Name Report For First Name CORT:
CORT
First name CORT's origin is German. CORT means "honest advisor". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with CORT below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of cort.(Brown names are of the same origin (German) with CORT and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with CORT - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming CORT
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES CORT AS A WHOLE:
cortez cortney cortlandNAMES RHYMING WITH CORT (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ort) - Names That Ends with ort:
bohort bort heort kort comfort beaufortRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (rt) - Names That Ends with rt:
meht-urt mert beircheart cuthbert sigebert domingart everhart hart radbert wilbert aubert florismart robert raibeart taggart hobart rambert adelbert baldhart stockhart adalbert aethelbert ailbert albert alburt art auhert bart bert burkhart burt calbert calvert colbert colvert culbart culbert curt dealbert delbert eadburt eawart elbert englebert evert ewart fitzgilbert gilburt gilibeirt gilleabart giselbert guilbert halbart halburt herlbert hubert hulbart hurlbart inglebert kuhlbert kulbart kulbert kurt lambart lambert odbart odhert orbart osbart osburt pert radburt ramhart seaburt sebert sigenert stewart stuart tabbart tahbert talbert urquhart wilbart wilburt wilpert wurt tabbert rupert rainart odbert orbert hulbert englbehrt bogartNAMES RHYMING WITH CORT (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (cor) - Names That Begins with cor:
cora coral coralee coralia coralie coraline coralyn corann corazana corazon corban corben corbenic corbett corbin corbmac corby corbyn corcoran corcurachan cord cordale corday cordelia cordell cordero coreen coreene corella coretta corette corey cori coriann corianne coridan corie corin corina corineus corinna corinne corisa corissa corky corlan corlene corley corliss cormac cormack cormic cormick cornelio cornelius coronis corradeo corrado corran correen correena corren correy corri corrianna corrianne corrick corrie corrin corrina corrine corrissa corry corvin corwan corwin corwine corwyn cory corybantes corydonRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (co) - Names That Begins with co:
coatl coaxoch cobhan coburn coby cochava cocheta cochise cochlain cocidius coco cocytus codee codell codey codi codie codier codrinNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CORT:
First Names which starts with 'c' and ends with 't':
cait calogrenant camelot carlat cat ceit ceolbeorht chait charlot chet ciatlllait clarissant cleit clint clust cnut colt conant connacht court creissant crescent cuthbeorht cystEnglish Words Rhyming CORT
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CORT AS A WHOLE:
| cortege | noun (n.) A train of attendants; a procession. |
| cortes | noun (n. pl.) The legislative assembly, composed of nobility, clergy, and representatives of cities, which in Spain and in Portugal answers, in some measure, to the Parliament of Great Britain. |
| cortex | noun (n.) Bark, as of a tree; hence, an outer covering. |
| noun (n.) Bark; rind; specifically, cinchona bark. | |
| noun (n.) The outer or superficial part of an organ; as, the cortex or gray exterior substance of the brain. |
| cortical | adjective (a.) Belonging to, or consisting of, bark or rind; resembling bark or rind; external; outer; superficial; as, the cortical substance of the kidney. |
| corticate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Corticated |
| corticated | adjective (a.) Having a special outer covering of a nature unlike the interior part. |
| corticifer | noun (n.) One of the Gorgoniacea; -- so called because the fleshy part surrounds a solid axis, like a bark. |
| corticiferous | adjective (a.) Producing bark or something that resembling that resembles bark. |
| adjective (a.) Having a barklike c/nenchyms. |
| corticiform | adjective (a.) Resembling, or having the form of, bark or rind. |
| corticine | noun (n.) A material for carpeting or floor covering, made of ground cork and caoutchouc or India rubber. |
| corticose | adjective (a.) Abounding in bark; resembling bark; barky. |
| corticous | adjective (a.) Relating to, or resembling, bark; corticose. |
| cortile | noun (n.) An open internal courtyard inclosed by the walls of a large dwelling house or other large and stately building. |
| decorticating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decorticate |
| decortication | noun (n.) The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat. |
| decorticator | noun (n.) A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees. |
| escort | noun (n.) A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant; a guard, as of prisoners on a march; also, a body of persons, attending as a mark of respect or honor; -- applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea. |
