Name Report For First Name CASE:
CASE
First name CASE's origin is Irish. CASE means "variant of casey alert: vigorous". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with CASE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of case.(Brown names are of the same origin (Irish) with CASE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with CASE - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming CASE
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES CASE AS A WHOLE:
casee casey casen caseareoNAMES RHYMING WITH CASE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ase) - Names That Ends with ase:
aase blase chase kesegowaase morguase gervaseRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (se) - Names That Ends with se:
alesandese libuse ingelise nourbese omorose heloise anneliese alsoomse melesse thutmose ambrose lasse seoirse adelise agnese ailise ailse alese alise alisse allyse aloise alyse alysse amarise analise anlienisse annaliese annalise annelise ayalisse blisse bluinse blysse caresse celesse cerise chalise charise charlise chayse cherese cheresse cherise cherisse clarisse danise denise denisse dennise denyse dorise elise ellesse eloise else elyse emma-lise francoise hausisse hortense ilse ilyse janise jenise kaise labhaoise lise louise lssse luise maddy-rose margawse marise marlise marquise mavise mertise minoise morgawse morise naylise promyse sherise therese treise blaise cochise jesse jose morse neese plaise reeseNAMES RHYMING WITH CASE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (cas) - Names That Begins with cas:
casandra cashel casidhe casie casimira casimiro casper cass cassadee cassandra cassi cassian cassibellaunus cassidy cassie cassiopeia cassivellaunus cassondra cassy casta castalia caster castor caswallanRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ca) - Names That Begins with ca:
cabal cabe cable cacamwri cacanisius cace cacey cachamwri caci cacia cadabyr cadan cadassi cadby cadda caddaham 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 cailynNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CASE:
First Names which starts with 'c' and ends with 'e':
caindale caine cairbre caitie calandre calanthe caldre cale calfhie calfhierde calibome caliborne callee callie calliope calliste cambrie camdene came camile camille canace candace candance candice candide candie candyce canice caoimhe caolaidhe caprice capucine caree carilynne carine carlene carlie carlisle carlyle carme carmelide carmeline carmine carolanne carole caroline carolyne carree carrie cartere carthage catarine cate cateline catharine catherine cathie cathmore catlee catline catrice cattee catti-brie caycee caydence cayle cecile cecille ceire celandine celene celeste celestine celidone celie celine cesare chace chadburne chadbyrne chamyle chance chane chanelle channe channelle chantae chantalle chante chantelle chardae chardanae charee chariste charlaine charlayne charlee charlene charletteEnglish Words Rhyming CASE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CASE AS A WHOLE:
| bookcase | noun (n.) A case with shelves for holding books, esp. one with glazed doors. |
| capcase | noun (n.) A small traveling case or bandbox; formerly, a chest. |
| carcase | noun (n.) See Carcass. |
| cardcase | noun (n.) A case for visiting cards. |
| case | noun (n.) A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book. |
| noun (n.) A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments. | |
| noun (n.) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type. | |
| noun (n.) An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case. | |
| noun (n.) A small fissure which admits water to the workings. | |
| noun (n.) Chance; accident; hap; opportunity. | |
| noun (n.) That which befalls, comes, or happens; an event; an instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstances; condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the Indian tribes. | |
| noun (n.) A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury. | |
| noun (n.) The matters of fact or conditions involved in a suit, as distinguished from the questions of law; a suit or action at law; a cause. | |
| noun (n.) One of the forms, or the inflections or changes of form, of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its relation to other words, and in the aggregate constitute its declension; the relation which a noun or pronoun sustains to some other word. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose. | |
| verb (v. t.) To strip the skin from; as, to case a box. | |
| verb (v. i.) To propose hypothetical cases. |
| caseation | noun (n.) A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass. |
| casehardened | adjective (a.) Having the surface hardened, as iron tools. |
| adjective (a.) Hardened against, or insusceptible to, good influences; rendered callous by persistence in wrongdoing or resistance of good influences; -- said of persons. |
| casehardening | noun (n.) The act or process of converting the surface of iron into steel. |
| caseic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to cheese; as, caseic acid. |
| casein | noun (n.) A proteid substance present in both the animal and the vegetable kingdom. In the animal kingdom it is chiefly found in milk, and constitutes the main part of the curd separated by rennet; in the vegetable kingdom it is found more or less abundantly in the seeds of leguminous plants. Its reactions resemble those of alkali albumin. |
| casemate | noun (n.) A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops. |
| noun (n.) A hollow molding, chiefly in cornices. |
| casemated | adjective (a.) Furnished with, protected by, or built like, a casemate. |
| casement | noun (n.) A window sash opening on hinges affixed to the upright side of the frame into which it is fitted. (Poetically) A window. |
| casemented | adjective (a.) Having a casement or casements. |
| caseous | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, cheese; having the qualities of cheese; cheesy. |
| casern | noun (n.) A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the rampart; barracks. |
| caseum | noun (n.) Same as Casein. |
