First Names Rhyming CAROLUS
English Words Rhyming CAROLUS
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CAROLUS AS A WHOLE:
| carolus | noun (n.) An English gold coin of the value of twenty or twenty-three shillings. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CAROLUS (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (arolus) - English Words That Ends with arolus:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (rolus) - English Words That Ends with rolus:
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (olus) - English Words That Ends with olus:
| aeolus | noun (n.) The god of the winds. |
| alveolus | noun (n.) A cell in a honeycomb. |
| | noun (n.) A small cavity in a coral, shell, or fossil |
| | noun (n.) A small depression, sac, or vesicle, as the socket of a tooth, the air cells of the lungs, the ultimate saccules of glands, etc. |
| bolus | noun (n.) A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill. |
| discobolus | noun (n.) A thrower of the discus. |
| | noun (n.) A statue of an athlete holding the discus, or about to throw it. |
| dolus | noun (n.) Evil intent, embracing both malice and fraud. See Culpa. |
| embolus | noun (n.) Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe. |
| | noun (n.) A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism. |
| gladiolus | noun (n.) A genus of plants having bulbous roots and gladiate leaves, and including many species, some of which are cultivated and valued for the beauty of their flowers; the corn flag; the sword lily. |
| | noun (n.) The middle portion of the sternum in some animals; the mesosternum. |
| malleolus | noun (n.) A projection at the distal end of each bone of the leg at the ankle joint. The malleolus of the tibia is the internal projection, that of the fibula the external. |
| | noun (n.) " A layer, " a shoot partly buried in the ground, and there cut halfway through. |
| modiolus | noun (n.) The central column in the osseous cochlea of the ear. |
| nucleolus | noun (n.) A little nucleus. |
| | noun (n.) A small rounded body contained in the nucleus of a cell or a protozoan. |
| obolus | noun (n.) A small silver coin of Athens, the sixth part of a drachma, about three cents in value. |
| | noun (n.) An ancient weight, the sixth part of a drachm. |
| phaseolus | noun (n.) A genus of leguminous plants, including the Lima bean, the kidney bean, the scarlet runner, etc. See Bean. |
| solus | adjective (fem. a.) Alt. of Sola |
| urceolus | noun (n.) Any urn-shaped organ of a plant. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (lus) - English Words That Ends with lus:
| abaculus | noun (n.) A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements. |
| angelus | noun (n.) A form of devotion in which three Ave Marias are repeated. It is said at morning, noon, and evening, at the sound of a bell. |
| | noun (n.) The Angelus bell. |
| annulus | noun (n.) A ring; a ringlike part or space. |
| | noun (n.) A space contained between the circumferences of two circles, one within the other. |
| | noun (n.) The solid formed by a circle revolving around a line which is the plane of the circle but does not cut it. |
| | noun (n.) Ring-shaped structures or markings, found in, or upon, various animals. |
| argulus | noun (n.) A genus of copepod Crustacea, parasitic of fishes; a fish louse. See Branchiura. |
| arillus | noun (n.) A exterior covering, forming a false coat or appendage to a seed, as the loose, transparent bag inclosing the seed or the white water lily. The mace of the nutmeg is also an aril. |
| articulus | noun (n.) A joint of the cirri of the Crinoidea; a joint or segment of an arthropod appendage. |
| asilus | noun (n.) A genus of large and voracious two-winged flies, including the bee killer and robber fly. |
| astragalus | noun (n.) The ankle bone, or hock bone; the bone of the tarsus which articulates with the tibia at the ankle. |
| | noun (n.) A genus of papilionaceous plants, of the tribe Galegeae, containing numerous species, two of which are called, in English, milk vetch and licorice vetch. Gum tragacanth is obtained from different oriental species, particularly the A. gummifer and A. verus. |
| | noun (n.) See Astragal, 1. |
| bacillus | noun (n.) A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism. |
| baetulus | noun (n.) A meteorite, or similar rude stone artificially shaped, held sacred or worshiped as of divine origin. |