| noun (n.) Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion; as, to travel under the escort of a friend. | |
| noun (n.) To attend with a view to guard and protect; to accompany as safeguard; to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to; -- used esp. with reference to journeys or excursions on land; as, to escort a public functionary, or a lady; to escort a baggage wagon. |
| escorting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Escort |
| excortication | noun (n.) The act of stripping off bark, or the state of being thus stripped; decortication. |
| scortatory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to lewdness or fornication; lewd. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CORT (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ort) - English Words That Ends with ort:
| abort | noun (n.) An untimely birth. |
| noun (n.) An aborted offspring. | |
| verb (v. i.) To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely. | |
| verb (v. i.) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile. |
| adderwort | noun (n.) The common bistort or snakeweed (Polygonum bistorta). |
| alamort | adjective (a.) To the death; mortally. |
| amort | adjective (a.) As if dead; lifeless; spiritless; dejected; depressed. |
| anteport | noun (n.) An outer port, gate, or door. |
| awlwort | noun (n.) A plant (Subularia aquatica), with awl-shaped leaves. |
| banewort | noun (n.) Deadly nightshade. |
| barrenwort | noun (n.) An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family (Epimedium alpinum), having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific. |
| bellwort | noun (n.) A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers. |
| besort | noun (n.) Befitting associates or attendants. |
| verb (v. t.) To assort or be congruous with; to fit, or become. |
| birthwort | noun (n.) A genus of herbs and shrubs (Aristolochia), reputed to have medicinal properties. |
| bistort | noun (n.) An herbaceous plant of the genus Polygonum, section Bistorta; snakeweed; adderwort. Its root is used in medicine as an astringent. |
| bitterwort | noun (n.) The yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea), which has a very bitter taste. |
| bladderwort | noun (n.) A genus (Utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium. |
| bloodwort | noun (n.) A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis), and to an extensive order of plants (Haemodoraceae), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing. |
| boort | noun (n.) See Bort. |
| boragewort | noun (n.) Plant of the Borage family. |
| bort | noun (n.) Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work. |
| brownwort | noun (n.) A species of figwort or Scrophularia (S. vernalis), and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers. |
| bruisewort | noun (n.) A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey. |
| bugwort | noun (n.) Bugbane. |
| bullwort | noun (n.) See Bishop's-weed. |
| burstwort | noun (n.) A plant (Herniaria glabra) supposed to be valuable for the cure of hernia or rupture. |
| butterwort | noun (n.) A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone. |
| cohort | noun (n.) A body of about five or six hundred soldiers; the tenth part of a legion. |
| noun (n.) Any band or body of warriors. | |
| noun (n.) A natural group of orders of plants, less comprehensive than a class. |
| colewort | noun (n.) A variety of cabbage in which the leaves never form a compact head. |
| noun (n.) Any white cabbage before the head has become firm. |
| comfort | noun (n.) Assistance; relief; support. |
| noun (n.) Encouragement; solace; consolation in trouble; also, that which affords consolation. | |
| noun (n.) A state of quiet enjoyment; freedom from pain, want, or anxiety; also, whatever contributes to such a condition. | |
| noun (n.) A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable. | |
| noun (n.) Unlawful support, countenance, or encouragement; as, to give aid and comfort to the enemy. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To assist or help; to aid. | |
| verb (v. t.) To impart strength and hope to; to encourage; to relieve; to console; to cheer. |
| comport | noun (n.) Manner of acting; behavior; conduct; deportment. |
| verb (v. i.) To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury. | |
| verb (v. i.) To agree; to accord; to suit; -- sometimes followed by with. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bear; to endure; to brook; to put with. | |
| verb (v. t.) To carry; to conduct; -- with a reflexive pronoun. |
| consort | noun (n.) One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband. |
| noun (n.) A ship keeping company with another. | |
| noun (n.) Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union. | |
| noun (n.) An assembly or association of persons; a company; a group; a combination. | |
