Name Report For First Name CARM:
CARM
First name CARM's origin is Other. CARM means "son of the one who served saint michael". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with CARM below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of carm.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with CARM and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with CARM - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming CARM
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES CARM AS A WHOLE:
carmel carma carman carmela carmelina carmeline carmelita carmella carmen carmencita carmine carmita carmon carmya carmelide carmelo carmontieh carmi carmichael carme carmina carmiaNAMES RHYMING WITH CARM (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (arm) - Names That Ends with arm:
garm earmRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (rm) - Names That Ends with rm:
norm thorm irm storm kermNAMES RHYMING WITH CARM (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (car) - Names That Begins with car:
car cara caradawc caradoc carah caraid caraidland caralyn caramichil carbry cardew caree carel carelton caress caressa caresse carew carey cari carilla carilyn carilynne carina carine carisa carissa carl carla carlaisa carlat carlatun carleen carleigh carlene carleton carletta carley carlie carlin carling carlino carlisle carlita carlo carlomagno carlos carlota carlotta carlson carlton carly carlyle carnation carnell carney caro carol carola carolan carolann carolanne carole caroliana carolin carolina caroline carolos carolus carolyn carolyne carolynn carona carr carrado carraig carree carressa carrick carrie carrington carrol carrola carroll carson carsten carswell carter cartere carthach carthage cartimandua cartland carvel carvell carver cary caryl caryn carynnNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CARM:
First Names which starts with 'c' and ends with 'm':
caddaham caellum cailym calibom calibum callum calum cam chaim chatham chayim chilam chiram chisholm chrysostom cim colleem colm colum crom cruim culum cunningham cymEnglish Words Rhyming CARM
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CARM AS A WHOLE:
| carmagnole | noun (n.) A popular or Red Rebublican song and dance, of the time of the first French Revolution. |
| noun (n.) A bombastic report from the French armies. |
| carman | noun (n.) A man whose employment is to drive, or to convey goods in, a car or car. |
| carmelite | noun (n.) A friar of a mendicant order (the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel) established on Mount Carmel, in Syria, in the twelfth century; a White Friar. |
| noun (n.) A nun of the Order of Our lady of Mount Carmel. | |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Carmelin |
| carmelin | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the order of Carmelites. |
| carminated | adjective (a.) Of, relating to, or mixed with, carmine; as, carminated lake. |
| adjective (a.) Of, relating to, or mixed with, carmine; as, carminated lake. |
| carminative | noun (n.) A substance, esp. an aromatic, which tends to expel wind from the alimentary canal, or to relieve colic, griping, or flatulence. |
| adjective (a.) Expelling wind from the body; warming; antispasmodic. |
| carmine | noun (n.) A rich red or crimson color with a shade of purple. |
| noun (n.) A beautiful pigment, or a lake, of this color, prepared from cochineal, and used in miniature painting. | |
| noun (n.) The essential coloring principle of cochineal, extracted as a purple-red amorphous mass. It is a glucoside and possesses acid properties; -- hence called also carminic acid. |
| carminic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to, or derived from, carmine. |
| carmot | noun (n.) The matter of which the philosopher's stone was believed to be composed. |
| scarmage | noun (n.) Alt. of Scarmoge |
| scarmoge | noun (n.) A slight contest; a skirmish. See Skirmish. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CARM (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (arm) - English Words That Ends with arm:
| alarm | noun (n.) A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. |
| noun (n.) Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. | |
| noun (n.) A sudden attack; disturbance; broil. | |
| noun (n.) Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise. | |
| noun (n.) A mechanical contrivance for awaking persons from sleep, or rousing their attention; an alarum. | |
| verb (v. t.) To call to arms for defense; to give notice to (any one) of approaching danger; to rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert. | |
| verb (v. t.) To keep in excitement; to disturb. | |
| verb (v. t.) To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear. |
| arm | noun (n.) The limb of the human body which extends from the shoulder to the hand; also, the corresponding limb of a monkey. |
| noun (n.) Anything resembling an arm | |
