Name Report For First Name CRIS:
CRIS
First name CRIS's origin is Spanish. CRIS means "variant abbreviation of christopher and christian". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with CRIS below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of cris.(Brown names are of the same origin (Spanish) with CRIS and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with CRIS - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming CRIS
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES CRİS AS A WHOLE:
crispina acrisius cristoforo crisann crisanna crissinda crista cristen cristin cristina cristine cristyn crispin cristian cristiano cristobal cristofer cristofor criston cristos cristoval cristinel crisdean crissa crissie crissy cristie cristyNAMES RHYMING WITH CRİS (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ris) - Names That Ends with ris:
theoris beitris aleris chloris cypris doris eldoris eris iris lycoris lyris busiris idris bleoberis maris kramoris joris onuris osiris thamyris tigris amaris audris charis deloris edris karis loris chris cyris faris farris gaheris haris harris morris oris paris perris teris norris terris claris damaris cloris ferrisRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (is) - Names That Ends with is:
garmangabis sulis bilqis lamis isis lapis memphis thermuthis aldis flordelis aigneis leitis alcestis amaryllis artemis briseis chryseis clematis coronis eudosis lachesis lais lilis metis nemesis persis symaethis thais themis thetis jyotis hausis nokomis damis dassais eblis yunis anis rais avedis alis naois felis amenophis anubis apis apophis serapis willis alois acis adonis aegis attisNAMES RHYMING WITH CRİS (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (cri) - Names That Begins with cri:
crichton crimson crina criostoirRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (cr) - Names That Begins with cr:
cradawg craig craita crandall crandell cranleah cranley cranly crannog cranston cranstun crawford crayton creag creed creedon creiddyladl creighton creissant creketun creon crescent crespin cretien creusa crevan crocale croften crofton crogher crohoore crom crombwiella crompton cromwell cronan cronus crosleah crosleigh crosley crosly crowell crowley croydon cruadhlaoich crudel cruim cruz crystalNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CRİS:
First Names which starts with 'c' and ends with 's':
cacanisius cadis cadmus caeneus caius calais calchas calibumus calles candiss capaneus caress carlos carolos carolus carys cass cassibellaunus cassivellaunus cebriones cecilius cecrops celeus celsus cephalus cepheus cerberus ceres cestus cetus chalmers chansomps charles charybdis chas cheops chess chimalis christos chryses cinyras claas claennis clamedeus claudas claudios claudius claus clementius cleobis cletus clovis cocidius cocytus coeus colis collins collis columbanus colys condwiramurs corineus corliss cornelius corybantes cosmas cottus countess ctesippus curtis curtiss cus cycnus cynegils cyrusEnglish Words Rhyming CRIS
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CRİS AS A WHOLE:
| acrisia | noun (n.) Alt. of Acrisy |
| acrisy | noun (n.) Inability to judge. |
| noun (n.) Undecided character of a disease. |
| apocrisiary | noun (n.) Alt. of Apocrisiarius |
| apocrisiarius | noun (n.) A delegate or deputy; especially, the pope's nuncio or legate at Constantinople. |
| crisis | noun (n.) The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point. |
| noun (n.) That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat. |
| crisp | noun (n.) That which is crisp or brittle; the state of being crisp or brittle; as, burned to a crisp; specifically, the rind of roasted pork; crackling. |
| adjective (a.) Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair. | |
| adjective (a.) Curled with the ripple of the water. | |
| adjective (a.) Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture; as, crisp snow. | |
| adjective (a.) Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness; in a fresh, unwilted condition. | |
| adjective (a.) Lively; sparking; effervescing. | |
| adjective (a.) Brisk; crackling; cheerful; lively. | |
| adjective (a.) To curl; to form into ringlets, as hair, or the nap of cloth; to interweave, as the branches of trees. | |
| adjective (a.) To cause to undulate irregularly, as crape or water; to wrinkle; to cause to ripple. Cf. Crimp. | |
| adjective (a.) To make crisp or brittle, as in cooking. | |
| verb (v. i.) To undulate or ripple. Cf. Crisp, v. t. |
| crisping | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crisp |
| crispate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Crispated |
| crispated | adjective (a.) Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted. |
| crispation | noun (n.) The act or process of curling, or the state of being curled. |
| noun (n.) A very slight convulsive or spasmodic contraction of certain muscles, external or internal. |
| crispature | noun (n.) The state of being crispate. |
| crisper | noun (n.) One who, or that which, crisps or curls; an instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth, as in chinchilla. |
