Name Report For First Name CYR:
CYR
First name CYR's origin is Greek. CYR means "lordly". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with CYR below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of cyr.(Brown names are of the same origin (Greek) with CYR and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with CYR - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming CYR
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES CYR AS A WHOLE:
cyra cyrene cyrus cyrena cyrilla cyrano cyril cyrill cyris cyrek cyrylNAMES RHYMING WITH CYR (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (yr) - Names That Ends with yr:
suhayr zephyr umayr emyr gwyr cynyr callyr codyr bedwyr cadabyr colvyr konnyr zuhayr jayr myr llyrNAMES RHYMING WITH CYR (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (cy) - Names That Begins with cy:
cybele cycnus cydnee cydney cym cyma cymbeline cymbelline cymberly cynara cynburleigh cyndee cyndi cyndy cyne cyneburhleah cynegils cyneheard cyneleah cyneley cyneric cynerik cynewulf cynfarch cynhard cyning cynn cynric cynrik cynthia cyntia cynward cyprian cypris cyst cythera cytherea cytheriaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CYR:
First Names which starts with 'c' and ends with 'r':
cador caesar caffar cahir calder calibor calldwr 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 colier collier collyer colter colver colyer conchobar conchobhar conner connor conor cooper cougar coulter cour criostoir cristofer cristofor crogher culver cur curr cutler cuylerEnglish Words Rhyming CYR
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CYR AS A WHOLE:
cyrenaic | noun (n.) A native of Cyrenaica; also, a disciple of the school of Aristippus. See Cyrenian, n. |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to Cyrenaica, an ancient country of northern Africa, and to Cyrene, its principal city; also, to a school of philosophy founded by Aristippus, a native of Cyrene. |
cyrenian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Cyrene. |
noun (n.) One of a school of philosophers, established at Cyrene by Aristippus, a disciple of Socrates. Their doctrines were nearly the same as those of the Epicureans. | |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to Cyrene, in Africa; Cyrenaic. |
cyriologic | adjective (a.) Relating to capital letters. |
cyrtostyle | noun (n.) A circular projecting portion. |
glycyrrhiza | noun (n.) A genus of papilionaceous herbaceous plants, one species of which (G. glabra), is the licorice plant, the roots of which have a bittersweet mucilaginous taste. |
noun (n.) The root of Glycyrrhiza glabra (liquorice root), used as a demulcent, etc. |
glycyrrhizimic | adjective (a.) From, or pertaining to, glycyrrhizin; as, glycyrrhizimic acid. |
glycyrrhizin | noun (n.) A glucoside found in licorice root (Glycyrrhiza), in monesia bark (Chrysophyllum), in the root of the walnut, etc., and extracted as a yellow, amorphous powder, of a bittersweet taste. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CYR (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (yr) - English Words That Ends with yr:
eyr | noun (n.) Air. |
hiermartyr | noun (n.) A priest who becomes a martyr. |
martyr | noun (n.) One who, by his death, bears witness to the truth of the gospel; one who is put to death for his religion; as, Stephen was the first Christian martyr. |
noun (n.) Hence, one who sacrifices his life, his station, or what is of great value to him, for the sake of principle, or to sustain a cause. | |
verb (v. t.) To put to death for adhering to some belief, esp. Christianity; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession. | |
verb (v. t.) To persecute; to torment; to torture. |
protomartyr | noun (n.) The first martyr; the first who suffers, or is sacrificed, in any cause; -- applied esp. to Stephen, the first Christian martyr. |
saikyr | noun (n.) Same as Saker. |
satyr | noun (n.) A sylvan deity or demigod, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness. |
noun (n.) Any one of many species of butterflies belonging to the family Nymphalidae. Their colors are commonly brown and gray, often with ocelli on the wings. Called also meadow browns. | |
noun (n.) The orang-outang. |
zephyr | noun (n.) The west wind; poetically, any soft, gentle breeze. |
walkyr | noun (n.) See Valkyria. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CYR (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (cy) - Words That Begins with cy:
cytty | adjective (a.) Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark. |
cyamelide | noun (n.) A white amorphous substance, regarded as a polymeric modification of isocyanic acid. |