| noun (n.) Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments. | |
| verb (v. i.) To unite or to keep company; to associate; -- used with with. | |
| verb (v. t.) To unite or join, as in affection, harmony, company, marriage, etc.; to associate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To attend; to accompany. |
| coralwort | noun (n.) A cruciferous herb of certain species of Dentaria; -- called also toothwort, tooth violet, or pepper root. |
| counterfort | noun (n.) A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall. |
| noun (n.) A spur or projection of a mountain. |
| crosswort | noun (n.) A name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc. |
| damewort | noun (n.) A cruciferrous plant (Hesperis matronalis), remarkable for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called also rocket and dame's violet. |
| danewort | noun (n.) A fetid European species of elder (Sambucus Ebulus); dwarf elder; wallwort; elderwort; -- called also Daneweed, Dane's weed, and Dane's-blood. [Said to grow on spots where battles were fought against the Danes.] |
| davenport | noun (n.) A kind of small writing table, generally somewhat ornamental, and forming a piece of furniture for the parlor or boudoir. |
| deport | noun (n.) Behavior; carriage; demeanor; deportment. |
| verb (v. t.) To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment. | |
| verb (v. t.) To carry or demean; to conduct; to behave; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun. |
| distort | adjective (a.) Distorted; misshapen. |
| verb (v. t.) To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body. | |
| verb (v. t.) To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally. | |
| verb (v. t.) To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning. |
| dropwort | noun (n.) An Old World species of Spiraea (S. filipendula), with finely cut leaves. |
| effort | noun (n.) An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle directed to the accomplishment of an object; as, an effort to scale a wall. |
| noun (n.) A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion. | |
| verb (v. t.) To stimulate. |
| elderwort | noun (n.) Danewort. |
| exhort | noun (n.) Exhortation. |
| verb (v. t.) To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise, warn, or caution. | |
| verb (v. i.) To deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds. |
| export | noun (n.) The act of exporting; exportation; as, to prohibit the export of wheat or tobacco. |
| noun (n.) That which is exported; a commodity conveyed from one country or State to another in the way of traffic; -- used chiefly in the plural, exports. | |
| verb (v. t.) To carry away; to remove. | |
| verb (v. t.) To carry or send abroad, or out of a country, especially to foreign countries, as merchandise or commodities in the way of commerce; -- the opposite of import; as, to export grain, cotton, cattle, goods, etc. |
| extort | adjective (p. p. & a.) Extorted. |
| verb (v. t.) To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt. | |
| verb (v. t.) To get by the offense of extortion. See Extortion, 2. | |
| verb (v. i.) To practice extortion. |
| felonwort | noun (n.) The bittersweet nightshade (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet. |
| felwort | noun (n.) A European herb (Swertia perennis) of the Gentian family. |
| feuillemort | adjective (a.) Having the color of a faded leaf. |
| feverwort | noun (n.) See Fever root, under Fever. |
| figwort | noun (n.) A genus of herbaceous plants (Scrophularia), mostly found in the north temperate zones. See Brownwort. |
| fleawort | noun (n.) An herb used in medicine (Plantago Psyllium), named from the shape of its seeds. |
| foliomort | adjective (a.) See Feuillemort. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CORT (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (cor) - Words That Begins with cor:
| cor | noun (n.) A Hebrew measure of capacity; a homer. |
| cora | noun (n.) The Arabian gazelle (Gazella Arabica), found from persia to North Africa. |
| coracle | noun (n.) A boat made by covering a wicker frame with leather or oilcloth. It was used by the ancient Britons, and is still used by fisherman in Wales and some parts of Ireland. Also, a similar boat used in Thibet and in Egypt. |
| coracoid | noun (n.) The coracoid bone or process. |
| adjective (a.) Shaped like a crow's beak. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to a bone of the shoulder girdle in most birds, reptiles, and amphibians, which is reduced to a process of the scapula in most mammals. |
| corage | noun (n.) See Courage |
| coral | noun (n.) The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa. |
| noun (n.) The ovaries of a cooked lobster; -- so called from their color. | |
| noun (n.) A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything. |
| coraled | adjective (a.) Having coral; covered with coral. |
