CADMON
First name CADMON's origin is Greek. CADMON means "a myth name". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with CADMON below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of cadmon.(Brown names are of the same origin (Greek) with CADMON and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming CADMON
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES CADMON AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH CADMON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (admon) - Names That Ends with admon:
Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (dmon) - Names That Ends with dmon:
caedmon edmonRhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (mon) - Names That Ends with mon:
erromon aymon andraemon daemon haemon palaemon panteleimon philemon telamon kaemon damon carmon amon apenimon armon eamon fitzsimon harmon jamon patamon ramon raymon salamon salomon shim'on simon siomon solomon symon timon williamon ximon garmon diamon ammon farmon tryamon delmon shermonRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (on) - Names That Ends with on:
afton carnation aedon solon strephon sidon cihuaton nijlon sokanon odion sion accalon dudon hebron pendragon antton gotzon txanton zorion celyddon eburacon mabon bendision alston alton benton burton carelton fenton hamilton harrison histion kenton pierson preston ralston rawson remington rexton sexton stanton weston ganelon vernon glendon lon anton acheron acteon aeson agamemnon alcmaeon amphion amphitryon arion bellerophon biton cenon cercyonNAMES RHYMING WITH CADMON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (cadmo) - Names That Begins with cadmo:
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cadman cadmusRhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (cad) - Names That Begins with cad:
cadabyr cadan cadassi cadby cadda caddaham caddari caddaric caddarik caddawyc cade cadee cadell caden cadena cadence cadencia cadenza cadeo cadha cadhla cadi cadie cadis cador cadwallon cady cadynaRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ca) - Names That Begins with ca:
cabal cabe cable cacamwri cacanisius cace cacey cachamwri caci cacia caedon caedwalla caelan caeli caellum caeneus caerleon caerlion caersewiella caesar caesare cafall caffar caffara caffaria caflice cagney cahal cahir cahira cai caidance cailean caileigh cailen cailey cailie cailin cailleach caillen caillic cailsey cailym cailyn caimbeaul cain caindale caine caira cairbre cairistiona caiseal cait caith caitie caitilin caitlan caitland caitlin caitlinn caitly caitlyn caitlynn caitrin caius cal cala caladh calais calanNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CADMON:
First Names which starts with 'ca' and ends with 'on':
camaron camelon cameron camron camshron carleton carlson carlton carrington carson cavalonFirst Names which starts with 'c' and ends with 'n':
calhoun caliburn calidan calin callaghan callahan camarin camdan camden camdin camdyn cameryn camlann camren camryn caoilfhinnn caoilfhionn caoimhghin caolabhuinn caolan caomhan caralyn carilyn carlatun carleen carlin carman carmen carolan carolann carolin carolyn carolynn carsten caryn carynn casen cassian caswallan catalin catelyn catheryn cathleen cathlin cathryn catlin catlyn cavan cayden caylan ceallachan ceannfhionn ceapmann ceastun ceawlin ceileachan cein celdtun celidon cendrillon cerin cetewin chadburn chan chanan chann channon chapin chapman charion charleen charleson charleston charleton charlton charlyn charlynn charmain charon chasen chaseyn chattan chatwin chatwyn chaun chayson chayton chelan chereenEnglish Words Rhyming CADMON
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CADMON AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CADMON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (admon) - English Words That Ends with admon:
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (dmon) - English Words That Ends with dmon:
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (mon) - English Words That Ends with mon:
backgammon | noun (n.) A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a "board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points". Each player has fifteen pieces, or "men", the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables. |
verb (v. i.) In the game of backgammon, to beat by ending the game before the loser is clear of his first "table". |
cacodemon | noun (n.) An evil spirit; a devil or demon. |
noun (n.) The nightmare. |
cinnamon | noun (n.) The inner bark of the shoots of Cinnamomum Zeylanicum, a tree growing in Ceylon. It is aromatic, of a moderately pungent taste, and is one of the best cordial, carminative, and restorative spices. |
noun (n.) Cassia. |
common | noun (n.) The people; the community. |
noun (n.) An inclosed or uninclosed tract of ground for pleasure, for pasturage, etc., the use of which belongs to the public; or to a number of persons. | |