| caseworm | noun (n.) A worm or grub that makes for itself a case. See Caddice. |
| caseose | noun (n.) A soluble product (proteose) formed in the gastric and pancreatic digestion of casein and caseinogen. |
| doorcase | noun (n.) The surrounding frame into which a door shuts. |
| encasement | noun (n.) The act of encasing; also, that which encases. |
| noun (n.) An old theory of generation similar to embo/tement. See Ovulist. |
| incasement | noun (n.) The act or process of inclosing with a case, or the state of being incased. |
| noun (n.) That which forms a case, covering, or inclosure. |
| needlecase | noun (n.) A case to keep needles. |
| pillowcase | noun (n.) A removable case or covering for a pillow, usually of white linen or cotton cloth. |
| staircase | noun (n.) A flight of stairs with their supporting framework, casing, balusters, etc. |
| swinecase | noun (n.) A hogsty. |
| smearcase | noun (n.) Cottage cheese. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CASE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ase) - English Words That Ends with ase:
| abase | adjective (a.) To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye. |
| adjective (a.) To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade. |
| abrase | adjective (a.) Rubbed smooth. |
| ambergrease | noun (n.) See Ambergris. |
| anorthoclase | noun (n.) A feldspar closely related to orthoclase, but triclinic. It is chiefly a silicate of sodium, potassium, and aluminium. Sp. gr., 2.57 -- 2.60. |
| base | noun (n.) The bottom of anything, considered as its support, or that on which something rests for support; the foundation; as, the base of a statue. |
| noun (n.) Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing; the essential principle; a groundwork. | |
| noun (n.) The lower part of a wall, pier, or column, when treated as a separate feature, usually in projection, or especially ornamented. | |
| noun (n.) The lower part of a complete architectural design, as of a monument; also, the lower part of any elaborate piece of furniture or decoration. | |
| noun (n.) That extremity of a leaf, fruit, etc., at which it is attached to its support. | |
| noun (n.) The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; -- applied also to the hydroxides of the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids. | |
| noun (n.) The chief ingredient in a compound. | |
| noun (n.) A substance used as a mordant. | |
| noun (n.) The exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions. | |
| noun (n.) The line or surface constituting that part of a figure on which it is supposed to stand. | |
| noun (n.) The number from which a mathematical table is constructed; as, the base of a system of logarithms. | |
| noun (n.) A low, or deep, sound. (Mus.) (a) The lowest part; the deepest male voice. (b) One who sings, or the instrument which plays, base. | |
| noun (n.) A place or tract of country, protected by fortifications, or by natural advantages, from which the operations of an army proceed, forward movements are made, supplies are furnished, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The smallest kind of cannon. | |
| noun (n.) That part of an organ by which it is attached to another more central organ. | |
| noun (n.) The basal plane of a crystal. | |
| noun (n.) The ground mass of a rock, especially if not distinctly crystalline. | |
| noun (n.) The lower part of the field. See Escutcheon. | |
| noun (n.) The housing of a horse. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of skirt ( often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armor) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower. | |
| noun (n.) The lower part of a robe or petticoat. | |
| noun (n.) An apron. | |
| noun (n.) The point or line from which a start is made; a starting place or a goal in various games. | |
| noun (n.) A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles. | |
| noun (n.) A rustic play; -- called also prisoner's base, prison base, or bars. | |
| noun (n.) Any one of the four bounds which mark the circuit of the infield. | |
| noun (n.) To put on a base or basis; to lay the foundation of; to found, as an argument or conclusion; -- used with on or upon. | |
| adjective (a.) Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs. | |
| adjective (a.) Low in place or position. | |
| adjective (a.) Of humble birth; or low degree; lowly; mean. | |
| adjective (a.) Illegitimate by birth; bastard. | |
| adjective (a.) Of little comparative value, as metal inferior to gold and silver, the precious metals. | |
| adjective (a.) Alloyed with inferior metal; debased; as, base coin; base bullion. | |
| adjective (a.) Morally low. Hence: Low-minded; unworthy; without dignity of sentiment; ignoble; mean; illiberal; menial; as, a base fellow; base motives; base occupations. | |
| adjective (a.) Not classical or correct. | |
| adjective (a.) Deep or grave in sound; as, the base tone of a violin. | |
| adjective (a.) Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant. | |
| adjective (a.) To abase; to let, or cast, down; to lower. | |
| adjective (a.) To reduce the value of; to debase. |
| blase | adjective (a.) Having the sensibilities deadened by excess or frequency of enjoyment; sated or surfeited with pleasure; used up. |
| cease | noun (n.) Extinction. |
| verb (v. i.) To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put a stop to; to bring to an end. |
| chase | noun (n.) A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type are imposed. |
| noun (n.) The part of a cannon from the reenforce or the trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon. | |
| noun (n.) A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint, by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt. | |
| verb (v. t.) To follow as if to catch; to pursue; to compel to move on; to drive by following; to cause to fly; -- often with away or off; as, to chase the hens away. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game. | |
| verb (v. i.) To give chase; to hunt; as, to chase around after a doctor. | |
