First Names Rhyming COLUMBANUS
English Words Rhyming COLUMBANUS
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES COLUMBANUS AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH COLUMBANUS (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 9 Letters (olumbanus) - English Words That Ends with olumbanus:
Rhyming Words According to Last 8 Letters (lumbanus) - English Words That Ends with lumbanus:
Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (umbanus) - English Words That Ends with umbanus:
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (mbanus) - English Words That Ends with mbanus:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (banus) - English Words That Ends with banus:
| tabanus | noun (n.) A genus of blood sucking flies, including the horseflies. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (anus) - English Words That Ends with anus:
| anus | noun (n.) The posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through which the excrements are expelled. |
| eridanus | noun (n.) A long, winding constellation extending southward from Taurus and containing the bright star Achernar. |
| janus | noun (n.) A Latin deity represented with two faces looking in opposite directions. Numa is said to have dedicated to Janus the covered passage at Rome, near the Forum, which is usually called the Temple of Janus. This passage was open in war and closed in peace. |
| manus | noun (n.) The distal segment of the fore limb, including the carpus and fore foot or hand. |
| | (pl. ) of Manus |
| oceanus | noun (n.) The god of the great outer sea, or the river which was believed to flow around the whole earth. |
| pandanus | noun (n.) A genus of endogenous plants. See Screw pine. |
| platanus | noun (n.) A genus of trees; the plane tree. |
| tetanus | noun (n.) A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes various names from the various incurvations of the body resulting from the spasm. |
| | noun (n.) That condition of a muscle in which it is in a state of continued vibratory contraction, as when stimulated by a series of induction shocks. |
| uranus | noun (n.) The son or husband of Gaia (Earth), and father of Chronos (Time) and the Titans. |
| | noun (n.) One of the primary planets. It is about 1,800,000,000 miles from the sun, about 36,000 miles in diameter, and its period of revolution round the sun is nearly 84 of our years. |
| varanus | noun (n.) A genus of very large lizards native of Asia and Africa. It includes the monitors. See Monitor, 3. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (nus) - English Words That Ends with nus:
| acinus | noun (n.) One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A grapestone. |
| | noun (n.) One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland. |
| agnus | noun (n.) Agnus Dei. |
| alaternus | noun (n.) An ornamental evergreen shrub (Rhamnus alaternus) belonging to the buckthorns. |
| alumnus | noun (n.) A pupil; especially, a graduate of a college or other seminary of learning. |
| anelectrotonus | noun (n.) The condition of decreased irritability of a nerve in the region of the positive electrode or anode on the passage of a current of electricity through it. |
| anthrenus | noun (n.) A genus of small beetles, several of which, in the larval state, are very destructive to woolen goods, fur, etc. The common "museum pest" is A. varius; the carpet beetle is A. scrophulariae. The larvae are commonly confounded with moths. |
| bonus | noun (n.) A premium given for a loan, or for a charter or other privilege granted to a company; as the bank paid a bonus for its charter. |
| | noun (n.) An extra dividend to the shareholders of a joint stock company, out of accumulated profits. |
| | noun (n.) Money paid in addition to a stated compensation. |
| catelectrotonus | noun (n.) The condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it. |
| clarisonus | adjective (a.) Having a clear sound. |
| conus | noun (n.) A cone. |
| | noun (n.) A Linnean genus of mollusks having a conical shell. See Cone, n., 4. |
| cothurnus | noun (n.) Same as Cothurn. |
| cygnus | noun (n.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere east of, or following, Lyra; the Swan. |
| cincinnus | noun (n.) A form of monochasium in which the lateral branches arise alternately on opposite sides of the false axis; -- called also scorpioid cyme. |
| clonus | noun (n.) A series of muscular contractions due to sudden stretching of the muscle, -- a sign of certain neuropathies. |
| delphinus | noun (n.) A genus of Cetacea, including the dolphin. See Dolphin, 1. |
| | noun (n.) The Dolphin, a constellation near the equator and east of Aquila. |
| dictamnus | noun (n.) A suffrutescent, D. Fraxinella (the only species), with strong perfume and showy flowers. The volatile oil of the leaves is highly inflammable. |