| noun (n.) The fore limb of an animal, as of a bear. | |
| noun (n.) A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal. | |
| noun (n.) A branch of a tree. | |
| noun (n.) A slender part of an instrument or machine, projecting from a trunk, axis, or fulcrum; as, the arm of a steelyard. | |
| noun (n.) The end of a yard; also, the part of an anchor which ends in the fluke. | |
| noun (n.) An inlet of water from the sea. | |
| noun (n.) A support for the elbow, at the side of a chair, the end of a sofa, etc. | |
| noun (n.) Fig.: Power; might; strength; support; as, the secular arm; the arm of the law. | |
| noun (n.) A branch of the military service; as, the cavalry arm was made efficient. | |
| noun (n.) A weapon of offense or defense; an instrument of warfare; -- commonly in the pl. | |
| verb (v. t.) To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms. | |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish with arms or limbs. | |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish or equip with weapons of offense or defense; as, to arm soldiers; to arm the country. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency; as, to arm the hit of a sword; to arm a hook in angling. | |
| verb (v. t.) Fig.: To furnish with means of defense; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense. | |
| verb (v. i.) To provide one's self with arms, weapons, or means of attack or resistance; to take arms. |
| barm | noun (n.) Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast. |
| noun (n.) The lap or bosom. |
| charm | noun (n.) A melody; a song. |
| noun (n.) A word or combination of words sung or spoken in the practice of magic; a magical combination of words, characters, etc.; an incantation. | |
| noun (n.) That which exerts an irresistible power to please and attract; that which fascinates; any alluring quality. | |
| noun (n.) Anything worn for its supposed efficacy to the wearer in averting ill or securing good fortune. | |
| noun (n.) Any small decorative object worn on the person, as a seal, a key, a silver whistle, or the like. Bunches of charms are often worn at the watch chain. | |
| noun (n.) To make music upon; to tune. | |
| noun (n.) To subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to affect by magic. | |
| noun (n.) To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe. | |
| noun (n.) To attract irresistibly; to delight exceedingly; to enchant; to fascinate. | |
| noun (n.) To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences; as, a charmed life. | |
| verb (v. i.) To use magic arts or occult power; to make use of charms. | |
| verb (v. i.) To act as, or produce the effect of, a charm; to please greatly; to be fascinating. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make a musical sound. |
| countercharm | noun (n.) That which has the power of destroying the effect of a charm. |
| verb (v. t.) To destroy the effect of a charm upon. |
| farm | noun (a. & n.) The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products. |
| noun (a. & n.) The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold. | |
| noun (a. & n.) The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation. | |
| noun (a. & n.) Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner. | |
| noun (a. & n.) A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government. | |
| noun (a. & n.) A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm. | |
| verb (v. t.) To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds. | |
| verb (v. t.) To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes. | |
| verb (v. t.) To take at a certain rent or rate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm. | |
| verb (v. i.) To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer. |
| firearm | noun (n.) A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder. |
| forearm | noun (n.) That part of the arm or fore limb between the elbow and wrist; the antibrachium. |
| verb (v. t.) To arm or prepare for attack or resistance before the time of need. |
| gisarm | noun (n.) A weapon with a scythe-shaped blade, and a separate long sharp point, mounted on a long staff and carried by foot soldiers. |
| harm | noun (n.) Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune. |
| noun (n.) That which causes injury, damage, or loss. | |
| noun (n.) To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong. |
| lukewarm | adjective (a.) Moderately warm; neither cold nor hot; tepid; not ardent; not zealous; cool; indifferent. |
| pneumatogarm | noun (n.) A tracing of the respiratory movements, obtained by a pneumatograph or stethograph. |
| swarm | noun (n.) A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion. |
| noun (n.) Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive. | |
| noun (n.) Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites. | |
| verb (v. i.) To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin. | |
