CANH
First name CANH's origin is Vietnamese. CANH means "scenery; environment; something that spreads out limitlessly, supports life, is colorful with trees, grass, flowers and fruit". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with CANH below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of canh.(Brown names are of the same origin (Vietnamese) with CANH and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming CANH
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anh danh lanh thanh khanhRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (nh) - Names That Ends with nh:
arienh binh hyunh linh trinh chinh huynh minh sinh thinh reinh einhNAMES RHYMING WITH CANH (According to first letters):
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canace candace candance candi candice candida candide candie candiss candra candyce canice cantaraRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ca) - Names That Begins with ca:
cabal cabe cable cacamwri cacanisius cace cacey cachamwri caci cacia cadabyr cadan cadassi cadby cadda caddaham caddari caddaric caddarik caddawyc cade cadee cadell caden cadena cadence cadencia cadenza cadeo cadha cadhla cadi cadie cadis cadman cadmon cadmus cador cadwallon cady cadyna caedmon 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 caitieNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CANH:
First Names which starts with 'c' and ends with 'h':
caladh calbhach caleigh calleigh calliah callough calvagh camhlaidh camilah caomh carah carleigh carmontieh carthach cath cathasach cayleigh ceallach ceardach cearnach cenwalh ceolfrith cevanah chabah chanah chanoch chasidah cheikh chephzibah choilleich cimberleigh cinneididh clach cleirach clodagh clunainach coaxoch cofahealh coigleach coilleach coinneach conlaoch conleth connah coopersmith cranleah crosleah crosleigh cruadhlaoich culhwch cuuladh cynburleigh cyneburhleah cyneleah cynfarchEnglish Words Rhyming CANH
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can | noun (n.) A drinking cup; a vessel for holding liquids. |
noun (n.) A vessel or case of tinned iron or of sheet metal, of various forms, but usually cylindrical; as, a can of tomatoes; an oil can; a milk can. | |
verb (v. t.) To preserve by putting in sealed cans | |
verb (v. t. & i.) To know; to understand. | |
verb (v. t. & i.) To be able to do; to have power or influence. | |
verb (v. t. & i.) To be able; -- followed by an infinitive without to; as, I can go, but do not wish to. | |
() an obs. form of began, imp. & p. p. of Begin, sometimes used in old poetry. [See Gan.] |
canning | noun (p. pr. &vb. n.) of Can |
canaanite | noun (n.) A descendant of Canaan, the son of Ham, and grandson of Noah. |
noun (n.) A Native or inhabitant of the land of Canaan, esp. a member of any of the tribes who inhabited Canaan at the time of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. | |
noun (n.) A zealot. |
canaanitish | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Canaan or the Canaanites. |
canada | noun (n.) A British province in North America, giving its name to various plants and animals. |
canadian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Canada. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Canada. |
canaille | noun (n.) The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar. |
noun (n.) Shorts or inferior flour. |
canakin | noun (n.) A little can or cup. |
canal | noun (n.) An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc. |
noun (n.) A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear. | |
noun (n.) A long and relatively narrow arm of the sea, approximately uniform in width; -- used chiefly in proper names; as, Portland Canal; Lynn Canal. |
canaliculate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Canaliculated |
canaliculated | adjective (a.) Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms. |
canaliculus | noun (n.) A minute canal. |
canalization | noun (n.) Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals. |
canard | noun (n.) An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public. |
canarese | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Canara, a district of British India. |
canary | noun (n.) Wine made in the Canary Islands; sack. |
noun (n.) A canary bird. | |
noun (n.) A pale yellow color, like that of a canary bird. | |
noun (n.) A quick and lively dance. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Canary Islands; as, canary wine; canary birds. | |
adjective (a.) Of a pale yellowish color; as, Canary stone. | |
verb (v. i.) To perform the canary dance; to move nimbly; to caper. |
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. |
cancan | noun (n.) A rollicking French dance, accompanied by indecorous or extravagant postures and gestures. |
canceling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cancel |
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. |
cancellarean | adjective (a.) Cancellarean. |
cancellated | adjective (a.) Crossbarred; marked with cross lines. |
adjective (a.) Open or spongy, as some porous bones. |
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. |
cancellous | adjective (a.) Having a spongy or porous structure; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones. |
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. |
canceration | noun (n.) The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into a cancer. |