| dominus | noun (n.) Master; sir; -- a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or a clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor. |
| echinus | noun (n.) A hedgehog. |
| | noun (n.) A genus of echinoderms, including the common edible sea urchin of Europe. |
| | noun (n.) The rounded molding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve. See Entablature. |
| | noun (n.) The quarter-round molding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style. See Illust. of Column |
| | noun (n.) A name sometimes given to the egg and anchor or egg and dart molding, because that ornament is often identified with Roman Doric capital. The name probably alludes to the shape of the shell of the sea urchin. |
| elaeagnus | noun (n.) A genus of shrubs or small trees, having the foliage covered with small silvery scales; oleaster. |
| electrotonus | noun (n.) The modified condition of a nerve, when a constant current of electricity passes through any part of it. See Anelectrotonus, and Catelectrotonus. |
| encrinus | noun (n.) A genus of fossil encrinoidea, from the Mesozoic rocks. |
| faunus | noun (n.) See Faun. |
| fraxinus | noun (n.) A genus of deciduous forest trees, found in the north temperate zone, and including the true ash trees. |
| galvanotonus | noun (n.) Same as Electrotonus. |
| genus | noun (n.) A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms. |
| | noun (n.) An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they may receive a common substantive name. A genus is not necessarily the lowest definable group of species, for it may often be divided into several subgenera. In proportion as its definition is exact, it is natural genus; if its definition can not be made clear, it is more or less an artificial genus. |
| hemionus | noun (n.) A wild ass found in Thibet; the kiang. |
| marbrinus | noun (n.) A cloth woven so as to imitate the appearance of marble; -- much used in the 15th and 16th centuries. |
| minus | adjective (a.) Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus quantity. |
| onus | noun (n.) A burden; an obligation. |
| pannus | noun (n.) A very vascular superficial opacity of the cornea, usually caused by granulation of the eyelids. |
| pentacrinus | noun (n.) A genus of large, stalked crinoids, of which several species occur in deep water among the West Indies and elsewhere. |
| phototonus | noun (n.) A motile condition in plants resulting from exposure to light. |
| | noun (n.) An irritable condition of protoplasm, resulting in movement, due to a certain intensity of light. |
| pignus | noun (n.) A pledge or pawn. |
| pinus | noun (n.) A large genus of evergreen coniferous trees, mostly found in the northern hemisphere. The genus formerly included the firs, spruces, larches, and hemlocks, but is now limited to those trees which have the primary leaves of the branchlets reduced to mere scales, and the secondary ones (pine needles) acicular, and usually in fascicles of two to seven. See Pine. |
| pleurothotonus | noun (n.) A species of tetanus, in which the body is curved laterally. |
| prunus | noun (n.) A genus of trees with perigynous rosaceous flowers, and a single two-ovuled carpel which usually becomes a drupe in ripening. |
| rhamnus | noun (n.) A genus of shrubs and small trees; buckthorn. The California Rhamnus Purshianus and the European R. catharticus are used in medicine. The latter is used for hedges. |
| ricinus | noun (n.) A genus of plants of the Spurge family, containing but one species (R. communis), the castor-oil plant. The fruit is three-celled, and contains three large seeds from which castor oil iss expressed. See Palma Christi. |
| silenus | noun (n.) See Wanderoo. |
| sinus | noun (n.) An opening; a hollow; a bending. |
| | noun (n.) A bay of the sea; a recess in the shore. |
| | noun (n.) A cavity; a depression. |
| | noun (n.) A cavity in a bone or other part, either closed or with a narrow opening. |
| | noun (n.) A dilated vessel or canal. |
| | noun (n.) A narrow, elongated cavity, in which pus is collected; an elongated abscess with only a small orifice. |
| | noun (n.) A depression between adjoining lobes. |
| | (pl. ) of Sinus |
| subgenus | noun (n.) A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron. |
| syconus | noun (n.) A collective fleshy fruit, in which the ovaries are hidden within a hollow receptacle, as in the fig. |
| terminus | noun (n.) Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit. |
| | noun (n.) The Roman divinity who presided over boundaries, whose statue was properly a short pillar terminating in the bust of a man, woman, satyr, or the like, but often merely a post or stone stuck in the ground on a boundary line. |
| | noun (n.) Hence, any post or stone marking a boundary; a term. See Term, 8. |
| | noun (n.) Either end of a railroad line; also, the station house, or the town or city, at that place. |
| tonus | noun (n.) Tonicity, or tone; as, muscular tonus. |
