chuckmuck
A steel attached to a pouch containing flint and tinder.

chuckmucks
plural of chuckmuck

chula
A hearth, stove, or other traditional cooking-place.

chulas
plural of chula

chulha
Alternative form of chula.

chulhas
plural of chulha

chultun
A bottle-shaped underground storage chamber built by the pre-Columbian Maya in southern Mesoamerica, in some cases designed to collect rainwater.

chultunes
plural of chultun

chultunob
plural of chultun

chultuns
plural of chultun

chumbucket
A bucket filled with fishing bait at sea.

chumbuckets
plural of chumbucket

chumsicle
A compact (sometimes frozen) ball of chum for feeding to sharks

chumsicles
plural of chumsicle

chupa
Alternative form of chuppah.

chupas
plural of chupa

chupot
plural of chupa
plural of chupah

cienaga
Alternative form of cienega.

cienagas
plural of cienaga

cienega
A marshy spring where groundwater bubbles to the surface.

cienegas
plural of cienega

cierge
A wax candle used in religious rites.

cierges
plural of cierge

cillies
plural of cilly

cilly
Any predictable facet of the Enigma Machine cipher due to operator error or laziness, whose existence helped the Allies to break the code.

cimbassi
plural of cimbasso

cimbasso
A cylindrical valved instrument in the low brass family, closely related to the trombone and normally pitched a fifth or an octave below the tenor and bass trombones.

cimbassos
plural of cimbasso

cincinni
plural of cincinnus

cincinnus
A type of monochasium on which the successive axes arise alternately in respect to the preceding one; a scorpioid cyme.

cineangiogram
An angiogram produced using cineangiography

cineangiograms
plural of cineangiogram

cistvaen
Alternative form of kistvaen.

cistvaens
plural of cistvaen

classloading
The dynamic loading of classes into a virtual machine, as performed by a classloader.

classpath
The path on a file system where the Java virtual machine should look for user-defined classes and packages when running Java programs.

classpaths
plural of classpath

clavy
A mantelpiece.

claypot
A round lidded pot made of clay mixed with sand, glazed on the inside only, used in Chinese cooking.

claypots
plural of claypot

clayware
Articles made from clay.

claywares
plural of clayware

cleit
A stone storage hut or bothy.

cleitean
plural of cleit

cleits
plural of cleit

clih
Filter-avoidance spelling of clit (“clitoris”).

clihs
plural of clih

clingstone
A stone fruit having a stone (pit) that clings to the flesh.

clingstones
plural of clingstone

clinopinacoid
The plane in monoclinic crystals that is parallel to the vertical and the inclined lateral (clinodiagonal) axes.

clinopinacoids
plural of clinopinacoid

clinopinakoid
Alternative form of clinopinacoid.

clinopinakoids
plural of clinopinakoid.

clippie
A bus conductor.

clippies
plural of clippie
plural of clippy

clippy
Alternative form of clippie (“bus conductor”).

clockspring
A spring in a mechanical clock.

clocksprings
plural of clockspring

clutchback
A clutch, a fastener which goes over the end of a pin.

clutchbacks
plural of clutchback

clypeole
A small shield
Such a sporophyll in some horsetails

clypeoles
plural of clypeole

clypolae
plural of clypeole

cmm
Abbreviation of cubic millimetre.

cnida
A nematocyst.

cnidae
plural of cnida

cnidocyst
A nematocyst.

cnidocysts
plural of cnidocyst

cnidocyte
A capsule, in certain cnidarians, containing a barbed, string-like tube that transfers a paralyzing sting.
A jellyfish tentacle.

cnidocytes
plural of cnidocyte

coalbag
A bag for the storage of coal.

coalbags
plural of coalbag

coalbin
A bin for the storage of coal.

coalbins
plural of coalbin

coalheaving
The job of feeding coal into a furnace.

coalsack
A sack for carrying coal.
Any of the spaces in the Milky Way which are very black, owing to the nearly complete absence of stars.

coalsacks
plural of coalsack

coban
Archaic form of koban (“Japanese coin”).

cobang
Alternative form of koban.

cobangs
plural of cobang

cobans
plural of coban

cobot
A robot intended to interact physically with humans in a shared workspace.

cobots
plural of cobot

cocklestove
A masonry heater covered in tile; a tile stove.

cocklestoves
plural of cocklestove

cocone
The dual of a cone; an object V together with an arrow going from each object of a diagram to V such that for any arrow A in the diagram, the pair of arrows to V which form a triangle with A also commute with it.

cocones
plural of cocone

codebook
A book, table, database, or other object that stores the mapping between plaintext words or phrases and their equivalents in a code.
A lookup table.
A list of disorders or conditions and the codes that represent them.

codebooks
plural of codebook

codebreaking
The decipherment of a code.

codemaker
The creator of a code or cipher.

codemakers
plural of codemaker

coebang
Dated form of koban, former gold coin.

coebangs
plural of coebang

coehorn
A small bronze mortar mounted on a wooden block with handles, and light enough to be carried short distances by two people.

coehorns
plural of coehorn

coenosarc
A living body (structure, such as a tube or mesoglea) that is held in common by many organisms included in a composite zoophyte (such as the polyps of a coral, or the zooids of a hydroid), by which they are in connection with each other.

coenosarcs
plural of coenosarc

coffret
A small box or chest; casket.

cogue
A small round wooden vessel for holding milk.

cogues
plural of cogue

cogwheel
A gear wheel.
Something behaving in a jerky manner similar to a cogwheel, e.g. cogwheel respiration as a side effect of hyperbaric medicine.

cogwheels
plural of cogwheel

coherer
A detector of radio waves used in very early radio receivers.

coherers
plural of coherer

cohorn
Archaic form of coehorn.

cohorns
plural of cohorn

cokc
Filter-avoidance spelling of cock.

cokcs
plural of cokc

collaterogenesis
The generation of collateral circulation via new blood vessels

colorimeter
Any of various instruments designed to determine the color of something, by comparison with standard colors or by spectroscopy.
An analytic instrument that estimates the concentration of a substance in a sample by measuring its color against the solution's complementary color.

colorimeters
plural of colorimeter

colortype
A color print that is produced by combining the images from three photo-engraved plates, each contributing a single primary color (red, blue, or yellow).

colortypes
plural of colortype

colourimeter
Alternative spelling of colorimeter.

colourimeters
plural of colourimeter

colourtype
Alternative form of colortype.

colourtypes
plural of colourtype

combings
Fragments of hair etc. removed with a comb.

comble
A band along the top part of the shield, half the height of the chief.

combles
plural of comble

comboloio
A Muslim rosary consisting of ninety-nine beads.

comboloios
plural of comboloio

combuster
Alternative spelling of combustor.

combusters
plural of combuster

combustor
A chamber acting as the furnace in a jet engine or turbine engine, where intense combustion is induced.

combustors
plural of combustor

comminutor
A type of machine that grinds up solid materials, especially in waste treatment

comminutors
plural of comminutor

commsat
Alternative form of comsat.

commsats
plural of commsat

comptometer
A mechanical or electromechanical calculator; an adding machine without a crank, driven instead by keypress.

comptometers
plural of comptometer

computeracy
Computer literacy.

computerware
Computer hardware and/or software.

comsat
A communications satellite.

comsats
plural of comsat

concaulescence
The coalescence of axes.

concho
A silver ornament either stamped with a design or inlaid with a stone.

conchos
plural of concho

concussor
A type of hammer used in some forms of massage

concussors
plural of concussor

condensator
A capacitor.

condensators
plural of condensator