| crispin | noun (n.) A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron saint of the craft. |
| noun (n.) A member of a union or association of shoemakers. |
| crispness | noun (n.) The state or quality of being crisp. |
| crispy | adjective (a.) Formed into short, close ringlets; frizzed; crisp; as, crispy locks. |
| adjective (a.) Crisp; brittle; as, a crispy pie crust. |
| crissal | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the crissum; as, crissal feathers. |
| adjective (a.) Having highly colored under tail coverts; as, the crissal thrasher. |
| crisscross | noun (n.) A mark or cross, as the signature of a person who is unable to write. |
| noun (n.) A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross. | |
| verb (v. t.) To mark or cover with cross lines; as, a paper was crisscrossed with red marks. | |
| adverb (adv.) In opposite directions; in a way to cross something else; crossing one another at various angles and in various ways. | |
| adverb (adv.) With opposition or hindrance; at cross purposes; contrarily; as, things go crisscross. |
| crissum | noun (n.) That part of a bird, or the feathers, surrounding the cloacal opening; the under tail coverts. |
| cristate | adjective (a.) Crested. |
| cristallology | noun (n.) The science of the crystalline structure of inorganic bodies. |
| encrisped | adjective (a.) Curled. |
| epacris | noun (n.) A genus of shrubs, natives of Australia, New Zealand, etc., having pretty white, red, or purple blossoms, and much resembling heaths. |
| hypocrisy | noun (n.) The act or practice of a hypocrite; a feigning to be what one is not, or to feel what one does not feel; a dissimulation, or a concealment of one's real character, disposition, or motives; especially, the assuming of false appearance of virtue or religion; a simulation of goodness. |
| mediocrist | noun (n.) A mediocre person. |
| palmcrist | noun (n.) The palma Christi. (Jonah iv. 6, margin, and Douay version, note.) |
| procris | noun (n.) Any species of small moths of the genus Procris. The larvae of some species injure the grapevine by feeding in groups upon the leaves. |
| sacrist | noun (n.) A sacristan; also, a person retained in a cathedral to copy out music for the choir, and take care of the books. |
| sacristan | noun (n.) An officer of the church who has the care of the utensils or movables, and of the church in general; a sexton. |
| sacristy | noun (n.) An apartment in a church where the sacred utensils, vestments, etc., are kept; a vestry. |
| syncrisis | noun (n.) A figure of speech in which opposite things or persons are compared. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CRİS (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ris) - English Words That Ends with ris:
| ambergris | noun (n.) A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often variegated like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212¡ Fahrenheit, and is highly valued in perfumery. |
| anacharis | noun (n.) A fresh-water weed of the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharidaceae), native to America. Transferred to England it became an obstruction to navigation. Called also waterweed and water thyme. |
| arris | noun (n.) The sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved; -- applied particularly to the edges in moldings, and to the raised edges which separate the flutings in a Doric column. |
| butteris | noun (n.) A steel cutting instrument, with a long bent shank set in a handle which rests against the shoulder of the operator. It is operated by a thrust movement, and used in paring the hoofs of horses. |
| cantharis | noun (n.) A beetle (Lytta, / Cantharis, vesicatoria), havin1g an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; -- also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine. |
| cantoris | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a cantor; as, the cantoris side of a choir; a cantoris stall. |
| cerris | noun (n.) A species of oak (Quercus cerris) native in the Orient and southern Europe; -- called also bitter oak and Turkey oak. |
| clitoris | noun (n.) A small organ at the upper part of the vulva, homologous to the penis in the male. |
| cypris | noun (n.) A genus of small, bivalve, fresh-water Crustacea, belonging to the Ostracoda; also, a member of this genus. |
| debris | noun (n.) Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base. |
| noun (n.) Rubbish, especially such as results from the destruction of anything; remains; ruins. |
| delthyris | noun (n.) A name formerly given to certain Silurian brachiopod shells of the genus Spirifer. |
| doris | noun (n.) A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks having a wreath of branchiae on the back. |
| ephemeris | noun (n.) A diary; a journal. |
| noun (n.) A publication giving the computed places of the heavenly bodies for each day of the year, with other numerical data, for the use of the astronomer and navigator; an astronomical almanac; as, the "American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac." | |
| noun (n.) Any tabular statement of the assigned places of a heavenly body, as a planet or comet, on several successive days. | |