cancerite | noun (n.) Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer. |
cancriform | adjective (a.) Having the form of, or resembling, a crab; crab-shaped. |
adjective (a.) Like a cancer; cancerous. |
cancrine | adjective (a.) Having the qualities of a crab; crablike. |
cancrinite | noun (n.) A mineral occurring in hexagonal crystals, also massive, generally of a yellow color, containing silica, alumina, lime, soda, and carbon dioxide. |
cancroid | adjective (a.) Resembling a crab; pertaining to the Cancroidea, one of the families of crabs, including the genus Cancer. |
adjective (a.) Like a cancer; as, a cancroid tumor. |
cand | noun (n.) Fluor spar. See Kand. |
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. |
candent | adjective (a.) Heated to whiteness; glowing with heat. |
canderos | noun (n.) An East Indian resin, of a pellucid white color, from which small ornaments and toys are sometimes made. |
candescence | noun (n.) See Incandescence. |
candicant | adjective (a.) Growing white. |
candid | adjective (a.) White. |
adjective (a.) Free from undue bias; disposed to think and judge according to truth and justice, or without partiality or prejudice; fair; just; impartial; as, a candid opinion. | |
adjective (a.) Open; frank; ingenuous; outspoken. |
candidacy | noun (n.) The position of a candidate; state of being a candidate; candidateship. |
candidate | noun (n.) One who offers himself, or is put forward by others, as a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or honor; as, a candidate for the office of governor; a candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors. |
candidateship | noun (n.) Candidacy. |
candidating | noun (n.) The taking of the position of a candidate; specifically, the preaching of a clergyman with a view to settlement. |
candidature | noun (n.) Candidacy. |
candidness | noun (n.) The quality of being candid. |
candied | adjective (a.) Preserved in or with sugar; incrusted with a candylike substance; as, candied fruits. |
adjective (a.) Converted wholly or partially into sugar or candy; as candied sirup. | |
adjective (a.) Conted or more or less with sugar; as, candidied raisins | |
adjective (a.) Figuratively; Honeyed; sweet; flattering. | |
adjective (a.) Covered or incrusted with that which resembles sugar or candy. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Candy |
candiot | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Candia; Cretary. |
candite | noun (n.) A variety of spinel, of a dark color, found at Candy, in Ceylon. |
candle | noun (n.) A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a wick composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and used to furnish light. |
noun (n.) That which gives light; a luminary. |
candlebomb | noun (n.) A small glass bubble, filled with water, which, if placed in the flame of a candle, bursts by expansion of steam. |
noun (n.) A pasteboard shell used in signaling. It is filled with a composition which makes a brilliant light when it explodes. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CANH:
English Words which starts with 'c' and ends with 'h':
caddish | adjective (a.) Like a cad; lowbred and presuming. |
cafeneh | noun (n.) A humble inn or house of rest for travelers, where coffee is sold. |
cafileh | noun (n.) A caravan of travelers; a military supply train or government caravan; a string of pack horses. |
calabash | noun (n.) The common gourd (plant or fruit). |
noun (n.) The fruit of the calabash tree. | |
noun (n.) A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd. |
calash | noun (n.) A light carriage with low wheels, having a top or hood that can be raised or lowered, seats for inside, a separate seat for the driver, and often a movable front, so that it can be used as either an open or a close carriage. |
noun (n.) In Canada, a two-wheeled, one-seated vehicle, with a calash top, and the driver's seat elevated in front. | |
noun (n.) A hood or top of a carriage which can be thrown back at pleasure. | |
noun (n.) A hood, formerly worn by ladies, which could be drawn forward or thrown back like the top of a carriage. |
calipash | noun (n.) A part of a turtle which is next to the upper shell. It contains a fatty and gelatinous substance of a dull greenish tinge, much esteemed as a delicacy in preparations of turtle. |
caliph | noun (n.) Successor or vicar; -- a title of the successors of Mohammed both as temporal and spiritual rulers, now used by the sultans of Turkey. |
callipash | noun (n.) See Calipash. |
calvish | adjective (a.) Like a calf; stupid. |
candlefish | noun (n.) A marine fish (Thaleichthys Pacificus), allied to the smelt, found on the north Pacific coast; -- called also eulachon. It is so oily that, when dried, it may be used as a candle, by drawing a wick through it |
noun (n.) The beshow. |
capoch | noun (n.) A hood; especially, the hood attached to the gown of a monk. |
verb (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a hood; hence, to hoodwink or blind. |
capouch | noun (n. & v. t.) Same as Capoch. |
cardiagraph | noun (n.) See Cardiograph. |
cardiograph | noun (n.) An instrument which, when placed in contact with the chest, will register graphically the comparative duration and intensity of the heart's movements. |
cardiosphygmograph | noun (n.) A combination of cardiograph and sphygmograph. |