cyamellone | noun (n.) A complex derivative of cyanogen, regarded as an acid, and known chiefly in its salts; -- called also hydromellonic acid. |
cyanate | noun (n.) A salt of cyanic acid. |
cyanaurate | noun (n.) See Aurocyanide. |
cyanean | adjective (a.) Having an azure color. |
cyanic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, cyanogen. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a blue color. |
cyanide | noun (n.) A compound formed by the union of cyanogen with an element or radical. |
cyanin | noun (n.) The blue coloring matter of flowers; -- called also anthokyan and anthocyanin. |
cyanine | noun (n.) One of a series of artificial blue or red dyes obtained from quinoline and lepidine and used in calico printing. |
cyanite | noun (n.) A mineral occuring in thin-bladed crystals and crystalline aggregates, of a sky-blue color. It is a silicate of aluminium. |
cyanogen | noun (n.) A colorless, inflammable, poisonous gas, C2N2, with a peach-blossom odor, so called from its tendency to form blue compounds; obtained by heating ammonium oxalate, mercuric cyanide, etc. It is obtained in combination, forming an alkaline cyanide when nitrogen or a nitrogenous compound is strongly ignited with carbon and soda or potash. It conducts itself like a member of the halogen group of elements, and shows a tendency to form complex compounds. The name is also applied to the univalent radical, CN (the half molecule of cyanogen proper), which was one of the first compound radicals recognized. |
cyanometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring degress of blueness. |
cyanopathy | noun (n.) A disease in which the body is colored blue in its surface, arising usually from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood; blue jaundice. |
cyanophyll | noun (n.) A blue coloring matter supposed by some to be one of the component parts of chlorophyll. |
cyanosed | adjective (a.) Rendered blue, as the surface of the body, from cyanosis or deficient a/ration of the blood. |
cyanosis | noun (n.) A condition in which, from insufficient a/ration of the blood, the surface of the body becomes blue. See Cyanopathy. |
cyanosite | noun (n.) Native sulphate of copper. Cf. Blue vitriol, under Blue. |
cyanotic | adjective (a.) Relating to cyanosis; affected with cyanosis; as, a cyanotic patient; having the hue caused by cyanosis; as, a cyanotic skin. |
cyanotype | noun (n.) A photographic picture obtained by the use of a cyanide. |
cyanurate | noun (n.) A salt of cyanuric acid. |
cyanuret | noun (n.) A cyanide. |
cyanuric | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, cyanic and uric acids. |
cyathiform | adjective (a.) In the form of a cup, a little widened at the top. |
cyatholith | noun (n.) A kind of coccolith, which in shape resembles a minute cup widened at the top, and varies in size from / to / of an inch. |
cyathophylloid | noun (n.) A fossil coral of the family Cyathophyllidae; sometimes extended to fossil corals of other related families belonging to the group Rugosa; -- also called cup corals. Thay are found in paleozoic rocks. |
adjective (a.) Like, or pertaining to, the family Cyathophyllidae. |
cycad | noun (n.) Any plant of the natural order Cycadaceae, as the sago palm, etc. |
cycadaceous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants like the palms, but having exogenous wood. The sago palm is an example. |
cycas | noun (n.) A genus of trees, intermediate in character between the palms and the pines. The pith of the trunk of some species furnishes a valuable kind of sago. |
cyclamen | noun (n.) A genus of plants of the Primrose family, having depressed rounded corms, and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbits' ears. It is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms. |
cyclamin | noun (n.) A white amorphous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the corm of Cyclamen Europaeum. |
cyclas | noun (n.) A long gown or surcoat (cut off in front), worn in the Middle Ages. It was sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold. Also, a rich stuff from which the gown was made. |
cycle | noun (n.) An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres. |
noun (n.) An interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cycle of the seasons, or of the year. | |
noun (n.) An age; a long period of time. | |
noun (n.) An orderly list for a given time; a calendar. | |
noun (n.) The circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have served as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend of Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins. | |
noun (n.) One entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set of leaves. | |