| noun (n.) A collective name for reviews, magazines, and all kinds of periodical literature. |
| eucharis | noun (n.) A genus of South American amaryllidaceous plants with large and beautiful white blossoms. |
| gris | noun (n. sing. & pl.) A little pig. |
| adjective (a.) Gray. | |
| adjective (a.) A costly kind of fur. |
| indris | noun (n.) Alt. of Indri |
| iris | noun (n.) The goddess of the rainbow, and swift-footed messenger of the gods. |
| noun (n.) The rainbow. | |
| noun (n.) An appearance resembling the rainbow; a prismatic play of colors. | |
| noun (n.) The contractile membrane perforated by the pupil, and forming the colored portion of the eye. See Eye. | |
| noun (n.) A genus of plants having showy flowers and bulbous or tuberous roots, of which the flower-de-luce (fleur-de-lis), orris, and other species of flag are examples. See Illust. of Flower-de-luce. | |
| noun (n.) See Fleur-de-lis, 2. | |
| noun (n.) Inner circle of an oscillated color spot. |
| kris | noun (n.) A Malay dagger. See Creese. |
| lampyris | noun (n.) A genus of coleopterous insects, including the glowworms. |
| loris | noun (n.) Any one of several species of small lemurs of the genus Stenops. They have long, slender limbs and large eyes, and are arboreal in their habits. The slender loris (S. gracilis), of Ceylon, in one of the best known species. |
| meleagris | noun (n.) A genus of American gallinaceous birds, including the common and the wild turkeys. |
| mistigris | noun (n.) Alt. of Mistigri |
| morris | noun (n.) A Moorish dance, usually performed by a single dancer, who accompanies the dance with castanets. |
| noun (n.) A dance formerly common in England, often performed in pagenats, processions, and May games. The dancers, grotesquely dressed and ornamented, took the parts of Robin Hood, Maidmarian, and other fictious characters. | |
| noun (n.) An old game played with counters, or men, which are placed angles of a figure drawn on a board or on the ground; also, the board or ground on which the game is played. | |
| noun (n.) A marine fish having a very slender, flat, transparent body. It is now generally believed to be the young of the conger eel or some allied fish. |
| neuropteris | noun (n.) An extensive genus of fossil ferns, of which species have been found from the Devonian to the Triassic formation. |
| orris | noun (n.) A plant of the genus Iris (I. Florentina); a kind of flower-de-luce. Its rootstock has an odor resembling that of violets. |
| noun (n.) A sort of gold or silver lace. | |
| noun (n.) A peculiar pattern in which gold lace or silver lace is worked; especially, one in which the edges are ornamented with conical figures placed at equal distances, with spots between them. |
| osiris | noun (n.) One of the principal divinities of Egypt, the brother and husband of Isis. He was figured as a mummy wearing the royal cap of Upper Egypt, and was symbolized by the sacred bull, called Apis. Cf. Serapis. |
| panegyris | noun (n.) A festival; a public assembly. |
| paris | noun (n.) A plant common in Europe (Paris quadrifolia); herb Paris; truelove. It has been used as a narcotic. |
| noun (n.) The chief city of France. |
| pecopteris | noun (n.) An extensive genus of fossil ferns; -- so named from the regular comblike arrangement of the leaflets. |
| polaris | noun (n.) The polestar. See North star, under North. |
| pris | noun (n.) See Price, and 1st Prize. |
| ris | noun (n.) A bough or branch; a twig. |
| sherris | noun (n.) Sherry. |
| tomopteris | noun (n.) A genus of transparent marine annelids which swim actively at the surface of the sea. They have deeply divided or forked finlike organs (parapodia). This genus is the type of the order, or suborder, Gymnocopa. |
| verdigris | noun (n.) A green poisonous substance used as a pigment and drug, obtained by the action of acetic acid on copper, and consisting essentially of a complex mixture of several basic copper acetates. |
| noun (n.) The green rust formed on copper. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cover, or coat, with verdigris. |
| xyris | noun (n.) A genus of endogenous herbs with grassy leaves and small yellow flowers in short, scaly-bracted spikes; yellow-eyed grass. There are about seventeen species in the Atlantic United States. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CRİS (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (cri) - Words That Begins with cri:
| crib | noun (n.) A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals. |
| noun (n.) A stall for oxen or other cattle. | |
| noun (n.) A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child. | |
| noun (n.) A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats. | |
| noun (n.) A hovel; a hut; a cottage. | |
| noun (n.) A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft. | |
| noun (n.) A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A small raft of timber. | |
| noun (n.) A small theft; anything purloined;; a plagiaris/; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons. | |
| noun (n.) A miner's luncheon. | |
| noun (n.) The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage. | |
