Name Report For First Name CURR:
CURR
First name CURR's origin is Other. CURR means "hero". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with CURR below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of curr.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with CURR and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with CURR - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming CURR
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES CURR AS A WHOLE:
curran currito curroNAMES RHYMING WITH CURR (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (urr) - Names That Ends with urr:
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (rr) - Names That Ends with rr:
dharr igorr mearr athmarr birr carr eadelmarr edelmarr filmarr finnobarr fionnbarr kerr lamarr osmarr ulmarr valdemarr waldemarr willmarr kestorr farr barr garr starr torr parrNAMES RHYMING WITH CURR (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (cur) - Names That Begins with cur:
cur curcio curney curt curtice curtis curtissRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (cu) - Names That Begins with cu:
cualli cuanaic cuartio cuarto cuauhtemoc cuchulain cuetlachtli cuetzpalli cuicatl cuilean cuimean cuini cuinn cuixtli culain culann culbart culbert culhwch cullan cullen culley cullin cullo culloden cullodena cullodina cully culum culver culzean cumania cumhea cumin cumina cumming cundrie cundry cunningham cuong cupere cus custennin cuthbeorht cuthbert cutler cuuladh cuylerNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CURR:
First Names which starts with 'c' and ends with 'r':
cadabyr cador caesar caffar cahir calder calibor calldwr callyr camber car carter carver casper caster castor cater cathair cathaoir cathmor caylor ceaster cesar cestmir cezar chalmer chancellor chandler chanler char chaunceler cher chester chevalier christofer christoffer christofor christopher ciar claefer clair clover codier codyr colier collier collyer colter colver colvyr colyer conchobar conchobhar conner connor conor cooper cougar coulter cour criostoir cristofer cristofor crogher cynyr cyrEnglish Words Rhyming CURR
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CURR AS A WHOLE:
| concurring | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Concur |
| adjective (a.) Agreeing. |
| concurrence | noun (n.) The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination. |
| noun (n.) A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion; union in design or act; -- implying joint approbation. | |
| noun (n.) Agreement or consent, implying aid or contribution of power or influence; cooperation. | |
| noun (n.) A common right; coincidence of equal powers; as, a concurrence of jurisdiction in two different courts. |
| concurrency | noun (n.) Concurrence. |
| concurrent | noun (n.) One who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause. |
| noun (n.) One pursuing the same course, or seeking the same objects; hence, a rival; an opponent. | |
| noun (n.) One of the supernumerary days of the year over fifty-two complete weeks; -- so called because they concur with the solar cycle, the course of which they follow. | |
| adjective (a.) Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contributing to the same event or effect; cooperating. | |
| adjective (a.) Conjoined; associate; concomitant; existing or happening at the same time. | |
| adjective (a.) Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects; as, the concurrent jurisdiction of courts. | |
| adjective (a.) Meeting in one point. |
| concurrentness | noun (n.) The state or quality of being concurrent; concurrence. |
| countercurrent | noun (n.) A current running in an opposite direction to the main current. |
| adjective (a.) Running in an opposite direction. |
| currant | noun (n.) A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery. |
| noun (n.) The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant. | |
| noun (n.) A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum. |
| currency | noun (n.) A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time. |
| noun (n.) The state or quality of being current; general acceptance or reception; a passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulation; as, a report has had a long or general currency; the currency of bank notes. | |
| noun (n.) That which is in circulation, or is given and taken as having or representing value; as, the currency of a country; a specie currency; esp., government or bank notes circulating as a substitute for metallic money. | |
| noun (n.) Fluency; readiness of utterance. | |