| verb (v. i.) To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer. | |
| verb (v. i.) To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion. | |
| verb (v. i.) To abound; to be filled (with). | |
| verb (v. i.) To breed multitudes. | |
| verb (v. t.) To crowd or throng. |
| yardarm | noun (n.) Either half of a square-rigged vessel's yard, from the center or mast to the end. |
| warm | noun (n.) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a warming; a heating. |
| adjective (a.) To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; to render warm; to supply or furnish heat to; as, a stove warms an apartment. | |
| adjective (a.) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven. | |
| superlative (superl.) Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk. | |
| superlative (superl.) Having a sensation of heat, esp. of gentle heat; glowing. | |
| superlative (superl.) Subject to heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no cold weather; as, the warm climate of Egypt. | |
| superlative (superl.) Fig.: Not cool, indifferent, lukewarm, or the like, in spirit or temper; zealous; ardent; fervent; excited; sprightly; irritable; excitable. | |
| superlative (superl.) Violent; vehement; furious; excited; passionate; as, a warm contest; a warm debate. | |
| superlative (superl.) Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; forehanded; rich. | |
| superlative (superl.) In children's games, being near the object sought for; hence, being close to the discovery of some person, thing, or fact concealed. | |
| superlative (superl.) Having yellow or red for a basis, or in their composition; -- said of colors, and opposed to cold which is of blue and its compounds. | |
| verb (v. i.) To become warm, or moderately heated; as, the earth soon warms in a clear day summer. | |
| verb (v. i.) To become ardent or animated; as, the speake/ warms as he proceeds. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CARM (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (car) - Words That Begins with car:
| cariccio | noun (n.) A piece in a free form, with frequent digressions from the theme; a fantasia; -- often called caprice. |
| noun (n.) A caprice; a freak; a fancy. |
| 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. |
| carabid | noun (n.) One of the Carabidae, a family of active insectivorous beetles. |
| adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Carbus or family Carabidae. |
| carabine | noun (n.) A carbine. |
| carabineer | noun (n.) A carbineer. |
| caraboid | adjective (a.) Like, or pertaining to the genus Carabus. |
| carabus | noun (n.) A genus of ground beetles, including numerous species. They devour many injurious insects. |
| carac | noun (n.) See Carack. |
| caracal | noun (n.) A lynx (Felis, or Lynx, caracal.) It is a native of Africa and Asia. Its ears are black externally, and tipped with long black hairs. |
| caracara | noun (n.) A south American bird of several species and genera, resembling both the eagles and the vultures. The caracaras act as scavengers, and are also called carrion buzzards. |
| carack | noun (n.) A kind of large ship formerly used by the Spaniards and Portuguese in the East India trade; a galleon. |
| caracole | noun (n.) A half turn which a horseman makes, either to the right or the left. |
| noun (n.) A staircase in a spiral form. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move in a caracole, or in caracoles; to wheel. |
| caracoly | noun (n.) An alloy of gold, silver, and copper, of which an inferior quality of jewelry is made. |
| caracore | noun (n.) Alt. of Caracora |
| caracora | noun (n.) A light vessel or proa used by the people of Borneo, etc., and by the Dutch in the East Indies. |
| carafe | noun (n.) A glass water bottle for the table or toilet; -- called also croft. |
| carageen | noun (n.) Alt. of Caragheen |
| caragheen | noun (n.) See Carrageen. |
| carambola | noun (n.) An East Indian tree (Averrhoa Carambola), and its acid, juicy fruit; called also Coromandel gooseberry. |
| caramel | noun (n.) Burnt sugar; a brown or black porous substance obtained by heating sugar. It is soluble in water, and is used for coloring spirits, gravies, etc. |
| noun (n.) A kind of confectionery, usually a small cube or square of tenacious paste, or candy, of varying composition and flavor. |
| carangoid | adjective (a.) Belonging to the Carangidae, a family of fishes allied to the mackerels, and including the caranx, American bluefish, and the pilot fish. |
| caranx | noun (n.) A genus of fishes, common on the Atlantic coast, including the yellow or golden mackerel. |
| carapace | noun (n.) The thick shell or shield which covers the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals. |
| carapato | noun (n.) A south American tick of the genus Amblyomma. There are several species, very troublesome to man and beast. |
| carapax | noun (n.) See Carapace. |