| corallaceous | adjective (a.) Like coral, or partaking of its qualities. |
| corallian | noun (n.) A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oolite; -- called also coral-rag. |
| coralliferous | adjective (a.) Containing or producing coral. |
| coralliform | adjective (a.) resembling coral in form. |
| coralligena | noun (n. pl.) Same as Anthozoa. |
| coralligenous | adjective (a.) producing coral; coralligerous; coralliferous. |
| coralligerous | adjective (a.) Producing coral; coralliferous. |
| corallin | noun (n.) A yellow coal-tar dyestuff which probably consists chiefly of rosolic acid. See Aurin, and Rosolic acid under Rosolic. |
| coralline | noun (n.) A submarine, semicalcareous or calcareous plant, consisting of many jointed branches. |
| noun (n.) Formerly any slender coral-like animal; -- sometimes applied more particulary to bryozoan corals. | |
| adjective (a.) Composed of corallines; as, coralline limestone. |
| corallinite | noun (n.) A fossil coralline. |
| corallite | noun (n.) A mineral substance or petrifaction, in the form of coral. |
| noun (n.) One of the individual members of a compound coral; or that part formed by a single coral animal. |
| coralloid | adjective (a.) Having the form of coral; branching like coral. |
| coralloidal | adjective (a.) resembling coral; coralloid. |
| corallum | noun (n.) The coral or skeleton of a zoophyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral. |
| coranach | noun (n.) A lamentation for the dead; a dirge. |
| corant | noun (n.) Alt. of Coranto |
| coranto | noun (n.) A sprightly but somewhat stately dance, now out of fashion. |
| corb | noun (n.) A basket used in coal mines, etc. see Corf. |
| noun (n.) An ornament in a building; a corbel. |
| corban | noun (n.) An offering of any kind, devoted to God and therefore not to be appropriated to any other use; esp., an offering in fulfillment of a vow. |
| noun (n.) An alms basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited. |
| corbe | adjective (a.) Crooked. |
| corbell | noun (n.) A sculptured basket of flowers; a corbel. |
| noun (n.) Small gabions. |
| corbel | noun (n.) A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture. |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel. |
| corbie | noun (n.) Alt. of Corby |
| corby | noun (n.) The raven. |
| noun (n.) A raven, crow, or chough, used as a charge. |
| corbiestep | noun (n.) One of the steps in which a gable wall is often finished in place of a continuous slope; -- also called crowstep. |
| corchorus | noun (n.) The common name of the Kerria Japonica or Japan globeflower, a yellow-flowered, perennial, rosaceous plant, seen in old-fashioned gardens. |
| corcle | noun (n.) Alt. of Corcule |
| corcule | noun (n.) The heart of the seed; the embryo or germ. |
| cord | noun (n.) A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together. |
| noun (n.) A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line. | |
| noun (n.) Fig.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement; as, the cords of the wicked; the cords of sin; the cords of vanity. | |
| noun (n.) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. See under Spermatic, Spinal, Umbilical, Vocal. | |
| noun (n.) See Chord. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment. | |
| verb (v. t.) To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Core |
| cording | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cord |
| cordage | noun (n.) Ropes or cords, collectively; hence, anything made of rope or cord, as those parts of the rigging of a ship which consist of ropes. |
| cordal | noun (n.) Same as Cordelle. |
| cordate | adjective (a.) Heart-shaped; as, a cordate leaf. |
| corded | adjective (a.) Bound or fastened with cords. |
| adjective (a.) Piled in a form for measurement by the cord. | |
| adjective (a.) Made of cords. | |
| adjective (a.) Striped or ribbed with cords; as, cloth with a corded surface. | |
| adjective (a.) Bound about, or wound, with cords. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Cord |
| cordelier | noun (n.) A Franciscan; -- so called in France from the girdle of knotted cord worn by all Franciscans. |
| noun (n.) A member of a French political club of the time of the first Revolution, of which Danton and Marat were members, and which met in an old Cordelier convent in Paris. |
| cordeling | adjective (a.) Twisting. |
| cordelle | noun (n.) A twisted cord; a tassel. |
| cordial | noun (n.) Anything that comforts, gladdens, and exhilarates. |
| noun (n.) Any invigorating and stimulating preparation; as, a peppermint cordial. | |
| noun (n.) Aromatized and sweetened spirit, used as a beverage; a liqueur. | |
| adjective (a.) Proceeding from the heart. | |
| adjective (a.) Hearty; sincere; warm; affectionate. | |
| adjective (a.) Tending to revive, cheer, or invigorate; giving strength or spirits. |
| cordiality | noun (n.) Relation to the heart. |