| bucephalus | noun (n.) The celebrated war horse of Alexander the Great. |
| | noun (n.) Hence, any riding horse. |
| calculus | noun (n.) Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A method of computation; any process of reasoning by the use of symbols; any branch of mathematics that may involve calculation. |
| callus | noun (n.) Same as Callosity |
| | noun (n.) The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistence, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece. |
| | noun (n.) The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets. |
| canaliculus | noun (n.) A minute canal. |
| cauliculus | noun (n.) In the Corinthian capital, one of the eight stalks rising out of the lower leafage and terminating in leaves which seem to support the volutes. See Illust. of Corinthian order, under Corinthian. |
| clitellus | noun (n.) A thickened glandular portion of the body of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes. |
| convolvulus | noun (n.) A large genus of plants having monopetalous flowers, including the common bindweed (C. arwensis), and formerly the morning-glory, but this is now transferred to the genus Ipomaea. |
| crotalus | noun (n.) A genus of poisonous serpents, including the rattlesnakes. |
| cumulus | noun (n.) One of the four principal forms of clouds. SeeCloud. |
| cucullus | noun (n.) A hood-shaped organ, resembling a cowl or monk's hood, as certain concave and arched sepals or petals. |
| | noun (n.) A color marking or structure on the head somewhat resembling a hood. |
| dracunculus | noun (n.) A fish; the dragonet. |
| | noun (n.) The Guinea worm (Filaria medinensis). |
| entellus | noun (n.) An East Indian long-tailed bearded monkey (Semnopithecus entellus) regarded as sacred by the natives. It is remarkable for the caplike arrangement of the hair on the head. Called also hoonoomaun and hungoor. |
| fasciculus | noun (n.) A little bundle; a fascicle. |
| | noun (n.) A division of a book. |
| flocculus | noun (n.) A small lobe in the under surface of the cerebellum, near the middle peduncle; the subpeduncular lobe. |
| funambulus | noun (n.) A ropewalker or ropedancer. |
| funiculus | noun (n.) A cord, baud, or bundle of fibers; esp., one of the small bundles of fibers, of which large nerves are made up; applied also to different bands of white matter in the brain and spinal cord. |
| | noun (n.) A short cord which connects the embryo of some myriapods with the amnion. |
| | noun (n.) In Bryozoa, an organ extending back from the stomach. See Bryozoa, and Phylactolema. |
| glomerulus | noun (n.) The bunch of looped capillary blood vessels in a Malpighian capsule of the kidney. |
| gryllus | noun (n.) A genus of insects including the common crickets. |
| hamulus | noun (n.) A hook, or hooklike process. |
| | noun (n.) A hooked barbicel of a feather. |
| hectocotylus | noun (n.) One of the arms of the male of most kinds of cephalopods, which is specially modified in various ways to effect the fertilization of the eggs. In a special sense, the greatly modified arm of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after receiving the spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to the female for reproductive purposes. |
| hilus | noun (n.) Same as Hilum, 2. |
| homunculus | noun (n.) A little man; a dwarf; a manikin. |
| hydrocaulus | noun (n.) The hollow stem of a hydroid, either simple or branched. See Illust. of Gymnoblastea and Hydroidea. |
| hydrocephalus | noun (n.) An accumulation of liquid within the cavity of the cranium, especially within the ventricles of the brain; dropsy of the brain. It is due usually to tubercular meningitis. When it occurs in infancy, it often enlarges the head enormously. |
| iulus | noun (n.) A genus of chilognathous myriapods. The body is long and round, consisting of numerous smooth, equal segments, each of which bears two pairs of short legs. It includes the galleyworms. See Chilognatha. |
| julus | noun (n.) A catkin or ament. See Ament. |
| lienculus | noun (n.) One of the small nodules sometimes found in the neighborhood of the spleen; an accessory or supplementary spleen. |
| limulus | noun (n.) The only existing genus of Merostomata. It includes only a few species from the East Indies, and one (Limulus polyphemus) from the Atlantic coast of North America. Called also Molucca crab, king crab, horseshoe crab, and horsefoot. |