cartouch | noun (n.) A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge |
noun (n.) A cartridge box. | |
noun (n.) A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon. | |
noun (n.) A gunner's bag for ammunition | |
noun (n.) A military pass for a soldier on furlough. | |
noun (n.) A cantalever, console, corbel, or modillion, which has the form of a scroll of paper | |
noun (n.) A tablet for ornament, or for receiving an inscription, formed like a sheet of paper with the edges rolled up; hence, any tablet of ornamental form. | |
noun (n.) An oval figure on monuments, and in papyri, containing the name of a sovereign. |
cash | noun (n.) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box. |
noun (n.) Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money | |
noun (n.) Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash. | |
noun (n.sing & pl.) A Chinese coin. | |
verb (v. t.) To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order. | |
verb (v. t.) To disband. |
catarrh | noun (n.) An inflammatory affection of any mucous membrane, in which there are congestion, swelling, and an altertion in the quantity and quality of mucus secreted; as, catarrh of the stomach; catarrh of the bladder. |
catch | noun (n.) Act of seizing; a grasp. |
noun (n.) That by which anything is caught or temporarily fastened; as, the catch of a gate. | |
noun (n.) The posture of seizing; a state of preparation to lay hold of, or of watching he opportunity to seize; as, to lie on the catch. | |
noun (n.) That which is caught or taken; profit; gain; especially, the whole quantity caught or taken at one time; as, a good catch of fish. | |
noun (n.) Something desirable to be caught, esp. a husband or wife in matrimony. | |
noun (n.) Passing opportunities seized; snatches. | |
noun (n.) A slight remembrance; a trace. | |
noun (n.) A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words. | |
verb (v. t.) To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball. | |
verb (v. t.) To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief. | |
verb (v. t.) To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish. | |
verb (v. t.) Hence: To insnare; to entangle. | |
verb (v. t.) To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a melody. | |
verb (v. t.) To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the adjoining building. | |
verb (v. t.) To engage and attach; to please; to charm. | |
verb (v. t.) To get possession of; to attain. | |
verb (v. t.) To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire. | |
verb (v. t.) To come upon unexpectedly or by surprise; to find; as, to catch one in the act of stealing. | |
verb (v. t.) To reach in time; to come up with; as, to catch a train. | |
verb (v. i.) To attain possession. | |
verb (v. i.) To be held or impeded by entanglement or a light obstruction; as, a kite catches in a tree; a door catches so as not to open. | |
verb (v. i.) To take hold; as, the bolt does not catch. | |
verb (v. i.) To spread by, or as by, infecting; to communicate. |
catfish | noun (n.) A name given in the United States to various species of siluroid fishes; as, the yellow cat (Amiurus natalis); the bind cat (Gronias nigrilabrus); the mud cat (Pilodictic oilwaris), the stone cat (Noturus flavus); the sea cat (Arius felis), etc. This name is also sometimes applied to the wolf fish. See Bullhrad. |
cattish | adjective (a.) Catlike; feline |
cavalierish | adjective (a.) Somewhat like a cavalier. |
cavendish | noun (n.) Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes. |
cenotaph | noun (n.) An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere. |
cerecloth | noun (n.) A cloth smeared with melted wax, or with some gummy or glutinous matter. |
ceriph | noun (n.) One of the fine lines of a letter, esp. one of the fine cross strokes at the top and bottom of letters. |
cerograph | noun (n.) A writing on wax. |
ceterach | noun (n.) A species of fern with fronds (Asplenium Ceterach). |
chaetognath | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Chaetognatha. |
chaffinch | noun (n.) A bird of Europe (Fringilla coelebs), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch. |
chaldrich | noun (n.) Alt. of Chalder |
cheetah | noun (n.) A species of leopard (Cynaelurus jubatus) tamed and used for hunting in India. The woolly cheetah of South Africa is C. laneus. |
chetah | noun (n.) See Cheetah. |
chich | noun (n.) The chick-pea. |
chichling vetch | noun (n.) A leguminous plant (Lathyrus sativus), with broad flattened seeds which are sometimes used for food. |
childbirth | noun (n.) The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. |
childish | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. |
adjective (a.) Puerile; trifling; weak. |
chiliarch | noun (n.) The commander or chief of a thousand men. |
chilognath | noun (n.) A myriapod of the order Chilognatha. |
chinch | noun (n.) The bedbug (Cimex lectularius). |
noun (n.) A bug (Blissus leucopterus), which, in the United States, is very destructive to grass, wheat, and other grains; -- also called chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting odor. |
chirograph | noun (n.) A writing which, requiring a counterpart, was engrossed twice on the same piece of parchment, with a space between, in which was written the word chirographum, through which the parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a charter party. |