noun (n.) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; -- so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right. | |
verb (v.) Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property. | |
verb (v.) Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer. | |
verb (v.) Often met with; usual; frequent; customary. | |
verb (v.) Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense. | |
verb (v.) Profane; polluted. | |
verb (v.) Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute. | |
verb (v. i.) To converse together; to discourse; to confer. | |
verb (v. i.) To participate. | |
verb (v. i.) To have a joint right with others in common ground. | |
verb (v. i.) To board together; to eat at a table in common. |
daemon | adjective (a.) Alt. of Daemonic |
demon | noun (n.) A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology. |
noun (n.) One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of Socrates. | |
noun (n.) An evil spirit; a devil. |
etymon | noun (n.) An original form; primitive word; root. |
noun (n.) Original or fundamental signification. |
eudemon | noun (n.) Alt. of Eudaemon |
eudaemon | noun (n.) A good angel. |
gammon | noun (n.) The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. |
noun (n.) Backgammon. | |
noun (n.) An imposition or hoax; humbug. | |
verb (v. t.) To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke. | |
verb (v. t.) To beat in the game of backgammon, before an antagonist has been able to get his "men" or counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person. | |
verb (v. t.) To impose on; to hoax; to cajole. | |
verb (v. t.) To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron. |
glossocomon | noun (n.) A kind of hoisting winch. |
gnomon | noun (n.) The style or pin, which by its shadow, shows the hour of the day. It is usually set parallel to the earth's axis. |
noun (n.) A style or column erected perpendicularly to the horizon, formerly used in astronomocal observations. Its principal use was to find the altitude of the sun by measuring the length of its shadow. | |
noun (n.) The space included between the boundary lines of two similar parallelograms, the one within the other, with an angle in common; as, the gnomon bcdefg of the parallelograms ac and af. The parallelogram bf is the complement of the parallelogram df. | |
noun (n.) The index of the hour circle of a globe. |
hieromnemon | noun (n.) The sacred secretary or recorder sent by each state belonging to the Amphictyonic Council, along with the deputy or minister. |
noun (n.) A magistrate who had charge of religious matters, as at Byzantium. |
ichneumon | noun (n.) Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Herpestes, and family Viverridae. Numerous species are found in Asia and Africa. The Egyptian species(H. ichneumon), which ranges to Spain and Palestine, is noted for destroying the eggs and young of the crocodile as well as various snakes and lizards, and hence was considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians. The common species of India (H. griseus), known as the mongoose, has similar habits and is often domesticated. It is noted for killing the cobra. |
noun (n.) Any hymenopterous insect of the family Ichneumonidae, of which several thousand species are known, belonging to numerous genera. |
lemon | noun (n.) An oval or roundish fruit resembling the orange, and containing a pulp usually intensely acid. It is produced by a tropical tree of the genus Citrus, the common fruit known in commerce being that of the species C. Limonum or C. Medica (var. Limonum). There are many varieties of the fruit, some of which are sweet. |
noun (n.) The tree which bears lemons; the lemon tree. |
mammon | noun (n.) Riches; wealth; the god of riches; riches, personified. |
mormon | noun (n.) A genus of sea birds, having a large, thick bill; the puffin. |
noun (n.) The mandrill. | |
noun (n.) One of a sect in the United States, followers of Joseph Smith, who professed to have found an addition to the Bible, engraved on golden plates, called the Book of Mormon, first published in 1830. The Mormons believe in polygamy, and their hierarchy of apostles, etc., has control of civil and religious matters. | |
noun (n.) A member of a sect, called the Reorganized Church of Jesus of Latterday Saints, which has always rejected polygamy. It was organized in 1852, and is represented in about forty States and Territories of the United States. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Mormons; as, the Mormon religion; Mormon practices. |
musimon | noun (n.) See Mouflon. |
musmon | noun (n.) See Mouflon. |