| noun (n.) Sincere affection and kindness; warmth of regard; heartiness. |
| cordialness | noun (n.) Cordiality. |
| cordierite | noun (n.) See Iolite. |
| cordoform | adjective (a.) Heart-shaped. |
| cordillera | noun (n.) A mountain ridge or chain. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CORT:
English Words which starts with 'c' and ends with 't':
| cabalist | noun (n.) One versed in the cabala, or the mysteries of Jewish traditions. |
| cabaret | noun (n.) A tavern; a house where liquors are retailed. |
| noun (n.) a type of restaurant where liquor and dinner is served, and entertainment is provided, as by musicians, dancers, or comedians, and providing space for dancing by the patrons; -- similar to a nightclub. The term cabaret is often used in the names of such an establishment. | |
| noun (n.) the type of entertainment provided in a cabaret{2}. | |
| noun (n.) In the United States, a cafe or restaurant where the guests are entertained by performers who dance or sing on the floor between the tables, after the practice of a certain class of French taverns; hence, an entertainment of this nature. |
| cabinet | noun (n.) A hut; a cottage; a small house. |
| noun (n.) A small room, or retired apartment; a closet. | |
| noun (n.) A private room in which consultations are held. | |
| noun (n.) The advisory council of the chief executive officer of a nation; a cabinet council. | |
| noun (n.) A set of drawers or a cupboard intended to contain articles of value. Hence: | |
| noun (n.) A decorative piece of furniture, whether open like an etagere or closed with doors. See Etagere. | |
| noun (n.) Any building or room set apart for the safe keeping and exhibition of works of art, etc.; also, the collection itself. | |
| adjective (a.) Suitable for a cabinet; small. | |
| verb (v. i.) To inclose |
| cablet | noun (n.) A little cable less than ten inches in circumference. |
| cabriolet | noun (n.) A one-horse carriage with two seats and a calash top. |
| cabrit | noun (n.) Same as Cabree. |
| cachalot | noun (n.) The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). It has in the top of its head a large cavity, containing an oily fluid, which, after death, concretes into a whitish crystalline substance called spermaceti. See Sperm whale. |
| cachepot | noun (n.) An ornamental casing for a flowerpot, of porcelain, metal, paper, etc. |
| cachet | noun (n.) A seal, as of a letter. |
| cacolet | noun (n.) A chair, litter, or other contrivance fitted to the back or pack saddle of a mule for carrying travelers in mountainous districts, or for the transportation of the sick and wounded of an army. |
| cadbait | noun (n.) See Caddice. |
| cadent | adjective (a.) Falling. |
| cadet | noun (n.) The younger of two brothers; a younger brother or son; the youngest son. |
| noun (n.) A gentleman who carries arms in a regiment, as a volunteer, with a view of acquiring military skill and obtaining a commission. | |
| noun (n.) A young man in training for military or naval service; esp. a pupil in a military or naval school, as at West Point, Annapolis, or Woolwich. | |
| noun (n.) In New Zealand, a young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station. | |
| noun (n.) A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels. |
| cafenet | noun (n.) Alt. of Cafeneh |
| cagit | noun (n.) A kind of parrot, of a beautiful green color, found in the Philippine Islands. |
| cagot | noun (n.) One of a race inhabiting the valleys of the Pyrenees, who until 1793 were political and social outcasts (Christian Pariahs). They are supposed to be a remnant of the Visigoths. |
| cahoot | noun (n.) Partnership; as, to go in cahoot with a person. |
| cajeput | noun (n.) See Cajuput. |
| cajolement | noun (n.) The act of cajoling; the state of being cajoled; cajolery. |
| cajuput | noun (n.) A highly stimulating volatile inflammable oil, distilled from the leaves of an East Indian tree (Melaleuca cajuputi, etc.) It is greenish in color and has a camphoraceous odor and pungent taste. |
| calamint | noun (n.) A genus of perennial plants (Calamintha) of the Mint family, esp. the C. Nepeta and C. Acinos, which are called also basil thyme. |
| calamist | noun (n.) One who plays upon a reed or pipe. |
| calcitrant | adjective (a.) Kicking. Hence: Stubborn; refractory. |
| calefacient | noun (n.) A substance that excites warmth in the parts to which it is applied, as mustard. |
| adjective (a.) Making warm; heating. |
| caliduct | noun (n.) A pipe or duct used to convey hot air or steam. |
| callat | noun (n.) Same as Callet. |
| callet | noun (n.) A trull or prostitute; a scold or gossip. |
| verb (v. i.) To rail or scold. |
| calligraphist | noun (n.) A calligrapher |
| callot | noun (n.) A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. |
| noun (n.) A close cap without visor or brim. | |
| noun (n.) Such a cap, worn by English serjeants at law. | |