| loculus | noun (n.) One of the spaces between the septa in the Anthozoa. |
| | noun (n.) One of the compartments of a several-celled ovary; loculament. |
| merithallus | noun (n.) Same as Internode. |
| modulus | noun (n.) A quantity or coefficient, or constant, which expresses the measure of some specified force, property, or quality, as of elasticity, strength, efficiency, etc.; a parameter. |
| monomphalus | noun (n.) A form of double monster, in which two individuals are united by a common umbilicus. |
| mytilus | noun (n.) A genus of marine bivalve shells, including the common mussel. See Illust. under Byssus. |
| nautilus | noun (n.) The only existing genus of tetrabranchiate cephalopods. About four species are found living in the tropical Pacific, but many other species are found fossil. The shell is spiral, symmetrical, and chambered, or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions, which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See Tetrabranchiata. |
| | noun (n.) The argonaut; -- also called paper nautilus. See Argonauta, and Paper nautilus, under Paper. |
| | noun (n.) A variety of diving bell, the lateral as well as vertical motions of which are controlled, by the occupants. |
| nonplus | noun (n.) A state or condition which daffles reason or confounds judgment; insuperable difficalty; inability to proceed or decide; puzzle; quandary. |
| | verb (v. t.) To puzzle; to confound; to perplex; to cause to stop by embarrassment. |
| nucellus | noun (n.) See Nucleus, 3 (a). |
| obelus | noun (n.) A mark [thus /, or Ö ]; -- so called as resembling a needle. In old MSS. or editions of the classics, it marks suspected passages or readings. |
| ocellus | noun (n.) A little eye; a minute simple eye found in many invertebrates. |
| | noun (n.) An eyelike spot of color, as those on the tail of the peacock. |
| oculus | noun (n.) An eye; (Bot.) a leaf bud. |
| | noun (n.) A round window, usually a small one. |
| overplus | noun (n.) That which remains after a supply, or beyond a quantity proposed; surplus. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CAROLUS (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (carolu) - Words That Begins with carolu:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (carol) - Words That Begins with carol:
| caroline | noun (n.) A silver coin once current in some parts of Italy, worth about seven cents. |
| | noun (n.) A coin. See Carline. |
| carol | noun (n.) A round dance. |
| | noun (n.) A song of joy, exultation, or mirth; a lay. |
| | noun (n.) A song of praise of devotion; as, a Christmas or Easter carol. |
| | noun (n.) Joyful music, as of a song. |
| | noun (n.) Alt. of Carrol |
| | verb (v. t.) To praise or celebrate in song. |
| | verb (v. t.) To sing, especially with joyful notes. |
| | verb (v. i.) To sing; esp. to sing joyfully; to warble. |
| caroling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Carol |
| | noun (n.) A song of joy or devotion; a singing, as of carols. |
| carolin | noun (n.) A former gold coin of Germany worth nearly five dollars; also, a gold coin of Sweden worth nearly five dollars. |
| carolinian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of north or South Carolina. |
| carolitic | adjective (a.) Adorned with sculptured leaves and branches. |
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (caro) - Words That Begins with caro:
| carob | noun (n.) An evergreen leguminous tree (Ceratania Siliqua) found in the countries bordering the Mediterranean; the St. John's bread; -- called also carob tree. |
| | noun (n.) One of the long, sweet, succulent, pods of the carob tree, which are used as food for animals and sometimes eaten by man; -- called also St. John's bread, carob bean, and algaroba bean. |
| caroche | noun (n.) A kind of pleasure carriage; a coach. |
| caroched | adjective (a.) Placed in a caroche. |
| caroigne | noun (n.) Dead body; carrion. |
| 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. |
| caromel | noun (n.) See Caramel. |
| caroteel | noun (n.) A tierce or cask for dried fruits, etc., usually about 700 lbs. |
| carotic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to stupor; as, a carotic state. |
| | adjective (a.) Carotid; as, the carotic arteries. |
| carotid | noun (n.) One of the two main arteries of the neck, by which blood is conveyed from the aorta to the head. [See Illust. of Aorta.] |
