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- CEDETo give up; yield to another. [with to]
- CEDEROne who cedes something.
- CEDIThe currency of Ghana, divided into 100 pesewas and represented by ₵.
- CEDILLAA diacritical mark ⟨¸⟩ placed beneath a letter to modify its pronunciation, used in the orthographies of many languages, such as under c in Catalan, French and Portuguese to indica
- CEIBAAny tree of the genus Ceiba, the best-known of which is Ceiba pentandra.
- CEILceiling function
- CEILEROne who ceils, who lines or finishes a surface in construction.
- CEILIA social event with traditional Irish or Scottish music and dancing.
- CEILIDHAn informal social gathering, especially one where traditional Irish or Scottish folk music is played, with dancing and storytelling.
- CEILINGThe overhead closure of a room.
- CEILINGEDHaving a (specified type of) ceiling.
- CEINTUREA belt or girdle.
- CELADONA pale green colour, possibly tinted with gray.
- CELEBRANTA person who officiates at a religious ceremony, especially a marriage or the Eucharist.
- CELEBRATETo extol or honour in a solemn manner.
- CELEBRATIONThe formal performance of a solemn rite, such as Christian sacrament.
- CELEBRITYA rite or ceremony.
- CELEBUTANTEA young, usually female socialite, especially one of limited accomplishment, who is the focus of sufficient media attention and public interest to be regarded as a celebrity.
- CELERITYSpeed, swiftness.
- CELERYA European herb (Apium graveolens) of the carrot family.
- CELESTAA musical instrument consisting principally of a set of graduated steel plates struck with hammers that are activated by a keyboard.
- CELESTEAlternative form of celesta (“musical instrument”).
- CELESTINESynonym of celestial: of or resembling the heavens.
- CELIBATENot married.
- CELLARAn enclosed underground space, often under a building, used for storage or shelter.
- CELLIFEROUSBearing or producing cells.
- CELLISTSomeone who plays the cello.
- CELLOA large unfretted stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) C-G-D-A and an endpin to support its weight, usually played with a bow.
- CELLOPHANEAny of a variety of transparent plastic films, especially one made of processed cellulose.
- CELOSIAAn ornamental amaranth of the genus Celosia.
- CELTA prehistoric chisel-bladed tool.
- CEMBALOA harpsichord.
- CEMENTA powdered substance produced by firing (calcining) calcium carbonate (limestone) and clay that develops strong cohesive properties when mixed with water. The main ingredient of co
- CEMENTERA person who applies cement.
- CEMENTITEA form of iron carbide, Fe3C, that is a component of steel.
- CEMENTITIOUSResembling or having some properties of cement; containing cement.
- CEMETERYA place where the dead are buried; a graveyard or memorial park.
- CENOBITEA new or recent member of a Greek monastic religious order; a caloyer.
- CENOBITICOf or pertaining to a cenobite
- CENOTAPHA monument, generally in the form of an empty tomb, erected to honour the dead whose bodies lie elsewhere, especially members of the armed forces who died in battle.
- CENOTEA deep natural well or sinkhole, especially in Mexico and Central America, formed by the collapse of surface limestone that exposes groundwater underneath, and sometimes used by th
- CENSETo perfume with incense.
- CENSERAn ornamental container for burning incense, especially during religious ceremonies.
- CENSOROne of the two magistrates who originally administered the census of citizens, and by Classical times (between the 8th century B.C.E. and the 6th century C.E.) was a high judge of
- CENSORIALRelating to a censor.
- CENSORIOUSAddicted to censure and scolding; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.
- CENSORIOUSLYIn a censorious manner.
- CENSUALRelating to, or containing, a census.
- CENSUREThe act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension.
- CENTA subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.
- CENTAREA measure of area: one hundredth of an are, or one square meter.
- CENTAURA mythical beast having a horse's body with a man's head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse.
- CENTAUREAAny of the plants in the genus Centaurea.