| verb (v.) Vehement pursuit for the purpose of killing or capturing, as of an enemy, or game; an earnest seeking after any object greatly desired; the act or habit of hunting; a hunt. | |
| verb (v.) That which is pursued or hunted. | |
| verb (v.) An open hunting ground to which game resorts, and which is private properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private property, and from a park, which is inclosed. Sometimes written chace. | |
| verb (v.) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive his ball in order to gain a point. | |
| verb (v. t.) To ornament (a surface of metal) by embossing, cutting away parts, and the like. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cut, so as to make a screw thread. |
| chrysoprase | noun (n.) An apple-green variety of chalcedony, colored by nickel. It has a dull flinty luster, and is sometimes used in jewelry. |
| crease | noun (n.) See Creese. |
| noun (n.) A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced. | |
| noun (n.) One of the lines serving to define the limits of the bowler and the striker. | |
| noun (n.) The combination of four lines forming a rectangle inclosing either goal, or the inclosed space itself, within which no attacking player is allowed unless the ball is there; -- called also goal crease. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make a crease or mark in, as by folding or doubling. |
| debase | adjective (a.) To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words. |
| decease | noun (n.) Departure, especially departure from this life; death. |
| verb (v. i.) To depart from this life; to die; to pass away. |
| decrease | noun (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December. |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means. | |
| verb (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength. | |
| verb (v.) The wane of the moon. |
| diabase | noun (n.) A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron; -- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called greenstone. |
| diapase | noun (n.) Same as Diapason. |
| diastase | noun (n.) A soluble, nitrogenous ferment, capable of converting starch and dextrin into sugar. |
| dioptase | noun (n.) A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring in emerald-green crystals. |
| disease | noun (n.) Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet. |
| noun (n.) An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disorder; -- applied figuratively to the mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress. | |
| verb (v. t.) To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; -- used almost exclusively in the participle diseased. |
| ease | noun (n.) Satisfaction; pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment. |
| noun (n.) Freedom from anything that pains or troubles; as: (a) Relief from labor or effort; rest; quiet; relaxation; as, ease of body. | |
| noun (n.) Freedom from care, solicitude, or anything that annoys or disquiets; tranquillity; peace; comfort; security; as, ease of mind. | |
| noun (n.) Freedom from constraint, formality, difficulty, embarrassment, etc.; facility; liberty; naturalness; -- said of manner, style, etc.; as, ease of style, of behavior, of address. | |
| noun (n.) To free from anything that pains, disquiets, or oppresses; to relieve from toil or care; to give rest, repose, or tranquility to; -- often with of; as, to ease of pain; ease the body or mind. | |
| noun (n.) To render less painful or oppressive; to mitigate; to alleviate. | |
| noun (n.) To release from pressure or restraint; to move gently; to lift slightly; to shift a little; as, to ease a bar or nut in machinery. | |
| noun (n.) To entertain; to furnish with accommodations. |
| euclase | noun (n.) A brittle gem occurring in light green, transparent crystals, affording a brilliant clinodiagonal cleavage. It is a silicate of alumina and glucina. |
| grease | noun (n.) Animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind. |
| noun (n.) An inflammation of a horse's heels, suspending the ordinary greasy secretion of the part, and producing dryness and scurfiness, followed by cracks, ulceration, and fungous excrescences. | |
| verb (v. t.) To smear, anoint, or daub, with grease or fat; to lubricate; as, to grease the wheels of a wagon. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bribe; to corrupt with presents. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cheat or cozen; to overreach. | |
| verb (v. t.) To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease. |
| gynobase | noun (n.) A dilated base or receptacle, supporting a multilocular ovary. |
| idocrase | noun (n.) Same as Vesuvianite. |
| invertase | noun (n.) An enzyme capable of effecting the inversion of cane suger, producing invert sugar. It is found in many plants and in the intestines of animals. |
| noun (n.) By extension, any enzyme which splits cane sugar, milk sugar, lactose, etc., into monosaccharides. |
| mase | noun (n. & v.) See Maze. |
| mease | noun (n.) Five hundred; as, a mease of herrings. |
| metaphrase | noun (n.) A verbal translation; a version or translation from one language into another, word for word; -- opposed to paraphrase. |
| noun (n.) An answering phrase; repartee. |
| misease | noun (n.) Want of ease; discomfort; misery. |
| multiphase | adjective (a.) Having many phases; |
| adjective (a.) pertaining to, or designating, a generator producing, or any system conveying or utilizing, two or more waves of pressure, or electromotive force, not in phase with each other; polyphase. |
| oligoclase | noun (n.) A triclinic soda-lime feldspar. See Feldspar. |
| orthoclase | noun (n.) Common or potash feldspar crystallizing in the monoclinic system and having two cleavages at right angles to each other. See Feldspar. |
| panabase | noun (n.) Same as Tetrahedrite. |
| paraphrase | noun (n.) A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering; -- opposed to metaphrase. |
| verb (v. t.) To express, interpret, or translate with latitude; to give the meaning of a passage in other language. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make a paraphrase. |