noun (n.) A bicycle or tricycle, or other light velocipede. | |
noun (n.) A series of operations in which heat is imparted to (or taken away from) a working substance which by its expansion gives up a part of its internal energy in the form of mechanical work (or being compressed increases its internal energy) and is again brought back to its original state. | |
noun (n.) A complete positive and negative wave of an alternating current; one period. The number of cycles (per second) is a measure of the frequency of an alternating current. | |
verb (v. i.) To pass through a cycle of changes; to recur in cycles. | |
verb (v. i.) To ride a bicycle, tricycle, or other form of cycle. |
cycling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cycle |
noun (n.) The act, art, or practice, of riding a cycle, esp. a bicycle or tricycle. |
cyclic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Cyclical |
cyclical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time. |
cyclide | noun (n.) A surface of the fourth degree, having certain special relations to spherical surfaces. The tore or anchor ring is one of the cyclides. |
cyclist | noun (n.) A cycler. |
cyclobranchiate | adjective (a.) Having the gills around the margin of the body, as certain limpets. |
cycloganoid | noun (n.) One of the Cycloganoidei. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cycloganoidei. |
cycloganoidei | noun (n. pl.) An order of ganoid fishes, having cycloid scales. The bowfin (Amia calva) is a living example. |
cyclograph | noun (n.) See Arcograph. |
cycloid | noun (n.) A curve generated by a point in the plane of a circle when the circle is rolled along a straight line, keeping always in the same plane. |
noun (n.) One of the Cycloidei. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cycloidei. |
cycloidal | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a cycloid; as, the cycloidal space is the space contained between a cycloid and its base. |
cycloidei | noun (n. pl.) An order of fishes, formerly proposed by Agassiz, for those with thin, smooth scales, destitute of marginal spines, as the herring and salmon. The group is now regarded as artificial. |
cycloidian | noun (a. & n.) Same as 2d and 3d Cycloid. |
cyclometer | noun (n.) A contrivance for recording the revolutions of a wheel, as of a bicycle. |
cyclometry | noun (n.) The art of measuring circles. |
cyclone | noun (n.) A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This center moves onward, often with a velocity of twenty or thirty miles an hour. |
noun (n.) In general, a condition of the atmosphere characterized by a central area of pressure much lower than that of surrounding areas, and a system of winds blowing inward and around (clockwise in the southern hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the northern); -- called also a low-area storm. It is attended by high temperature, moist air, abundant precipitation, and clouded sky. The term includes the hurricane, typhoon, and tropical storms; it should not be applied to the moderate disturbances attending ordinary areas of low pressure nor to tornadoes, waterspouts, or "twisters," in which the vertical motion is more important than the horizontal. | |
noun (n.) A tornado. See above, and Tornado. |
cyclonic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a cyclone. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CYR:
English Words which starts with 'c' and ends with 'r':
caballer | noun (n.) One who cabals. |
cabbler | noun (n.) One who works at cabbling. |
caber | noun (n.) A pole or beam used in Scottish games for tossing as a trial of strength. |
noun (n.) A pole or beam, esp. one used in Gaelic games for tossing as a trial of strength. |
cabinetmaker | noun (n.) One whose occupation is to make cabinets or other choice articles of household furniture, as tables, bedsteads, bureaus, etc. |
cackler | noun (n.) A fowl that cackles. |
noun (n.) One who prattles, or tells tales; a tattler. |
cadaster | noun (n.) An official statement of the quantity and value of real estate for the purpose of apportioning the taxes payable on such property. |
cadaver | noun (n.) A dead human body; a corpse. |
cader | noun (n.) See Cadre. |
cadger | noun (n.) One who carries hawks on a cadge. |
verb (v. t.) A packman or itinerant huckster. | |
verb (v. t.) One who gets his living by trickery or begging. |
cadilesker | noun (n.) A chief judge in the Turkish empire, so named originally because his jurisdiction extended to the cases of soldiers, who are now tried only by their own officers. |