- CENTAURYAny of the flowering plants in or formerly in the genus Centaurium. Centaurium, sensu stricto Gyrandra, a genus in Gentianaceae, formerly included in Centaurium, with species commo
- CENTAVOCurrency unit (hundredth of a peso) in Mexico.
- CENTENARIANOne who or that which is at least 100 years old.
- CENTENARYOf or related to the number one hundred, particularly
- CENTERThe point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
- CENTERFOLDThe single larger sheet of paper that forms the middle two pages of a magazine or other publication, folded so as to open wider than a standard page spread.
- CENTESIMALDivided into a hundred parts.
- CENTESIMIplural of centesimo (“one hundredth of a lira”)
- CENTIGRADEHaving 100 divisions between two fixed points.
- CENTIGRAMAn SI unit of mass equal to 10 grams. Symbol: cg
- CENTILEClipping of percentile.
- CENTILITERAlternative form of centilitre.
- CENTILITREA unit of volume or capacity of one hundredth of a litre. Symbol: cl
- CENTIMEA former subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the franc.
- CENTIMETREAn SI unit of length equal to 10 metres. Symbol: cm
- CENTIMETRICMeasured in centimetres
- CENTIMOA cent, i.e. ⁄100, of certain (mainly historic) Iberian and Latin American currencies, and presently of the euro (coinage version in Spanish), as a coin or theoretic value.
- CENTIPEDEAny arthropod of class Chilopoda, which have a segmented body with one pair of legs per segment and from about 20 to 300 legs in total.
- CENTIPOISEA cgs unit of measure of absolute viscosity. (The viscosity of water is one centipoise. The lower the number, the less viscous the material.) Symbol: cP.
- CENTNERA unit of weight with different actual definitions in parts of Germany and Scandinavia, typically 100 local pounds.
- CENTOA hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors, or a poem containing individual lines from other poems.
- CENTRALBeing in the centre.
- CENTRALISENon-Oxford British English standard spelling of centralize.
- CENTRALISMA system that centralizes, especially an administration of some kind.
- CENTRALITYThe state of being central.
- CENTRALIZETo move things physically towards the centre; to consolidate or concentrate
- CENTREAustralia, UK, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and South Africa standard spelling of center.
- CENTRICBeing in the centre; central.
- CENTRICITYThe state or quality of being centric or central; centricalness.
- CENTRIFUGALTending, or causing, to recede from the center.
- CENTRIFUGALLYAway from a centre or axis.
- CENTRIFUGEA device in which a mixture of denser and lighter materials (normally dispersed in a liquid) is separated by being spun about a central axis at high speed.
- CENTRIOLEA barrel-shaped microtubule structure found in most animal cells, important in the process of mitosis (nuclear division).
- CENTRIPETALDirected or moving towards a centre.
- CENTRIPETALLYTowards a centre or axis.
- CENTRISMAny moderate political philosophy that avoids extremes.
- CENTRISTOf, pertaining to, or advocating centrism.
- CENTROIDThe point at which gravitational force (or other universally and uniformly acting force) may be supposed to act on a given rigid, uniformly dense body; the centre of gravity or cen
- CENTROIDALOf or pertaining to a centroid.
- CENTROSOMEAn organelle, near the nucleus in the cytoplasm of animals (metazoans), that controls the organization of its microtubules.
- CENTRUMA centre.
- CENTRUMSA centre.
- CENTUMReferring to an Indo-European language that did not produce sibilants from a series of Proto-Indo-European palatovelar stops.
- CENTUMVIROne of a court of about 100 judges chosen to try civil suits. Under the Empire the court was increased to 180, and met usually in four sections.
- CENTURIALOf or pertaining to a century. Of or pertaining to a century of years.
- CENTURYA period of one hundred consecutive years; often specifically a numbered period with conventional start and end dates, e.g., the twentieth century, which stretches from (strictly)
- CEORLAn Anglo-Saxon churl.