| pease | noun (n.) A pea. |
| noun (n.) A plural form of Pea. See the Note under Pea. | |
| (pl. ) of Pea |
| periclase | noun (n.) Alt. of Periclasite |
| periphrase | noun (n.) The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution. |
| verb (v. t.) To express by periphrase or circumlocution. | |
| verb (v. i.) To use circumlocution. |
| phase | noun (n.) That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object. |
| noun (n.) Any appearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension or view; as, the problem has many phases. | |
| noun (n.) A particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form of enlightened disk; as, the phases of the moon or planets. See Illust. under Moon. | |
| noun (n.) Any one point or portion in a recurring series of changes, as in the changes of motion of one of the particles constituting a wave or vibration; one portion of a series of such changes, in distinction from a contrasted portion, as the portion on one side of a position of equilibrium, in contrast with that on the opposite side. | |
| noun (n.) A homogenous, physically distinct portion of matter in a system not homogeneous; as, the three phases, ice, water, and aqueous vapor. A phase may be either a single chemical substance or a mixture, as of gases. | |
| noun (n.) In certain birds and mammals, one of two or more color variations characteristic of the species, but independent of the ordinary seasonal and sexual differences, and often also of age. Some of the herons which appear in white and colored phases, and certain squirrels which are sometimes uniformly blackish instead of the usual coloration, furnish examples. Color phases occur also in other animals, notably in butterflies. | |
| noun (n.) The relation at any instant of a periodically varying electric magnitude, as electro-motive force, a current, etc., to its initial value as expressed in factorial parts of the complete cycle. It is usually expressed in angular measure, the cycle beb four right angles, or 360¡. Such periodic variations are generally well represented by sine curves; and phase relations are shown by the relative positions of the crests and hollows of such curves. Magnitudes which have the same phase are said to be in phase. | |
| verb (v. t.) To disturb the composure of; to disconcert; to nonplus. |
| phrase | noun (n.) A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a portion of a sentence; as, an adverbial phrase. |
| noun (n.) A short, pithy expression; especially, one which is often employed; a peculiar or idiomatic turn of speech; as, to err is human. | |
| noun (n.) A mode or form of speech; the manner or style in which any one expreses himself; diction; expression. | |
| noun (n.) A short clause or portion of a period. | |
| verb (v. t.) To express in words, or in peculiar words; to call; to style. | |
| verb (v. i.) To use proper or fine phrases. | |
| verb (v. i.) To group notes into phrases; as, he phrases well. See Phrase, n., 4. |
| plagioclase | noun (n.) A general term used of any triclinic feldspar. See the Note under Feldspar. |
| prase | noun (n.) A variety of cryptocrystalline of a leek-green color. |
| prease | noun (n.) A press; a crowd. |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To press; to crowd. |
| predecease | noun (n.) The death of one person or thing before another. |
| verb (v. t.) To die sooner than. |
| polyphase | adjective (a.) Having or producing two or more phases; multiphase; as, a polyphase machine, a machine producing two or more pressure waves of electro-motive force, differing in phase; a polyphase current. |
| rase | noun (n.) A scratching out, or erasure. |
| noun (n.) A slight wound; a scratch. | |
| noun (n.) A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it. | |
| verb (v. t.) To rub along the surface of; to graze. | |
| verb (v. t.) To rub or scratch out; to erase. | |
| verb (v. t.) To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow. |
| release | noun (n.) To let loose again; to set free from restraint, confinement, or servitude; to give liberty to, or to set at liberty; to let go. |
| noun (n.) To relieve from something that confines, burdens, or oppresses, as from pain, trouble, obligation, penalty. | |
| noun (n.) To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; to quit. | |
| noun (n.) To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of; as, to release an ordinance. | |
| noun (n.) The act of letting loose or freeing, or the state of being let loose or freed; liberation or discharge from restraint of any kind, as from confinement or bondage. | |
| noun (n.) Relief from care, pain, or any burden. | |
| noun (n.) Discharge from obligation or responsibility, as from debt, penalty, or claim of any kind; acquittance. | |
| noun (n.) A giving up or relinquishment of some right or claim; a conveyance of a man's right in lands or tenements to another who has some estate in possession; a quitclaim. | |
| noun (n.) The act of opening the exhaust port to allow the steam to escape. | |
| noun (n.) A device adapted to hold or release a device or mechanism as required; | |
| noun (n.) A catch on a motor-starting rheostat, which automatically releases the rheostat arm and so stops the motor in case of a break in the field circuit; also, the catch on an electromagnetic circuit breaker for a motor, which acts in case of an overload. | |
| noun (n.) The act or manner of ending a sound. | |
| noun (n.) In the block-signaling system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be used at intermediate sidings without telegraphic stations. | |
| verb (v. t.) To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back. |
| repurchase | noun (n.) The act of repurchasing. |
| verb (v. t.) To buy back or again; to regain by purchase. |
| rimbase | noun (n.) A short cylinder connecting a trunnion with the body of a cannon. See Illust. of Cannon. |
| schweitzerkase | noun (n.) Gruyere cheese. |
| sclerobase | noun (n.) The calcareous or hornlike coral forming the central stem or axis of most compound alcyonarians; -- called also foot secretion. See Illust. under Gorgoniacea, and Coenenchyma. |