caesar | noun (n.) A Roman emperor, as being the successor of Augustus Caesar. Hence, a kaiser, or emperor of Germany, or any emperor or powerful ruler. See Kaiser, Kesar. |
cahier | noun (n.) A number of sheets of paper put loosely together; esp. one of the successive portions of a work printed in numbers. |
noun (n.) A memorial of a body; a report of legislative proceedings, etc. |
cajoler | noun (n.) A flatterer; a wheedler. |
calabar | noun (n.) A district on the west coast of Africa. |
calamar | noun (n.) Alt. of Calamary |
calambour | noun (n.) A species of agalloch, or aloes wood, of a dusky or mottled color, of a light, friable texture, and less fragrant than calambac; -- used by cabinetmakers. |
calcar | noun (n.) A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit. |
noun (n.) A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla. | |
noun (n.) A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight. | |
noun (n.) A spur, or spurlike prominence. | |
noun (n.) A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot. |
calciminer | noun (n.) One who calcimines. |
calciner | noun (n.) One who, or that which, calcines. |
calcographer | noun (n.) One who practices calcography. |
calculator | noun (n.) One who computes or reckons: one who estimates or considers the force and effect of causes, with a view to form a correct estimate of the effects. |
calefactor | noun (n.) A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc. |
calembour | noun (n.) A pun. |
calendar | noun (n.) An orderly arrangement of the division of time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also, a register of the year with its divisions; an almanac. |
noun (n.) A tabular statement of the dates of feasts, offices, saints' days, etc., esp. of those which are liable to change yearly according to the varying date of Easter. | |
noun (n.) An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule; as, a calendar of state papers; a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assembly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court; a calendar of a college or an academy. | |
verb (v. t.) To enter or write in a calendar; to register. |
calender | noun (n.) A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper, etc., a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, or for watering them and giving them a wavy appearance. It consists of two or more cylinders revolving nearly in contact, with the necessary apparatus for moving and regulating. |
noun (n.) One who pursues the business of calendering. | |
noun (n.) To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper, etc. | |
noun (n.) One of a sect or order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes. |
calendographer | noun (n.) One who makes calendars. |
calendrer | noun (n.) A person who calenders cloth; a calender. |
caliber | noun (n.) Alt. of Calibre |
calicular | adjective (a.) Alt. of Caliculate |
caliver | noun (n.) An early form of hand gun, variety of the arquebus; originally a gun having a regular size of bore. |
calker | noun (n.) One who calks. |
noun (n.) A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1. |
caller | noun (n.) One who calls. |
adjective (a.) Cool; refreshing; fresh; as, a caller day; the caller air. | |
adjective (a.) Fresh; in good condition; as, caller berrings. |
calligrapher | noun (n.) One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman. |
calmer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, makes calm. |
calorimeter | noun (n.) An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc. |
noun (n.) An apparatus for measuring the proportion of unevaporated water contained in steam. |
calorimotor | noun (n.) A voltaic battery, having a large surface of plate, and producing powerful heating effects. |
caloyer | noun (n.) A monk of the Greek Church; a cenobite, anchoret, or recluse of the rule of St. Basil, especially, one on or near Mt. Athos. |
calumniator | noun (n.) One who calumniates. |
calycular | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the bracts of a calycle. |
camber | noun (n.) An upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has a high camber (said of a vessel having an unusual convexity of deck). |
noun (n.) An upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. See Hogback. | |
verb (v. t.) To cut bend to an upward curve; to construct, as a deck, with an upward curve. | |
verb (v. i.) To curve upward. |
camelshair | adjective (a.) Of camel's hair. |
campaigner | noun (n.) One who has served in an army in several campaigns; an old soldier; a veteran. |
camper | noun (n.) One who lodges temporarily in a hut or camp. |
