Name Report For First Name CUR:
CUR
First name CUR's origin is Other. CUR means "hero". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with CUR below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of cur.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with CUR and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with CUR - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming CUR
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES CUR AS A WHOLE:
lycurgus frescura curcio curran currito curro curt curtice curtis curney curr corcurachan scur curtissNAMES RHYMING WITH CUR (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ur) - Names That Ends with ur:
acheflour sur ashur fodjour zahur gassur surur abdul-sabur abdul-shakur mansur nour jagur arthur peredur edur wilbur amalur blancheflour gvenour lur artur balfour dimitur dour eldur excalibur macarthur porteur priour sciymgeour seignour telfour thour tournour maur ebur macartur bailefour raybour anhur sagramour cour nur asfour sarsour seymour blanchefleur fleurNAMES RHYMING WITH CUR (According to first letters):
Rhyming 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 CUR:
First Names which starts with 'c' and ends with 'r':
cadabyr cador caesar caffar cahir calder calibor calldwr callyr camber car carr 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 criostoir cristofer cristofor crogher cynyr cyrEnglish Words Rhyming CUR
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CUR AS A WHOLE:
| accuracy | noun (n.) The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy. |
| accurate | adjective (a.) In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc. |
| adjective (a.) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful. |
| accurateness | noun (n.) The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision. |
| accursed | adjective (p. p. & a.) Alt. of Accurst |
| accurst | adjective (p. p. & a.) Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; hence, bad enough to be under the curse; execrable; detestable; exceedingly hateful; -- as, an accursed deed. |
| antecursor | noun (n.) A forerunner; a precursor. |
| assecuration | noun (n.) Assurance; certainty. |
| aerocurve | noun (n.) A modification of the aeroplane, having curved surfaces, the advantages of which were first demonstrated by Lilienthal. |
| chiaroscurist | noun (n.) A painter who cares for and studies light and shade rather than color. |
| chiaroscuro | noun (n.) Alt. of Chiaro-oscuro |
| cicuration | noun (n.) The act of taming. |
| circumcursation | noun (n.) The act of running about; also, rambling language. |
| 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. |
| cucurbit | noun (n.) Alt. of Cucurbite |
| cucurbite | noun (n.) A vessel or flask for distillation, used with, or forming part of, an alembic; a matrass; -- originally in the shape of a gourd, with a wide mouth. See Alembic. |
| cucurbitaceous | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants of which the cucumber, melon, and gourd are common examples. |
| cucurbitive | adjective (a.) Having the shape of a gourd seed; -- said of certain small worms. |
| 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 |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CUR (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (ur) - English Words That Ends with ur:
| accoucheur | noun (n.) A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician. |
| achatour | noun (n.) Purveyor; acater. |
| admittatur | noun (n.) The certificate of admission given in some American colleges. |
| allocatur | noun (n.) "Allowed." The word allocatur expresses the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer. |
| amateur | noun (n.) A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally. |
| amour | noun (n.) Love; affection. |
| noun (n.) Love making; a love affair; usually, an unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an illicit love affair. |
| augur | noun (n.) An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences. |
| noun (n.) One who foretells events by omens; a soothsayer; a diviner; a prophet. | |
| verb (v. i.) To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow. | |
| verb (v. i.) To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue; as, to augur well or ill. | |
| verb (v. t.) To predict or foretell, as from signs or omens; to betoken; to presage; to infer. |
| avauntour | noun (n.) A boaster. |
| balisaur | noun (n.) A badgerlike animal of India (Arcionyx collaris). |
| belamour | noun (n.) A lover. |
| noun (n.) A flower, but of what kind is unknown. |
| bittor bittour | noun (n.) The bittern. |
| blur | noun (n.) That which obscures without effacing; a stain; a blot, as upon paper or other substance. |
| noun (n.) A dim, confused appearance; indistinctness of vision; as, to see things with a blur; it was all blur. | |
| noun (n.) A moral stain or blot. | |
| verb (v. t.) To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken. | |
| verb (v. t.) To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation. |
| bour | noun (n.) A chamber or a cottage. |
| bucentaur | noun (n.) A fabulous monster, half ox, half man. |
| noun (n.) The state barge of Venice, used by the doge in the ceremony of espousing the Adriatic. |
| bur | noun (n.) Alt. of Burr |
| butterbur | noun (n.) A broad-leaved plant (Petasites vulgaris) of the Composite family, said to have been used in England for wrapping up pats of butter. |