| sublease | noun (n.) A lease by a tenant or lessee to another person; an underlease. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CASE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (cas) - Words That Begins with cas:
| casal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to case; as, a casal ending. |
| cascabel | noun (n.) The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old writers it included all in rear of the base ring. [See Illust. of Cannon.] |
| cascade | noun (n.) A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract. |
| verb (v. i.) To fall in a cascade. | |
| verb (v. i.) To vomit. |
| cascalho | noun (n.) A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand, in which the Brazilian diamond is usually found. |
| cascarilla | noun (n.) A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub (Croton Eleutheria); also, its aromatic bark. |
| cascarillin | noun (n.) A white, crystallizable, bitter substance extracted from oil of cascarilla. |
| casing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Case |
| noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cash | |
| noun (n.) The act or process of inclosing in, or covering with, a case or thin substance, as plaster, boards, etc. | |
| noun (n.) An outside covering, for protection or ornament, or to precent the radiation of heat. | |
| noun (n.) An inclosing frame; esp. the framework around a door or a window. See Case, n., 4. |
| cash | noun (n.) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box. |
| noun (n.) Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money | |
| noun (n.) Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash. | |
| noun (n.sing & pl.) A Chinese coin. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order. | |
| verb (v. t.) To disband. |
| cashbook | noun (n.) A book in which is kept a register of money received or paid out. |
| cashew | noun (n.) A tree (Anacardium occidentale) of the same family which the sumac. It is native in tropical America, but is now naturalized in all tropical countries. Its fruit, a kidney-shaped nut, grows at the extremity of an edible, pear-shaped hypocarp, about three inches long. |
| cashier | noun (n.) One who has charge of money; a cash keeper; the officer who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of a bank or a mercantile company. |
| verb (v. t.) To dismiss or discard; to discharge; to dismiss with ignominy from military service or from an office or place of trust. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put away or reject; to disregard. |
| cashiering | noun (p. pr. &vb. n.) of Cashier |
| cashierer | noun (n.) One who rejects, discards, or dismisses; as, a cashierer of monarchs. |
| cashmere | noun (n.) A rich stuff for shawls, scarfs, etc., originally made in Cashmere from the soft wool found beneath the hair of the goats of Cashmere, Thibet, and the Himalayas. Some cashmere, of fine quality, is richly embroidered for sale to Europeans. |
| noun (n.) A dress fabric made of fine wool, or of fine wool and cotton, in imitation of the original cashmere. |
| cashmerette | noun (n.) A kind of dress goods, made with a soft and glossy surface like cashmere. |
| cashoo | noun (n.) See Catechu. |
| casings | noun (n. pl.) Dried dung of cattle used as fuel. |
| casino | noun (n.) A small country house. |
| noun (n.) A building or room used for meetings, or public amusements, for dancing, gaming, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A game at cards. See Cassino. |
| cask | noun (n.) Same as Casque. |
| noun (n.) A barrel-shaped vessel made of staves headings, and hoops, usually fitted together so as to hold liquids. It may be larger or smaller than a barrel. | |
| noun (n.) The quantity contained in a cask. | |
| noun (n.) A casket; a small box for jewels. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put into a cask. |
| casket | noun (n.) A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc. |
| noun (n.) A kind of burial case. | |
| noun (n.) Anything containing or intended to contain something highly esteemed | |
| noun (n.) The body. | |
| noun (n.) The tomb. | |
| noun (n.) A book of selections. | |
| noun (n.) A gasket. See Gasket. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put into, or preserve in, a casket. |
| casque | noun (n.) A piece of defensive or ornamental armor (with or without a vizor) for the head and neck; a helmet. |
| cassada | noun (n.) See Cassava. |
| cassareep | noun (n.) A condiment made from the sap of the bitter cassava (Manihot utilissima) deprived of its poisonous qualities, concentrated by boiling, and flavored with aromatics. See Pepper pot. |
| cassation | noun (n.) The act of annulling. |
| cassava | noun (n.) A shrubby euphorbiaceous plant of the genus Manihot, with fleshy rootstocks yielding an edible starch; -- called also manioc. |
| noun (n.) A nutritious starch obtained from the rootstocks of the cassava plant, used as food and in making tapioca. |
| casserole | noun (n.) A small round dish with a handle, usually of porcelain. |
| noun (n.) A mold (in the shape of a hollow vessel or incasement) of boiled rice, mashed potato or paste, baked, and afterwards filled with vegetables or meat. |
| cassia | noun (n.) A genus of leguminous plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees) of many species, most of which have purgative qualities. The leaves of several species furnish the senna used in medicine. |
| noun (n.) The bark of several species of Cinnamomum grown in China, etc.; Chinese cinnamon. It is imported as cassia, but commonly sold as cinnamon, from which it differs more or less in strength and flavor, and the amount of outer bark attached. |
| cassican | noun (n.) An American bird of the genus Cassicus, allied to the starlings and orioles, remarkable for its skillfully constructed and suspended nest; the crested oriole. The name is also sometimes given to the piping crow, an Australian bird. |
| cassideous | adjective (a.) Helmet-shaped; -- applied to a corolla having a broad, helmet-shaped upper petal, as in aconite. |
| cassidony | noun (n.) The French lavender (Lavandula Stoechas) |
