. |
| cerebrum | noun (n.) The anterior, and in man the larger, division of the brain; the seat of the reasoning faculties and the will. See Brain. |
| ceremonialism | noun (n.) Adherence to external rites; fondness for ceremony. |
| cerium | noun (n.) A rare metallic element, occurring in the minerals cerite, allanite, monazite, etc. Symbol Ce. Atomic weight 141.5. It resembles iron in color and luster, but is soft, and both malleable and ductile. It tarnishes readily in the air. |
| cesarism | noun (n.) See Caesarism. |
| chaldaism | noun (n.) An idiom or peculiarity in the Chaldee dialect. |
| characterism | noun (n.) A distinction of character; a characteristic. |
| charism | noun (n.) A miraculously given power, as of healing, speaking foreign languages without instruction, etc., attributed to some of the early Christians. |
| charlatanism | noun (n.) Charlatanry. |
| charm | noun (n.) A melody; a song. |
| noun (n.) A word or combination of words sung or spoken in the practice of magic; a magical combination of words, characters, etc.; an incantation. | |
| noun (n.) That which exerts an irresistible power to please and attract; that which fascinates; any alluring quality. | |
| noun (n.) Anything worn for its supposed efficacy to the wearer in averting ill or securing good fortune. | |
| noun (n.) Any small decorative object worn on the person, as a seal, a key, a silver whistle, or the like. Bunches of charms are often worn at the watch chain. | |
| noun (n.) To make music upon; to tune. | |
| noun (n.) To subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to affect by magic. | |
| noun (n.) To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe. | |
| noun (n.) To attract irresistibly; to delight exceedingly; to enchant; to fascinate. | |
| noun (n.) To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences; as, a charmed life. | |
| verb (v. i.) To use magic arts or occult power; to make use of charms. | |
| verb (v. i.) To act as, or produce the effect of, a charm; to please greatly; to be fascinating. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make a musical sound. |
| chartism | noun (n.) The principles of a political party in England (1838-48), which contended for universal suffrage, the vote by ballot, annual parliaments, equal electoral districts, and other radical reforms, as set forth in a document called the People's Charter. |
| chasm | noun (n.) A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure. |
| noun (n.) A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men. |
| chattelism | noun (n.) The act or condition of holding chattels; the state of being a chattel. |
| chauvinism | noun (n.) Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism. |
| cheiropterygium | noun (n.) The typical pentadactyloid limb of the higher vertebrates. |
| cheirotherium | noun (n.) A genus of extinct animals, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| cheliform | adjective (a.) Having a movable joint or finger closing against a preceding joint or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be used for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike. |
| chemism | noun (n.) The force exerted between the atoms of elementary substance whereby they unite to form chemical compounds; chemical attaction; affinity; -- sometimes used as a general expression for chemical activity or relationship. |
| cherubim | noun (n.) The Hebrew plural of Cherub.. Cf. Seraphim. |
| (pl. ) of Cherub |
| chessom | noun (n.) Mellow earth; mold. |
| chiasm | noun (n.) Alt. of Chiasma |
| chiliasm | noun (n.) The millennium. |
| noun (n.) The doctrine of the personal reign of Christ on earth during the millennium. |
| chloralism | noun (n.) A morbid condition of the system resulting from excessive use of chloral. |
| chloralum | noun (n.) An impure aqueous solution of chloride of aluminium, used as an antiseptic and disinfectant. |
| chloroform | noun (n.) A colorless volatile liquid, CHCl3, having an ethereal odor and a sweetish taste, formed by treating alcohol with chlorine and an alkali. It is a powerful solvent of wax, resin, etc., and is extensively used to produce anaesthesia in surgical operations; also externally, to alleviate pain. |
| verb (v. t.) To treat with chloroform, or to place under its influence. |
| choleriform | adjective (a.) Resembling cholera. |
| chrism | noun (n.) Olive oil mixed with balm and spices, consecrated by the bishop on Maundy Thursday, and used in the administration of baptism, confirmation, ordination, etc. |
| noun (n.) The same as Chrisom. |
| chrisom | noun (n.) A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened. |
| noun (n.) A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it. |
| christendom | noun (n.) The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it. |
| noun (n.) The name received at baptism; or, more generally, any name or appelation. | |
| noun (n.) That portion of the world in which Christianity prevails, or which is governed under Christian institutions, in distinction from heathen or Mohammedan lands. | |
| noun (n.) The whole body of Christians. |
| christianism | noun (n.) The Christian religion. |
| noun (n.) The Christian world; Christendom. |
| christom | noun (n.) See Chrisom. |
| chromatism | noun (n.) The state of being colored, as in the case of images formed by a lens. |
| noun (n.) An abnormal coloring of plants. |
| chromism | noun (n.) Same as Chromatism. |
| chromium | noun (n.) A comparatively rare element occurring most abundantly in the mineral chromite. Atomic weight 52.5. Symbol Cr. When isolated it is a hard, brittle, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty. Its chief commercial importance is for its compounds, as potassium chromate, lead chromate, etc., which are brilliantly colored and are used dyeing and calico printing. Called also chrome. |
| chrysanthemum | noun (n.) A genus of composite plants, mostly perennial, and of many species including the many varieties of garden chrysanthemums (annual and perennial), and also the feverfew and the oxeye daisy. |
| chrysosperm | noun (n.) The seed of gold; a means of creating gold. |
| chum | noun (n.) A roommate, especially in a college or university; an old and intimate friend. |
| noun (n.) Chopped pieces of fish used as bait. | |
| verb (v. i.) To occupy a chamber with another; as, to chum together at college. |
| churchdom | noun (n.) The institution, government, or authority of a church. |
| churchism | noun (n.) Strict adherence to the forms or principles of some church organization; sectarianism. |
| chirm | noun (n.) Clamor, or confused noise; buzzing. |
| noun (n.) Noise; din; esp.; confused noise, clamor, or hum of many voices, notes of birds, or the like. | |
| verb (v. i.) To chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird. |
| churrworm | noun (n.) An insect that turns about nimbly; the mole cricket; -- called also fan cricket. |
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