| carat | noun (n.) The weight by which precious stones and pearls are weighed. |
| noun (n.) A twenty-fourth part; -- a term used in estimating the proportionate fineness of gold. |
| caravan | noun (n.) A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together, esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile tribes, as in Asia or Africa. |
| noun (n.) A large, covered wagon, or a train of such wagons, for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition; an itinerant show, as of wild beasts. | |
| noun (n.) A covered vehicle for carrying passengers or for moving furniture, etc.; -- sometimes shorted into van. |
| caravaneer | noun (n.) The leader or driver of the camels in caravan. |
| caravansary | noun (n.) A kind of inn, in the East, where caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court. |
| caravel | noun (n.) A name given to several kinds of vessels. |
| noun (n.) The caravel of the 16th century was a small vessel with broad bows, high, narrow poop, four masts, and lateen sails. Columbus commanded three caravels on his great voyage. | |
| noun (n.) A Portuguese vessel of 100 or 150 tons burden. | |
| noun (n.) A small fishing boat used on the French coast. | |
| noun (n.) A Turkish man-of-war. |
| caraway | noun (n.) A biennial plant of the Parsley family (Carum Carui). The seeds have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste. They are used in cookery and confectionery, and also in medicine as a carminative. |
| noun (n.) A cake or sweetmeat containing caraway seeds. |
| carbamic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to an acid so called. |
| carbamide | noun (n.) The technical name for urea. |
| carbamine | noun (n.) An isocyanide of a hydrocarbon radical. The carbamines are liquids, usually colorless, and of unendurable odor. |
| carbanil | noun (n.) A mobile liquid, CO.N.C6H5, of pungent odor. It is the phenyl salt of isocyanic acid. |
| carbazol | noun (n.) A white crystallized substance, C12H8NH, derived from aniline and other amines. |
| carbazotate | noun (n.) A salt of carbazotic or picric acid; a picrate. |
| carbazotic | adjective (a.) Containing, or derived from, carbon and nitrogen. |
| carbide | noun (n.) A binary compound of carbon with some other element or radical, in which the carbon plays the part of a negative; -- formerly termed carburet. |
| carbimide | noun (n.) The technical name for isocyanic acid. See under Isocyanic. |
| carbine | noun (n.) A short, light musket or rifle, esp. one used by mounted soldiers or cavalry. |
| carbineer | noun (n.) A soldier armed with a carbine. |
| carbinol | noun (n.) Methyl alcohol, CH3OH; -- also, by extension, any one in the homologous series of paraffine alcohols of which methyl alcohol is the type. |
| carbohydrate | noun (n.) One of a group of compounds including the sugars, starches, and gums, which contain six (or some multiple of six) carbon atoms, united with a variable number of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, but with the two latter always in proportion as to form water; as dextrose, C6H12O6. |
| carbohydride | noun (n.) A hydrocarbon. |
| carbolic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid derived from coal tar and other sources; as, carbolic acid (called also phenic acid, and phenol). See Phenol. |
| carbon | noun (n.) An elementary substance, not metallic in its nature, which is present in all organic compounds. Atomic weight 11.97. Symbol C. it is combustible, and forms the base of lampblack and charcoal, and enters largely into mineral coals. In its pure crystallized state it constitutes the diamond, the hardest of known substances, occuring in monometric crystals like the octahedron, etc. Another modification is graphite, or blacklead, and in this it is soft, and occurs in hexagonal prisms or tables. When united with oxygen it forms carbon dioxide, commonly called carbonic acid, or carbonic oxide, according to the proportions of the oxygen; when united with hydrogen, it forms various compounds called hydrocarbons. Compare Diamond, and Graphite. |
| noun (n.) A carbon rod or pencil used in an arc lamp; also, a plate or piece of carbon used as one of the elements of a voltaic battery. |
| carbonaceous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, containing, or composed of, carbon. |
| carbonade | noun (n.) Alt. of Carbonado |
| verb (v. t.) To cut (meat) across for frying or broiling; to cut or slice and broil. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cut or hack, as in fighting. |
| carbonado | noun (n.) Flesh, fowl, etc., cut across, seasoned, and broiled on coals; a chop. |
| noun (n.) A black variety of diamond, found in Brazil, and used for diamond drills. It occurs in irregular or rounded fragments, rarely distinctly crystallized, with a texture varying from compact to porous. | |
| verb (v. t.) Alt. of Carbonade |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CARM:
English Words which starts with 'c' and ends with 'm':