| | adjective (a.) Alt. of Carotidal |
| carotidal | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or near, the carotids or one of them; as, the carotid gland. |
| carotin | noun (n.) A red crystallizable tasteless substance, extracted from the carrot. |
| carousal | noun (n.) A jovial feast or festival; a drunken revel; a carouse. |
| carouse | noun (n.) A large draught of liquor. |
| | noun (n.) A drinking match; a carousal. |
| | verb (v. i.) To drink deeply or freely in compliment; to take part in a carousal; to engage in drunken revels. |
| | verb (v. t.) To drink up; to drain; to drink freely or jovially. |
| carousing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Carouse |
| | adjective (a.) That carouses; relating to a carouse. |
| carouser | noun (n.) One who carouses; a reveler. |
| carotte | noun (n.) A cylindrical roll of tobacco; as, a carotte of perique. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (car) - Words That Begins with car:
| cariccio | noun (n.) A piece in a free form, with frequent digressions from the theme; a fantasia; -- often called caprice. |
| | noun (n.) A caprice; a freak; a fancy. |
| car | noun (n.) A small vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but two wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart. |
| | noun (n.) A vehicle adapted to the rails of a railroad. |
| | noun (n.) A chariot of war or of triumph; a vehicle of splendor, dignity, or solemnity. |
| | noun (n.) The stars also called Charles's Wain, the Great Bear, or the Dipper. |
| | noun (n.) The cage of a lift or elevator. |
| | noun (n.) The basket, box, or cage suspended from a balloon to contain passengers, ballast, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A floating perforated box for living fish. |
| carabid | noun (n.) One of the Carabidae, a family of active insectivorous beetles. |
| | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Carbus or family Carabidae. |
| carabine | noun (n.) A carbine. |
| carabineer | noun (n.) A carbineer. |
| caraboid | adjective (a.) Like, or pertaining to the genus Carabus. |
| carabus | noun (n.) A genus of ground beetles, including numerous species. They devour many injurious insects. |
| carac | noun (n.) See Carack. |
| caracal | noun (n.) A lynx (Felis, or Lynx, caracal.) It is a native of Africa and Asia. Its ears are black externally, and tipped with long black hairs. |
| caracara | noun (n.) A south American bird of several species and genera, resembling both the eagles and the vultures. The caracaras act as scavengers, and are also called carrion buzzards. |
| carack | noun (n.) A kind of large ship formerly used by the Spaniards and Portuguese in the East India trade; a galleon. |
| caracole | noun (n.) A half turn which a horseman makes, either to the right or the left. |
| | noun (n.) A staircase in a spiral form. |
| | verb (v. i.) To move in a caracole, or in caracoles; to wheel. |
| caracoly | noun (n.) An alloy of gold, silver, and copper, of which an inferior quality of jewelry is made. |
| caracore | noun (n.) Alt. of Caracora |
| caracora | noun (n.) A light vessel or proa used by the people of Borneo, etc., and by the Dutch in the East Indies. |
| carafe | noun (n.) A glass water bottle for the table or toilet; -- called also croft. |
| carageen | noun (n.) Alt. of Caragheen |
| caragheen | noun (n.) See Carrageen. |
| carambola | noun (n.) An East Indian tree (Averrhoa Carambola), and its acid, juicy fruit; called also Coromandel gooseberry. |
| caramel | noun (n.) Burnt sugar; a brown or black porous substance obtained by heating sugar. It is soluble in water, and is used for coloring spirits, gravies, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of confectionery, usually a small cube or square of tenacious paste, or candy, of varying composition and flavor. |
| carangoid | adjective (a.) Belonging to the Carangidae, a family of fishes allied to the mackerels, and including the caranx, American bluefish, and the pilot fish. |
| caranx | noun (n.) A genus of fishes, common on the Atlantic coast, including the yellow or golden mackerel. |
| carapace | noun (n.) The thick shell or shield which covers the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals. |
| carapato | noun (n.) A south American tick of the genus Amblyomma. There are several species, very troublesome to man and beast. |
| carapax | noun (n.) See Carapace. |