| noun (n.) Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued. |
| current | adjective (a.) Running or moving rapidly. |
| adjective (a.) Now passing, as time; as, the current month. | |
| adjective (a.) Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common; as, a current coin; a current report; current history. | |
| adjective (a.) Commonly estimated or acknowledged. | |
| adjective (a.) Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable. | |
| adjective (a.) A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current of electricity. | |
| adjective (a.) General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc. |
| currentness | noun (n.) The quality of being current; currency; circulation; general reception. |
| noun (n.) Easiness of pronunciation; fluency. |
| curricle | noun (n.) A small or short course. |
| noun (n.) A two-wheeled chaise drawn by two horses abreast. |
| curriculum | noun (n.) A race course; a place for running. |
| noun (n.) A course; particularly, a specified fixed course of study, as in a university. |
| currie | noun (n. & v.) See 2d & 3d Curry. |
| curried | noun (n.) Dressed by currying; cleaned; prepared. |
| noun (n.) Prepared with curry; as, curried rice, fowl, etc. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Curry |
| currier | noun (n.) One who curries and dresses leather, after it is tanned. |
| currish | adjective (a.) Having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal. |
| currying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curry |
| curry | noun (n.) A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices. |
| noun (n.) A stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry. | |
| verb (v. t.) To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather. | |
| verb (v. t.) To dress the hair or coat of (a horse, ox, or the like) with a currycomb and brush; to comb, as a horse, in order to make clean. | |
| verb (v. t.) To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons. | |
| verb (v. t.) To flavor or cook with curry. |
| currycomb | noun (n.) A kind of card or comb having rows of metallic teeth or serrated ridges, used in currying a horse. |
| verb (v. t.) To comb with a currycomb. |
| decurrence | noun (n.) The act of running down; a lapse. |
| decurrent | adjective (a.) Extending downward; -- said of a leaf whose base extends downward and forms a wing along the stem. |
| discurrent | adjective (a.) Not current or free to circulate; not in use. |
| excurrent | adjective (a.) Running or flowing out |
| adjective (a.) Running or extending out; as, an excurrent midrib, one which projects beyond the apex of a leaf; an excurrent steam or trunk, one which continues to the top. | |
| adjective (a.) Characterized by a current which flows outward; as, an excurrent orifice or tube. |
| inconcurring | adjective (a.) Not concurring; disagreeing. |
| incurring | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Incur |
| incurrence | noun (n.) The act of incurring, bringing on, or subjecting one's self to (something troublesome or burdensome); as, the incurrence of guilt, debt, responsibility, etc. |
| incurrent | adjective (a.) Characterized by a current which flows inward; as, the incurrent orifice of lamellibranch Mollusca. |
| intercurrence | noun (n.) A passing or running between; occurrence. |
| intercurrent | noun (n.) Something intervening. |
| adjective (a.) Running between or among; intervening. | |
| adjective (a.) Not belonging to any particular season. | |
| adjective (a.) Said of diseases occurring in the course of another disease. |
| lunicurrent | adjective (a.) Having relation to changes in currents that depend on the moon's phases. |
| nonconcurrence | noun (n.) Refusal to concur. |
| nonrecurrent | adjective (a.) Not recurring. |
| nonrecurring | adjective (a.) Nonrecurrent. |
| occurring | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Occur |
| occurrence | noun (n.) A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision. |
| noun (n.) Any incident or event; esp., one which happens without being designed or expected; as, an unusual occurrence, or the ordinary occurrences of life. |
| occurrent | noun (n.) One who meets; hence, an adversary. |
| noun (n.) Anything that happens; an occurrence. | |
| adjective (a.) Occurring or happening; hence, incidental; accidental. |
| percurrent | adjective (a.) Running through the entire length. |
| precurrer | noun (n.) A precursor. |
| recurring | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recur |
| recurrence | noun (n.) Alt. of Recurrency |