camphor | noun (n.) A tough, white, aromatic resin, or gum, obtained from different species of the Laurus family, esp. from Cinnamomum camphara (the Laurus camphara of Linnaeus.). Camphor, C10H16O, is volatile and fragrant, and is used in medicine as a diaphoretic, a stimulant, or sedative. |
noun (n.) A gum resembling ordinary camphor, obtained from a tree (Dryobalanops camphora) growing in Sumatra and Borneo; -- called also Malay camphor, camphor of Borneo, or borneol. See Borneol. | |
verb (v. t.) To impregnate or wash with camphor; to camphorate. |
canaster | noun (n.) A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America. |
cancelier | noun (n.) Alt. of Canceleer |
verb (v. i.) To turn in flight; -- said of a hawk. |
canceleer | noun (n.) The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop. |
cancer | noun (n.) A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See Crab. |
noun (n.) The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun's course in summer; hence, the sign of the summer solstice. See Tropic. | |
noun (n.) A northern constellation between Gemini and Leo. | |
noun (n.) Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework. |
candleholder | noun (n.) One who, or that which, holds a candle; also, one who assists another, but is otherwise not of importance. |
candlewaster | noun (n.) One who consumes candles by being up late for study or dissipation. |
candor | noun (n.) Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions) usullied purity; innocence. |
noun (n.) A disposition to treat subjects with fairness; freedom from prejudice or disguise; frankness; sincerity. |
canicular | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star. |
canister | noun (n.) A small basket of rushes, reeds, or willow twigs, etc. |
noun (n.) A small box or case for holding tea, coffee, etc. | |
noun (n.) A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; -- called also canister shot. |
canker | noun (n.) A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma. |
noun (n.) Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy. | |
noun (n.) A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off. | |
noun (n.) An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; -- usually resulting from neglected thrush. | |
noun (n.) A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose. | |
verb (v. t.) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume. | |
verb (v. t.) To infect or pollute; to corrupt. | |
verb (v. i.) To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral. | |
verb (v. i.) To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous. |
cannoneer | noun (n.) Alt. of Cannonier |
cannonier | noun (n.) A man who manages, or fires, cannon. |
cannular | adjective (a.) Having the form of a tube; tubular. |
cantalever | noun (n.) A bracket to support a balcony, a cornice, or the like. |
noun (n.) A projecting beam, truss, or bridge unsupported at the outer end; one which overhangs. |
cantar | noun (n.) Alt. of Cantarro |
canter | noun (n.) A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding. |
noun (n.) A rapid or easy passing over. | |
noun (n.) One who cants or whines; a beggar. | |
noun (n.) One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language. | |
verb (v. i.) To move in a canter. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter. |
cantilever | noun (n.) Same as Cantalever. |
cantor | noun (n.) A singer; esp. the leader of a church choir; a precentor. |
canular | adjective (a.) Alt. of Canulated |
canvasser | noun (n.) One who canvasses. |
capellmeister | noun (n.) The musical director in royal or ducal chapel; a choir-master. |
caper | noun (n.) A frolicsome leap or spring; a skip; a jump, as in mirth or dancing; a prank. |
noun (n.) A vessel formerly used by the Dutch, privateer. | |
noun (n.) The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), much used for pickles. | |
noun (n.) A plant of the genus Capparis; -- called also caper bush, caper tree. | |
verb (v. i.) To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance. |
caperer | noun (n.) One who capers, leaps, and skips about, or dances. |
capitular | noun (n.) An act passed in a chapter. |
noun (n.) A member of a chapter. | |
noun (n.) The head or prominent part. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a chapter; capitulary. | |
adjective (a.) Growing in, or pertaining to, a capitulum. | |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to a capitulum; as, the capitular process of a vertebra, the process which articulates with the capitulum of a rib. |
capitulator | noun (n.) One who capitulates. |
capnomor | noun (n.) A limpid, colorless oil with a peculiar odor, obtained from beech tar. |