| verb (v. t.) To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton. | |
| verb (v. i.) To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination. | |
| verb (v. i.) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse. |
| cribbing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crib |
| noun (n.) The act of inclosing or confining in a crib or in close quarters. | |
| noun (n.) Purloining; stealing; plagiarizing. | |
| noun (n.) A framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A vicious habit of a horse; crib-biting. The horse lays hold of the crib or manger with his teeth and draws air into the stomach with a grunting sound. |
| criber | noun (n.) Alt. of Crib-biter |
| cribble | noun (n.) A coarse sieve or screen. |
| noun (n.) Coarse flour or meal. | |
| adjective (a.) Coarse; as, cribble bread. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to pass through a sieve or riddle; to sift. |
| cribbling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cribble |
| cribellum | noun (n.) A peculiar perforated organ of certain spiders (Ciniflonidae), used for spinning a special kind of silk. |
| cribrate | adjective (a.) Cribriform. |
| cribration | noun (n.) The act or process of separating the finer parts of drugs from the coarser by sifting. |
| cribriform | adjective (a.) Resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced with holes; as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress. |
| cribrose | adjective (a.) Perforated like a sieve; cribriform. |
| cric | noun (n.) The ring which turns inward and condenses the flame of a lamp. |
| crick | noun (n.) The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it. |
| noun (n.) A painful, spasmodic affection of the muscles of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part. | |
| noun (n.) A small jackscrew. |
| cricket | noun (n.) An orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllus, and allied genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the front wings. |
| noun (n.) A low stool. | |
| noun (n.) A game much played in England, and sometimes in America, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides. | |
| noun (n.) A small false roof, or the raising of a portion of a roof, so as to throw off water from behind an obstacle, such as a chimney. | |
| verb (v. i.) To play at cricket. |
| cricketer | noun (n.) One who plays at cricket. |
| cricoid | adjective (a.) Resembling a ring; -- said esp. of the cartilage at the larynx, and the adjoining parts. |
| cricothyroid | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining both to the cricoid and the thyroid cartilages. |
| crier | noun (n.) One who cries; one who makes proclamation. |
| noun (n.) an officer who proclaims the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation; as, a town-crier. |
| crime | noun (n.) Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law. |
| noun (n.) Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong. | |
| noun (n.) Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity. | |
| noun (n.) That which occasion crime. |
| crimeful | adjective (a.) Criminal; wicked; contrary to law, right, or dury. |
| crimeless | adjective (a.) Free from crime; innocent. |
| criminal | noun (n.) One who has commited a crime; especially, one who is found guilty by verdict, confession, or proof; a malefactor; a felon. |
| adjective (a.) Guilty of crime or sin. | |
| adjective (a.) Involving a crime; of the nature of a crime; -- said of an act or of conduct; as, criminal carelessness. | |
| adjective (a.) Relating to crime; -- opposed to civil; as, the criminal code. |
| criminalist | noun (n.) One versed in criminal law. |
| criminality | noun (n.) The quality or state of being criminal; that which constitutes a crime; guiltiness; guilt. |
| criminalness | noun (n.) Criminality. |
| criminating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Criminate |
| crimination | noun (n.) The act of accusing; accusation; charge; complaint. |
| criminative | adjective (a.) Charging with crime; accusing; criminatory. |
| criminatory | adjective (a.) Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing; as, a criminatory conscience. |
| criminology | noun (n.) A treatise on crime or the criminal population. |
| criminous | adjective (a.) Criminal; involving great crime or grave charges; very wicked; heinous. |
| crimosin | noun (n.) See Crimson. |
| crimping | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crimp |
| crimp | noun (n.) A coal broker. |
| noun (n.) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service. | |
| noun (n.) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced. | |
| noun (n.) Hair which has been crimped; -- usually in pl. | |
| noun (n.) A game at cards. | |
| adjective (a.) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. | |
| adjective (a.) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that the material will retain the shape intended; to give a wavy appearance to; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to crimp a ruffle. Cf. Crisp. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pinch and hold; to seize. | |
