cacography
Bad spelling or punctuation, especially unintuitive spellings considered as a feature of a whole language or dialect.
Deliberate comic misspelling; malapropism.
Poor or illegible handwriting.

cacuminalization
A sound change whereby a sound becomes cacuminal, or pronounced with a retroflexed tongue.

cadel
An ornate capital letter used in calligraphy, consisting of interlaced pen strokes. See :Commons:Cadel letters.

cadels
plural of cadel

caesiation
Application of caesium

caesiations
plural of caesiation

calcography
drawing with chalk

calendaria
plural of calendarium

calendarium
A calendar or timeline or events.

calendariums
plural of calendarium

calligraphics
Work produced in the form of calligraphy.
The use of calligraphic projection.

callset
A collection of variant calls, typically for one sample.

callsets
plural of callset

camaieu
A style of painting in a small range of monochrome colours.
A style of printing pictures producing the effect of a pencil drawing.
A cameo (relief carving).

camaieus
plural of camaieu

camaieux
plural of camaieu

camanachd
The game of shinty.

camanachds
plural of camanachd

camayeu
Alternative form of camaieu.

camayeus
plural of camayeu

camayeux
plural of camayeu

cambio
bureau de change; currency exchange

cambios
plural of cambio

cambism
The business of currency exchange.

campaignlet
A small-scale campaign.

campaignlets
plural of campaignlet

canaliculotomy
The slitting of the lacrimal punctum and canaliculus for the relief of epiphora.

cancionero
A collection of songs.

candrabindu
A diacritic used in Indic scripts like Devanagari (ँ), Bengali (ঁ), Gurmukhi ( ਁ), Gujarati (ઁ), Odia (ଁ), and Telugu (ఁ) scripts. It usually indicates that the previous vowel is nasalized. Shown here over the letter "ka" (or in the case of Telugu, after the "ka")

candrabindus
plural of candrabindu

candravindu
Alternative form of candrabindu.

candravindus
plural of candravindu

caneball
The game of chinlone.

caneware
A form of traditional unglazed light-brown stoneware.

canewares
plural of caneware

canso
A love song sung by a troubadour

cansos
plural of canso

cantica
plural of canticum

canticle
A chant, hymn or song, especially a nonmetrical one, with words from a biblical text.

canticles
plural of canticle

cantico
A sacred ceremony of the Algonquin tribe that involved dancing in a circle, at which colonists were not welcome.
A dance festival in which colonial Americans and natives both participated.
An uproar; activity that is full of high spirits and violent action.

canticoes
plural of cantico

canticos
plural of cantico

canticum
A canticle.
A part song in an ancient play.

cantillation
The intonation of a sentence, especially in Hebrew script, codified by marks which are read as sequences of musical pitches.
Chanting.

cantillations
plural of cantillation

cantion
A song, poem or incantation.

cantions
plural of cantion

canvasful
The contents of a canvas; the content of a painting on a canvas.

canvasfuls
plural of canvasful

canzon
A song.

canzonet
A short song, now especially one which is light and breezy.

canzonets
plural of canzonet

canzonette
Alternative form of canzonet.

canzonettes
plural of canzonette

canzons
plural of canzon

caoshu
grass script (a style of cursive script used in Chinese calligraphy).

capcode
The address of a specific pager in a paging network

capcodes
plural of capcode

caph
Alternative spelling of kaph (letter of some Semitic alphabets).

caphs
plural of caph

capnogram
A diagnostic image produced by capnography.

capnograms
plural of capnogram

capnomancy
Divination by interpreting smoke rising from a fire. A form of pyromancy.

capnopneumoperitoneum
The inflation of the peritoneal cavity with carbon dioxide, typically as a prelude to laparoscopy

capoeira
A martial art developed in Brazil, involving complex acrobatic maneuvers and flowing movements.
A practitioner of this martial art.

capoeiras
plural of capoeira

caponier
A work made across or in a ditch, to protect it from the enemy (as fire from it could cover the ditch), or to serve as a covered passageway (e.g. to outworks).

caponiere
Alternative form of caponier.

caponieres
plural of caponiere

caponiers
plural of caponier

cappelletti
A circular form of ravioli.

caract
A mark or sign.
A magical symbol.

carborexia
A focus on cutting down one's energy consumption and reducing one's carbon footprint that is deemed irrational, excessive, or unhealthy.

cardecu
A silver French coin worth a quarter of an écu.

cardecue
An old French coin worth one quarter of an écu.

cardecues
plural of cardecue

cardecus
plural of cardecu

cardiotocographies
plural of cardiotocography

cardiotocography
The recording of the fetal heartbeat and uterine contractions during pregnancy, typically in the third trimester

cardmaking
The manufacture of greeting cards (usually as a small-scale hobby).

carework
Work that involves caring for others, whether paid or not.

carlacue
A trick or caper.

carnet
A ticket book, a collection of tickets in the form of a booklet often sold at a discount to single tickets.
A customs document that allows the temporary duty-free importation of a particular article
An admission pass.

carnets
plural of carnet

carolin
A former gold coin of Germany
A former gold coin of Sweden

caroliner
plural of carolin

carolins
plural of carolin

caroon
A crown (coin); its value, 5 shillings.

caroons
plural of caroon

carromancy
Alternative spelling of ceromancy.

cartobibliographies
plural of cartobibliography

cartobibliography
A bibliography of maps

cartomancy
Fortune-telling using cards, as in tarot and Lenormand.

cartularies
plural of cartulary

cartulary
A medieval manuscript register containing full or excerpted transcriptions of important documents, especially of originally loose, single-sheet charters.
A collection of original documents bound in one volume.
An officer who had charge of records or other public papers.

caser
A crown, a five-shilling coin.

casers
plural of caser

catalexes
plural of catalexis

catalexis
A shortened or incomplete last foot at the end of a verse.
Truncation at the close of a line of poetry by omission of one or two final syllables.

cataphasia
A speech defect characterised by repetition of individual words.

cataphoresis
electrophoresis of cations

cataphyll
A leaf, sometimes abortive, sometimes persistent, that does not develop into a photosynthetic structure, but instead fulfills protective or storage functions. Examples include cotyledons, bud-scales, glochids, rhizome-scales, and bulb-scales.

cataphylls
plural of cataphyll

cataptromancy
Alternative form of catoptromancy.

catastrophe
Any large and disastrous event of great significance.
A disaster beyond expectations.
The dramatic event that initiates the resolution of the plot; the dénouement.
A type of bifurcation, where a system shifts between two stable states.

catastrophes
plural of catastrophe
plural of catastrophë

catharsis
A release of emotional tension after an overwhelming vicarious experience, resulting in the purging or purification of the emotions, as through watching a dramatic production (especially a tragedy).
Any release of emotional tension to the same effect, more widely.
A purification or cleansing, especially emotional.
A therapeutic technique to relieve tension by reestablishing the association of an emotion with the memory or idea of the event that first caused it, and then eliminating it by complete expression (called the abreaction).
Purging of the digestive system.

catoptiomancy
Rare form of catoptromancy

catoptromancy
Divination by use of mirrors, or other reflective surfaces.

catoxtromancy
Alternative form of catoptromancy.

catspeak
The language supposedly used by cats.

catstick
A stick or club used in the game of tipcat.
The game of tipcat.

catsticks
plural of catstick

cattobomancy
Rare form of catoptromancy