| bahadur | noun (n.) Alt. of Bahaudur |
| bahaudur | noun (n.) A title of respect or honor given to European officers in East Indian state papers, and colloquially, and among the natives, to distinguished officials and other important personages. |
| 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. |
| calembour | noun (n.) A pun. |
| centaur | noun (n.) A fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse. |
| noun (n.) A constellation in the southern heavens between Hydra and the Southern Cross. |
| chasseur | noun (n.) One of a body of light troops, cavalry or infantry, trained for rapid movements. |
| noun (n.) An attendant upon persons of rank or wealth, wearing a plume and sword. |
| claqueur | noun (n.) One of the claque employed to applaud at a theater. |
| clotbur | noun (n.) The burdock. |
| noun (n.) Same as Cocklebur. |
| cocklebur | noun (n.) A coarse, composite weed, having a rough or prickly fruit; one of several species of the genus Xanthium; -- called also clotbur. |
| cockspur | noun (n.) A variety of Crataegus, or hawthorn (C. Crus-galli), having long, straight thorns; -- called also Cockspur thorn. |
| collaborateur | noun (n.) See Collaborator. |
| colour | noun (n.) See Color. |
| colporteur | noun (n.) A hawker; specifically, one who travels about selling and distributing religious tracts and books. |
| connoisseur | noun (n.) One well versed in any subject; a skillful or knowing person; a critical judge of any art, particulary of one of the fine arts. |
| contour | noun (n.) The outline of a figure or body, or the line or lines representing such an outline; the line that bounds; periphery. |
| noun (n.) The outline of a horizontal section of the ground, or of works of fortification. |
| countour | noun (n.) Alt. of Countourhouse |
| chauffeur | noun (n.) Brigands in bands, who, about 1793, pillaged, burned, and killed in parts of France; -- so called because they used to burn the feet of their victims to extort money. |
| noun (n.) One who manages the running of an automobile; esp., the paid operator of a motor vehicle. |
| coiffeur | noun (n.) A hairdresser. |
| couleur | noun (n.) Color; -- chiefly used in a few French phrases, as couler de rose, color of rose; and hence, adjectively, rose-colored; roseate. |
| noun (n.) A suit of cards, as hearts or clubs; -- used in some French games. |
| deinosaur | noun (n.) See Dinosaur. |
| detour | noun (n.) A turning; a circuitous route; a deviation from a direct course; as, the detours of the Mississippi. |
| detur | noun (n.) A present of books given to a meritorious undergraduate student as a prize. |
| dinosaur | noun (n.) Alt. of Dinosaurian |
| dissimulour | noun (n.) A dissembler. |
| dortour | noun (n.) Alt. of Dorture |
| douceur | noun (n.) Gentleness and sweetness of manner; agreeableness. |
| noun (n.) A gift for service done or to be done; an honorarium; a present; sometimes, a bribe. |
| dour | adjective (a.) Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold. |
| downpour | noun (n.) A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower. |
| dur | adjective (a.) Major; in the major mode; as, C dur, that is, C major. |
| ecraseur | noun (n.) An instrument intended to replace the knife in many operations, the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect produced by the gradual tightening of a steel chain, so that hemorrhage rarely follows. |
| enaliosaur | noun (n.) One of the Enaliosauria. |
| entrepreneur | noun (n.) One who creates a product on his own account; whoever undertakes on his own account an industrial enterprise in which workmen are employed. |
| excalibur | noun (n.) The name of King Arthur's mythical sword. |
| exequatur | noun (n.) A written official recognition of a consul or commercial agent, issued by the government to which he is accredited, and authorizing him to exercise his powers in the place to which he is assigned. |
| noun (n.) Official recognition or permission. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CUR (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (cu) - Words That Begins with cu:
| cussuetudinary | noun (n.) A manual or ritual of customary devotional exercises. |
| cub | noun (n.) A young animal, esp. the young of the bear. |
| noun (n.) Jocosely or in contempt, a boy or girl, esp. an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy. | |
| noun (n.) A stall for cattle. | |
| noun (n.) A cupboard. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To bring forth; -- said of animals, or in contempt, of persons. | |
| verb (v. t.) To shut up or confine. |
| cubbing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cub |
| cuban | noun (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Cuba. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Cuba or its inhabitants. |
| cubation | noun (n.) The act of lying down; a reclining. |
| cubatory | adjective (a.) Lying down; recumbent. |
| cubature | noun (n.) The process of determining the solid or cubic contents of a body. |
| cubby | noun (n.) Alt. of Cubbyhole |
| cubbyhole | noun (n.) A snug or confined place. |
| cubdrawn | adjective (a.) Sucked by cubs. |
| cube | noun (n.) A regular solid body, with six equal square sides. |
| noun (n.) The product obtained by taking a number or quantity three times as a factor; as, 4x4=16, and 16x4=64, the cube of 4. | |
| verb (v. t.) To raise to the third power; to obtain the cube of. |
| cubing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cube |