| turnus | noun (n.) A common, large, handsome, American swallowtail butterfly, now regarded as one of the forms of Papilio, / Jasoniades, glaucus. The wings are yellow, margined and barred with black, and with an orange-red spot near the posterior angle of the hind wings. Called also tiger swallowtail. See Illust. under Swallowtail. |
| thermotonus | noun (n.) A condition of tonicity with respect to temperature. |
| uncinus | noun (n.) One of the peculiar minute chitinous hooks found in large numbers in the tori of tubicolous annelids belonging to the Uncinata. |
| venus | noun (n.) The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified. |
| | noun (n.) One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit lying between that of Mercury and that of the Earth, at a mean distance from the sun of about 67,000,000 miles. Its diameter is 7,700 miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus. |
| | noun (n.) The metal copper; -- probably so designated from the ancient use of the metal in making mirrors, a mirror being still the astronomical symbol of the planet Venus. |
| | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Venus or family Veneridae. Many of these shells are large, and ornamented with beautiful frills; others are smooth, glossy, and handsomely colored. Some of the larger species, as the round clam, or quahog, are valued for food. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH COLUMBANUS (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 9 Letters (columbanu) - Words That Begins with columbanu:
Rhyming Words According to First 8 Letters (columban) - Words That Begins with columban:
Rhyming Words According to First 7 Letters (columba) - Words That Begins with columba:
| columba | noun (n.) See Calumba. |
| columbae | noun (n. pl.) An order of birds, including the pigeons. |
| columbarium | noun (n.) A dovecote or pigeon house. |
| | noun (n.) A sepulchral chamber with niches for holding cinerary urns. |
| columbary | noun (n.) A dovecote; a pigeon house. |
| columbate | noun (n.) A salt of columbic acid; a niobate. See Columbium. |
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (columb) - Words That Begins with columb:
| columbella | noun (n.) A genus of univalve shells, abundant in tropical seas. Some species, as Columbella mercatoria, were formerly used as shell money. |
| columbia | noun (n.) America; the United States; -- a poetical appellation given in honor of Columbus, the discoverer. |
| columbiad | noun (n.) A form of seacoast cannon; a long, chambered gun designed for throwing shot or shells with heavy charges of powder, at high angles of elevation. |
| columbian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the United States, or to America. |
| columbic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, columbium or niobium; niobic. |
| | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the columbo root. |
| columbier | noun (n.) See Colombier. |
| columbiferous | adjective (a.) Producing or containing columbium. |
| columbin | noun (n.) A white, crystalline, bitter substance. See Calumbin. |
| columbine | noun (n.) A plant of several species of the genus Aquilegia; as, A. vulgaris, or the common garden columbine; A. Canadensis, the wild red columbine of North America. |
| | noun (n.) The mistress or sweetheart of Harlequin in pantomimes. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a dove; dovelike; dove-colored. |
| columbite | noun (n.) A mineral of a black color, submetallic luster, and high specific specific gravity. It is a niobate (or columbate) of iron and manganese, containing tantalate of iron; -- first found in New England. |
| columbium | noun (n.) A rare element of the vanadium group, first found in a variety of the mineral columbite occurring in Connecticut, probably at Haddam. Atomic weight 94.2. Symbol Cb or Nb. Now more commonly called niobium. |
| columbo | noun (n.) See Calumba. |
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (colum) - Words That Begins with colum:
| columella | noun (n.) An axis to which a carpel of a compound pistil may be attached, as in the case of the geranium; or which is left when a pod opens. |
| | noun (n.) A columnlike axis in the capsules of mosses. |
| | noun (n.) A term applied to various columnlike parts; as, the columella, or epipterygoid bone, in the skull of many lizards; the columella of the ear, the bony or cartilaginous rod connecting the tympanic membrane with the internal ear. |
| | noun (n.) The upright pillar in the axis of most univalve shells. |
| | noun (n.) The central pillar or axis of the calicles of certain corals. |
| columelliform | adjective (a.) Shaped like a little column, or columella. |
| column | noun (n.) A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order. |
| | noun (n.) Anything resembling, in form or position, a column in architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air, of water, of mercury, etc.; the Column Vendome; the spinal column. |