| recurrency | noun (n.) The act of recurring, or state of being recurrent; return; resort; recourse. |
| recurrent | adjective (a.) Returning from time to time; recurring; as, recurrent pains. |
| adjective (a.) Running back toward its origin; as, a recurrent nerve or artery. |
| scurrier | noun (n.) One who scurries. |
| scurrile | adjective (a.) Such as befits a buffoon or vulgar jester; grossly opprobrious or loudly jocose in language; scurrilous; as, scurrile taunts. |
| scurrility | noun (n.) The quality or state of being scurrile or scurrilous; mean, vile, or obscene jocularity. |
| noun (n.) That which is scurrile or scurrilous; gross or obscene language; low buffoonery; vulgar abuse. |
| scurrilous | adjective (a.) Using the low and indecent language of the meaner sort of people, or such as only the license of buffoons can warrant; as, a scurrilous fellow. |
| adjective (a.) Containing low indecency or abuse; mean; foul; vile; obscenely jocular; as, scurrilous language. |
| scurrit | noun (n.) the lesser tern (Sterna minuta). |
| scurry | noun (n.) Act of scurring; hurried movement. |
| verb (v. i.) To hasten away or along; to move rapidly; to hurry; as, the rabbit scurried away. |
| thermocurrent | noun (n.) A current, as of electricity, developed, or set in motion, by the action of heat. |
| noun (n.) A current developed or set in motion by heat; specif., an electric current, in a heterogeneous circuit, due to differences of temperature between the junctions of the substances of which the circuit is composed. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CURR (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (urr) - English Words That Ends with urr:
| burr | noun (n.) Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs. |
| noun (n.) The thin ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal. See Burr, n., 2. | |
| noun (n.) A ring of iron on a lance or spear. See Burr, n., 4. | |
| noun (n.) The lobe of the ear. See Burr, n., 5. | |
| noun (n.) The sweetbread. | |
| noun (n.) A clinker; a partially vitrified brick. | |
| noun (n.) A small circular saw. | |
| noun (n.) A triangular chisel. | |
| noun (n.) A drill with a serrated head larger than the shank; -- used by dentists. | |
| noun (n.) The round knob of an antler next to a deer's head. | |
| noun (n.) A prickly seed vessel. See Bur, 1. | |
| noun (n.) The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting. | |
| noun (n.) A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down. | |
| noun (n.) A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the gripe, to prevent the hand from slipping. | |
| noun (n.) The lobe or lap of the ear. | |
| noun (n.) A guttural pronounciation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr. | |
| noun (n.) The knot at the bottom of an antler. See Bur, n., 8. | |
| verb (v. i.) To speak with burr; to make a hoarse or guttural murmur. |
| churr | noun (n.) A vibrant or whirring noise such as that made by some insects, as the cockchafer, or by some birds, as the nightjar, the partridge, etc. |
| verb (v. i.) To make a churr, as a cockchafer. | |
| verb (v. t.) To utter by churring. |
| murr | noun (n.) A catarrh. |
| purr | noun (n.) The low murmuring sound made by a cat; pur. See Pur. |
| verb (v. i. & t.) To murmur as a cat. See Pur. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CURR (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (cur) - Words That Begins with cur:
| cur | noun (n.) A mongrel or inferior dog. |
| noun (n.) A worthless, snarling fellow; -- used in contempt. |
| curability | noun (n.) The state of being curable; curableness. |
| curacao | noun (n.) Alt. of Curacoa |
| curacoa | noun (n.) A liqueur, or cordial, flavored with orange peel, cinnamon, and mace; -- first made at the island of Curaccao. |
| curacy | noun (n.) The office or employment of a curate. |
| curare | noun (n.) Alt. of Curari |
| curari | noun (n.) A black resinoid extract prepared by the South American Indians from the bark of several species of Strychnos (S. toxifera, etc.). It sometimes has little effect when taken internally, but is quickly fatal when introduced into the blood, and used by the Indians as an arrow poison. |
| curarine | noun (n.) A deadly alkaloid extracted from the curare poison and from the Strychnos toxifera. It is obtained in crystalline colorless salts. |
| curassow | noun (n.) A large gallinaceous bird of the American genera Crax, Ourax, etc., of the family Cracidae. |
| curat | noun (n.) A cuirass or breastplate. |