| carat | noun (n.) The weight by which precious stones and pearls are weighed. |
| | noun (n.) A twenty-fourth part; -- a term used in estimating the proportionate fineness of gold. |
| caravan | noun (n.) A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together, esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile tribes, as in Asia or Africa. |
| | noun (n.) A large, covered wagon, or a train of such wagons, for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition; an itinerant show, as of wild beasts. |
| | noun (n.) A covered vehicle for carrying passengers or for moving furniture, etc.; -- sometimes shorted into van. |
| caravaneer | noun (n.) The leader or driver of the camels in caravan. |
| caravansary | noun (n.) A kind of inn, in the East, where caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court. |
| caravel | noun (n.) A name given to several kinds of vessels. |
| | noun (n.) The caravel of the 16th century was a small vessel with broad bows, high, narrow poop, four masts, and lateen sails. Columbus commanded three caravels on his great voyage. |
| | noun (n.) A Portuguese vessel of 100 or 150 tons burden. |
| | noun (n.) A small fishing boat used on the French coast. |
| | noun (n.) A Turkish man-of-war. |
| caraway | noun (n.) A biennial plant of the Parsley family (Carum Carui). The seeds have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste. They are used in cookery and confectionery, and also in medicine as a carminative. |
| | noun (n.) A cake or sweetmeat containing caraway seeds. |
| carbamic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to an acid so called. |
| carbamide | noun (n.) The technical name for urea. |
| carbamine | noun (n.) An isocyanide of a hydrocarbon radical. The carbamines are liquids, usually colorless, and of unendurable odor. |
| carbanil | noun (n.) A mobile liquid, CO.N.C6H5, of pungent odor. It is the phenyl salt of isocyanic acid. |
| carbazol | noun (n.) A white crystallized substance, C12H8NH, derived from aniline and other amines. |
| carbazotate | noun (n.) A salt of carbazotic or picric acid; a picrate. |
| carbazotic | adjective (a.) Containing, or derived from, carbon and nitrogen. |
| carbide | noun (n.) A binary compound of carbon with some other element or radical, in which the carbon plays the part of a negative; -- formerly termed carburet. |
| carbimide | noun (n.) The technical name for isocyanic acid. See under Isocyanic. |
| carbine | noun (n.) A short, light musket or rifle, esp. one used by mounted soldiers or cavalry. |
| carbineer | noun (n.) A soldier armed with a carbine. |
| carbinol | noun (n.) Methyl alcohol, CH3OH; -- also, by extension, any one in the homologous series of paraffine alcohols of which methyl alcohol is the type. |
| carbohydrate | noun (n.) One of a group of compounds including the sugars, starches, and gums, which contain six (or some multiple of six) carbon atoms, united with a variable number of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, but with the two latter always in proportion as to form water; as dextrose, C6H12O6. |
| carbohydride | noun (n.) A hydrocarbon. |
| carbolic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid derived from coal tar and other sources; as, carbolic acid (called also phenic acid, and phenol). See Phenol. |
| 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. |
| carbonaceous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, containing, or composed of, carbon. |
| carbonade | noun (n.) Alt. of Carbonado |
| | verb (v. t.) To cut (meat) across for frying or broiling; to cut or slice and broil. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cut or hack, as in fighting. |
| carbonado | noun (n.) Flesh, fowl, etc., cut across, seasoned, and broiled on coals; a chop. |
| | noun (n.) A black variety of diamond, found in Brazil, and used for diamond drills. It occurs in irregular or rounded fragments, rarely distinctly crystallized, with a texture varying from compact to porous. |
| | verb (v. t.) Alt. of Carbonade |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CAROLUS:
English Words which starts with 'car' and ends with 'lus':
English Words which starts with 'ca' and ends with 'us':
| cacophonous | adjective (a.) Alt. of Cacophonious |
| cacophonious | adjective (a.) Harsh-sounding. |
| cactaceous | adjective (a.) Belonging to, or like, the family of plants of which the prickly pear is a common example. |