| noun (n.) The goldilocks (Chrysocoma Linosyris) and perhaps other plants related to the genus Gnaphalium or cudweed. |
| cassimere | noun (n.) A thin, twilled, woolen cloth, used for men's garments. |
| cassinette | noun (n.) A cloth with a cotton warp, and a woof of very fine wool, or wool and silk. |
| cassino | noun (n.) A game at cards, played by two or more persons, usually for twenty-one points. |
| cassioberry | noun (n.) The fruit of the Viburnum obovatum, a shrub which grows from Virginia to Florida. |
| cassiopeia | noun (n.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere, situated between Cepheus and Perseus; -- so called in honor of the wife of Cepheus, a fabulous king of Ethiopia. |
| cassiterite | noun (n.) Native tin dioxide; tin stone; a mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of reddish brown color, and brilliant adamantine luster; also massive, sometimes in compact forms with concentric fibrous structure resembling wood (wood tin), also in rolled fragments or pebbly (Stream tin). It is the chief source of metallic tin. See Black tin, under Black. |
| 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. |
| cassock | noun (n.) A long outer garment formerly worn by men and women, as well as by soldiers as part of their uniform. |
| noun (n.) A garment resembling a long frock coat worn by the clergy of certain churches when officiating, and by others as the usually outer garment. |
| cassocked | adjective (a.) Clothed with a cassock. |
| cassolette | noun (n.) a box, or vase, with a perforated cover to emit perfumes. |
| cassonade | noun (n.) Raw sugar; sugar not refined. |
| cassowary | noun (n.) A large bird, of the genus Casuarius, found in the east Indies. It is smaller and stouter than the ostrich. Its head is armed with a kind of helmet of horny substance, consisting of plates overlapping each other, and it has a group of long sharp spines on each wing which are used as defensive organs. It is a shy bird, and runs with great rapidity. Other species inhabit New Guinea, Australia, etc. |
| cassumunar | noun (n.) Alt. of Cassumuniar |
| cassumuniar | noun (n.) A pungent, bitter, aromatic, gingerlike root, obtained from the East Indies. |
| casting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cast |
| noun (n.) The act of one who casts or throws, as in fishing. | |
| noun (n.) The act or process of making casts or impressions, or of shaping metal or plaster in a mold; the act or the process of pouring molten metal into a mold. | |
| noun (n.) That which is cast in a mold; esp. the mass of metal so cast; as, a casting in iron; bronze casting. | |
| noun (n.) The warping of a board. | |
| noun (n.) The act of casting off, or that which is cast off, as skin, feathers, excrement, etc. |
| cast | noun (n.) The act of casting or throwing; a throw. |
| noun (n.) The thing thrown. | |
| noun (n.) The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown. | |
| noun (n.) A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture. | |
| noun (n.) That which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the excrement of a earthworm. | |
| noun (n.) The act of casting in a mold. | |
| noun (n.) An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern. | |
| noun (n.) That which is formed in a mild; esp. a reproduction or copy, as of a work of art, in bronze or plaster, etc.; a casting. | |
| noun (n.) Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of countenance. | |
| noun (n.) A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade. | |
| noun (n.) A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift. | |
| noun (n.) The assignment of parts in a play to the actors. | |
| noun (n.) A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand. | |
| noun (n.) A stoke, touch, or trick. | |
| noun (n.) A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint. | |
| noun (n.) A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold. | |
| noun (n.) Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp. | |
| noun (n.) Contrivance; plot, design. | |
| verb (v. t.) To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel. | |
| verb (v. t.) To direct or turn, as the eyes. | |
| verb (v. t.) To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot. | |
| verb (v. t.) To throw down, as in wrestling. | |
| verb (v. t.) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart. | |
| verb (v. t.) To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bring forth prematurely; to slink. | |
| verb (v. t.) To throw out or emit; to exhale. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject. | |
| verb (v. t.) To impose; to bestow; to rest. | |
| verb (v. t.) To dismiss; to discard; to cashier. | |
| verb (v. t.) To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a horoscope. | |
| verb (v. t.) To contrive; to plan. | |
| verb (v. t.) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages. | |
| verb (v. t.) To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice. | |
| verb (v. t.) To form into a particular shape, by pouring liquid metal or other material into a mold; to fashion; to found; as, to cast bells, stoves, bullets. | |
| verb (v. t.) To stereotype or electrotype. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part. | |
| verb (v. i.) To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook. | |
| verb (v. i.) To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh. | |
| verb (v. i.) To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as, to cast about for reasons. | |
| verb (v. i.) To calculate; to compute. | |
| verb (v. i.) To receive form or shape in a mold. | |
| verb (v. i.) To warp; to become twisted out of shape. | |
| verb (v. i.) To vomit. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Cast | |
| () 3d pres. of Cast, for Casteth. |
| castalian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Castalia, a mythical fountain of inspiration on Mt. Parnassus sacred to the Muses. |
| castanea | noun (n.) A genus of nut-bearing trees or shrubs including the chestnut and chinquapin. |
| castanet | noun (n.) See Castanets. |