capper | noun (n.) One whose business is to make or sell caps. |
noun (n.) A by-bidder; a decoy for gamblers [Slang, U. S.]. | |
noun (n.) An instrument for applying a percussion cap to a gun or cartridge. |
capsular | adjective (a.) Alt. of Capsulary |
captor | noun (n.) One who captures any person or thing, as a prisoner or a prize. |
car | noun (n.) A small vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but two wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart. |
noun (n.) A vehicle adapted to the rails of a railroad. | |
noun (n.) A chariot of war or of triumph; a vehicle of splendor, dignity, or solemnity. | |
noun (n.) The stars also called Charles's Wain, the Great Bear, or the Dipper. | |
noun (n.) The cage of a lift or elevator. | |
noun (n.) The basket, box, or cage suspended from a balloon to contain passengers, ballast, etc. | |
noun (n.) A floating perforated box for living fish. |
carabineer | noun (n.) A carbineer. |
caravaneer | noun (n.) The leader or driver of the camels in caravan. |
carbineer | noun (n.) A soldier armed with a carbine. |
carbonometer | noun (n.) An instrument for detecting and measuring the amount of carbon which is present, or more esp. the amount of carbon dioxide, by its action on limewater or by other means. |
carbuncular | adjective (a.) Belonging to a carbuncle; resembling a carbuncle; red; inflamed. |
carburetor | noun (n.) An apparatus in which coal gas, hydrogen, or air is passed through or over a volatile hydrocarbon, in order to confer or increase illuminating power. |
noun (n.) Alt. of Carburettor |
carder | noun (n.) One who, or that which cards wool flax, etc. |
career | noun (n.) A race course: the ground run over. |
noun (n.) A running; full speed; a rapid course. | |
noun (n.) General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a public character; as, Washington's career as a soldier. | |
noun (n.) The flight of a hawk. | |
verb (v. i.) To move or run rapidly. |
carouser | noun (n.) One who carouses; a reveler. |
carpenter | noun (n.) An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc. |
carper | noun (n.) One who carps; a caviler. |
carpetbagger | noun (n.) An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865). |
carpetmonger | noun (n.) One who deals in carpets; a buyer and seller of carpets. |
noun (n.) One fond of pleasure; a gallant. |
carrier | noun (n.) One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger. |
noun (n.) One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster. | |
noun (n.) That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. (c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel. |
carter | noun (n.) A charioteer. |
noun (n.) A man who drives a cart; a teamster. | |
noun (n.) Any species of Phalangium; -- also called harvestman | |
noun (n.) A British fish; the whiff. |
cartographer | noun (n.) One who makes charts or maps. |
caruncular | adjective (a.) Alt. of Carunculous |
carver | noun (n.) One who carves; one who shapes or fashions by carving, or as by carving; esp. one who carves decorative forms, architectural adornments, etc. |
noun (n.) One who carves or divides meat at table. | |
noun (n.) A large knife for carving. |
cashier | noun (n.) One who has charge of money; a cash keeper; the officer who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of a bank or a mercantile company. |
verb (v. t.) To dismiss or discard; to discharge; to dismiss with ignominy from military service or from an office or place of trust. | |
verb (v. t.) To put away or reject; to disregard. |
cashierer | noun (n.) One who rejects, discards, or dismisses; as, a cashierer of monarchs. |
cassumunar | noun (n.) Alt. of Cassumuniar |
cassumuniar | noun (n.) A pungent, bitter, aromatic, gingerlike root, obtained from the East Indies. |
caster | noun (n.) One who casts; as, caster of stones, etc. ; a caster of cannon; a caster of accounts. |
noun (n.) A vial, cruet, or other small vessel, used to contain condiments at the table; as, a set of casters. | |
noun (n.) A stand to hold a set of cruets. | |
noun (n.) A small wheel on a swivel, on which furniture is supported and moved. |
castigator | noun (n.) One who castigates or corrects. |
castlebuilder | noun (n.) Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes. |
castor | noun (n.) A genus of rodents, including the beaver. See Beaver. |
noun (n.) Castoreum. See Castoreum. | |
noun (n.) A hat, esp. one made of beaver fur; a beaver. | |
noun (n.) A heavy quality of broadcloth for overcoats. | |
noun (n.) See Caster, a small wheel. | |
noun (n.) the northernmost of the two bright stars in the constellation Gemini, the other being Pollux. | |
noun (n.) Alt. of Castorite |