First Names Rhyming CAMSHRON
English Words Rhyming CAMSHRON
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CAMSHRON AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CAMSHRON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (amshron) - English Words That Ends with amshron:
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (mshron) - English Words That Ends with mshron:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (shron) - English Words That Ends with shron:
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (hron) - English Words That Ends with hron:
| plethron | noun (n.) Alt. of Plethrum |
| pronephron | noun (n.) The head kidney. See under Head. |
| southron | noun (n.) An inhabitant of the more southern part of a country; formerly, a name given in Scotland to any Englishman. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ron) - English Words That Ends with ron:
| acheron | noun (n.) A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf. |
| almendron | noun (n.) The lofty Brazil-nut tree. |
| anatron | noun (n.) Native carbonate of soda; natron. |
| | noun (n.) Glass gall or sandiver. |
| | noun (n.) Saltpeter. |
| andiron | noun (n.) A utensil for supporting wood when burning in a fireplace, one being placed on each side; a firedog; as, a pair of andirons. |
| andron | noun (n.) The apartment appropriated for the males. This was in the lower part of the house. |
| apastron | noun (n.) That point in the orbit of a double star where the smaller star is farthest from its primary. |
| apron | noun (n.) An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings. |
| | noun (n.) Something which by its shape or use suggests an apron; |
| | noun (n.) The fat skin covering the belly of a goose or duck. |
| | noun (n.) A piece of leather, or other material, to be spread before a person riding on an outside seat of a vehicle, to defend him from the rain, snow, or dust; a boot. |
| | noun (n.) A leaden plate that covers the vent of a cannon. |
| | noun (n.) A piece of carved timber, just above the foremost end of the keel. |
| | noun (n.) A platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut. |
| | noun (n.) A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent. |
| | noun (n.) The piece that holds the cutting tool of a planer. |
| | noun (n.) A strip of lead which leads the drip of a wall into a gutter; a flashing. |
| | noun (n.) The infolded abdomen of a crab. |
| archenteron | noun (n.) The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination. |
| aileron | noun (n.) A half gable, as at the end of a penthouse or of the aisle of a church. |
| | noun (n.) A small plane or surface capable of being manipulated by the pilot of a flying machine to preserve or destroy lateral balance; a hinged wing tip; a lateral stabilizing or balancing plane. |
| baron | noun (n.) A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount. |
| | noun (n.) A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife. |
| beakiron | noun (n.) A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil. |
| boron | noun (n.) A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive color, in a semimetallic form, and in colorless quadratic crystals similar to the diamond in hardness and other properties. It occurs in nature also in boracite, datolite, tourmaline, and some other minerals. Atomic weight 10.9. Symbol B. |
| caldron | noun (n.) A large kettle or boiler of copper, brass, or iron. [Written also cauldron.] |
| catoptron | noun (n.) A reflecting optical glass or instrument; a mirror. |
| catopron | noun (n.) See Catopter. |
| chaldron | noun (n.) An English dry measure, being, at London, 36 bushels heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle. Now used exclusively for coal and coke. |
| chamfron | noun (n.) The frontlet, or head armor, of a horse. |
| chaperon | noun (n.) A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood. |
| | noun (n.) A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals. |
| | noun (n.) A matron who accompanies a young lady in public, for propriety, or as a guide and protector. |
| | verb (v. t.) To attend in public places as a guide and protector; to matronize. |
| charon | noun (n.) The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions. |
| chaudron | noun (n.) See Chawdron. |
| chauldron | noun (n.) See Chawdron. |
| chawdron | noun (n.) Entrails. |
| chevron | noun (n.) One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center. |
| | noun (n.) A distinguishing mark, above the elbow, on the sleeve of a non-commissioned officer's coat. |
| | noun (n.) A zigzag molding, or group of moldings, common in Norman architecture. |
| chiliahedron | noun (n.) A figure bounded by a thousand plane surfaces |