noun (n.) The last part of a fine of land, commonly called the foot of the fine. |
chopchurch | noun (n.) An exchanger or an exchange of benefices. |
chorograph | noun (n.) An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc. |
chough | noun (n.) A bird of the Crow family (Fregilus graculus) of Europe. It is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough. |
chromograph | noun (n.) An apparatus by which a number of copies of written matter, maps, plans, etc., can be made; -- called also hectograph. |
chromolithograph | noun (n.) A picture printed in tints and colors by repeated impressions from a series of stones prepared by the lithographic process. |
chromophotolithograph | noun (n.) A photolithograph printed in colors. |
chronograph | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring or recording intervals of time, upon a revolving drum or strip of paper moved by clockwork. The action of the stylus or pen is controlled by electricity. |
noun (n.) Same as Chronogram, 1. | |
noun (n.) A chronoscope. |
church | noun (n.) A building set apart for Christian worship. |
noun (n.) A Jewish or heathen temple. | |
noun (n.) A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together. | |
noun (n.) A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church. | |
noun (n.) The collective body of Christians. | |
noun (n.) Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church of Brahm. | |
noun (n.) The aggregate of religious influences in a community; ecclesiastical influence, authority, etc.; as, to array the power of the church against some moral evil. | |
verb (v. t.) To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women. |
churlish | adjective (a.) Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly. |
adjective (a.) Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals. |
cimeliarch | noun (n.) A superintendent or keeper of a church's valuables; a churchwarden. |
cinch | noun (n.) A strong saddle girth, as of canvas. |
noun (n.) A tight grip. | |
noun (n.) A variety of auction pitch in which a draw to improve the hand is added, and the five of trumps (called right pedro) and the five of the same color (called left pedro, and ranking between the five and the four of trumps) each count five on the score. Fifty-one points make a game. Called also double pedro and high five. | |
verb (v. t.) To put a cinch upon; to girth tightly. | |
verb (v. t.) To get a sure hold upon; to get into a tight place, as for forcing submission. | |
verb (v. i.) To perform the action of cinching; to tighten the cinch; -- often with up. | |
verb (v. t.) In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five. |
clannish | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a clan; closely united, like a clan; disposed to associate only with one's clan or clique; actuated by the traditions, prejudices, habits, etc., of a clan. |
clash | noun (n.) A loud noise resulting from collision; a noisy collision of bodies; a collision. |
noun (n.) Opposition; contradiction; as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes, etc. | |
verb (v. i.) To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together. | |
verb (v. i.) To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere. | |
verb (v. t.) To strike noisily against or together. |
clayish | adjective (a.) Partaking of the nature of clay, or containing particles of it. |
clench | noun (n. & v. t.) See Clinch. |
cleverish | adjective (a.) Somewhat clever. |
clinch | noun (n.) The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch. |
noun (n.) A pun. | |
noun (n.) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts. | |
verb (v. t.) To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly. | |
verb (v. t.) To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first. | |
verb (v. t.) To bend or turn over the point of (something that has been driven through an object), so that it will hold fast; as, to clinch a nail. | |
verb (v. t.) To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument. | |
verb (v. i.) To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another. |
cliquish | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a clique; disposed to from cliques; exclusive in spirit. |
cloddish | adjective (a.) Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish. |
closh | noun (n.) A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis. |
noun (n.) The game of ninepins. |
cloth | noun (n.) A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all others. |
noun (n.) The dress; raiment. [Obs.] See Clothes. | |
noun (n.) The distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical profession. |
clough | noun (n.) A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley. |
noun (n.) A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land. | |
noun (n.) An allowance in weighing. See Cloff. |
clownish | adjective (a.) Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward. |
clubbish | adjective (a.) Rude; clownish. |
adjective (a.) Disposed to club together; as, a clubbish set. |
clunch | noun (n.) Indurated clay. See Bind, n., 3. |
noun (n.) One of the hard beds of the lower chalk. |
clutch | noun (n.) A gripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp. |
noun (n.) The hands, claws, or talons, in the act of grasping firmly; -- often figuratively, for power, rapacity, or cruelty; as, to fall into the clutches of an adversary. | |