mon | noun (n.) The badge of a family, esp. of a family of the ancient feudal nobility. The most frequent form of the mon is circular, and it commonly consists of conventionalized forms from nature, flowers, birds, insects, the lightnings, the waves of the sea, or of geometrical symbolic figures; color is only a secondary character. It appears on lacquer and pottery, and embroidered on, or woven in, fabrics. The imperial chrysanthemum, the mon of the reigning family, is used as a national emblem. Formerly the mon of the shoguns of the Tokugawa family was so used. |
norimon | noun (n.) A Japanese covered litter, carried by men. |
persimmon | noun (n.) An American tree (Diospyros Virginiana) and its fruit, found from New York southward. The fruit is like a plum in appearance, but is very harsh and astringent until it has been exposed to frost, when it becomes palatable and nutritious. |
phlegmon | noun (n.) Purulent inflammation of the cellular or areolar tissue. |
plasmon | noun (n.) A flourlike food preparation made from skim milk, and consisting essentially of the unaltered proteid of milk. It is also used in making biscuits and crackers, for mixing with cocoa, etc. A mixture of this with butter, water, and salt is called Plasmon butter, and resembles clotted cream in appearance. |
salmon | adjective (a.) Of a reddish yellow or orange color, like that of the flesh of the salmon. |
verb (v.) Any one of several species of fishes of the genus Salmo and allied genera. The common salmon (Salmo salar) of Northern Europe and Eastern North America, and the California salmon, or quinnat, are the most important species. They are extensively preserved for food. See Quinnat. | |
verb (v.) A reddish yellow or orange color, like the flesh of the salmon. | |
(pl. ) of Salmon |
sermon | noun (n.) A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer. |
noun (n.) Specifically, a discourse delivered in public, usually by a clergyman, for the purpose of religious instruction and grounded on some text or passage of Scripture. | |
noun (n.) Hence, a serious address; a lecture on one's conduct or duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily; -- often in a depreciatory sense. | |
verb (v. i.) To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon. | |
verb (v. t.) To discourse to or of, as in a sermon. | |
verb (v. t.) To tutor; to lecture. |
solomon | noun (n.) One of the kings of Israel, noted for his superior wisdom and magnificent reign; hence, a very wise man. |
stasimon | noun (n.) In the Greek tragedy, a song of the chorus, continued without the interruption of dialogue or anapaestics. |
uncommon | adjective (a.) Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CADMON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (cadmo) - Words That Begins with cadmo:
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cadmean | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Cadmus, a fabulous prince of Thebes, who was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet -- /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /. These are called Cadmean letters. |
cadmia | noun (n.) An oxide of zinc which collects on the sides of furnaces where zinc is sublimed. Formerly applied to the mineral calamine. |
cadmian | adjective (a.) See Cadmean. |
cadmic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cadmium; as, cadmic sulphide. |
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. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (cad) - Words That Begins with cad:
cad | noun (n.) A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards. |
noun (n.) A lowbred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow. |
cadastral | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to landed property. |
cadastre | noun (n.) Alt. of Cadaster |
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. |
cadaveric | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity. |
cadaverous | adjective (a.) Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to, or having the qualities of, a dead body. |
cadbait | noun (n.) See Caddice. |
caddice | noun (n.) Alt. of Caddis |
caddis | noun (n.) The larva of a caddice fly. These larvae generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces of broken shells, gravel, bits of wood, etc. They are a favorite bait with anglers. Called also caddice worm, or caddis worm. |
noun (n.) A kind of worsted lace or ribbon. |
caddish | adjective (a.) Like a cad; lowbred and presuming. |
caddow | noun (n.) A jackdaw. |
caddy | noun (n.) A small box, can, or chest to keep tea in. |
cade | noun (n.) A barrel or cask, as of fish. |
noun (n.) A species of juniper (Juniperus Oxycedrus) of Mediterranean countries. | |
adjective (a.) Bred by hand; domesticated; petted. | |
verb (v. t.) To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame. |
cadence | noun (n.) The act or state of declining or sinking. |
noun (n.) A fall of the voice in reading or speaking, especially at the end of a sentence. | |
noun (n.) A rhythmical modulation of the voice or of any sound; as, music of bells in cadence sweet. | |
noun (n.) Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse. | |