| cabalism | noun (n.) The secret science of the cabalists. |
| noun (n.) A superstitious devotion to the mysteries of the religion which one professes. |
| cablegram | noun (n.) A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable. |
| cadeworm | noun (n.) A caddice. See Caddice. |
| cadmium | noun (n.) A comparatively rare element related to zinc, and occurring in some zinc ores. It is a white metal, both ductile and malleable. Symbol Cd. Atomic weight 111.8. It was discovered by Stromeyer in 1817, who named it from its association with zinc or zinc ore. |
| caecum | noun (n.) A cavity open at one end, as the blind end of a canal or duct. |
| noun (n.) The blind part of the large intestine beyond the entrance of the small intestine; -- called also the blind gut. |
| caesarism | noun (n.) A system of government in which unrestricted power is exercised by a single person, to whom, as Caesar or emperor, it has been committed by the popular will; imperialism; also, advocacy or support of such a system of government. |
| caesium | noun (n.) A rare alkaline metal found in mineral water; -- so called from the two characteristic blue lines in its spectrum. It was the first element discovered by spectrum analysis, and is the most strongly basic and electro-positive substance known. Symbol Cs. Atomic weight 132.6. |
| caimacam | noun (n.) The governor of a sanjak or district in Turkey. |
| caladium | noun (n.) A genus of aroideous plants, of which some species are cultivated for their immense leaves (which are often curiously blotched with white and red), and others (in Polynesia) for food. |
| calamistrum | noun (n.) A comblike structure on the metatarsus of the hind legs of certain spiders (Ciniflonidae), used to curl certain fibers in the construction of their webs. |
| calcaneum | noun (n.) One of the bones of the tarsus which in man, forms the great bone of the heel; -- called also fibulare. |
| calceiform | adjective (a.) Shaped like a slipper, as one petal of the lady's-slipper; calceolate. |
| calciform | adjective (a.) In the form of chalk or lime. |
| calcium | noun (n.) An elementary substance; a metal which combined with oxygen forms lime. It is of a pale yellow color, tenacious, and malleable. It is a member of the alkaline earth group of elements. Atomic weight 40. Symbol Ca. |
| calistheneum | noun (n.) A gymnasium; esp. one for light physical exercise by women and children. |
| callosum | noun (n.) The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus. |
| calm | noun (n.) Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility; stillness; quiet; serenity. |
| noun (n.) To make calm; to render still or quiet, as elements; as, to calm the winds. | |
| noun (n.) To deliver from agitation or excitement; to still or soothe, as the mind or passions. | |
| (super.) Not stormy; without motion, as of winds or waves; still; quiet; serene; undisturbed. | |
| (super.) Undisturbed by passion or emotion; not agitated or excited; tranquil; quiet in act or speech. |
| calvinism | noun (n.) The theological tenets or doctrines of John Calvin (a French theologian and reformer of the 16th century) and his followers, or of the so-called calvinistic churches. |
| calyciform | adjective (a.) Having the form or appearance of a calyx. |
| calyptriform | adjective (a.) Having the form a calyptra, or extinguisher. |
| cam | noun (n.) A turning or sliding piece which, by the shape of its periphery or face, or a groove in its surface, imparts variable or intermittent motion to, or receives such motion from, a rod, lever, or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it. |
| noun (n.) A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together. | |
| noun (n.) A projecting part of a wheel or other moving piece so shaped as to give alternate or variable motion to another piece against which it acts. | |
| noun (n.) A ridge or mound of earth. | |
| adjective (a.) Crooked. |
| cambium | noun (n.) A series of formative cells lying outside of the wood proper and inside of the inner bark. The growth of new wood takes place in the cambium, which is very soft. |
| noun (n.) A fancied nutritive juice, formerly supposed to originate in the blood, to repair losses of the system, and to promote its increase. |
| campaniform | adjective (a.) Bell-shaped. |
| campaniliform | adjective (a.) Bell-shaped; campanulate; campaniform. |
| cancriform | adjective (a.) Having the form of, or resembling, a crab; crab-shaped. |
| adjective (a.) Like a cancer; cancerous. |
| candelabrum | noun (n.) A lamp stand of any sort. |
| noun (n.) A highly ornamented stand of marble or other ponderous material, usually having three feet, -- frequently a votive offering to a temple. | |
| noun (n.) A large candlestick, having several branches. |
| cankerworm | noun (n.) The larva of two species of geometrid moths which are very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating, and often entirely destroying, the foliage. Other similar larvae are also called cankerworms. |