| curate | noun (n.) One who has the cure of souls; originally, any clergyman, but now usually limited to one who assists a rector or vicar. |
| curateship | noun (n.) A curacy. |
| curation | noun (n.) Cure; healing. |
| curator | noun (n.) One who has the care and superintendence of anything, as of a museum; a custodian; a keeper. |
| noun (n.) One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee; a guardian. |
| curatorship | noun (n.) The office of a curator. |
| curatrix | noun (n.) A woman who cures. |
| noun (n.) A woman who is a guardian or custodian. |
| curbing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curb |
| curb | noun (n.) That which curbs, restrains, or subdues; a check or hindrance; esp., a chain or strap attached to the upper part of the branches of a bit, and capable of being drawn tightly against the lower jaw of the horse. |
| noun (n.) An assemblage of three or more pieces of timber, or a metal member, forming a frame around an opening, and serving to maintain the integrity of that opening; also, a ring of stone serving a similar purpose, as at the eye of a dome. | |
| noun (n.) A frame or wall round the mouth of a well; also, a frame within a well to prevent the earth caving in. | |
| noun (n.) A curbstone. | |
| noun (n.) A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bend or curve | |
| verb (v. t.) To guide and manage, or restrain, as with a curb; to bend to one's will; to subject; to subdue; to restrain; to confine; to keep in check. | |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish wich a curb, as a well; also, to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth. | |
| verb (v. i.) To bend; to crouch; to cringe. |
| curbless | adjective (a.) Having no curb or restraint. |
| curbstone | noun (n.) A stone /et along a margin as a and protection, as along the edge of a sidewalk next the roadway; an edge stone. |
| curch | noun (n.) See Courche. |
| curculio | noun (n.) One of a large group of beetles (Rhynchophora) of many genera; -- called also weevils, snout beetles, billbeetles, and billbugs. Many of the species are very destructive, as the plum curculio, the corn, grain, and rice weevils, etc. |
| curculionidous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Curculionideae, or weevil tribe. |
| curcuma | noun (n.) A genus of plants of the order Scitamineae, including the turmeric plant (Curcuma longa). |
| curcumin | noun (n.) The coloring principle of turmeric, or curcuma root, extracted as an orange yellow crystalline substance, C14H14O4, with a green fluorescence. |
| curd | noun (n.) The coagulated or thickened part of milk, as distinguished from the whey, or watery part. It is eaten as food, especially when made into cheese. |
| noun (n.) The coagulated part of any liquid. | |
| noun (n.) The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants, as the broccoli and cauliflower. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle. | |
| verb (v. i.) To become coagulated or thickened; to separate into curds and whey |
| curding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curd |
| curdiness | noun (n.) The state of being curdy. |
| curdling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curdle |
| curdless | adjective (a.) Destitute of curd. |
| curdy | adjective (a.) Like curd; full of curd; coagulated. |
| cure | noun (n.) Care, heed, or attention. |
| noun (n.) Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure. | |
| noun (n.) Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure. | |
| noun (n.) Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury. | |
| noun (n.) Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative. | |
| noun (n.) A curate; a pardon. | |
| verb (v. t.) To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient. | |
| verb (v. t.) To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady. | |
| verb (v. t.) To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit. | |
| verb (v. t.) To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay. | |
| verb (v. i.) To pay heed; to care; to give attention. | |
| verb (v. i.) To restore health; to effect a cure. | |
| verb (v. i.) To become healed. | |
| () Treatment of disease by forms of hydrotherapy, as walking barefoot in the morning dew, baths, wet compresses, cold affusions, etc.; -- so called from its originator, Sebastian Kneipp (1821-97), a German priest. |
| curing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cure |
| () p. a. & vb. n. of Cure. |
| cureall | noun (n.) A remedy for all diseases, or for all ills; a panacea. |
| cureless | adjective (a.) Incapable of cure; incurable. |