| verb (v. t.) to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) In cartridge making, to fold the edge of (a cartridge case) inward so as to close the mouth partly and confine the charge. |
| crimpage | noun (n.) The act or practice of crimping; money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men. |
| crimper | noun (n.) One who, or that which, crimps |
| noun (n.) A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape. | |
| noun (n.) A device for giving hair a wavy appearance. | |
| noun (n.) A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics. |
| crimpling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crimple |
| crimpy | adjective (a.) Having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool of the Saxony sheep. |
| crimson | noun (n.) A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general. |
| adjective (a.) Of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red. | |
| verb (v. t.) To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden. | |
| (b. t.) To become crimson; to blush. |
| crimsoning | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crimson |
| crinal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the hair. |
| crinated | adjective (a.) Having hair; hairy. |
| crinatory | adjective (a.) Crinitory. |
| crincum | noun (n.) A twist or bend; a turn; a whimsey. |
| crined | adjective (a.) Having the hair of a different tincture from the rest of the body; as, a charge crined of a red tincture. |
| crinel | noun (n.) Alt. of Crinet |
| crinet | noun (n.) A very fine, hairlike feather. |
| cringing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cringe |
| cringe | noun (n.) Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility. |
| verb (v. t.) To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn. | |
| verb (v. t.) To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort. |
| cringeling | noun (n.) One who cringes meanly; a fawner. |
| cringer | noun (n.) One who cringes. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CRİS:
English Words which starts with 'c' and ends with 's':
| caas | noun (n. sing. & pl.) Case. |
| cabas | noun (n.) A flat basket or frail for figs, etc.; hence, a lady's flat workbasket, reticule, or hand bag; -- often written caba. |
| cacoethes | noun (n.) A bad custom or habit; an insatiable desire; as, cacoethes scribendi, "The itch for writing". |
| noun (n.) A bad quality or disposition in a disease; an incurable ulcer. |
| cacophonous | adjective (a.) Alt. of Cacophonious |
| cacophonious | adjective (a.) Harsh-sounding. |
| cactaceous | adjective (a.) Belonging to, or like, the family of plants of which the prickly pear is a common example. |
| cactus | noun (n.) Any plant of the order Cactacae, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America. |
| cadaverous | adjective (a.) Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to, or having the qualities of, a dead body. |
| caddis | noun (n.) The larva of a caddice fly. These larvae generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces of broken shells, gravel, bits of wood, etc. They are a favorite bait with anglers. Called also caddice worm, or caddis worm. |
| noun (n.) A kind of worsted lace or ribbon. |
| cadis | noun (n.) A kind of coarse serge. |
| cadrans | noun (n.) An instrument with a graduated disk by means of which the angles of gems are measured in the process of cutting and polishing. |
| caduceus | noun (n.) The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two wings at the top. |
| caecias | noun (n.) A wind from the northeast. |
| caesious | adjective (a.) Of the color of lavender; pale blue with a slight mixture of gray. |
| calamiferous | adjective (a.) Producing reeds; reedy. |
| calamitous | adjective (a.) Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable. |
| adjective (a.) Producing, or attended with distress and misery; making wretched; wretched; unhappy. |
| calamus | noun (n.) The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood. |
| noun (n.) A species of Acorus (A. calamus), commonly called calamus, or sweet flag. The root has a pungent, aromatic taste, and is used in medicine as a stomachic; the leaves have an aromatic odor, and were formerly used instead of rushes to strew on floors. | |
| noun (n.) The horny basal portion of a feather; the barrel or quill. |
| calcareous | adjective (a.) Partaking of the nature of calcite or calcium carbonate; consisting of, or containing, calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime. |
| calcareousness | noun (n.) Quality of being calcareous. |
| calcariferous | adjective (a.) Lime-yielding; calciferous |
| calces | noun (n. pl.) See Calx. |
| (pl. ) of Calx |
| calciferous | adjective (a.) Bearing, producing, or containing calcite, or carbonate of lime. |
| calcigenous | adjective (a.) Tending to form, or to become, a calx or earthlike substance on being oxidized or burnt; as magnesium, calcium. etc. |
| calcigerous | adjective (a.) Holding lime or other earthy salts; as, the calcigerous cells of the teeth. |
| calcivorous | adjective (a.) Eroding, or eating into, limestone. |
| calculous | adjective (a.) Of the nature of a calculus; like stone; gritty; as, a calculous concretion. |