noun (n.) See Cadency. | |
noun (n.) Harmony and proportion in motions, as of a well-managed horse. | |
noun (n.) A uniform time and place in marching. | |
noun (n.) The close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord. | |
noun (n.) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy. | |
verb (v. t.) To regulate by musical measure. |
cadency | noun (n.) Descent of related families; distinction between the members of a family according to their ages. |
cadene | noun (n.) A species of inferior carpet imported from the Levant. |
cadent | adjective (a.) Falling. |
cadenza | noun (n.) A parenthetic flourish or flight of ornament in the course of a piece, commonly just before the final cadence. |
cader | noun (n.) See Cadre. |
cadet | noun (n.) The younger of two brothers; a younger brother or son; the youngest son. |
noun (n.) A gentleman who carries arms in a regiment, as a volunteer, with a view of acquiring military skill and obtaining a commission. | |
noun (n.) A young man in training for military or naval service; esp. a pupil in a military or naval school, as at West Point, Annapolis, or Woolwich. | |
noun (n.) In New Zealand, a young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station. | |
noun (n.) A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels. |
cadetship | noun (n.) The position, rank, or commission of a cadet; as, to get a cadetship. |
cadew | noun (n.) Alt. of Cadeworm |
cadeworm | noun (n.) A caddice. See Caddice. |
cadging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cadge |
cadge | noun (n.) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale. |
verb (v. t. & i.) To carry, as a burden. | |
verb (v. t. & i.) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc. | |
verb (v. t. & i.) To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg. |
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. |
cadgy | adjective (a.) Cheerful or mirthful, as after good eating or drinking; also, wanton. |
cadi | noun (n.) An inferior magistrate or judge among the Mohammedans, usually the judge of a town or village. |
cadie | noun (n.) Alt. of Caddie |
caddie | noun (n.) A Scotch errand boy, porter, or messenger. |
noun (n.) A cadet. | |
noun (n.) A lad; young fellow. | |
noun (n.) One who does errands or other odd jobs. | |
noun (n.) An attendant who carries a golf player's clubs, tees his ball, etc. |
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. |
cadillac | noun (n.) A large pear, shaped like a flattened top, used chiefly for cooking. |
cadis | noun (n.) A kind of coarse serge. |
cadrans | noun (n.) An instrument with a graduated disk by means of which the angles of gems are measured in the process of cutting and polishing. |
cadre | noun (n.) The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff. |
caducary | adjective (a.) Relating to escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation. |
caducean | adjective (a.) Of or belonging to Mercury's caduceus, or wand. |
caduceus | noun (n.) The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two wings at the top. |
caducibranchiate | adjective (a.) With temporary gills: -- applied to those Amphibia in which the gills do not remain in adult life. |
caducity | noun (n.) Tendency to fall; the feebleness of old age; senility. |
caduke | adjective (a.) Perishable; frail; transitory. |
cady | noun (n.) See Cadie. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CADMON:
English Words which starts with 'ca' and ends with 'on':
cabezon | noun (n.) A California fish (Hemilepidotus spinosus), allied to the sculpin. |
cachinnation | noun (n.) Loud or immoderate laughter; -- often a symptom of hysterical or maniacal affections. |
cacoon | noun (n.) One of the seeds or large beans of a tropical vine (Entada scandens) used for making purses, scent bottles, etc. |
caisson | noun (n.) A chest to hold ammunition. |
noun (n.) A four-wheeled carriage for conveying ammunition, consisting of two parts, a body and a limber. In light field batteries there is one caisson to each piece, having two ammunition boxes on the body, and one on the limber. | |
noun (n.) A chest filled with explosive materials, to be laid in the way of an enemy and exploded on his approach. | |
noun (n.) A water-tight box, of timber or iron within which work is carried on in building foundations or structures below the water level. | |
noun (n.) A hollow floating box, usually of iron, which serves to close the entrances of docks and basins. | |
noun (n.) A structure, usually with an air chamber, placed beneath a vessel to lift or float it. | |
noun (n.) A sunk panel of ceilings or soffits. |
calamistration | noun (n.) The act or process of curling the hair. |
calcedon | noun (n.) A foul vein, like chalcedony, in some precious stones. |
calcification | noun (n.) The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and of teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue. |
