CLAY

Name Report For First Name CLAY:

First name CLAY's origin is Other. CLAY means "mortal". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with CLAY below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of clay.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with CLAY and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with CLAY - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming CLAY

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES CLAY AS A WHOLE:

barclay claybourne clayburn clayson clayton clayborne

NAMES RHYMING WITH CLAY (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (lay) - Names That Ends with lay:

finlay lay macaulay

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ay) - Names That Ends with ay:

sisay adjatay galloway bay aanjay anevay chantay chardonnay elliemay fay gay jeanay jenay jennay jonay kevay lindsay linsay lyndsay may mishay nuray shamay tamay thursday ajay barday bodaway corday courtnay delray diondray dontay enapay garroway gillivray gray hay jay kay macgillivray mackay macray montay murray o'shay otaktay ouray pay pranay ramsay ray shay tiernay treadway vernay galway tredway thay stanway tuesday suhay kenway ordway conway courtenay

NAMES RHYMING WITH CLAY (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (cla) - Names That Begins with cla:

cla claas clach clady clae claec claefer claeg claegborne claegtun claennis claiborn claiborne clair claire clamedeus clancy clara clare claressa claresta clareta clarette claribel clarice clarimond clarimonda clarimonde clarimunda clarinda clarine clarion claris clarisa clarissa clarissant clarisse clarita clark clarke clarrisa claud claudas claude claudelle claudette claudia claudina claudine claudio claudios claudius claus

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (cl) - Names That Begins with cl:

cleantha cleary cleavon cleirach cleit clematis clemence clementina clementine clementius clennan cleo cleobis cleon cleonie cleopatra cletus cleva cleve cleveland clevon cliantha clianthe cliff clifford cliffton clifland clifton cliftu cliftun clint clinton clinttun clintwood clio clive clodagh clodovea clodoveo cloe cloee cloria cloridan clorinda cloris clotho clotilda

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CLAY:

First Names which starts with 'c' and ends with 'y':

cacey cadby cady cagney cailey cailsey caitly caley cally caly camey carbry carey carley carly carney cary casey cassidy cassy cathly cathy cauley cawley cerny chaisly chancey chaney charity charley charly chassidy chauncey chauncy chelsey chelsy cheney cherry chesley chesney chevy choncey chrissy christy cicely cicily cidney cindy cluny coby codey cody colbey colby coley conary conley connolly conny conroy cony cooey cooley cooney corby corey corky corley correy corry cortney cory courtney covey cranley cranly crissy cristy crosley crosly crowley culley cully cundry curney cydney cymberly cyndy cyneley czigany

English Words Rhyming CLAY

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CLAY AS A WHOLE:

clay	noun (n.) A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.
	noun (n.) Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles.
	verb (v. t.) To cover or manure with clay.
	verb (v. t.) To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.

claying

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clay

clayes

noun (n. pl.) Wattles, or hurdles, made with stakes interwoven with osiers, to cover lodgments.

clayey

adjective (a.) Consisting of clay; abounding with clay; partaking of clay; like clay.

clayish

adjective (a.) Partaking of the nature of clay, or containing particles of it.

claymore

noun (n.) A large two-handed sword used formerly by the Scottish Highlanders.

claytonia

noun (n.) An American genus of perennial herbs with delicate blossoms; -- sometimes called spring beauty.

underclay

noun (n.) A stratum of clay lying beneath a coal bed, often containing the roots of coal plants, especially the Stigmaria.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CLAY (According to last letters):

Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (lay) - English Words That Ends with lay:

allay	noun (n.) Alleviation; abatement; check.
	noun (n.) Alloy.
	verb (v. t.) To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.
	verb (v. t.) To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; as, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity.
	verb (v. t.) To diminish in strength; to abate; to subside.
	verb (v. t.) To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate.

blay

adjective (a.) A fish. See Bleak, n.

byplay

noun (n.) Action carried on aside, and commonly in dumb show, while the main action proceeds.