| cubeb | noun (n.) The small, spicy berry of a species of pepper (Piper Cubeba; in med., Cubeba officinalis), native in Java and Borneo, but now cultivated in various tropical countries. The dried unripe fruit is much used in medicine as a stimulant and purgative. |
| cubebic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, cubebs; as, cubebic acid (a soft olive-green resin extracted from cubebs). |
| cubhood | noun (n.) The state of being a cub. |
| cubic | noun (n.) A curve of the third degree. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Cubical |
| cubical | adjective (a.) Having the form or properties of a cube; contained, or capable of being contained, in a cube. |
| adjective (a.) Isometric or monometric; as, cubic cleavage. See Crystallization. |
| cubicalness | noun (n.) The quality of being cubical. |
| cubicle | noun (n.) A loding room; esp., a sleeping place partitioned off from a large dormitory. |
| cubicular | adjective (a.) Belonging to a chamber or bedroom. |
| cubiform | adjective (a.) Of the form of a cube. |
| cubile | noun (n.) The lowest course of stones in a building. |
| cubilose | noun (n.) A mucilagenous secretion of certain birds found as the characteristic ingredient of edible bird's-nests. |
| cubit | noun (n.) The forearm; the ulna, a bone of the arm extending from elbow to wrist. |
| noun (n.) A measure of length, being the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger. |
| cubital | noun (n.) A sleeve covering the arm from the elbow to the hand. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the cubit or ulna; as, the cubital nerve; the cubital artery; the cubital muscle. | |
| adjective (a.) Of the length of a cubit. |
| cubited | adjective (a.) Having the measure of a cubit. |
| cubless | adjective (a.) Having no cubs. |
| cuboid | noun (n.) The bone of the tarsus, which, in man and most mammals, supports the metatarsals of the fourth and fifth toes. |
| adjective (a.) Cube-shaped, or nearly so; as, the cuboid bone of the foot. |
| cuboidal | adjective (a.) Cuboid. |
| cuca | noun (n.) See Coca. |
| cuckold | noun (n.) A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an adulteress. |
| noun (n.) A West Indian plectognath fish (Ostracion triqueter). | |
| noun (n.) The cowfish. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make a cuckold of, as a husband, by seducing his wife, or by her becoming an adulteress. |
| cuckolding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cuckold |
| cuckoldly | adjective (a.) Having the qualities of a cuckold; mean-spirited; sneaking. |
| cuckoldom | noun (n.) The state of a cuckold; cuckolds, collectively. |
| cuckoldry | noun (n.) The state of being a cuckold; the practice of making cuckolds. |
| cuckoo | noun (n.) A bird belonging to Cuculus, Coccyzus, and several allied genera, of many species. |
| cuckoobud | noun (n.) A species of Ranunculus (R. bulbosus); -- called also butterflower, buttercup, kingcup, goldcup. |
| cuckooflower | noun (n.) A species of Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos-cuculi). |
| cuckoopint | noun (n.) A plant of the genus Arum (A. maculatum); the European wake-robin. |
| cucquean | noun (n.) A woman whose husband is unfaithful to her. |
| cucujo | noun (n.) The fire beetle of Mexico and the West Indies. |
| cucullate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Cucullated |
| cucullated | adjective (a.) Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood. |
| adjective (a.) Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the leaf of the commonest American blue violet. | |
| adjective (a.) Having the prothorax elevated so as to form a sort of hood, receiving the head, as in certain insects. | |
| adjective (a.) Having a hoodlike crest on the head, as certain birds, mammals, and reptiles. |
| cuculoid | adjective (a.) Like or belonging to the cuckoos (Cuculidae). |
| cucumber | noun (n.) A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus Cucumis, esp. Cucumis sativus, the unripe fruit of which is eaten either fresh or picked. Also, similar plants or fruits of several other genera. See below. |
| cucumiform | adjective (a.) Having the form of a cucumber; having the form of a cylinder tapered and rounded at the ends, and either straight or curved. |
| cucumis | noun (n.) A genus of plants including the cucumber, melon, and same kinds of gourds. |
| cud | noun (n.) That portion of food which is brought up into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time. |
| noun (n.) A portion of tobacco held in the mouth and chewed; a quid. | |
| noun (n.) The first stomach of ruminating beasts. |
| cudbear | noun (n.) A powder of a violet red color, difficult to moisten with water, used for making violet or purple dye. It is prepared from certain species of lichen, especially Lecanora tartarea. |
| noun (n.) A lichen (Lecanora tartarea), from which the powder is obtained. |
| cudden | noun (n.) A clown; a low rustic; a dolt. |
| noun (n.) The coalfish. See 3d Cuddy. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CUR:
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 |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| cataloguer | noun (n.) A maker of catalogues; esp. one skilled in the making of catalogues. |
| catcher | noun (n.) One who, or that which, catches. |
| noun (n.) The player who stands behind the batsman to catch the ball. |
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