calcination | noun (n.) The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime. |
noun (n.) The act or process of reducing a metal to an oxide or metallic calx; oxidation. |
calcitration | noun (n.) Act of kicking. |
calculation | noun (n.) The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate. |
noun (n.) An expectation based on circumstances. |
caldron | noun (n.) A large kettle or boiler of copper, brass, or iron. [Written also cauldron.] |
calefaction | noun (n.) The act of warming or heating; the production of heat in a body by the action of fire, or by communication of heat from other bodies. |
noun (n.) The state of being heated. |
calibration | noun (n.) The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more generally, the determination of the true value of the spaces in any graduated instrument. |
caligation | noun (n.) Dimness; cloudiness. |
callisection | noun (n.) Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection. |
calorification | noun (n.) Production of heat, esp. animal heat. |
calumniation | noun (n.) False accusation of crime or offense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name. |
calyon | noun (n.) Flint or pebble stone, used in building walls, etc. |
cameleon | noun (n.) See Chaceleon. |
cameration | noun (n.) A vaulting or arching over. |
campion | noun (n.) A plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus bacciferus), bearing berries regarded as poisonous. |
canalization | noun (n.) Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals. |
cancellation | noun (n.) The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself. |
noun (n.) The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor. |
canceration | noun (n.) The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into a cancer. |
cannon | noun (n.) A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force. |
noun (n.) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently. | |
noun (n.) A kind of type. See Canon. | |
noun (n. & v.) See Carom. | |
verb (v. i.) To discharge cannon. | |
verb (v. i.) To collide or strike violently, esp. so as to glance off or rebound; to strike and rebound. | |
(pl. ) of Cannon |
canon | noun (n.) A law or rule. |
noun (n.) A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority. | |
noun (n.) The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures, called the sacred canon, or general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible; also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See Canonical books, under Canonical, a. | |
noun (n.) In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order. | |
noun (n.) A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church. | |
noun (n.) A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church. | |
noun (n.) A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation. | |
noun (n.) The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church. | |
noun (n.) The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank. | |
noun (n.) See Carom. |
ca–on | noun (n.) A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses. |
canonization | noun (n.) The final process or decree (following beatifacation) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation. |
noun (n.) The state of being canonized or sainted. |
cantation | noun (n.) A singing. |
cantillation | noun (n.) A chanting; recitation or reading with musical modulations. |
cantion | noun (n.) A song or verses. |
canton | noun (n.) A song or canto |
noun (n.) A small portion; a division; a compartment. | |
noun (n.) A small community or clan. | |
noun (n.) A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement. | |
noun (n.) A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side. | |
verb (v. i.) To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division. | |
verb (v. i.) To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops. |
cantoon | noun (n.) A cotton stuff showing a fine cord on one side and a satiny surface on the other. |
canyon | noun (n.) The English form of the Spanish word Ca–on. |
caparison | noun (n.) An ornamental covering or housing for a horse; the harness or trappings of a horse, taken collectively, esp. when decorative. |
noun (n.) Gay or rich clothing. | |
verb (v. t.) To cover with housings, as a horse; to harness or fit out with decorative trappings, as a horse. | |
verb (v. t.) To aborn with rich dress; to dress. |
capillation | noun (n.) A capillary blood vessel. |
capitalization | noun (n.) The act or process of capitalizing. |
capitation | noun (n.) A numbering of heads or individuals. |
noun (n.) A tax upon each head or person, without reference to property; a poll tax. |
capitulation | noun (n.) A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement. |
noun (n.) The act of capitulating or surrendering to an emeny upon stipulated terms. | |
noun (n.) The instrument containing the terms of an agreement or surrender. |