delay	noun (n.) To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before.
	noun (n.) To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow.
	noun (n.) To allay; to temper.
	verb (v.) A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.
	verb (v. i.) To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry.

display	noun (n.) An opening or unfolding; exhibition; manifestation.
	noun (n.) Ostentatious show; exhibition for effect; parade.
	verb (v. t.) To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.
	verb (v. t.) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.
	verb (v. t.) To spread before the view; to show; to exhibit to the sight, or to the mind; to make manifest.
	verb (v. t.) To make an exhibition of; to set in view conspicuously or ostentatiously; to exhibit for the sake of publicity; to parade.
	verb (v. t.) To make conspicuous by large or prominent type.
	verb (v. t.) To discover; to descry.
	verb (v. i.) To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.

horseplay

noun (n.) Rude, boisterous play.

inlay	noun (n.) Matter or pieces of wood, ivory, etc., inlaid, or prepared for inlaying; that which is inserted or inlaid for ornament or variety.
	verb (v. t.) To lay within; hence, to insert, as pieces of pearl, iviry, choice woods, or the like, in a groundwork of some other material; to form an ornamental surface; to diversify or adorn with insertions.

interplay

noun (n.) Mutual action or influence; interaction; as, the interplay of affection.

lay	noun (n.) The laity; the common people.
	noun (n.) A meadow. See Lea.
	noun (n.) Faith; creed; religious profession.
	noun (n.) A law.
	noun (n.) An obligation; a vow.
	noun (n.) That which lies or is laid or is conceived of as having been laid or placed in its position; a row; a stratum; a layer; as, a lay of stone or wood.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the laity, as distinct from the clergy; as, a lay person; a lay preacher; a lay brother.
	adjective (a.) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.
	adjective (a.) Not belonging to, or emanating from, a particular profession; unprofessional; as, a lay opinion regarding the nature of a disease.
	adjective (a.) A song; a simple lyrical poem; a ballad.
	adjective (a.) A melody; any musical utterance.
	verb (v. t.) To cause to lie down, to be prostrate, or to lie against something; to put or set down; to deposit; as, to lay a book on the table; to lay a body in the grave; a shower lays the dust.
	verb (v. t.) To place in position; to establish firmly; to arrange with regularity; to dispose in ranks or tiers; as, to lay a corner stone; to lay bricks in a wall; to lay the covers on a table.
	verb (v. t.) To prepare; to make ready; to contrive; to provide; as, to lay a snare, an ambush, or a plan.
	verb (v. t.) To spread on a surface; as, to lay plaster or paint.
	verb (v. t.) To cause to be still; to calm; to allay; to suppress; to exorcise, as an evil spirit.
	verb (v. t.) To cause to lie dead or dying.
	verb (v. t.) To deposit, as a wager; to stake; to risk.
	verb (v. t.) To bring forth and deposit; as, to lay eggs.
	verb (v. t.) To apply; to put.
	verb (v. t.) To impose, as a burden, suffering, or punishment; to assess, as a tax; as, to lay a tax on land.
	verb (v. t.) To impute; to charge; to allege.
	verb (v. t.) To impose, as a command or a duty; as, to lay commands on one.
	verb (v. t.) To present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a particular county; to lay a scheme before one.
	verb (v. t.) To state; to allege; as, to lay the venue.
	verb (v. t.) To point; to aim; as, to lay a gun.
	verb (v. t.) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them; as, to lay a cable or rope.
	verb (v. t.) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
	verb (v. t.) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
	verb (v. i.) To produce and deposit eggs.
	verb (v. i.) To take a position; to come or go; as, to lay forward; to lay aloft.
	verb (v. i.) To lay a wager; to bet.
	verb (v. t.) A wager.
	verb (v. t.) A job, price, or profit.
	verb (v. t.) A share of the proceeds or profits of an enterprise; as, when a man ships for a whaling voyage, he agrees for a certain lay.
	verb (v. t.) A measure of yarn; a lea. See 1st Lea (a).
	verb (v. t.) The lathe of a loom. See Lathe, 3.
	verb (v. t.) A plan; a scheme.
	(imp.) of Lie, to recline.
	(imp.) of Lie

malay	noun (n.) One of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the Malay Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago.
	adjective (a.) Alt. of Malayan

mellay

noun (n.) A melee; a conflict.