| noun (n.) Such a cap, worn by the French cavalry under their helmets. | |
| noun (n.) Such a cap, worn by the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church. |
| caloriduct | noun (n.) A tube or duct for conducting heat; a caliduct. |
| calorifacient | adjective (a.) See Calorificient. |
| calorifiant | adjective (a.) See Calorificient. |
| calorificient | adjective (a.) Having, or relating to the power of producing heat; -- applied to foods which, being rich in carbon, as the fats, are supposed to give rise to heat in the animal body by oxidation. |
| calumet | noun (n.) A kind of pipe, used by the North American Indians for smoking tobacco. The bowl is usually made of soft red stone, and the tube is a long reed often ornamented with feathers. |
| calvessnout | noun (n.) Snapdragon. |
| calvinist | noun (n.) A follower of Calvin; a believer in Calvinism. |
| 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. |
| camblet | noun (n.) See Camlet. |
| camelot | noun (n.) See Camelet. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| campanologist | noun (n.) One skilled in campanology; a bell ringer. |
| camptight | noun (n.) A duel; the decision of a case by a duel. |
| candent | adjective (a.) Heated to whiteness; glowing with heat. |
| candicant | adjective (a.) Growing white. |
| candiot | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Candia; Cretary. |
| candlelight | noun (n.) The light of a candle. |
| candytuft | noun (n.) An annual plant of the genus Iberis, cultivated in gardens. The name was originally given to the I. umbellata, first, discovered in the island of Candia. |
| canescent | adjective (a.) Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white. |
| canoeist | noun (n.) A canoeman. |
| canonist | noun (n.) A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law. |
| cant | noun (n.) A corner; angle; niche. |
| noun (n.) An outer or external angle. | |
| noun (n.) An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl. | |
| noun (n.) A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so give; as, to give a ball a cant. | |
| noun (n.) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask. | |
| noun (n.) A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel. | |
| noun (n.) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads. | |
| noun (n.) An affected, singsong mode of speaking. | |
| noun (n.) The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation. | |
| noun (n.) The use of religious phraseology without understanding or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy. | |
| noun (n.) Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves, tramps, or beggars. | |
| noun (n.) A call for bidders at a public sale; an auction. | |
| adjective (a.) Of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar. | |
| verb (v. t.) To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship. | |
| verb (v. t.) To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt. | |
| verb (v. i.) To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong tone. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic. | |
| verb (v. i.) To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning. | |
| verb (v. t.) to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction. |
| cantlet | noun (n.) A piece; a fragment; a corner. |
| cantonment | noun (n.) A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest for an army; quarters. |
| canzonet | noun (n.) A short song, in one or more parts. |
| capellet | noun (n.) A swelling, like a wen, on the point of the elbow (or the heel of the hock) of a horse, caused probably by bruises in lying down. |
| capillament | noun (n.) A filament. |
| noun (n.) Any villous or hairy covering; a fine fiber or filament, as of the nerves. |
| capitalist | noun (n.) One who has capital; one who has money for investment, or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business. |
| caponet | noun (n.) A young capon. |
| capot | noun (n.) A winning of all the tricks at the game of piquet. It counts for forty points. |
| verb (v. t.) To win all the tricks from, in playing at piquet. |
| capulet | noun (n.) Same as Capellet. |
| caput | noun (n.) The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum. |
| noun (n.) The top or superior part of a thing. | |
| noun (n.) The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856. |
| 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. |
| carburet | noun (n.) A carbide. See Carbide |
| verb (v. t.) To combine or to impregnate with carbon, as by passing through or over a liquid hydrocarbon; to carbonize or carburize. |
| carburetant | noun (n.) Any volatile liquid used in charging illuminating gases. |
| carcanet | noun (n.) A jeweled chain, necklace, or collar. |
| caret | noun (n.) A mark [^] used by writers and proof readers to indicate that something is interlined above, or inserted in the margin, which belongs in the place marked by the caret. |