| cannibalism | noun (n.) The act or practice of eating human flesh by mankind. Hence; Murderous cruelty; barbarity. |
| capilliform | adjective (a.) In the shape or form of, a hair, or of hairs. |
| capitatim | adjective (a.) Of so much per head; as, a capitatim tax; a capitatim grant. |
| capitulum | noun (n.) A thick head of flowers on a very short axis, as a clover top, or a dandelion; a composite flower. A capitulum may be either globular or flat. |
| noun (n.) A knoblike protuberance of any part, esp. at the end of a bone or cartilage. [See Illust. of Artiodactyla.] |
| capriform | adjective (a.) Having the form of a goat. |
| capsicum | noun (n.) A genus of plants of many species, producing capsules or dry berries of various forms, which have an exceedingly pungent, biting taste, and when ground form the red or Cayenne pepper of commerce. |
| carbonarism | noun (n.) The principles, practices, or organization of the Carbonari. |
| cardamom | noun (n.) The aromatic fruit, or capsule with its seeds, of several plants of the Ginger family growing in the East Indies and elsewhere, and much used as a condiment, and in medicine. |
| noun (n.) A plant which produces cardamoms, esp. Elettaria Cardamomum and several species of Amomum. |
| carnalism | noun (n.) The state of being carnal; carnality; sensualism. |
| carom | noun (n.) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball. In England it is called cannon. |
| verb (v. i.) To make a carom. |
| carpellum | noun (n.) A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See Illust of Carpaphore. |
| carrom | noun (n.) See Carom. |
| cartesianism | noun (n.) The philosophy of Descartes. |
| caseum | noun (n.) Same as Casein. |
| caseworm | noun (n.) A worm or grub that makes for itself a case. See Caddice. |
| castoreum | noun (n.) A peculiar bitter orange-brown substance, with strong, penetrating odor, found in two sacs between the anus and external genitals of the beaver; castor; -- used in medicine as an antispasmodic, and by perfumers. |
| casualism | noun (n.) The doctrine that all things exist or are controlled by chance. |
| cataclysm | noun (n.) An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge. |
| noun (n.) Any violent catastrophe, involving sudden and extensive changes of the earth's surface. |
| catapasm | noun (n.) A compound medicinal powder, used by the ancients to sprinkle on ulcers, to absorb perspiration, etc. |
| cataplasm | noun (n.) A soft and moist substance applied externally to some part of the body; a poultice. |
| catasterism | noun (n.) A placing among the stars; a catalogue of stars. |
| catastrophism | noun (n.) The doctrine that the geological changes in the earth's crust have been caused by the sudden action of violent physical causes; -- opposed to the doctrine of uniformism. |
| catechism | noun (n.) A form of instruction by means of questions and answers. |
| noun (n.) A book containing a summary of principles, especially of religious doctrine, reduced to the form of questions and answers. |
| catheterism | noun (n.) Alt. of Catheterization |
| catholicism | noun (n.) The state or quality of being catholic or universal; catholicity. |
| noun (n.) Liberality of sentiment; breadth of view. | |
| noun (n.) The faith of the whole orthodox Christian church, or adherence thereto. | |
| noun (n.) The doctrines or faith of the Roman Catholic church, or adherence thereto. |
| cauliform | adjective (a.) Having the form of a caulis. |
| cauterism | noun (n.) The use or application of a caustic; cautery. |
| cavalierism | noun (n.) The practice or principles of cavaliers. |
| celticism | noun (n.) A custom of the Celts, or an idiom of their language. |
| cenobitism | noun (n.) The state of being a cenobite; the belief or practice of a cenobite. |
| centesm | noun (n.) Hundredth. |
| centigram | noun (n.) Alt. of Centigramme |
| centonism | noun (n.) The composition of a cento; the act or practice of composing a cento or centos. |
| centralism | noun (n.) The state or condition of being central; the combination of several parts into one whole; centralization. |
| noun (n.) The system by which power is centralized, as in a government. |
| centrum | noun (n.) The body, or axis, of a vertebra. See Vertebra. |
| cephalanthium | noun (n.) Same as Anthodium. |
| cerebellum | noun (n.) The large lobe of the hind brain in front of and above the medulla; the little brain. It controls combined muscular action. See Brain. |
| cerebralism | noun (n.) The doctrine or theory that psychical phenomena are functions or products of the brain only. |
| cerebriform | adjective (a.) Like the brain in form or substance. |
| cerebrum | noun (n.) The anterior, and in man the larger, division of the brain; the seat of the reasoning faculties and the will. See Brain. |
| ceremonialism | noun (n.) Adherence to external rites; fondness for ceremony. |