| cactus | noun (n.) Any plant of the order Cactacae, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| caesious | adjective (a.) Of the color of lavender; pale blue with a slight mixture of gray. |
| calamiferous | adjective (a.) Producing reeds; reedy. |
| calamitous | adjective (a.) Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable. |
| | adjective (a.) Producing, or attended with distress and misery; making wretched; wretched; unhappy. |
| calamus | noun (n.) The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood. |
| | noun (n.) A species of Acorus (A. calamus), commonly called calamus, or sweet flag. The root has a pungent, aromatic taste, and is used in medicine as a stomachic; the leaves have an aromatic odor, and were formerly used instead of rushes to strew on floors. |
| | noun (n.) The horny basal portion of a feather; the barrel or quill. |
| calcareous | adjective (a.) Partaking of the nature of calcite or calcium carbonate; consisting of, or containing, calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime. |
| calcariferous | adjective (a.) Lime-yielding; calciferous |
| calciferous | adjective (a.) Bearing, producing, or containing calcite, or carbonate of lime. |
| calcigenous | adjective (a.) Tending to form, or to become, a calx or earthlike substance on being oxidized or burnt; as magnesium, calcium. etc. |
| calcigerous | adjective (a.) Holding lime or other earthy salts; as, the calcigerous cells of the teeth. |
| calcivorous | adjective (a.) Eroding, or eating into, limestone. |
| calculous | adjective (a.) Of the nature of a calculus; like stone; gritty; as, a calculous concretion. |
| | adjective (a.) Caused, or characterized, by the presence of a calculus or calculi; a, a calculous disorder; affected with gravel or stone; as, a calculous person. |
| caliginous | adjective (a.) Affected with darkness or dimness; dark; obscure. |
| callous | adjective (a.) Hardened; indurated. |
| | adjective (a.) Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible. |
| calumnious | adjective (a.) Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports. |
| callyciflorous | adjective (a.) Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle. |
| camarasaurus | noun (n.) A genus of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebrae. |
| camous | adjective (a.) Alt. of Camoys |
| campanulaceous | adjective (a.) Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants (Camponulaceae) of which Campanula is the type, and which includes the Canterbury bell, the harebell, and the Venus's looking-glass. |
| camphoraceous | adjective (a.) Of the nature of camphor; containing camphor. |
| campus | noun (n.) The principal grounds of a college or school, between the buildings or within the main inclosure; as, the college campus. |
| campylospermous | adjective (a.) Having seeds grooved lengthwise on the inner face, as in sweet cicely. |
| campylotropous | adjective (a.) Having the ovules and seeds so curved, or bent down upon themselves, that the ends of the embryo are brought close together. |
| camus | noun (n.) See Camis. |
| cancellous | adjective (a.) Having a spongy or porous structure; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones. |
| cankerous | adjective (a.) Affecting like a canker. |
| canopus | noun (n.) A star of the first magnitude in the southern constellation Argo. |
| canorous | adjective (a.) Melodious; musical. |
| cantankerous | adjective (a.) Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious. |
| canthus | noun (n.) The corner where the upper and under eyelids meet on each side of the eye. |
| capacious | adjective (a.) Having capacity; able to contain much; large; roomy; spacious; extended; broad; as, a capacious vessel, room, bay, or harbor. |
| | adjective (a.) Able or qualified to make large views of things, as in obtaining knowledge or forming designs; comprehensive; liberal. |
| capillaceous | adjective (a.) Having long filaments; resembling a hair; slender. See Capillary. |
| capricious | adjective (a.) Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. |
| caprifoliaceous | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Honeysuckle family of plants (Caprifoliacae. |
| caprigenous | adjective (a.) Of the goat kind. |
| captious | adjective (a.) Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please. |