| noun (n.) The hawkbill turtle. See Hawkbill. |
| caricaturist | noun (n.) One who caricatures. |
| carkanet | noun (n.) A carcanet. |
| carlist | noun (n.) A partisan of Charles X. of France, or of Don Carlos of Spain. |
| carlot | noun (n.) A churl; a boor; a peasant or countryman. |
| carmot | noun (n.) The matter of which the philosopher's stone was believed to be composed. |
| carnalist | noun (n.) A sensualist. |
| carpet | noun (n.) A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be sewed together and nailed to the floor, as distinguished from a rug or mat; originally, also, a wrought cover for tables. |
| noun (n.) A smooth soft covering resembling or suggesting a carpet. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a carpet; to spread with carpets; to furnish with a carpet or carpets. |
| carpologist | noun (n.) One who describes fruits; one versed in carpology. |
| carrot | noun (n.) An umbelliferous biennial plant (Daucus Carota), of many varieties. |
| noun (n.) The esculent root of cultivated varieties of the plant, usually spindle-shaped, and of a reddish yellow color. |
| cart | noun (n.) A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot. |
| noun (n.) A two-wheeled vehicle for the ordinary purposes of husbandry, or for transporting bulky and heavy articles. | |
| noun (n.) A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, etc. | |
| noun (n.) An open two-wheeled pleasure carriage. | |
| verb (v. t.) To carry or convey in a cart. | |
| verb (v. t.) To expose in a cart by way of punishment. | |
| verb (v. i.) To carry burdens in a cart; to follow the business of a carter. |
| cartoonist | noun (n.) One skilled in drawing cartoons. |
| cartwright | noun (n.) An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker. |
| carvelbuilt | adjective (a.) Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel. |
| carvist | noun (n.) A hawk which is of proper age and training to be carried on the hand; a hawk in its first year. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| castanet | noun (n.) See Castanets. |
| castlet | noun (n.) A small castle. |
| casualist | noun (n.) One who believes in casualism. |
| casuist | noun (n.) One who is skilled in, or given to, casuistry. |
| verb (v. i.) To play the casuist. |
| cat | noun (n.) An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger than the domestic cat. In the United States the name wild cat is commonly applied to the bay lynx (Lynx rufus) See Wild cat, and Tiger cat. |
| noun (n.) A strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and deep waist. It is employed in the coal and timber trade. | |
| noun (n.) A strong tackle used to draw an anchor up to the cathead of a ship. | |
| noun (n.) A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.), having six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position in is placed. | |
| noun (n.) An old game; (a) The game of tipcat and the implement with which it is played. See Tipcat. (c) A game of ball, called, according to the number of batters, one old cat, two old cat, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A cat o' nine tails. See below. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bring to the cathead; as, to cat an anchor. See Anchor. |
| catabaptist | noun (n.) One who opposes baptism, especially of infants. |
| cataclysmist | noun (n.) One who believes that the most important geological phenomena have been produced by cataclysms. |
| catamount | noun (n.) The cougar. Applied also, in some parts of the United States, to the lynx. |
| cataphract | noun (n.) Defensive armor used for the whole body and often for the horse, also, esp. the linked mail or scale armor of some eastern nations. |
| noun (n.) A horseman covered with a cataphract. | |
| noun (n.) The armor or plate covering some fishes. |
| catapult | noun (n.) An engine somewhat resembling a massive crossbow, used by the ancient Greeks and Romans for throwing stones, arrows, spears, etc. |
| noun (n.) A forked stick with elastic band for throwing small stones, etc. |
| cataract | noun (n.) A great fall of water over a precipice; a large waterfall. |
| noun (n.) An opacity of the crystalline lens, or of its capsule, which prevents the passage of the rays of light and impairs or destroys the sight. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot. |
| catastrophist | noun (n.) One who holds the theory or catastrophism. |
| catboat | noun (n.) A small sailboat, with a single mast placed as far forward as possible, carring a sail extended by a gaff and long boom. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| catchment | noun (n.) A surface of ground on which water may be caught and collected into a reservoir. |
| catechist | noun (n.) One who instructs by question and answer, especially in religions matters. |
| catechumenist | noun (n.) A catechumen. |
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