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| chenopod | Any plant of the goosefoot family, which includes spinach, beets, and pigweed |
| cherubic | winged, celestial, angelic; youthful, innocent and chubby-faced |
| chiromancy | Palmistry, telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand |
| chromophil | Readily stained with dyes. Used of a cell or cell structure |
| cirriped | Any of various crustaceans of the subclass Cirripedia, which includes the barnacles and related organisms that attach themselves to objects or become parasitic in the adult stage |
| clair de lune | A pale, grayish-blue glaze applied to various kinds of Chinese porcelain; The color of such a glaze |
| cliquish | befitting or characteristic of those who inclined to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior; Of or pertaining to a clique; disposed to from cliques; exclusive in spirit |
| colloquy | A conversation, especially a formal one; formal conversation |
| commissariat | A department of an army in charge of providing food and other supplies for the troops. |
| complimentary | Expressing, using, or resembling a compliment; Given free to repay a favor or as an act of courtesy |
| condescend | To descend to the level of one considered inferior; lower oneself; To deal with people in a patronizingly superior manner |
| congeniality | compatibility between persons, agreeable |
| contemptuous | Manifesting or expressing or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful. |
| corpocracy | Corporate bureaucracy. A company characterized by top-heavy, isolated, risk-averse management, excess paperwork, low productivity |
| corrigenda | An error to be corrected, especially a printer's error. A list of errors in a book along with their corrections |
| Coventry | A city of central England east-southeast of Birmingham. Famous as the home of Lady Godiva, A state of ostracism or exile |
| cozenage | The art or practice of artifice; fraud, a fraudulent business scheme |
| Croesus | Last king of Lydia (560-546) whose kingdom, which had prospered during his reign, fell to the Persians |
| cryptography | The act or art of writing in secret characters; also, secret characters, or cipher. |
| cuirass | medieval body armor that covers the chest and back , A defense or protection |
| cursory | Performed with haste and scant attention to detail |
| cytolysis | The dissolution or destruction of a cell |
| De Bakey | American heart surgeon who implanted the first totally artificial heart in a human |
| decriminalize | To reduce or abolish criminal penalties for |
| defenestration | An act of throwing someone or something out of a window |
| deliquesce | To melt away, To become fluid or soft on maturing |
| demyelinate | To destroy or remove the myelin sheath of (a nerve fiber), as through disease |