noun (n.) A device which is used for coupling shafting, etc., so as to transmit motion, and which may be disengaged at pleasure. | |
noun (n.) Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle. | |
noun (n.) The nest complement of eggs of a bird. | |
noun (n.) To seize, clasp, or gripe with the hand, hands, or claws; -- often figuratively; as, to clutch power. | |
noun (n.) To close tightly; to clinch. | |
verb (v. i.) To reach (at something) as if to grasp; to catch or snatch; -- often followed by at. |
coach | noun (n.) A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, and an elevated outside seat in front for the driver. |
noun (n.) A special tutor who assists in preparing a student for examination; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat's crew for a race. | |
noun (n.) A cabin on the after part of the quarter-deck, usually occupied by the captain. | |
noun (n.) A first-class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing-room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car. | |
verb (v. t.) To convey in a coach. | |
verb (v. t.) To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction. | |
verb (v. i.) To drive or to ride in a coach; -- sometimes used with |
coalfish | noun (n.) The pollock; -- called also, coalsey, colemie, colmey, coal whiting, etc. See Pollock. |
noun (n.) The beshow or candlefish of Alaska. | |
noun (n.) The cobia. |
coccolith | noun (n.) One of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably vegetable, often abundant in deep-sea mud. |
cockmatch | noun (n.) A cockfight. |
cockneyish | adjective (a.) Characteristic of, or resembling, cockneys. |
cockroach | noun (n.) An orthopterous insect of the genus Blatta, and allied genera. |
codfish | noun (n.) A kind of fish. Same as Cod. |
coelacanth | adjective (a.) Having hollow spines, as some ganoid fishes. |
cohosh | noun (n.) A perennial American herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides), whose rootstock is used in medicine; -- also called pappoose root. The name is sometimes also given to the Cimicifuga racemosa, and to two species of Actaea, plants of the Crowfoot family. |
coldfinch | noun (n.) A British wagtail. |
coldish | adjective (a.) Somewhat cold; cool; chilly. |
coleperch | noun (n.) A kind of small black perch. |
collish | noun (n.) A tool to polish the edge of a sole. |
colocynth | noun (n.) The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, / Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermelon; coloquintida. It comes in white balls, is intensely bitter, and a powerful cathartic. Called also bitter apple, bitter cucumber, bitter gourd. |
coltish | adjective (a.) Like a colt; wanton; frisky. |
combbroach | noun (n.) A tooth of a wool comb. |
commonish | adjective (a.) Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar. |
commonwealth | noun (n.) A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws. |
noun (n.) The whole body of people in a state; the public. | |
noun (n.) Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659. |
conch | noun (n.) A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus Strombus, which are of large size. S. gigas is the large pink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus Cassis. See Cameo. |
noun (n.) In works of art, the shell used by Tritons as a trumpet. | |
noun (n.) One of the white natives of the Bahama Islands or one of their descendants in the Florida Keys; -- so called from the commonness of the conch there, or because they use it for food. | |
noun (n.) See Concha, n. | |
noun (n.) The external ear. See Concha, n., 2. |
coolish | adjective (a.) Somewhat cool. |
copperish | adjective (a.) Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste. |
coppersmith | noun (n.) One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils; a worker in copper. |
copygraph | noun (n.) A contrivance for producing manifold copies of a writing or drawing. |
coquettish | adjective (a.) Practicing or exhibiting coquetry; alluring; enticing. |
coranach | noun (n.) A lamentation for the dead; a dirge. |
corinth | noun (n.) A city of Greece, famed for its luxury and extravagance. |
noun (n.) A small fruit; a currant. |
cornish | noun (n.) The dialect, or the people, of Cornwall. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Cornwall, in England. |
cornstarch | noun (n.) Starch made from Indian corn, esp. a fine white flour used for puddings, etc. |
coronach | noun (n.) See Coranach. |
countermarch | noun (n.) A marching back; retrocession. |
noun (n.) An evolution by which a body of troops change front or reverse the direction of march while retaining the same men in the front rank; also, a movement by which the rear rank becomes the front one, either with or without changing the right to the left. | |
noun (n.) A change of measures; alteration of conduct. | |
verb (v. i.) To march back, or to march in reversed order. |
cowardish | adjective (a.) Cowardly. |
cowfish | noun (n.) The grampus. |
noun (n.) A California dolphin (Tursiops Gillii). | |
noun (n.) A marine plectognath fish (Ostracoin quadricorne, and allied species), having two projections, like horns, in front; -- called also cuckold, coffer fish, trunkfish. |
cowish | noun (n.) An umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Cous) with edible tuberous roots, found in Oregon. |
verb (v. t.) Timorous; fearful; cowardly. |