| | adjective (a.) Fitted to harass, perplex, or insnare; insidious; troublesome. |
| carboniferous | adjective (a.) Producing or containing carbon or coal. |
| carcinomatous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to carcinoma. |
| caricous | adjective (a.) Of the shape of a fig; as, a caricous tumor. |
| carious | adjective (a.) Affected with caries; decaying; as, a carious tooth. |
| carneous | adjective (a.) Consisting of, or like, flesh; carnous; fleshy. |
| carnivorous | adjective (a.) Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics. |
| carnous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to flesh; fleshy. |
| | adjective (a.) Of a fleshy consistence; -- applied to succulent leaves, stems, etc. |
| carpophagous | adjective (a.) Living on fruits; fruit-consuming. |
| carpus | noun (n.) The wrist; the bones or cartilages between the forearm, or antibrachium, and the hand or forefoot; in man, consisting of eight short bones disposed in two rows. |
| cartilagineous | adjective (a.) See Cartilaginous. |
| cartilaginous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to cartilage; gristly; firm and tough like cartilage. |
| | adjective (a.) Having the skeleton in the state of cartilage, the bones containing little or no calcareous matter; said of certain fishes, as the sturgeon and the sharks. |
| carunculous | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, a caruncle; furnished with caruncles. |
| carus | noun (n.) Coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy. |
| caryophyllaceous | adjective (a.) Having corollas of five petals with long claws inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink |
| | adjective (a.) Belonging to the family of which the pink and the carnation are the types. |
| caryophyllous | adjective (a.) Caryophyllaceous. |
| caseous | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, cheese; having the qualities of cheese; cheesy. |
| cassideous | adjective (a.) Helmet-shaped; -- applied to a corolla having a broad, helmet-shaped upper petal, as in aconite. |
| cassius | noun (n.) A brownish purple pigment, obtained by the action of some compounds of tin upon certain salts of gold. It is used in painting and staining porcelain and glass to give a beautiful purple color. Commonly called Purple of Cassius. |
| casus | noun (n.) An event; an occurrence; an occasion; a combination of circumstances; a case; an act of God. See the Note under Accident. |
| catadromous | adjective (a.) Having the lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one; -- said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to anadromous. |
| | adjective (a.) Living in fresh water, and going to the sea to spawn; -- opposed to anadromous, and said of the eel. |
| catanadromous | adjective (a.) Ascending and descending fresh streams from and to the sea, as the salmon; anadromous. |
| catapetalous | adjective (a.) Having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow. |
| cataractous | adjective (a.) Of the nature of a cataract in the eye; affected with cataract. |
| catarrhous | adjective (a.) Catarrhal. |
| catelectrotonus | noun (n.) The condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it. |
| cathetus | noun (n.) One line or radius falling perpendicularly on another; as, the catheti of a right-angled triangle, that is, the two sides that include the right angle. |
| caucus | noun (n.) A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding measures of party policy; a political primary meeting. |
| | verb (v. i.) To hold, or meet in, a caucus or caucuses. |
| caulocarpous | adjective (a.) Having stems which bear flowers and fruit year after year, as most trees and shrubs. |
| cautelous | adjective (a.) Caution; prudent; wary. |
| | adjective (a.) Crafty; deceitful; false. |
| cautious | adjective (a.) Attentive to examine probable effects and consequences of acts with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent; circumspect; wary; watchful; as, a cautious general. |
| cavernous | adjective (a.) Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow. |
| | adjective (a.) Filled with small cavities or cells. |
| | adjective (a.) Having a sound caused by a cavity. |
| cavernulous | adjective (a.) Full of little cavities; as, cavernulous metal. |
| cavilous | adjective (a.) Alt. of Cavillous |
| cavillous | adjective (a.) Characterized by caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbing. |