| cerium | noun (n.) A rare metallic element, occurring in the minerals cerite, allanite, monazite, etc. Symbol Ce. Atomic weight 141.5. It resembles iron in color and luster, but is soft, and both malleable and ductile. It tarnishes readily in the air. |
| cesarism | noun (n.) See Caesarism. |
| chaldaism | noun (n.) An idiom or peculiarity in the Chaldee dialect. |
| cham | noun (n.) The sovereign prince of Tartary; -- now usually written khan. |
| verb (v. t.) To chew. |
| characterism | noun (n.) A distinction of character; a characteristic. |
| charism | noun (n.) A miraculously given power, as of healing, speaking foreign languages without instruction, etc., attributed to some of the early Christians. |
| charlatanism | noun (n.) Charlatanry. |
| chartism | noun (n.) The principles of a political party in England (1838-48), which contended for universal suffrage, the vote by ballot, annual parliaments, equal electoral districts, and other radical reforms, as set forth in a document called the People's Charter. |
| chasm | noun (n.) A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure. |
| noun (n.) A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men. |
| chattelism | noun (n.) The act or condition of holding chattels; the state of being a chattel. |
| chauvinism | noun (n.) Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism. |
| cheiropterygium | noun (n.) The typical pentadactyloid limb of the higher vertebrates. |
| cheirotherium | noun (n.) A genus of extinct animals, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| cheliform | adjective (a.) Having a movable joint or finger closing against a preceding joint or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be used for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike. |
| chemism | noun (n.) The force exerted between the atoms of elementary substance whereby they unite to form chemical compounds; chemical attaction; affinity; -- sometimes used as a general expression for chemical activity or relationship. |
| cherubim | noun (n.) The Hebrew plural of Cherub.. Cf. Seraphim. |
| (pl. ) of Cherub |
| chessom | noun (n.) Mellow earth; mold. |
| chiasm | noun (n.) Alt. of Chiasma |
| chiliasm | noun (n.) The millennium. |
| noun (n.) The doctrine of the personal reign of Christ on earth during the millennium. |
| chloralism | noun (n.) A morbid condition of the system resulting from excessive use of chloral. |
| chloralum | noun (n.) An impure aqueous solution of chloride of aluminium, used as an antiseptic and disinfectant. |
| chloroform | noun (n.) A colorless volatile liquid, CHCl3, having an ethereal odor and a sweetish taste, formed by treating alcohol with chlorine and an alkali. It is a powerful solvent of wax, resin, etc., and is extensively used to produce anaesthesia in surgical operations; also externally, to alleviate pain. |
| verb (v. t.) To treat with chloroform, or to place under its influence. |
| choleriform | adjective (a.) Resembling cholera. |
| chrism | noun (n.) Olive oil mixed with balm and spices, consecrated by the bishop on Maundy Thursday, and used in the administration of baptism, confirmation, ordination, etc. |
| noun (n.) The same as Chrisom. |
| chrisom | noun (n.) A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened. |
| noun (n.) A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it. |
| christendom | noun (n.) The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it. |
| noun (n.) The name received at baptism; or, more generally, any name or appelation. | |
| noun (n.) That portion of the world in which Christianity prevails, or which is governed under Christian institutions, in distinction from heathen or Mohammedan lands. | |
| noun (n.) The whole body of Christians. |
| christianism | noun (n.) The Christian religion. |
| noun (n.) The Christian world; Christendom. |
| christom | noun (n.) See Chrisom. |
| chromatism | noun (n.) The state of being colored, as in the case of images formed by a lens. |
| noun (n.) An abnormal coloring of plants. |
| chromism | noun (n.) Same as Chromatism. |
| chromium | noun (n.) A comparatively rare element occurring most abundantly in the mineral chromite. Atomic weight 52.5. Symbol Cr. When isolated it is a hard, brittle, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty. Its chief commercial importance is for its compounds, as potassium chromate, lead chromate, etc., which are brilliantly colored and are used dyeing and calico printing. Called also chrome. |
| chronogram | noun (n.) An inscription in which certain numeral letters, made to appear specially conspicuous, on being added together, express a particular date or epoch, as in the motto of a medal struck by Gustavus Adolphus in 1632: ChrIstVs DVX; ergo trIVMphVs.- the capitals of which give, when added as numerals, the sum 1632. |
| noun (n.) The record or inscription made by a chronograph. |
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