| curer | noun (n.) One who cures; a healer; a physician. |
| noun (n.) One who prepares beef, fish, etc., for preservation by drying, salting, smoking, etc. |
| curette | noun (n.) A scoop or ring with either a blunt or a cutting edge, for removing substances from the walls of a cavity, as from the eye, ear, or womb. |
| verb (v. t.) To scrape with a curette. |
| curfew | noun (n.) The ringing of an evening bell, originally a signal to the inhabitants to cover fires, extinguish lights, and retire to rest, -- instituted by William the Conqueror; also, the bell itself. |
| noun (n.) A utensil for covering the fire. |
| curia | noun (n.) One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus. |
| noun (n.) The place of assembly of one of these divisions. | |
| noun (n.) The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house. | |
| noun (n.) The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household. | |
| noun (n.) Any court of justice. | |
| noun (n.) The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana. |
| curialism | noun (n.) The view or doctrine of the ultramontane party in the Latin Church. |
| curialist | noun (n.) One who belongs to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church. |
| curialistic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a court. |
| adjective (a.) Relating or belonging to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church. |
| curiality | noun (n.) The privileges, prerogatives, or retinue of a court. |
| curiet | noun (n.) A cuirass. |
| curio | noun (n.) Any curiosity or article of virtu. |
| curiologic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a rude kind of hieroglyphics, in which a thing is represented by its picture instead of by a symbol. |
| curiosity | noun (n.) The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration. |
| noun (n.) Disposition to inquire, investigate, or seek after knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness. | |
| noun (n.) That which is curious, or fitted to excite or reward attention. |
| curioso | noun (n.) A virtuoso. |
| curious | adjective (a.) Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact. |
| adjective (a.) Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill. | |
| adjective (a.) Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of. | |
| adjective (a.) Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare. |
| curiousness | noun (n.) Carefulness; painstaking. |
| noun (n.) The state of being curious; exactness of workmanship; ingenuity of contrivance. | |
| noun (n.) Inquisitiveness; curiosity. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CURR:
English Words which starts with 'c' and ends with 'r':
| caballer | noun (n.) One who cabals. |
| cabbler | noun (n.) One who works at cabbling. |
| caber | noun (n.) A pole or beam used in Scottish games for tossing as a trial of strength. |
| noun (n.) A pole or beam, esp. one used in Gaelic games for tossing as a trial of strength. |
| cabinetmaker | noun (n.) One whose occupation is to make cabinets or other choice articles of household furniture, as tables, bedsteads, bureaus, etc. |
| cackler | noun (n.) A fowl that cackles. |
| noun (n.) One who prattles, or tells tales; a tattler. |
| cadaster | noun (n.) An official statement of the quantity and value of real estate for the purpose of apportioning the taxes payable on such property. |
| cadaver | noun (n.) A dead human body; a corpse. |
| cader | noun (n.) See Cadre. |
| cadger | noun (n.) One who carries hawks on a cadge. |
| verb (v. t.) A packman or itinerant huckster. | |
| verb (v. t.) One who gets his living by trickery or begging. |
| cadilesker | noun (n.) A chief judge in the Turkish empire, so named originally because his jurisdiction extended to the cases of soldiers, who are now tried only by their own officers. |
| caesar | noun (n.) A Roman emperor, as being the successor of Augustus Caesar. Hence, a kaiser, or emperor of Germany, or any emperor or powerful ruler. See Kaiser, Kesar. |
| cahier | noun (n.) A number of sheets of paper put loosely together; esp. one of the successive portions of a work printed in numbers. |
| noun (n.) A memorial of a body; a report of legislative proceedings, etc. |
| cajoler | noun (n.) A flatterer; a wheedler. |
| calabar | noun (n.) A district on the west coast of Africa. |
| calamar | noun (n.) Alt. of Calamary |
| calambour | noun (n.) A species of agalloch, or aloes wood, of a dusky or mottled color, of a light, friable texture, and less fragrant than calambac; -- used by cabinetmakers. |