morglay

noun (n.) A sword.

olay

noun (n. pl.) Palm leaves, prepared for being written upon with a style pointed with steel.

outlay	noun (n.) A laying out or expending.
	noun (n.) That which is expended; expenditure.
	noun (n.) An outlying haunt.
	verb (v. t.) To lay out; to spread out; to display.

overlay	noun (n.) A covering.
	noun (n.) A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.
	verb (v. t.) To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon.
	verb (v. t.) To smother with a close covering, or by lying upon.
	verb (v. t.) To put an overlay on.
	(imp.) of Overlie

play	noun (n.) To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.
	noun (n.) To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.
	noun (n.) To contend, or take part, in a game; as, to play ball; hence, to gamble; as, he played for heavy stakes.
	noun (n.) To perform on an instrument of music; as, to play on a flute.
	noun (n.) To act; to behave; to practice deception.
	noun (n.) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate; to act; as, the fountain plays.
	noun (n.) To move gayly; to wanton; to disport.
	noun (n.) To act on the stage; to personate a character.
	noun (n.) Amusement; sport; frolic; gambols.
	noun (n.) Any exercise, or series of actions, intended for amusement or diversion; a game.
	noun (n.) The act or practice of contending for victory, amusement, or a prize, as at dice, cards, or billiards; gaming; as, to lose a fortune in play.
	noun (n.) Action; use; employment; exercise; practice; as, fair play; sword play; a play of wit.
	noun (n.) A dramatic composition; a comedy or tragedy; a composition in which characters are represented by dialogue and action.
	noun (n.) The representation or exhibition of a comedy or tragedy; as, he attends ever play.
	noun (n.) Performance on an instrument of music.
	noun (n.) Motion; movement, regular or irregular; as, the play of a wheel or piston; hence, also, room for motion; free and easy action.
	noun (n.) Hence, liberty of acting; room for enlargement or display; scope; as, to give full play to mirth.
	verb (v. t.) To put in action or motion; as, to play cannon upon a fortification; to play a trump.
	verb (v. t.) To perform music upon; as, to play the flute or the organ.
	verb (v. t.) To perform, as a piece of music, on an instrument; as, to play a waltz on the violin.
	verb (v. t.) To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in action; to execute; as, to play tricks.
	verb (v. t.) To act or perform (a play); to represent in music action; as, to play a comedy; also, to act in the character of; to represent by acting; to simulate; to behave like; as, to play King Lear; to play the woman.
	verb (v. t.) To engage in, or go together with, as a contest for amusement or for a wager or prize; as, to play a game at baseball.
	verb (v. t.) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.

photoplay

noun (n.) A play for representation or exhibition by moving pictures; also, the moving-picture representation of a play.

relay	noun (n.) A supply of anything arranged beforehand for affording relief from time to time, or at successive stages; provision for successive relief.
	noun (n.) A supply of horses placced at stations to be in readiness to relieve others, so that a trveler may proceed without delay.
	noun (n.) A supply of hunting dogs or horses kept in readiness at certain places to relive the tired dogs or horses, and to continue the pursuit of the game if it comes that way.
	noun (n.) A number of men who relieve others in carrying on some work.
	noun (n.) In various forms of telegraphic apparatus, a magnet which receives the circuit current, and is caused by it to bring into into action the power of a local battery for performing the work of making the record; also, a similar device by which the current in one circuit is made to open or close another circuit in which a current is passing.
	adjective (a.) Relating to, or having the characteristics of, an auxiliary apparatus put into action by a feeble force but itself capable of exerting greater force, used to control a comparatively powerful machine or appliance.
	verb (v. t.) To lay again; to lay a second time; as, to relay a pavement.

rockelay

noun (n.) Alt. of Rocklay

rocklay

noun (n.) See Rokelay.

rokelay

noun (n.) A short cloak.