| adjective (a.) Caused, or characterized, by the presence of a calculus or calculi; a, a calculous disorder; affected with gravel or stone; as, a calculous person. |
| calculus | noun (n.) Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc. |
| noun (n.) A method of computation; any process of reasoning by the use of symbols; any branch of mathematics that may involve calculation. |
| calends | noun (n. pl.) The first day of each month in the ancient Roman calendar. |
| caliginous | adjective (a.) Affected with darkness or dimness; dark; obscure. |
| calipers | noun (n. pl.) An instrument, usually resembling a pair of dividers or compasses with curved legs, for measuring the diameter or thickness of bodies, as of work shaped in a lathe or planer, timber, masts, shot, etc.; or the bore of firearms, tubes, etc.; -- called also caliper compasses, or caliber compasses. |
| calisthenis | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to calisthenics. |
| calisthenics | noun (n.) The science, art, or practice of healthful exercise of the body and limbs, to promote strength and gracefulness; light gymnastics. |
| calliopsis | noun (n.) A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas. |
| callipers | noun (n. pl.) See Calipers. |
| callisthenics | noun (n.) See Calisthenic, Calisthenics. |
| callous | adjective (a.) Hardened; indurated. |
| adjective (a.) Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible. |
| callus | noun (n.) Same as Callosity |
| noun (n.) The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistence, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece. | |
| noun (n.) The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets. |
| calmness | noun (n.) The state of quality of being calm; quietness; tranquillity; self-repose. |
| calmucks | noun (n. pl.) A branch of the Mongolian race inhabiting parts of the Russian and Chinese empires; also (sing.), the language of the Calmucks. |
| calumnious | adjective (a.) Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports. |
| callyciflorous | adjective (a.) Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle. |
| calzoons | noun (n. pl.) Drawers. |
| camarasaurus | noun (n.) A genus of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebrae. |
| camass | noun (n.) A blue-flowered liliaceous plant (Camassia esculenta) of northwestern America, the bulbs of which are collected for food by the Indians. |
| noun (n.) A small prairie in a forest; a small grassy plain among hills. |
| cameralistics | noun (n.) The science of finance or public revenue. |
| camis | noun (n.) A light, loose dress or robe. |
| cammas | noun (n.) See Camass. |
| camous | adjective (a.) Alt. of Camoys |
| camoys | adjective (a.) Flat; depressed; crooked; -- said only of the nose. |
| campanes | noun (n. pl.) Bells. |
| campanulaceous | adjective (a.) Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants (Camponulaceae) of which Campanula is the type, and which includes the Canterbury bell, the harebell, and the Venus's looking-glass. |
| camphoraceous | adjective (a.) Of the nature of camphor; containing camphor. |
| campus | noun (n.) The principal grounds of a college or school, between the buildings or within the main inclosure; as, the college campus. |
| campylospermous | adjective (a.) Having seeds grooved lengthwise on the inner face, as in sweet cicely. |
| campylotropous | adjective (a.) Having the ovules and seeds so curved, or bent down upon themselves, that the ends of the embryo are brought close together. |
| camus | noun (n.) See Camis. |
| canaliculus | noun (n.) A minute canal. |
| cancellous | adjective (a.) Having a spongy or porous structure; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones. |
| canderos | noun (n.) An East Indian resin, of a pellucid white color, from which small ornaments and toys are sometimes made. |
| candidness | noun (n.) The quality of being candid. |
| candlemas | noun (n.) The second day of February, on which is celebrated the feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary; -- so called because the candles for the altar or other sacred uses are blessed on that day. |
| canis | noun (n.) A genus of carnivorous mammals, of the family Canidae, including the dogs and wolves. |
| cankerous | adjective (a.) Affecting like a canker. |
| cannabis | noun (n.) A genus of a single species belonging to the order Uricaceae; hemp. |
| canniness | noun (n.) Caution; crafty management. |
| canoness | noun (n.) A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter. |
| canonicalness | noun (n.) The quality of being canonical; canonicity. |
| canonicals | noun (n. pl.) The dress prescribed by canon to be worn by a clergyman when officiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional dress. |
| canopus | noun (n.) A star of the first magnitude in the southern constellation Argo. |
| canorous | adjective (a.) Melodious; musical. |
| canorousness | noun (n.) The quality of being musical. |
| cantankerous | adjective (a.) Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious. |
| cantharides | noun (n. pl.) See Cantharis. |
| (pl. ) of Cantharis |