| calcar | noun (n.) A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit. |
| noun (n.) A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla. | |
| noun (n.) A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight. | |
| noun (n.) A spur, or spurlike prominence. | |
| noun (n.) A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot. |
| calciminer | noun (n.) One who calcimines. |
| calciner | noun (n.) One who, or that which, calcines. |
| calcographer | noun (n.) One who practices calcography. |
| calculator | noun (n.) One who computes or reckons: one who estimates or considers the force and effect of causes, with a view to form a correct estimate of the effects. |
| calefactor | noun (n.) A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc. |
| calembour | noun (n.) A pun. |
| calendar | noun (n.) An orderly arrangement of the division of time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also, a register of the year with its divisions; an almanac. |
| noun (n.) A tabular statement of the dates of feasts, offices, saints' days, etc., esp. of those which are liable to change yearly according to the varying date of Easter. | |
| noun (n.) An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule; as, a calendar of state papers; a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assembly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court; a calendar of a college or an academy. | |
| verb (v. t.) To enter or write in a calendar; to register. |
| calender | noun (n.) A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper, etc., a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, or for watering them and giving them a wavy appearance. It consists of two or more cylinders revolving nearly in contact, with the necessary apparatus for moving and regulating. |
| noun (n.) One who pursues the business of calendering. | |
| noun (n.) To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper, etc. | |
| noun (n.) One of a sect or order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes. |
| calendographer | noun (n.) One who makes calendars. |
| calendrer | noun (n.) A person who calenders cloth; a calender. |
| caliber | noun (n.) Alt. of Calibre |
| calicular | adjective (a.) Alt. of Caliculate |
| caliver | noun (n.) An early form of hand gun, variety of the arquebus; originally a gun having a regular size of bore. |
| calker | noun (n.) One who calks. |
| noun (n.) A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1. |
| caller | noun (n.) One who calls. |
| adjective (a.) Cool; refreshing; fresh; as, a caller day; the caller air. | |
| adjective (a.) Fresh; in good condition; as, caller berrings. |
| calligrapher | noun (n.) One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman. |
| calmer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, makes calm. |
| calorimeter | noun (n.) An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc. |
| noun (n.) An apparatus for measuring the proportion of unevaporated water contained in steam. |
| calorimotor | noun (n.) A voltaic battery, having a large surface of plate, and producing powerful heating effects. |
| caloyer | noun (n.) A monk of the Greek Church; a cenobite, anchoret, or recluse of the rule of St. Basil, especially, one on or near Mt. Athos. |
| calumniator | noun (n.) One who calumniates. |
| calycular | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the bracts of a calycle. |
| camber | noun (n.) An upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has a high camber (said of a vessel having an unusual convexity of deck). |
| noun (n.) An upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. See Hogback. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cut bend to an upward curve; to construct, as a deck, with an upward curve. | |
| verb (v. i.) To curve upward. |
| camelshair | adjective (a.) Of camel's hair. |
| campaigner | noun (n.) One who has served in an army in several campaigns; an old soldier; a veteran. |
| camper | noun (n.) One who lodges temporarily in a hut or camp. |
| camphor | noun (n.) A tough, white, aromatic resin, or gum, obtained from different species of the Laurus family, esp. from Cinnamomum camphara (the Laurus camphara of Linnaeus.). Camphor, C10H16O, is volatile and fragrant, and is used in medicine as a diaphoretic, a stimulant, or sedative. |
| noun (n.) A gum resembling ordinary camphor, obtained from a tree (Dryobalanops camphora) growing in Sumatra and Borneo; -- called also Malay camphor, camphor of Borneo, or borneol. See Borneol. | |
| verb (v. t.) To impregnate or wash with camphor; to camphorate. |