roundelay	noun (n.) See Rondeau, and Rondel.
	noun (n.) A tune in which a simple strain is often repeated; a simple rural strain which is short and lively.
	noun (n.) A dance in a circle.
	noun (n.) Anything having a round form; a roundel.

splay	adjective (a.) Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders.
	adjective (a.) A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
	verb (v. t.) To display; to spread.
	verb (v. t.) To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
	verb (v. t.) To spay; to castrate.
	verb (v. t.) To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.

stageplay

noun (n.) A dramatic or theatrical entertainment.

swordplay

noun (n.) Fencing; a sword fight.

underlay	noun (n.) To put a tap on (a shoe).
	noun (n.) The inclination of a vein, fault, or lode from the vertical; a hade; -- called also underlie.
	noun (n.) A thickness of paper, pasteboard, or the like, placed under a cut, or stereotype plate, or under type, in the from, to bring it, or any part of it, to the proper height; also, something placed back of a part of the tympan, so as to secure the right impression.
	verb (v. t.) To lay beneath; to put under.
	verb (v. t.) To raise or support by something laid under; as, to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing. See Underlay, n., 2.
	verb (v. i.) To incline from the vertical; to hade; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode.

underplay	noun (n.) The act of underplaying.
	verb (v. i.) To play in a subordinate, or in an inferior manner; to underact a part.
	verb (v. i.) To play a low card when holding a high one, in the hope of a future advantage.

virelay

noun (n.) An ancient French song, or short poem, wholly in two rhymes, and composed in short lines, with a refrain.

wordplay

noun (n.) A more or less subtle playing upon the meaning of words.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CLAY (According to first letters):

Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (cla) - Words That Begins with cla:

clabber	noun (n.) Milk curdled so as to become thick.
	verb (v. i.) To become clabber; to lopper.

clachan

noun (n.) A small village containing a church.

clacking

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clack

clack	noun (n.) To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click.
	noun (n.) To utter words rapidly and continually, or with abruptness; to let the tongue run.
	verb (v. t.) To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
	verb (v. t.) To utter rapidly and inconsiderately.
	verb (v. t.) A sharp, abrupt noise, or succession of noises, made by striking an object.
	verb (v. t.) Anything that causes a clacking noise, as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
	verb (v. t.) Continual or importunate talk; prattle; prating.

clacker	noun (n.) One who clacks; that which clacks; especially, the clapper of a mill.
	noun (n.) A claqueur. See Claqueur.

cladocera

noun (n. pl.) An order of the Entomostraca.

cladophyll

noun (n.) A special branch, resembling a leaf, as in the apparent foliage of the broom (Ruscus) and of the common cultivated smilax (Myrsiphillum).

claggy

adjective (a.) Adhesive; -- said of a roof in a mine to which coal clings.

claik	noun (n.) See Clake.
	noun (n.) The bernicle goose; -- called also clack goose.

claiming

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Claim

claim	noun (n.) A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.
	noun (n.) A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant.
	noun (n.) The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; as a settler's claim; a miner's claim.
	noun (n.) A loud call.
	verb (v./.) To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
	verb (v./.) To proclaim.
	verb (v./.) To call or name.
	verb (v./.) To assert; to maintain.
	verb (v. i.) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.

claimable

adjective (a.) Capable of being claimed.

claimant

noun (n.) One who claims; one who asserts a right or title; a claimer.

claimer

noun (n.) One who claims; a claimant.

claimless

adjective (a.) Having no claim.

clairvoyance

noun (n.) A power, attributed to some persons while in a mesmeric state, of discering objects not perceptible by the senses in their normal condition.

clairvoyant	noun (n.) One who is able, when in a mesmeric state, to discern objects not present to the senses.
	adjective (a.) Pertaining to clairvoyance; discerning objects while in a mesmeric state which are not present to the senses.

clake

noun (n.) Alt. of Claik

clamming

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clam

clam	noun (n.) Claminess; moisture.
	noun (n.) A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.
	verb (v. t.) A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.
	verb (v. t.) Strong pinchers or forceps.
	verb (v. t.) A kind of vise, usually of wood.
	verb (v. t.) To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.
	verb (v. i.) To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.
	verb (v. t. & i.) To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.