capon | noun (n.) A castrated cock, esp. when fattened; a male chicken gelded to improve his flesh for the table. |
verb (v. t.) To castrate; to make a capon of. |
caprification | noun (n.) The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects. |
captation | noun (n.) A courting of favor or applause, by flattery or address; a captivating quality; an attraction. |
caption | noun (n.) A caviling; a sophism. |
noun (n.) The act of taking or arresting a person by judicial process. | |
noun (n.) That part of a legal instrument, as a commission, indictment, etc., which shows where, when, and by what authority, it was taken, found, or executed. | |
noun (n.) The heading of a chapter, section, or page. |
captivation | noun (n.) The act of captivating. |
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. |
carbonatation | noun (n.) The saturation of defecated beet juice with carbonic acid gas. |
carbonization | noun (n.) The act or process of carbonizing. |
carbunculation | noun (n.) The blasting of the young buds of trees or plants, by excessive heat or cold. |
carburization | noun (n.) The act, process, or result of carburizing. |
cardoon | noun (n.) A large herbaceous plant (Cynara Cardunculus) related to the artichoke; -- used in cookery and as a salad. |
cargason | noun (n.) A cargo. |
carillon | noun (n.) A chime of bells diatonically tuned, played by clockwork or by finger keys. |
noun (n.) A tune adapted to be played by musical bells. |
carnation | noun (n.) The natural color of flesh; rosy pink. |
noun (n.) Those parts of a picture in which the human body or any part of it is represented in full color; the flesh tints. | |
noun (n.) A species of Dianthus (D. Caryophyllus) or pink, having very beautiful flowers of various colors, esp. white and usually a rich, spicy scent. |
carnification | noun (n.) The act or process of turning to flesh, or to a substance resembling flesh. |
carrion | noun (n.) The dead and putrefying body or flesh of an animal; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food. |
noun (n.) A contemptible or worthless person; -- a term of reproach. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to dead and putrefying carcasses; feeding on carrion. |
cartilaginification | noun (n.) The act or process of forming cartilage. |
carton | noun (n.) Pasteboard for paper boxes; also, a pasteboard box. |
cartoon | noun (n.) A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael. |
noun (n.) A large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine; esp. a pictorial caricature; as, the cartoons of "Puck." |
caseation | noun (n.) A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass. |
cassation | noun (n.) The act of annulling. |
castellation | noun (n.) The act of making into a castle. |
castigation | noun (n.) Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism. |
noun (n.) Emendation; correction. |
castrametation | noun (n.) The art or act of encamping; the making or laying out of a camp. |
castration | noun (n.) The act of castrating. |
catabasion | noun (n.) A vault under altar of a Greek church. |
catechisation | noun (n.) The act of catechising. |
catenation | noun (n.) Connection of links or union of parts, as in a chain; a regular or connected series. See Concatenation. |
catheterization | noun (n.) The operation of introducing a catheter. |
catholicon | noun (n.) A remedy for all diseases; a panacea. |
cation | noun (n.) An electro-positive substance, which in electro-decomposition is evolved at the cathode; -- opposed to anion. |
catoptron | noun (n.) A reflecting optical glass or instrument; a mirror. |
catopron | noun (n.) See Catopter. |
causation | noun (n.) The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced. |
cauterization | noun (n.) The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application. |
caution | noun (n.) A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness. |
noun (n.) Security; guaranty; bail. | |
noun (n.) Precept or warning against evil of any kind; exhortation to wariness; advice; injunction. | |
noun (n.) A pledge, bond, or other security for the performance of an obligation either in or out of judicial proceedings; the promise or contract of one not for himself but another; security. | |
verb (v. t.) To give notice of danger to; to warn; to exhort [one] to take heed. |
cavesson | noun (n.) Alt. of Cavezon |
cavezon | noun (n.) A kind of noseband used in breaking and training horses. |
cavillation | noun (n.) Frivolous or sophistical objection. |
caxon | noun (n.) A kind of wig. |
caxton | noun (n.) Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer. |
cabochon | noun (n.) A stone of convex form, highly polished, but not faceted; also, the style of cutting itself. Such stones are said to be cut en cabochon. |
cascaron | noun (n.) Lit., an eggshell; hence, an eggshell filled with confetti to be thrown during balls, carnivals, etc. |