cameo
A piece of jewelry, etc., carved in relief.
A single very brief appearance, especially by a prominent celebrity in a movie or song.

cameoes
plural of cameo

cameos
plural of cameo

canephor
Alternative form of canephora.

canephora
A caryatid supporting a basket on her head.

canephoras
plural of canephora

canephore
Alternative form of canephora.

canephores
plural of canephore

canephors
plural of canephor

cangaceira
A female cangaceiro.

cangaceiras
plural of cangaceira

cankerworm
Either of two caterpillars, the larvae of geometrid moths, that are destructive to fruit, buds and leaves.
A corrupting or destructive force.

cankerworms
plural of cankerworm

canon
A generally accepted principle; a rule.
A generally accepted principle; a rule.
A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.
A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.
A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.
A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.
A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius
Those sources, especially including literary works, which are considered part of the main continuity regarding a given fictional universe; (metonymic) these sources' content.
Alternative form of cannon (“rolled and filleted loin of meat”).
A large size of type formerly used for printing the church canons, standardized as 48-point.
The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.

canons
plural of canon

capys
plural of capy

cardinal
Of fundamental importance; crucial, pivotal.
Of or relating to the cardinal directions (north, south, east and west).
Describing a “natural” number used to indicate quantity (e.g., zero, one, two, three), as opposed to an ordinal number indicating relative position.
Having a bright red color (from the color of a Catholic cardinal’s cassock).
Being one of the signs Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn, associated with initiation, creation, and force.

cardinals
plural of cardinal

carpella
plural of carpellum

carpenterworm
The larva of the moth Prionoxystus robinae

carpenterworms
plural of carpenterworm

cas
Abbreviation of casual.

casas
plural of casa

casebearers
plural of casebearer

cassapanca
A cassone with a high panelled back and sometimes a footrest; a kind of Italian settle.

cassapancas
plural of cassapanca

cassepanche
plural of cassapanca

catathesis
Downstep or downdrift, particularly in non-tonal languages such as Japanese and English.

caterpillar
The larva of a butterfly or moth; leafworm.
A vehicle with a caterpillar track; a crawler.
A set of subtrees of a tree.
A rapacious, extortionate person preying upon the community.

caterpillars
plural of caterpillar

caterpiller
Archaic spelling of caterpillar.

caterpillers
Archaic spelling of caterpillars; plural of caterpiller.

catlinites
plural of catlinite

catocala
An underwing moth (genus Catocala).

catocalas
plural of catocala

cattlehearts
plural of cattleheart

cecropia moth
A species of moth, Hyalophora cecropia.

chalcedonites
plural of chalcedonite

chalcidica
plural of chalcidicum

chalcone
The compound 1,3-diphenylpropenone (PhCH=CHCOPh); Ph = phenyl.
Any derivative of this compound.

chalcones
plural of chalcone

chalkhill blue
A silver-blue butterfly, Polyommatus coridon, of the family Lycaenidae.

chalkone
Alternative form of chalcone.

chalkones
plural of chalkone

cheif
Obsolete spelling of chief.

chequered skipper
A brown and orange chequered butterfly, Carterocephalus palaemon, of the family Hesperiidae

chestnut clearwing moth
A moth pf the extinct species Coptotriche perplexa, that died out due to chestnut blight eradicating the American chestnuts on which it fed.

cheveron
Dated form of chevron (“V-shaped ornament”).

cheverons
plural of cheveron

chevron
A V-shaped pattern; used in architecture, and as an insignia of military or police rank, on the sleeve.
A wide inverted V placed on a shield.
One of the V-shaped markings on the surface of roads used to indicate minimum distances between vehicles.
A guillemet, either of the punctuation marks “«” or “»”, used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical quotation marks used in the English language such as ““” and “””.
An angle bracket, either used as a typographic or a scientific symbol.
A háček, a diacritical mark that may resemble an inverted circumflex.
A wedge-shaped sediment deposit observed on coastlines and continental interiors around the world.
Synonym of arrowhead (“horse jump obstacle”).

chevrons
plural of chevron

chief
The leader or head of a tribe, organisation, business unit, or other group.
Headship, the status of being a chief or leader.
The top part of a shield or escutcheon; more specifically, an ordinary consisting of the upper part of the field cut off by a horizontal line, generally occupying the top third.
The principal part or top of anything.
An informal term of address.
An informal term of address.

chiefie
A chief.

chiefies
plural of chiefie

chiefs
plural of chief

chilips
plural of chilip

chimney sweep
A person whose job is to clean soot from chimneys.

chimney sweeper
Synonym of chimney sweep.

chimneysweep
Alternative form of chimney sweep.

chimneysweeper
Alternative form of chimney sweeper.

chimneysweepers
plural of chimneysweeper

chimneysweeps
plural of chimneysweep

chocolate moth
Any of various moths of the genus Argyrostrotis.

chocolate pansy
The predominantly brown nymphalid butterfly, Junonia iphita, of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and northern Australia.

churinga
Alternative form of tjurunga.

churingas
plural of churinga

cicinni
plural of cicinnus

cicinnus
Alternative form of cincinnus.

cimblin
Alternative form of cymling.

cimelia
Treasures; things considered valuable.

cinnabar moth
Tyria jacobaeae, a Eurasian moth with brilliant red and black wings

cladodes
plural of cladode

clavicitheria
plural of clavicitherium. (Alternative spelling of clavicytheria.)

clavicularia
plural of clavicularium

clay
A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
An earth material with ductile qualities.
A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.
The material of the human body.
A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
A clay pipe for smoking tobacco.
A clay pigeon.
Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims.
A moth, Mythimna ferrago

claye
Obsolete spelling of clay.

claypit
Alternative form of clay pit.

claypits
plural of claypit

clays
plural of clay

clayshale
Alternative form of clay shale.

cleopatra
The butterfly Gonepteryx cleopatra of the family Pieridae.

cleopatras
plural of cleopatra

climacteria
plural of climacterium

clipper
Anything or anyone that clips.
A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
Something that moves swiftly; especially:
Something that moves swiftly; especially:
An Asian butterfly of species Parthenos sylvia, family Nymphalidae.
A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
A person who mutilates coins by fraudulently paring the edges.
A confidence trickster; a conman.
Anything showy or first-rate.

clippers
plural of clipper

clipshears
plural of clipshear

clouded yellow
A bright yellow butterfly, Colias croceus, of the family Pieridae.
Any of the species in genus Colias.

clouded yellows
plural of clouded yellow

cloudless sulfur
A yellow pierid butterfly, Phoebis sennae, found in the Americas.