callback
The return of a situation to a previous position or state; a reference to such a position or state.
A return telephone or radio call; especially one made automatically to authenticate a logon to a computer network.
A product recall because of a defect or safety concern.
A function pointer passed as an argument to another function.
A follow-up audition in casting.
A follow-up interview in employment recruiting.
A joke which references an earlier joke in the same routine.
A form of audience participation in which the audience shout lines in response to the dialog of a film.

callbacks
plural of callback

callbook
A directory of radio station call signs.

callbooks
plural of callbook

calloo
The long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis, an Arctic sea duck.

calloos
plural of calloo

calmecac
A school for the children of Aztec nobility.

calmecacs
plural of calmecac

calpulli
An Aztec organizational unit below the level of the altepetl or city-state.

calpullis
plural of calpulli

calpultin
plural of calpulli

calthemite
Any secondary calcareous deposit, created by the action of water outside the natural cave environment. They are typically found on man made structures and mimic the shapes and forms of cave speleothems, such as stalactites, stalagmites, flowstone etc.

calthemites
plural of calthemite

calyptostase
A stage in the development of some mites in which the instars acquire regressive traits

calyptostases
plural of calyptostase

calyptostasies
plural of calyptostasy

calyptostasy
Alternative form of calyptostase.

camalote
A floating island composed of Pontederia plants.

camantigue
garden balsam (Impatiens balsamina)

camerlingate
The dignity of the camerlengo (cardinal who presides over the Apostolic Chamber in pontifical interregnum).
period, between the death of a pontiff and the election of his successor, in which a camerlengo is in charge of governing the Church in the administrative field.

camerlingates
plural of camerlingate

camonflet
A small mine, sometimes formed in the wall or side of an enemy's gallery, to blow in the earth and cut off the retreat of the miners.

camonflets
plural of camonflet

campaniloid
Any sea snail of the superfamily Campaniloidea

campaniloids
plural of campaniloid

campground
An area where tents are pitched.
An area where a camp meeting (a retreat) is held.

campgrounds
plural of campground

campisanti
plural of camposanto

campong
Obsolete spelling of kampung.

campongs
plural of campong

camposanto
A burial place or cemetery, in Italian- or Spanish-speaking regions.

camposantos
plural of camposanto

camptown
A South Korean town whose livelihood relies on a United States Forces Korea military base. Camptowns are associated especially with prostitution.

camptowns
plural of camptown

canalicule
A small canal, channel or duct

canalicules
plural of canalicule

canalisation
The conversion of a river or other waterway to a canal.
The management of something using defined channels of communication.
The ability of a genotype to produce the same phenotype regardless of variability of its environment.

canalisations
plural of canalisation

canalith
An otolith that has migrated to a semicircular canal.

canaliths
plural of canalith

canalization
Alternative spelling of canalisation.

canalizations
plural of canalization

canalolith
Synonym of canalith.

canaloliths
plural of canalolith

canaloplasties
plural of canaloplasty

canaloplasty
The surgical reconstruction of a canal or passage in the body.

canalotomies
plural of canalotomy

canalotomy
Incision into a bodily canal

canaut
The side wall of a tent or canvas enclosure.

canauts
plural of canaut.

candleworks
A factory or other facility where candles are manufactured or distributed.

cannista
A service employee at a marijuana shop.

cannistas
plural of cannista

canongo
In upper India, and formerly in Bengal, the registrar of a tahsil, or other revenue subdivision, who receives the reports of the patwaris, or village registrars.

canongoes
plural of canongo

canongos
plural of canongo

canonries
plural of canonry

canonry
The office of a canon; a benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
Canons considered as a group.
a house where canons live

canterbury
A rack for magazines or other papers, usually wooden, often done as a decorative piece.

cantitruncation
The simultaneous state of cantellation and truncation.

cantitruncations
plural of cantitruncation

cantonalism
A Spanish insurrectionary movement of the late 19th and early 20th century, aiming to divide the nation state into almost independent cantons.

canyonland
A land full of canyons.

canyonlands
plural of canyonland

canyonside
The side of a canyon, typically a residential one

canyonsides
plural of canyonside

capea
An event in which small bulls or heifers are released into the arena and members of the audience can interact with them.

capeas
plural of capea

capilliconidiophore
An outgrowth of an ascospore that has a terminal conidium

capilliconidiophores
plural of capilliconidiophore

capuera
In Latin America, cleared land that has developed a secondary forest.

capueras
plural of capuera

carame
Alternative form of cerame.

carames
plural of carame

carbaree
Alternative form of karbari.

carbarees
plural of carbaree

carbarn
A building housing a streetcar when it is not in use.

carbarns
plural of carbarn

carbomonoxyhaemoglobin
Alternative spelling of carbomonoxyhemoglobin.

carbomonoxyhemoglobin
Synonym of carboxyhemoglobin.

carbonmonoxyhaemoglobin
Alternative spelling of carbonmonoxyhemoglobin.

carbonmonoxyhaemoglobins
plural of carbonmonoxyhaemoglobin

carbonmonoxyhemoglobin
Synonym of carboxyhemoglobin.

carbonmonoxyhemoglobins
plural of carbonmonoxyhemoglobin

carboxyhaemoglobin
Alternative spelling of carboxyhemoglobin.

carboxyhaemoglobins
plural of carboxyhaemoglobin

carboxyhemoglobin
The stable complex of carbon monoxide with hemoglobin; it prevents the normal complexing with oxygen and thus leads to anoxia

carboxyhemoglobins
plural of carboxyhemoglobin

carcinoecia
plural of carcinoecium

carcinoecium
A chitinous structure, produced by some sea anemones, that overlies the gastropod shell of a hermit crab

cardines
plural of cardo

cardo
The basal joint of the maxilla in insects
The hinge of a bivalve shell.
A street that ran north–south, in an Ancient Roman town or city

cardroom
A gaming establishment where card games can be played.

carelessness
Lack of care; the state or quality of being careless.

carelessnesse
Obsolete spelling of carelessness.

carelessnesses
plural of carelessness

carlot
car park

carlots
plural of carlot

carnaries
plural of carnary

carnary
A crypt, a charnel house.

carniceria
A Hispanic butcher shop.

carnicerias
plural of carniceria

carnosol
A phenolic diterpene found in the herbs rosemary (Salvia rosmarinus, syn. Rosmarinus officinalis) and mountain desert sage (Salvia pachyphylla).

carnser
A causeway or raised bank or embankment.

carnsers
plural of carnser.

carosse
A European state coach.
The open space underneath the poop deck of a galley where the captain had his bed; it evolved into the cabin.

carosses
plural of caross
plural of carosse

carreau
A Haitian unit of land, 100 square pas: roughly 1.3 hectares or 3.2 acres.

carrland
Land marked by carrs; swampland.

carrlands
plural of carrland

carrocci
plural of carroccio

carroccio
A large four-wheeled wagon bearing the city signs around which the militia of the medieval communes gathered and fought, particularly in northern Italy.

carroccios
plural of carroccio

carrosse
Alternative form of carosse (“type of coach”).

carrosses
plural of carrosse

cartographies
plural of cartography

cartography
The creation of charts and maps based on the layout of a territory's geography.
An illustrative discussion of a topic.

cartologies
plural of cartology

cartology
The creation of charts and maps based on the layout of a territory's geography.