| | noun (n.) A body of troops formed in ranks, one behind the other; -- contradistinguished from line. Compare Ploy, and Deploy. |
| | noun (n.) A small army. |
| | noun (n.) A number of ships so arranged as to follow one another in single or double file or in squadrons; -- in distinction from "line", where they are side by side. |
| | noun (n.) A perpendicular set of lines, not extending across the page, and separated from other matter by a rule or blank space; as, a column in a newspaper. |
| | noun (n.) A perpendicular line of figures. |
| | noun (n.) The body formed by the union of the stamens in the Mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids. |
| columnar | adjective (a.) Formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column. |
| columnarity | noun (n.) The state or quality of being columnar. |
| columnated | adjective (a.) Having columns; as, columnated temples. |
| columned | adjective (a.) Having columns. |
| columniation | noun (n.) The employment or arrangement of columns in a structure. |
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (colu) - Words That Begins with colu:
| coluber | noun (n.) A genus of harmless serpents. |
| colubrine | adjective (a.) like or related to snakes of the genus Coluber. |
| | adjective (a.) Like a snake; cunning; crafty. |
| colugo | noun (n.) A peculiar East Indian mammal (Galleopithecus volans), having along the sides, connecting the fore and hind limbs, a parachutelike membrane, by means of which it is able to make long leaps, like the flying squirrel; -- called also flying lemur. |
| colure | noun (n.) One of two great circles intersecting at right angles in the poles of the equator. One of them passes through the equinoctial points, and hence is denominated the equinoctial colure; the other intersects the equator at the distance of 90¡ from the former, and is called the solstitial colure. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (col) - Words That Begins with col:
| col | noun (n.) A short ridge connecting two higher elevations or mountains; the pass over such a ridge. |
| colaborer | noun (n.) One who labors with another; an associate in labor. |
| colander | noun (n.) A utensil with a bottom perforated with little holes for straining liquids, mashed vegetable pulp, etc.; a strainer of wickerwork, perforated metal, or the like. |
| colation | noun (n.) The act or process of straining or filtering. |
| colatitude | noun (n.) The complement of the latitude, or the difference between any latitude and ninety degrees. |
| colature | noun (n.) The process of straining; the matter strained; a strainer. |
| colbertine | noun (n.) A kind of lace. |
| colchicine | noun (n.) A powerful vegetable alkaloid, C17H19NO5, extracted from the Colchicum autumnale, or meadow saffron, as a white or yellowish amorphous powder, with a harsh, bitter taste; -- called also colchicia. |
| colchicum | noun (n.) A genus of bulbous-rooted plants found in many parts of Europe, including the meadow saffron. |
| colcothar | noun (n.) Polishing rouge; a reddish brown oxide of iron, used in polishing glass, and also as a pigment; -- called also crocus Martis. |
| cold | noun (n.) Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid. |
| | noun (n.) Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold. |
| | noun (n.) Not pungent or acrid. |
| | noun (n.) Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved. |
| | noun (n.) Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory. |
| | noun (n.) Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting. |
| | noun (n.) Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent. |
| | noun (n.) Not sensitive; not acute. |
| | noun (n.) Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. |
| | noun (n.) Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8. |
| | noun (n.) The relative absence of heat or warmth. |
| | noun (n.) The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness. |
| | noun (n.) A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh. |
| | verb (v. i.) To become cold. |
| coldfinch | noun (n.) A British wagtail. |
| coldish | adjective (a.) Somewhat cold; cool; chilly. |
| coldness | noun (n.) The state or quality of being cold. |
| cole | noun (n.) A plant of the Brassica or Cabbage genus; esp. that form of B. oleracea called rape and coleseed. |
| colegoose | noun (n.) See Coalgoose. |
| colemanite | noun (n.) A hydrous borate of lime occurring in transparent colorless or white crystals, also massive, in Southern California. |
| colemouse | noun (n.) See Coletit. |
| coleopter | noun (n.) One of the Coleoptera. |
| coleoptera | noun (n. pl.) An order of insects having the anterior pair of wings (elytra) hard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which are membranous, and folded transversely under the others when not in use. The mouth parts form two pairs of jaws (mandibles and maxillae) adapted for chewing. Most of the Coleoptera are known as beetles and weevils. |