| castanets | noun (n. pl.) Two small, concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger; -- used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment to their dance and guitars. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CASE:
English Words which starts with 'c' and ends with 'e':
| caballine | noun (n.) Caballine aloes. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a horse. |
| 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. |
| cabesse | noun (n.) The finest kind of silk received from India. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| cabriole | noun (n.) A curvet; a leap. See Capriole. |
| cacaine | noun (n.) The essential principle of cacao; -- now called theobromine. |
| cache | noun (n.) A hole in the ground, or hiding place, for concealing and preserving provisions which it is inconvenient to carry. |
| cachunde | noun (n.) A pastil or troche, composed of various aromatic and other ingredients, highly celebrated in India as an antidote, and as a stomachic and antispasmodic. |
| cacique | noun (n.) See Cazique. |
| cackle | noun (n.) The sharp broken noise made by a goose or by a hen that has laid an egg. |
| noun (n.) Idle talk; silly prattle. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does. | |
| verb (v. i.) To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle. | |
| verb (v. i.) To talk in a silly manner; to prattle. |
| cacomixle | noun (n.) Alt. of Cacomixl |
| cacomixtle | noun (n.) Alt. of Cacomixl |
| cacoxene | noun (n.) Alt. of Cacoxenite |
| cacoxenite | noun (n.) A hydrous phosphate of iron occurring in yellow radiated tufts. The phosphorus seriously injures it as an iron ore. |
| cadastre | noun (n.) Alt. of Cadaster |
| caddice | noun (n.) Alt. of Caddis |
| cade | noun (n.) A barrel or cask, as of fish. |
| noun (n.) A species of juniper (Juniperus Oxycedrus) of Mediterranean countries. | |
| adjective (a.) Bred by hand; domesticated; petted. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame. |
| cadence | noun (n.) The act or state of declining or sinking. |
| noun (n.) A fall of the voice in reading or speaking, especially at the end of a sentence. | |
| noun (n.) A rhythmical modulation of the voice or of any sound; as, music of bells in cadence sweet. | |
| noun (n.) Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse. | |
| noun (n.) See Cadency. | |
| noun (n.) Harmony and proportion in motions, as of a well-managed horse. | |
| noun (n.) A uniform time and place in marching. | |
| noun (n.) The close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord. | |
| noun (n.) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy. | |
| verb (v. t.) To regulate by musical measure. |
| cadene | noun (n.) A species of inferior carpet imported from the Levant. |
| cadge | noun (n.) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale. |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To carry, as a burden. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg. |
| cadie | noun (n.) Alt. of Caddie |
| caddie | noun (n.) A Scotch errand boy, porter, or messenger. |
| noun (n.) A cadet. | |
| noun (n.) A lad; young fellow. | |
| noun (n.) One who does errands or other odd jobs. | |
| noun (n.) An attendant who carries a golf player's clubs, tees his ball, etc. |
| cadre | noun (n.) The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff. |
| caducibranchiate | adjective (a.) With temporary gills: -- applied to those Amphibia in which the gills do not remain in adult life. |
| caduke | adjective (a.) Perishable; frail; transitory. |
| caespitose | adjective (a.) Same as Cespitose. |
| cafe | noun (n.) A coffeehouse; a restaurant; also, a room in a hotel or restaurant where coffee and liquors are served. |
| caffeine | noun (n.) A white, bitter, crystallizable substance, obtained from coffee. It is identical with the alkaloid theine from tea leaves, and with guaranine from guarana. |
| caffre | noun (n.) See Kaffir. |
| cage | noun (n.) A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals. |
| noun (n.) A place of confinement for malefactors | |
| noun (n.) An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase. | |
| noun (n.) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve. | |
| noun (n.) A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes. | |
| noun (n.) The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft. | |
| noun (n.) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim. | |
| noun (n.) The catcher's wire mask. | |
| verb (v. i.) To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine. |
| caique | noun (n.) A light skiff or rowboat used on the Bosporus; also, a Levantine vessel of larger size. |
| cajuputene | noun (n.) A colorless or greenish oil extracted from cajuput. |
| cake | noun (n.) A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake. |
| noun (n.) A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape. | |
| noun (n.) A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes. | |
| noun (n.) A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake. | |
| verb (v. i.) To form into a cake, or mass. | |
| verb (v. i.) To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate. | |
| verb (v. i.) To cackle as a goose. |
| calabarine | noun (n.) An alkaloid resembling physostigmine and occurring with it in the calabar bean. |
| calaboose | noun (n.) A prison; a jail. |
| calade | noun (n.) A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches. |
| calaite | noun (n.) A mineral. See Turquoise. |
| calamine | noun (n.) A mineral, the hydrous silicate of zinc. |
| calamite | noun (n.) A fossil plant of the coal formation, having the general form of plants of the modern Equiseta (the Horsetail or Scouring Rush family) but sometimes attaining the height of trees, and having the stem more or less woody within. See Acrogen, and Asterophyllite. |
| calaverite | noun (n.) A bronze-yellow massive mineral with metallic luster; a telluride of gold; -- first found in Calaveras County California. |
| calcarate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Calcarated |
| calcarine | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or situated near, the calcar of the brain. |