| citron | noun (n.) A fruit resembling a lemon, but larger, and pleasantly aromatic. The thick rind, when candied, is the citron of commerce. |
| | noun (n.) A citron tree. |
| | noun (n.) A citron melon. |
| cobiron | noun (n.) An andiron with a knob at the top. |
| cascaron | noun (n.) Lit., an eggshell; hence, an eggshell filled with confetti to be thrown during balls, carnivals, etc. |
| coelectron | noun (n.) See Electron. |
| decahedron | noun (n.) A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces. |
| decameron | noun (n.) A celebrated collection of tales, supposed to be related in ten days; -- written in the 14th century, by Boccaccio, an Italian. |
| deltohedron | noun (n.) A solid bounded by twelve quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the isometric system, allied to the tetrahedron. |
| diatessaron | noun (n.) The interval of a fourth. |
| | noun (n.) A continuous narrative arranged from the first four books of the New Testament. |
| | noun (n.) An electuary compounded of four medicines. |
| dihedron | noun (n.) A figure with two sides or surfaces. |
| dodecahedron | noun (n.) A solid having twelve faces. |
| duodecahedron | noun (n.) See Dodecahedral, and Dodecahedron. |
| dzeron | noun (n.) The Chinese yellow antelope (Procapra gutturosa), a remarkably swift-footed animal, inhabiting the deserts of Central Asia, Thibet, and China. |
| ecderon | noun (n.) See Ecteron. |
| ecteron | noun (n.) The external layer of the skin and mucous membranes; epithelium; ecderon. |
| ekaboron | noun (n.) The name given by Mendelejeff in accordance with the periodic law, and by prediction, to a hypothetical element then unknown, but since discovered and named scandium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the boron group. See Scandium. |
| electron | noun (n.) Amber; also, the alloy of gold and silver, called electrum. |
| | () One of those particles, having about one thousandth the mass of a hydrogen atom, which are projected from the cathode of a vacuum tube as the cathode rays and from radioactive substances as the beta rays; -- called also corpuscle. The electron carries (or is) a natural unit of negative electricity, equal to 3.4 x 10-10 electrostatic units. It has been detected only when in rapid motion; its mass, which is electromagnetic, is practically constant at the lesser speeds, but increases as the velocity approaches that of light. Electrons are all of one kind, so far as known, and probably are the ultimate constituents of all atoms. An atom from which an electron has been detached has a positive charge and is called a coelectron. |
| elytron | noun (n.) Alt. of Elytrum |
| enderon | noun (n.) The deep sensitive and vascular layer of the skin and mucous membranes. |
| enheahedron | noun (n.) A figure having nine sides; a nonagon. |
| enteron | noun (n.) The whole alimentary, or enteric, canal. |
| entoplastron | noun (n.) The median plate of the plastron of turtles; -- called also entosternum. |
| ephemeron | noun (n.) One of the ephemeral flies. |
| epimeron | noun (n.) In crustaceans: The part of the side of a somite external to the basal joint of each appendage. |
| | noun (n.) In insects: The lateral piece behind the episternum. |
| epiplastron | noun (n.) One of the first pair of lateral plates in the plastron of turtles. |
| epoophoron | noun (n.) See Parovarium. |
| exametron | noun (n.) An hexameter. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CAMSHRON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 7 Letters (camshro) - Words That Begins with camshro:
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (camshr) - Words That Begins with camshr:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (camsh) - Words That Begins with camsh:
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (cams) - Words That Begins with cams:
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (cam) - Words That Begins with cam:
| 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. |
| camlet | noun (n.) A woven fabric originally made of camel's hair, now chiefly of goat's hair and silk, or of wool and cotton. |
| camleted | adjective (a.) Wavy or undulating like camlet; veined. |
| cammas | noun (n.) See Camass. |
| cammock | noun (n.) A plant having long hard, crooked roots, the Ononis spinosa; -- called also rest-harrow. The Scandix Pecten-Veneris is also called cammock. |
| camomile | noun (n.) Alt. of Chamomile |
| camonflet | noun (n.) A small mine, sometimes formed in the wall or side of an enemy's gallery, to blow in the earth and cut off the retreat of the miners. |
| camous | adjective (a.) Alt. of Camoys |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CAMSHRON:
English Words which starts with 'cam' and ends with 'ron':
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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