| coleopteral | adjective (a.) Alt. of Coleopterous |
| coleopterous | adjective (a.) Having wings covered with a case or sheath; belonging to the Coleoptera. |
| coleopteran | noun (n.) One of the order of Coleoptera. |
| coleopterist | noun (n.) One versed in the study of the Coleoptera. |
| coleorhiza | noun (n.) A sheath in the embryo of grasses, inclosing the caulicle. |
| coleperch | noun (n.) A kind of small black perch. |
| colera | noun (n.) Bile; choler. |
| coleridgian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, or to his poetry or metaphysics. |
| coleseed | noun (n.) The common rape or cole. |
| coleslaw | noun (n.) A salad made of sliced cabbage. |
| colestaff | noun (n.) See Colstaff. |
| coletit | noun (n.) Alt. of Coaltit |
| coleus | noun (n.) A plant of several species of the Mint family, cultivated for its bright-colored or variegated leaves. |
| 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. |
| colfox | noun (n.) A crafty fox. |
| colic | noun (n.) A severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm, obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to colic; affecting the bowels. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the colon; as, the colic arteries. |
| colical | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, colic. |
| colicky | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or troubled with, colic; as, a colicky disorder. |
| colicroot | noun (n.) A bitter American herb of the Bloodwort family, with the leaves all radical, and the small yellow or white flowers in a long spike (Aletris farinosa and A. aurea). Called sometimes star grass, blackroot, blazing star, and unicorn root. |
| colin | noun (n.) The American quail or bobwhite. The name is also applied to other related species. See Bobwhite. |
| coliseum | noun (n.) The amphitheater of Vespasian at Rome, the largest in the world. |
| colitis | noun (n.) An inflammation of the large intestine, esp. of its mucous membrane; colonitis. |
| collaborateur | noun (n.) See Collaborator. |
| collaboration | noun (n.) The act of working together; united labor. |
| collaborator | noun (n.) An associate in labor, especially in literary or scientific labor. |
| collagen | noun (n.) The chemical basis of ordinary connective tissue, as of tendons or sinews and of bone. On being boiled in water it becomes gelatin or glue. |
| collagenous | adjective (a.) Containing or resembling collagen. |
| collapsing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Collapse |
| collapse | noun (n.) A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel. |
| | noun (n.) A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown. |
| | noun (n.) Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance. |
| | verb (v. i.) To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses. |
| | verb (v. i.) To fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse; as, Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance. |
| collapsion | noun (n.) Collapse. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH COLUMBANUS:
English Words which starts with 'colu' and ends with 'anus':
English Words which starts with 'col' and ends with 'nus':
English Words which starts with 'co' and ends with 'us':
| cobaltiferous | adjective (a.) Containing cobalt. |
| cobaltous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cobalt; -- said esp. of cobalt compounds in which the metal has its lower valence. |
| cocciferous | adjective (a.) Bearing or producing berries; bacciferous; as, cocciferous trees or plants. |
| coccosteus | noun (n.) An extinct genus of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles. |
| cocculus indicus | noun (n.) The fruit or berry of the Anamirta Cocculus, a climbing plant of the East Indies. It is a poisonous narcotic and stimulant. |
| coccus | noun (n.) One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit. |
| | noun (n.) A genus of hemipterous insects, including scale insects, and the cochineal insect (Coccus cacti). |
| | noun (n.) A form of bacteria, shaped like a globule. |
| coccygeous | adjective (a.) Coccygeal. |
| coelospermous | adjective (a.) Hollow-seeded; having the ventral face of the seedlike carpels incurved at the ends, as in coriander seed. |
| coenurus | noun (n.) The larval stage of a tapeworm (Taenia coenurus) which forms bladderlike sacs in the brain of sheep, causing the fatal disease known as water brain, vertigo, staggers or gid. |
| coetaneous | adjective (a.) Of the same age; beginning to exist at the same time; contemporaneous. |
| coevous | adjective (a.) Coeval |
| cognatus | noun (n.) A person connected through cognation. |
| coinstantaneous | adjective (a.) Happening at the same instant. |