clamant

adjective (a.) Crying earnestly, beseeching clamorously.

clamation

noun (n.) The act of crying out.

clamatores

noun (n. pl.) A division of passerine birds in which the vocal muscles are but little developed, so that they lack the power of singing.

clamatorial

adjective (a.) Like or pertaining to the Clamatores.

clambake

noun (n.) The backing or steaming of clams on heated stones, between layers of seaweed; hence, a picnic party, gathered on such an occasion.

clambering

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clamber

clamber	noun (n.) The act of clambering.
	verb (v. i.) To climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet; -- also used figuratively.
	verb (v. t.) To ascend by climbing with difficulty.

clamjamphrie

noun (n.) Low, worthless people; the rabble.

clamminess

noun (n.) State of being clammy or viscous.

clamor	noun (n.) A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation.
	noun (n.) Any loud and continued noise.
	noun (n.) A continued expression of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry.
	verb (v. t.) To salute loudly.
	verb (v. t.) To stun with noise.
	verb (v. t.) To utter loudly or repeatedly; to shout.
	verb (v. i.) To utter loud sounds or outcries; to vociferate; to complain; to make importunate demands.

clamoring

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clamor

clamorer

noun (n.) One who clamors.

clamorous

adjective (a.) Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent.

clamp	noun (n.) Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together.
	noun (n.) An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together.
	noun (n.) A piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen.
	noun (n.) One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising.
	noun (n.) A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams.
	noun (n.) A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal for coking.
	noun (n.) A mollusk. See Clam.
	noun (n.) A heavy footstep; a tramp.
	verb (v. t.) To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp.
	verb (v. t.) To cover, as vegetables, with earth.
	verb (v. i.) To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump.

clamping

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clamp

clamper

noun (n.) An instrument of iron, with sharp prongs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice; a creeper.

clan	noun (n.) A tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan of Macdonald.
	noun (n.) A clique; a sect, society, or body of persons; esp., a body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit; -- sometimes used contemptuously.

clancular

adjective (a.) Conducted with secrecy; clandestine; concealed.

clandestine

adjective (a.) Conducted with secrecy; withdrawn from public notice, usually for an evil purpose; kept secret; hidden; private; underhand; as, a clandestine marriage.

clandestinity

noun (n.) Privacy or secrecy.

clanging

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clang

clang	noun (n.) A loud, ringing sound, like that made by metallic substances when clanged or struck together.
	noun (n.) Quality of tone.
	verb (v. t.) To strike together so as to produce a ringing metallic sound.
	verb (v. i.) To give out a clang; to resound.

clangorous

adjective (a.) Making a clangor; having a ringing, metallic sound.

clangous

adjective (a.) Making a clang, or a ringing metallic sound.

clanjamfrie

noun (n.) Same as Clamjamphrie.

clank	noun (n.) A sharp, brief, ringing sound, made by a collision of metallic or other sonorous bodies; -- usually expressing a duller or less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink.
	verb (v. t.) To cause to sound with a clank; as, the prisoners clank their chains.
	verb (v. i.) To sound with a clank.

clanking

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clank

clankless

adjective (a.) Without a clank.

clannish

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a clan; closely united, like a clan; disposed to associate only with one's clan or clique; actuated by the traditions, prejudices, habits, etc., of a clan.

clanship

noun (n.) A state of being united together as in a clan; an association under a chieftain.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CLAY:

English Words which starts with 'c' and ends with 'y':

cachexy

noun (n.) A condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid process (as cancer or tubercle).

cachinnatory

adjective (a.) Consisting of, or accompanied by, immoderate laughter.

cacochymy

noun (n.) A vitiated state of the humors, or fluids, of the body, especially of the blood.

cacodoxy

noun (n.) Erroneous doctrine; heresy; heterodoxy.

cacography

noun (n.) Incorrect or bad writing or spelling.