| canthus | noun (n.) The corner where the upper and under eyelids meet on each side of the eye. |
| canvas | noun (n.) A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc. |
| noun (n.) A coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted work. | |
| noun (n.) A piece of strong cloth of which the surface has been prepared to receive painting, commonly painting in oil. | |
| noun (n.) Something for which canvas is used: (a) A sail, or a collection of sails. (b) A tent, or a collection of tents. (c) A painting, or a picture on canvas. | |
| noun (n.) A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; esp. one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make. | |
| adjective (a.) Made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse cloth; as, a canvas tent. |
| canvass | noun (n.) To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize; as, to canvass the votes cast at an election; to canvass a district with reference to its probable vote. |
| noun (n.) To examine by discussion; to debate. | |
| noun (n.) To go trough, with personal solicitation or public addresses; as, to canvass a district for votes; to canvass a city for subscriptions. | |
| noun (n.) Close inspection; careful review for verification; as, a canvass of votes. | |
| noun (n.) Examination in the way of discussion or debate. | |
| noun (n.) Search; exploration; solicitation; systematic effort to obtain votes, subscribers, etc. | |
| verb (v. i.) To search thoroughly; to engage in solicitation by traversing a district; as, to canvass for subscriptions or for votes; to canvass for a book, a publisher, or in behalf of a charity; -- commonly followed by for. |
| capableness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being capable; capability; adequateness; competency. |
| capacious | adjective (a.) Having capacity; able to contain much; large; roomy; spacious; extended; broad; as, a capacious vessel, room, bay, or harbor. |
| adjective (a.) Able or qualified to make large views of things, as in obtaining knowledge or forming designs; comprehensive; liberal. |
| capaciousness | noun (n.) The quality of being capacious, as of a vessel, a reservoir a bay, the mind, etc. |
| capias | noun (n.) A writ or process commanding the officer to take the body of the person named in it, that is, to arrest him; -- also called writ of capias. |
| capillaceous | adjective (a.) Having long filaments; resembling a hair; slender. See Capillary. |
| capillariness | noun (n.) The quality of being capillary. |
| capitalness | noun (n.) The quality of being capital; preeminence. |
| capricious | adjective (a.) Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. |
| caprifoliaceous | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Honeysuckle family of plants (Caprifoliacae. |
| caprigenous | adjective (a.) Of the goat kind. |
| captious | adjective (a.) Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please. |
| adjective (a.) Fitted to harass, perplex, or insnare; insidious; troublesome. |
| captiousness | noun (n.) Captious disposition or manner. |
| carabus | noun (n.) A genus of ground beetles, including numerous species. They devour many injurious insects. |
| carbonaceous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, containing, or composed of, carbon. |
| carboniferous | adjective (a.) Producing or containing carbon or coal. |
| carcass | noun (n.) A dead body, whether of man or beast; a corpse; now commonly the dead body of a beast. |
| noun (n.) The living body; -- now commonly used in contempt or ridicule. | |
| noun (n.) The abandoned and decaying remains of some bulky and once comely thing, as a ship; the skeleton, or the uncovered or unfinished frame, of a thing. | |
| noun (n.) A hollow case or shell, filled with combustibles, to be thrown from a mortar or howitzer, to set fire to buldings, ships, etc. |
| carcavelhos | noun (n.) A sweet wine. See Calcavella. |
| carcinomatous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to carcinoma. |
| carcinosys | noun (n.) The affection of the system with cancer. |
| carditis | noun (n.) Inflammation of the fleshy or muscular substance of the heart. See Endocarditis and Pericarditis. |
| carefulness | noun (n.) Quality or state of being careful. |
| careless | adjective (a.) Free from care or anxiety. hence, cheerful; light-hearted. |
| adjective (a.) Having no care; not taking ordinary or proper care; negligent; unconcerned; heedless; inattentive; unmindful; regardless. | |
| adjective (a.) Without thought or purpose; without due care; without attention to rule or system; unstudied; inconsiderate; spontaneous; rash; as, a careless throw; a careless expression. | |
| adjective (a.) Not receiving care; uncared for. |
| carelessness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being careless; heedlessness; negligenece; inattention. |
| caress | noun (n.) An act of endearment; any act or expression of affection; an embracing, or touching, with tenderness. |
| noun (n.) To treat with tokens of fondness, affection, or kindness; to touch or speak to in a loving or endearing manner; to fondle. |
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