| canaster | noun (n.) A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America. |
| cancelier | noun (n.) Alt. of Canceleer |
| verb (v. i.) To turn in flight; -- said of a hawk. |
| canceleer | noun (n.) The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop. |
| cancer | noun (n.) A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See Crab. |
| noun (n.) The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun's course in summer; hence, the sign of the summer solstice. See Tropic. | |
| noun (n.) A northern constellation between Gemini and Leo. | |
| noun (n.) Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework. |
| candleholder | noun (n.) One who, or that which, holds a candle; also, one who assists another, but is otherwise not of importance. |
| candlewaster | noun (n.) One who consumes candles by being up late for study or dissipation. |
| candor | noun (n.) Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions) usullied purity; innocence. |
| noun (n.) A disposition to treat subjects with fairness; freedom from prejudice or disguise; frankness; sincerity. |
| canicular | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star. |
| canister | noun (n.) A small basket of rushes, reeds, or willow twigs, etc. |
| noun (n.) A small box or case for holding tea, coffee, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; -- called also canister shot. |
| canker | noun (n.) A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma. |
| noun (n.) Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy. | |
| noun (n.) A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off. | |
| noun (n.) An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; -- usually resulting from neglected thrush. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose. | |
| verb (v. t.) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume. | |
| verb (v. t.) To infect or pollute; to corrupt. | |
| verb (v. i.) To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous. |
| cannoneer | noun (n.) Alt. of Cannonier |
| cannonier | noun (n.) A man who manages, or fires, cannon. |
| cannular | adjective (a.) Having the form of a tube; tubular. |
| cantalever | noun (n.) A bracket to support a balcony, a cornice, or the like. |
| noun (n.) A projecting beam, truss, or bridge unsupported at the outer end; one which overhangs. |
| cantar | noun (n.) Alt. of Cantarro |
| canter | noun (n.) A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding. |
| noun (n.) A rapid or easy passing over. | |
| noun (n.) One who cants or whines; a beggar. | |
| noun (n.) One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move in a canter. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter. |
| cantilever | noun (n.) Same as Cantalever. |
| cantor | noun (n.) A singer; esp. the leader of a church choir; a precentor. |
| canular | adjective (a.) Alt. of Canulated |
| canvasser | noun (n.) One who canvasses. |
| capellmeister | noun (n.) The musical director in royal or ducal chapel; a choir-master. |
| caper | noun (n.) A frolicsome leap or spring; a skip; a jump, as in mirth or dancing; a prank. |
| noun (n.) A vessel formerly used by the Dutch, privateer. | |
| noun (n.) The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), much used for pickles. | |
| noun (n.) A plant of the genus Capparis; -- called also caper bush, caper tree. | |
| verb (v. i.) To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance. |
| caperer | noun (n.) One who capers, leaps, and skips about, or dances. |
| capitular | noun (n.) An act passed in a chapter. |
| noun (n.) A member of a chapter. | |
| noun (n.) The head or prominent part. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a chapter; capitulary. | |
| adjective (a.) Growing in, or pertaining to, a capitulum. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to a capitulum; as, the capitular process of a vertebra, the process which articulates with the capitulum of a rib. |
| capitulator | noun (n.) One who capitulates. |
| capnomor | noun (n.) A limpid, colorless oil with a peculiar odor, obtained from beech tar. |
| capper | noun (n.) One whose business is to make or sell caps. |
| noun (n.) A by-bidder; a decoy for gamblers [Slang, U. S.]. | |
| noun (n.) An instrument for applying a percussion cap to a gun or cartridge. |
| capsular | adjective (a.) Alt. of Capsulary |
| captor | noun (n.) One who captures any person or thing, as a prisoner or a prize. |
| car | noun (n.) A small vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but two wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart. |