cacology

noun (n.) Bad speaking; bad choice or use of words.

cacophony	noun (n.) An uncouth or disagreable sound of words, owing to the concurrence of harsh letters or syllables.
	noun (n.) A combination of discordant sounds.
	noun (n.) An unhealthy state of the voice.

cacotechny

noun (n.) A corruption or corrupt state of art.

caddy

noun (n.) A small box, can, or chest to keep tea in.

cadency

noun (n.) Descent of related families; distinction between the members of a family according to their ages.

cadgy

adjective (a.) Cheerful or mirthful, as after good eating or drinking; also, wanton.

caducary

adjective (a.) Relating to escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation.

caducity

noun (n.) Tendency to fall; the feebleness of old age; senility.

cady

noun (n.) See Cadie.

cajolery

noun (n.) A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery.

calamary

noun (n.) A cephalopod, belonging to the genus Loligo and related genera. There are many species. They have a sack of inklike fluid which they discharge from the siphon tube, when pursued or alarmed, in order to confuse their enemies. Their shell is a thin horny plate, within the flesh of the back, shaped very much like a quill pen. In America they are called squids. See Squid.

calamity	noun (n.) Any great misfortune or cause of misery; -- generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individuals.
	noun (n.) A state or time of distress or misfortune; misery.

calcinatory

noun (n.) A vessel used in calcination.

calcography

noun (n.) The art of drawing with chalk.

calculary	noun (n.) A congeries of little stony knots found in the pulp of the pear and other fruits.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to calculi.

calculatory

adjective (a.) Belonging to calculation.

calefactory	noun (n.) An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room.
	noun (n.) A hollow sphere of metal, filled with hot water, or a chafing dish, placed on the altar in cold weather for the priest to warm his hands with.
	adjective (a.) Making hot; producing or communicating heat.

calendary

adjective (a.) Calendarial.

calidity

noun (n.) Heat.

caliginosity

noun (n.) Darkness.

caligraphy

noun (n.) See Caligraphy.

callidity

noun (n.) Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness.

calligraphy

noun (n.) Fair or elegant penmanship.

callosity

noun (n.) A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.

calmy

noun (n.) Tranquil; peaceful; calm.

caloricity

noun (n.) A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat necessary to life, that is, the animal heat.

calorimetry

noun (n.) Measurement of the quantities of heat in bodies.

calumniatory

adjective (a.) Containing calumny; slanderous.

calumny

noun (n.) False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction.

calvary	noun (n.) The place where Christ was crucified, on a small hill outside of Jerusalem.
	noun (n.) A representation of the crucifixion, consisting of three crosses with the figures of Christ and the thieves, often as large as life, and sometimes surrounded by figures of other personages who were present at the crucifixion.
	noun (n.) A cross, set upon three steps; -- more properly called cross calvary.

cambistry

noun (n.) The science of exchange, weight, measures, etc.

campanology

noun (n.) The art of ringing bells, or a treatise on the art.

canary	noun (n.) Wine made in the Canary Islands; sack.
	noun (n.) A canary bird.
	noun (n.) A pale yellow color, like that of a canary bird.
	noun (n.) A quick and lively dance.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Canary Islands; as, canary wine; canary birds.
	adjective (a.) Of a pale yellowish color; as, Canary stone.
	verb (v. i.) To perform the canary dance; to move nimbly; to caper.

candidacy

noun (n.) The position of a candidate; state of being a candidate; candidateship.

candroy

noun (n.) A machine for spreading out cotton cloths to prepare them for printing.

candy	noun (n.) A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.
	verb (v. t.) To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.
	verb (v. t.) To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.
	verb (v. t.) To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy.
	verb (v. i.) To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.
	verb (v. i.) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
	verb (v. t.) A more or less solid article of confectionery made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. It is often flavored or colored, and sometimes contains fruit, nuts, etc.

cankery	adjective (a.) Like a canker; full of canker.
	adjective (a.) Surly; sore; malignant.