| collatitious | adjective (a.) Brought together; contributed; done by contributions. |
| colossus | noun (n.) A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes. |
| | noun (n.) Any man or beast of gigantic size. |
| comatous | adjective (a.) Comatose. |
| combustious | adjective (a.) Inflammable. |
| commentitious | adjective (a.) Fictitious or imaginary; unreal; as, a commentitious system of religion. |
| commodious | adjective (a.) Adapted to its use or purpose, or to wants and necessities; serviceable; spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable; as, a commodious house. |
| compendiarious | adjective (a.) Short; compendious. |
| compendious | adjective (a.) Containing the substance or general principles of a subject or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized. |
| complexus | noun (n.) A complex; an aggregate of parts; a complication. |
| compositous | adjective (a.) Belonging to the Compositae; composite. |
| compsognathus | noun (n.) A genus of Dinosauria found in the Jurassic formation, and remarkable for having several birdlike features. |
| compunctious | adjective (a.) Of the nature of compunction; caused by conscience; attended with, or causing, compunction. |
| conatus | noun (n.) A natural tendency inherent in a body to develop itself; an attempt; an effort. |
| concavous | adjective (a.) Concave. |
| conceptious | adjective (a.) Apt to conceive; fruitful. |
| conchiferous | adjective (a.) Producing or having shells. |
| conchylaceous | adjective (a.) Alt. of Conchyliaceous |
| conchyliaceous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to shells; resembling a shell; as, conchyliaceous impressions. |
| conchylious | adjective (a.) Conchylaceous. |
| concinnous | adjective (a.) Characterized by concinnity; neat; elegant. |
| concolorous | adjective (a.) Of the same color throughout. |
| concupiscentious | adjective (a.) Concupiscent. |
| confervaceous | adjective (a.) Belonging to the confervae. |
| confervous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to confervae; consisting of, or resembling, the confervae. |
| confus | adjective (a.) Confused, disturbed. |
| congenerous | adjective (a.) Allied in origin or cause; congeneric; as, congenerous diseases. |
| congenious | adjective (a.) Congeneric. |
| congius | noun (n.) A liquid measure containing about three quarts. |
| | noun (n.) A gallon, or four quarts. |
| congruous | adjective (a.) Suitable or concordant; accordant; fit; harmonious; correspondent; consistent. |
| coniferous | adjective (a.) Bearing cones, as the pine and cypress. |
| | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the order Coniferae, of which the pine tree is the type. |
| connutritious | adjective (a.) Nutritious by force of habit; -- said of certain kinds of food. |
| consanguineous | adjective (a.) Of the same blood; related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor. |
| conscientious | adjective (a.) Influenced by conscience; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong; -- said of a person. |
| | adjective (a.) Characterized by a regard to conscience; conformed to the dictates of conscience; -- said of actions. |
| conscious | adjective (a.) Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations. |
| | adjective (a.) Possessing knowledge, whether by internal, conscious experience or by external observation; cognizant; aware; sensible. |
| | adjective (a.) Made the object of consciousness; known to one's self; as, conscious guilt. |
| consectaneous | adjective (a.) Following as a matter of course. |
| consensus | noun (n.) Agreement; accord; consent. |
| consentaneous | adjective (a.) Consistent; agreeable; suitable; accordant to; harmonious; concurrent. |
| consonous | adjective (a.) Agreeing in sound; symphonious. |
| conspectus | noun (n.) A general sketch or outline of a subject; a synopsis; an epitome. |
| conspicuous | adjective (a.) Open to the view; obvious to the eye; easy to be seen; plainly visible; manifest; attracting the eye. |
| | adjective (a.) Obvious to the mental eye; easily recognized; clearly defined; notable; prominent; eminent; distinguished; as, a conspicuous excellence, or fault. |
| contagious | adjective (a.) Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease. |
| | adjective (a.) Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as, contagious air. |
| | adjective (a.) Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others. |
| contemporaneous | adjective (a.) Living, existing, or occurring at the same time; contemporary. |
| contemptuous | adjective (a.) Manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful. |
| contentious | adjective (a.) Fond of contention; given to angry debate; provoking dispute or contention; quarrelsome. |
| | adjective (a.) Relating to contention or strife; involving or characterized by contention. |
| | adjective (a.) Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy. |