| noun (n.) A vehicle adapted to the rails of a railroad. | |
| noun (n.) A chariot of war or of triumph; a vehicle of splendor, dignity, or solemnity. | |
| noun (n.) The stars also called Charles's Wain, the Great Bear, or the Dipper. | |
| noun (n.) The cage of a lift or elevator. | |
| noun (n.) The basket, box, or cage suspended from a balloon to contain passengers, ballast, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A floating perforated box for living fish. |
| carabineer | noun (n.) A carbineer. |
| caravaneer | noun (n.) The leader or driver of the camels in caravan. |
| carbineer | noun (n.) A soldier armed with a carbine. |
| carbonometer | noun (n.) An instrument for detecting and measuring the amount of carbon which is present, or more esp. the amount of carbon dioxide, by its action on limewater or by other means. |
| carbuncular | adjective (a.) Belonging to a carbuncle; resembling a carbuncle; red; inflamed. |
| carburetor | noun (n.) An apparatus in which coal gas, hydrogen, or air is passed through or over a volatile hydrocarbon, in order to confer or increase illuminating power. |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Carburettor |
| carder | noun (n.) One who, or that which cards wool flax, etc. |
| career | noun (n.) A race course: the ground run over. |
| noun (n.) A running; full speed; a rapid course. | |
| noun (n.) General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a public character; as, Washington's career as a soldier. | |
| noun (n.) The flight of a hawk. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move or run rapidly. |
| carouser | noun (n.) One who carouses; a reveler. |
| carpenter | noun (n.) An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc. |
| carper | noun (n.) One who carps; a caviler. |
| carpetbagger | noun (n.) An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865). |
| carpetmonger | noun (n.) One who deals in carpets; a buyer and seller of carpets. |
| noun (n.) One fond of pleasure; a gallant. |
| carrier | noun (n.) One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger. |
| noun (n.) One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster. | |
| noun (n.) That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. (c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel. |
| carter | noun (n.) A charioteer. |
| noun (n.) A man who drives a cart; a teamster. | |
| noun (n.) Any species of Phalangium; -- also called harvestman | |
| noun (n.) A British fish; the whiff. |
| cartographer | noun (n.) One who makes charts or maps. |
| caruncular | adjective (a.) Alt. of Carunculous |
| carver | noun (n.) One who carves; one who shapes or fashions by carving, or as by carving; esp. one who carves decorative forms, architectural adornments, etc. |
| noun (n.) One who carves or divides meat at table. | |
| noun (n.) A large knife for carving. |
| cashier | noun (n.) One who has charge of money; a cash keeper; the officer who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of a bank or a mercantile company. |
| verb (v. t.) To dismiss or discard; to discharge; to dismiss with ignominy from military service or from an office or place of trust. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put away or reject; to disregard. |
| cashierer | noun (n.) One who rejects, discards, or dismisses; as, a cashierer of monarchs. |
| cassumunar | noun (n.) Alt. of Cassumuniar |
| cassumuniar | noun (n.) A pungent, bitter, aromatic, gingerlike root, obtained from the East Indies. |
| caster | noun (n.) One who casts; as, caster of stones, etc. ; a caster of cannon; a caster of accounts. |
| noun (n.) A vial, cruet, or other small vessel, used to contain condiments at the table; as, a set of casters. | |
| noun (n.) A stand to hold a set of cruets. | |
| noun (n.) A small wheel on a swivel, on which furniture is supported and moved. |
| castigator | noun (n.) One who castigates or corrects. |
| castlebuilder | noun (n.) Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes. |
| castor | noun (n.) A genus of rodents, including the beaver. See Beaver. |
| noun (n.) Castoreum. See Castoreum. | |
| noun (n.) A hat, esp. one made of beaver fur; a beaver. | |
| noun (n.) A heavy quality of broadcloth for overcoats. | |
| noun (n.) See Caster, a small wheel. | |
| noun (n.) the northernmost of the two bright stars in the constellation Gemini, the other being Pollux. | |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Castorite |
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