cannery

noun (n.) A place where the business of canning fruit, meat, etc., is carried on.

cannonry

noun (n.) Cannon, collectively; artillery.

canny

adjective (a.) Alt. of Cannei

canonicity

noun (n.) The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon.

canonry

noun (n. pl.) A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon.

canopy	noun (n.) A covering fixed over a bed, dais, or the like, or carried on poles over an exalted personage or a sacred object, etc. chiefly as a mark of honor.
	noun (n.) An ornamental projection, over a door, window, niche, etc.
	noun (n.) Also, a rooflike covering, supported on pillars over an altar, a statue, a fountain, etc.
	verb (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a canopy.

cantatory

adjective (a.) Containing cant or affectation; whining; singing.

canterbury	noun (n.) A city in England, giving its name various articles. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury (primate of all England), and contains the shrine of Thomas a Becket, to which pilgrimages were formerly made.
	noun (n.) A stand with divisions in it for holding music, loose papers, etc.

canthoplasty

noun (n.) The operation of forming a new canthus, when one has been destroyed by injury or disease.

canticoy

noun (n.) A social gathering; usually, one for dancing.

canty

adjective (a.) Cheerful; sprightly; lively; merry.

cany

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to cane or canes; abounding with canes.

capability	noun (n.) The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness; esp. intellectual power or ability.
	noun (n.) Capacity of being used or improved.

capacity	noun (n.) The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things.
	noun (n.) The power of receiving and holding ideas, knowledge, etc.; the comprehensiveness of the mind; the receptive faculty; capability of undestanding or feeling.
	noun (n.) Ability; power pertaining to, or resulting from, the possession of strength, wealth, or talent; possibility of being or of doing.
	noun (n.) Outward condition or circumstances; occupation; profession; character; position; as, to work in the capacity of a mason or a carpenter.
	noun (n.) Legal or noral qualification, as of age, residence, character, etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for holding office, for marrying, for making contracts, will, etc.; legal power or right; competency.

caperberry	noun (n.) The small olive-shaped berry of the European and Oriental caper, said to be used in pickles and as a condiment.
	noun (n.) The currantlike fruit of the African and Arabian caper (Capparis sodado).

capercally

noun (n.) A species of grouse (Tetrao uragallus) of large size and fine flavor, found in northern Europe and formerly in Scotland; -- called also cock of the woods.

capillarity	noun (n.) The quality or condition of being capillary.
	noun (n.) The peculiar action by which the surface of a liquid, where it is in contact with a solid (as in a capillary tube), is elevated or depressed; capillary attraction.

capillary	noun (n.) A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute.
	noun (n.) A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the smallest lymphatic and biliary vessels.
	adjective (a.) Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants.
	adjective (a.) Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels; as, capillary action.

capitulary	noun (n.) A capitular.
	noun (n.) The body of laws or statutes of a chapter, or of an ecclesiastical council.
	noun (n.) A collection of laws or statutes, civil and ecclesiastical, esp. of the Frankish kings, in chapters or sections.
	adjective (a.) Relating to the chapter of a cathedral; capitular.

capnomancy

noun (n.) Divination by means of the ascent or motion of smoke.

capsulary

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a capsule; having the nature of a capsule; hollow and fibrous.

captaincy

noun (n.) The rank, post, or commission of a captain.

captainry

noun (n.) Power, or command, over a certain district; chieftainship.

captivity	noun (n.) The state of being a captive or a prisoner.
	noun (n.) A state of being under control; subjection of the will or affections; bondage.

caracoly

noun (n.) An alloy of gold, silver, and copper, of which an inferior quality of jewelry is made.

caravansary

noun (n.) A kind of inn, in the East, where caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court.

caraway	noun (n.) A biennial plant of the Parsley family (Carum Carui). The seeds have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste. They are used in cookery and confectionery, and also in medicine as a carminative.
	noun (n.) A cake or sweetmeat containing caraway seeds.

carboy

noun (n.) A large, globular glass bottle, esp. one of green glass, inclosed in basket work or in a box, for protection; -- used commonly for carrying corrosive liquids; as sulphuric acid, etc.