| calceolate | adjective (a.) Slipper-ahaped. See Calceiform. |
| calcimine | noun (n.) A white or colored wash for the ceiling or other plastering of a room, consisting of a mixture of clear glue, Paris white or zinc white, and water. |
| verb (v. t.) To wash or cover with calcimine; as, to calcimine walls. |
| calcinable | adjective (a.) That may be calcined; as, a calcinable fossil. |
| calcispongiae | noun (n. pl.) An order of marine sponges, containing calcareous spicules. See Porifera. |
| calcite | noun (n.) Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from aragonite. It includes common limestone, chalk, and marble. Called also calc-spar and calcareous spar. |
| calculable | adjective (a.) That may be calculated or ascertained by calculation. |
| calculative | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to calculation; involving calculation. |
| calcule | noun (n.) Reckoning; computation. |
| verb (v. i.) To calculate |
| caleche | noun (n.) See Calash. |
| caledonite | noun (n.) A hydrous sulphate of copper and lead, found in some parts of Caledonia or Scotland. |
| calefactive | adjective (a.) See Calefactory. |
| calenture | noun (n.) A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself into it. |
| verb (v. i.) To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture. |
| calescence | noun (n.) Growing warmth; increasing heat. |
| calibre | noun (n.) The diameter of the bore, as a cannon or other firearm, or of any tube; or the weight or size of the projectile which a firearm will carry; as, an 8 inch gun, a 12-pounder, a 44 caliber. |
| noun (n.) The diameter of round or cylindrical body, as of a bullet or column. | |
| noun (n.) Fig.: Capacity or compass of mind. |
| calice | noun (n.) See Chalice. |
| calicle | noun (n.) One of the small cuplike cavities, often with elevated borders, covering the surface of most corals. Each is formed by a polyp. (b) One of the cuplike structures inclosing the zooids of certain hydroids. See Campanularian. |
| caliculate | adjective (a.) Relating to, or resembling, a cup; also improperly used for calycular, calyculate. |
| califate | noun (n.) Same as Caliph, Caliphate, etc. |
| calipee | noun (n.) A part of a turtle which is attached to the lower shell. It contains a fatty and gelatinous substance of a light yellowish color, much esteemed as a delicacy. |
| caliphate | noun (n.) The office, dignity, or government of a caliph or of the caliphs. |
| calle | noun (n.) A kind of head covering; a caul. |
| calliope | noun (n.) The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses. |
| noun (n.) One of the asteroids. See Solar. | |
| noun (n.) A musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles, toned to the notes of the scale, and played by keys arranged like those of an organ. It is sometimes attached to steamboat boilers. | |
| noun (n.) A beautiful species of humming bird (Stellula Calliope) of California and adjacent regions. |
| callipee | noun (n.) See Calipee. |
| callose | adjective (a.) Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots. |
| calorescence | noun (n.) The conversion of obscure radiant heat into light; the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility. |
| calorie | noun (n.) The unit of heat according to the French standard; the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram (sometimes, one gram) of water one degree centigrade, or from 0¡ to 1¡. Compare the English standard unit, Foot pound. |
| calorifere | noun (n.) An apparatus for conveying and distributing heat, especially by means of hot water circulating in tubes. |
| calotte | noun (n.) Alt. of Callot |
| calotype | noun (n.) A method of taking photographic pictures, on paper sensitized with iodide of silver; -- also called Talbotype, from the inventor, Mr. Fox. Talbot. |
| calycine | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a calyx; having the nature of a calyx. |
| calycle | noun (n.) A row of small bracts, at the base of the calyx, on the outside. |
| calyculate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Calyculated |
| calymene | noun (n.) A genus of trilobites characteristic of the Silurian age. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| camerade | noun (n.) See Comrade. |
| camisade | noun (n.) Alt. of Camisado |
| camisole | noun (n.) A short dressing jacket for women. |
| noun (n.) A kind of straitjacket. |
| camomile | noun (n.) Alt. of Chamomile |
| chamomile | noun (n.) A genus of herbs (Anthemis) of the Composite family. The common camomile, A. nobilis, is used as a popular remedy. Its flowers have a strong and fragrant and a bitter, aromatic taste. They are tonic, febrifugal, and in large doses emetic, and the volatile oil is carminative. |
| noun (n.) See Camomile. |
| campanile | noun (n.) A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church. |
| campanulate | adjective (a.) Bell-shaped. |
| campbellite | noun (n.) A member of the denomination called Christians or Disciples of Christ. They themselves repudiate the term Campbellite as a nickname. See Christian, 3. |
| camphene | noun (n.) One of a series of substances C10H16, resembling camphor, regarded as modified terpenes. |
| camphine | noun (n.) Rectified oil of turpentine, used for burning in lamps, and as a common solvent in varnishes. |
| camphire | noun (n.) An old spelling of Camphor. |
| camphorate | noun (n.) A salt of camphoric acid. |
| verb (v. t.) To impregnate or treat with camphor. | |
| () Alt. of Camporated |
| canaanite | noun (n.) A descendant of Canaan, the son of Ham, and grandson of Noah. |
| noun (n.) A Native or inhabitant of the land of Canaan, esp. a member of any of the tribes who inhabited Canaan at the time of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. | |
| noun (n.) A zealot. |
| canaille | noun (n.) The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar. |
| noun (n.) Shorts or inferior flour. |
| canaliculate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Canaliculated |
| canarese | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Canara, a district of British India. |
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