| conterminous | adjective (a.) Having the same bounds, or limits; bordering upon; contiguous. |
| conterraneous | adjective (a.) Of or belonging to the same country. |
| contiguous | adjective (a.) In actual contact; touching; also, adjacent; near; neighboring; adjoining. |
| continuous | adjective (a.) Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening space or time; uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; unceasing; constant; continued; protracted; extended; as, a continuous line of railroad; a continuous current of electricity. |
| | adjective (a.) Not deviating or varying from uninformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated. |
| contrarious | adjective (a.) Showing contrariety; repugnant; perverse. |
| contumacious | adjective (a.) Exhibiting contumacy; contemning authority; obstinate; perverse; stubborn; disobedient. |
| | adjective (a.) Willfully disobedient to the summous or prders of a court. |
| contumelious | adjective (a.) Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful. |
| | adjective (a.) Shameful; disgraceful. |
| convicious | adjective (a.) Expressing reproach; abusive; railing; taunting. |
| convolvulaceous | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the bindweed and the morning-glory are common examples. |
| convolvulus | noun (n.) A large genus of plants having monopetalous flowers, including the common bindweed (C. arwensis), and formerly the morning-glory, but this is now transferred to the genus Ipomaea. |
| copious | adjective (a.) Large in quantity or amount; plentiful; abundant; fruitful. |
| coprophagous | adjective (a.) Feeding upon dung, as certain insects. |
| corallaceous | adjective (a.) Like coral, or partaking of its qualities. |
| coralliferous | adjective (a.) Containing or producing coral. |
| coralligenous | adjective (a.) producing coral; coralligerous; coralliferous. |
| coralligerous | adjective (a.) Producing coral; coralliferous. |
| corchorus | noun (n.) The common name of the Kerria Japonica or Japan globeflower, a yellow-flowered, perennial, rosaceous plant, seen in old-fashioned gardens. |
| coriaceous | adjective (a.) Consisting of or resembling, leather; leatherlike; tough. |
| | adjective (a.) Stiff, like leather or parchment. |
| cormus | noun (n.) See Corm. |
| | noun (n.) A vegetable or animal made up of a number of individuals, such as, for example, would be formed by a process of budding from a parent stalk wherre the buds remain attached. |
| corneocalcareous | adjective (a.) Formed of a mixture of horny and calcareous materials, as some shells and corals. |
| | adjective (a.) Horny on one side and calcareous on the other. |
| corniferous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the lowest period of the Devonian age. (See the Diagram, under Geology.) The Corniferous period has been so called from the numerous seams of hornstone which characterize the later part of the period, as developed in the State of New York. |
| cornigerous | adjective (a.) Horned; having horns; as, cornigerous animals. |
| corollaceous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a corolla; having the form or texture of a corolla. |
| corolliflorous | adjective (a.) Having the stamens borne on the petals, and the latter free from the calyx. Compare Calycifloral and Thalamifloral. |
| corpus | noun (n.) A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing. |
| corpusculous | adjective (a.) Corpuscular. |
| corticiferous | adjective (a.) Producing bark or something that resembling that resembles bark. |
| | adjective (a.) Having a barklike c/nenchyms. |
| corticous | adjective (a.) Relating to, or resembling, bark; corticose. |
| corymbiferous | adjective (a.) Bearing corymbs of flowers or fruit. |
| corypheus | noun (n.) The conductor, chief, or leader of the dramatic chorus; hence, the chief or leader of a party or interest. |
| costiferous | adjective (a.) Rib-bearing, as the dorsal vertebrae. |
| cotemporaneous | adjective (a.) Living or being at the same time; contemporaneous. |
| coterminous | adjective (a.) Bordering; conterminous; -- followed by with. |
| cottonous | adjective (a.) Resembling cotton. |
| cotyledonous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a cotyledon or cotyledons; having a seed lobe. |
| cotyligerous | adjective (a.) Having cotyles. |
| courageous | adjective (a.) Possessing, or characterized by, courage; brave; bold. |
| courteous | adjective (a.) Of courtlike manners; pertaining to, or expressive of, courtesy; characterized by courtesy; civil; obliging; well bred; polite; affable; complaisant. |
| couscous | noun (n.) A kind of food used by the natives of Western Africa, made of millet flour with flesh, and leaves of the baobab; -- called also lalo. |
| covenous | adjective (a.) See Covinous, and Covin. |
| covinous | adjective (a.) Deceitful; collusive; fraudulent; dishonest. |