carcinology

noun (n.) The department of zoology which treats of the Crustacea (lobsters, crabs, etc.); -- called also malacostracology and crustaceology.

cardialgy

noun (n.) A burning or gnawing pain, or feeling of distress, referred to the region of the heart, accompanied with cardiac palpitation; heartburn. It is usually a symptom of indigestion.

cardioinhibitory

adjective (a.) Checking or arresting the heart's action.

cardiolgy

noun (n.) The science which treats of the heart and its functions.

cardiometry

noun (n.) Measurement of the heart, as by percussion or auscultation.

cariosity

noun (n.) Caries.

carnality

noun (n.) The state of being carnal; fleshly lust, or the indulgence of lust; grossness of mind.

carnary

noun (n.) A vault or crypt in connection with a church, used as a repository for human bones disintered from their original burial places; a charnel house.

carney

noun (n.) A disease of horses, in which the mouth is so furred that the afflicted animal can not eat.

carnivoracity

noun (n.) Greediness of appetite for flesh.

carnosity	noun (n.) A fleshy excrescence; esp. a small excrescence or fungous growth.
	noun (n.) Fleshy substance or quality; fleshy covering.

carpellary

adjective (a.) Belonging to, forming, or containing carpels.

carpentry	noun (n.) The art of cutting, framing, and joining timber, as in the construction of buildings.
	noun (n.) An assemblage of pieces of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter.

carpetway

noun (n.) A border of greensward left round the margin of a plowed field.

carphology

noun (n.) See Floccillation.

carpology

noun (n.) That branch of botany which relates to the structure of seeds and fruit.

carraway

noun (n.) See Caraway.

carroty

adjective (a.) Like a carrot in color or in taste; -- an epithet given to reddish yellow hair, etc.

carry	noun (n.) A tract of land, over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a carrying place; a portage.
	verb (v. t.) To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.
	verb (v. t.) To have or hold as a burden, while moving from place to place; to have upon or about one's person; to bear; as, to carry a wound; to carry an unborn child.
	verb (v. t.) To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide.
	verb (v. t.) To transfer from one place (as a country, book, or column) to another; as, to carry the war from Greece into Asia; to carry an account to the ledger; to carry a number in adding figures.
	verb (v. t.) To convey by extension or continuance; to extend; as, to carry the chimney through the roof; to carry a road ten miles farther.
	verb (v. t.) To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in a contest; to bring to a successful issue; to win; as, to carry an election.
	verb (v. t.) To get possession of by force; to capture.
	verb (v. t.) To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of ; to show or exhibit; to imply.
	verb (v. t.) To bear (one's self); to behave, to conduct or demean; -- with the reflexive pronouns.
	verb (v. t.) To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another; as, a merchant is carrying a large stock; a farm carries a mortgage; a broker carries stock for a customer; to carry a life insurance.
	verb (v. i.) To act as a bearer; to convey anything; as, to fetch and carry.
	verb (v. i.) To have propulsive power; to propel; as, a gun or mortar carries well.
	verb (v. i.) To hold the head; -- said of a horse; as, to carry well i. e., to hold the head high, with arching neck.
	verb (v. i.) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.

cartography

noun (n.) The art or business of forming charts or maps.

cartomancy

noun (n.) The art of telling fortunes with cards.

cartulary	noun (n.) A register, or record, as of a monastery or church.
	noun (n.) An ecclesiastical officer who had charge of records or other public papers.

cartway

noun (n.) A way or road for carts.

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.

cassioberry

noun (n.) The fruit of the Viburnum obovatum, a shrub which grows from Virginia to Florida.

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.

castaway	noun (n.) One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked.
	noun (n.) One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate.
	adjective (a.) Of no value; rejected; useless.

castellany

noun (n.) The lordship of a castle; the extent of land and jurisdiction appertaining to a castle.

castigatory	noun (n.) An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket.
	adjective (a.) Punitive in order to amendment; corrective.

castlery

noun (n.) The government of a castle.

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