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- BOLOGNAA seasoned Italian sausage made from beef, pork or veal.
- BOORISHBehaving as a boor; rough in manners.
- BOORISHLYIn a boorish manner; uncultured.
- BOORSplural of boor
- BOREALIS
- BOTONEE
- BOUTA period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant, like an illness.
- BOUTADEA sudden outbreak or outburst; a caprice, a whim.
- BOVATESynonym of oxgang.
- BOVATESplural of bovate
- BOWPOTArchaic form of bough pot.
- BOWPOTSplural of bowpot
- BOYGFormless hindrances personified as an enemy
- BOYGSFormless hindrances personified as an enemy
- BRINYOf, relating to, resembling, or containing brine (“water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt”), such as seawater or tears; salty.
- BROADAXAlternative spelling of broadaxe.
- BROADAXEA large axe, with a broad blade, once used as a weapon and also used for hewing timber.
- BROADAXESplural of broadaxe
- BUCKRAMA coarse cloth of cotton, linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in bookbinding to cover and protect the books, in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wra
- BUNYIPA mythical Australian monster, said to inhabit swamps and lagoons.
- BUNYIPSplural of bunyip
- BURGA city or town. Martinsburg, West Virginia.
- BURGHa small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).
- BURGHALRelating to a burgh or borough.
- BURH
- BURHELArchaic spelling of bharal.
- BURHELSplural of burhel
- BYCOKETA type of medieval cap with a wide brim that comes to a point in the front and is turned up at the rear, originally worn by Western European nobility and royalty.
- BYCOKETSplural of bycoket
- CAHOOTSChiefly preceded by in: collaboration or collusion, chiefly for a nefarious reason.
- CALANDO
- CALIXArchaic spelling of calyx.
- CALYXESplural of calyx
- CANDELAIn the International System of Units, the base unit of luminous intensity; the luminous intensity, in a given direction, of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency
- CANKLEAn obese or otherwise swollen ankle that blends into the calf without clear demarcation.
- CANTOOne of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.
- CANTREDAlternative form of cantref.
- CANTREDSplural of cantred
- CANTRIPA spell or incantation; a trifling magic trick.
- CANTRIPSplural of cantrip
- CAPOTA winning of all the tricks in the game of piquet, counting for forty points.
- CAPRINEOf or relating to Caprinae (goats, sheep, and certain wild relatives).
- CAPTANA particular phthalimide fungicide.
- CAUDEXESplural of caudex
- CAVIEA chicken coop.
- CAVIESplural of cavy
- CERTIECertainly, indeed.
- CERTYAlternative form of certi.
- CESAR
- CESTIplural of cestus
- CESTUSA leather fighting glove, frequently weighted with metal.
- CHEERIOGoodbye, an interjection said upon parting.
- CHOTTA dry salt lake, in the Saharan area of Africa, that stays dry in the summer but receives some water in the winter.
- CHOTTSplural of chott
- CHYMEThe thick semifluid mass of partly digested food that is passed from the stomach to the duodenum.
- CHYMOUSOf or pertaining to chyme.
- CLEPINGpresent participle and gerund of clepe
- CLINEA gradation in a character or phenotype within a species, deme, or other systematic group.
- CLINTThe relatively flat part of a limestone pavement between the grikes
- CLOFFAn allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.
- CLOFFSplural of cloff
- CLOOT
- CLOOTIEA piece of rag.
- CLOUDSplural of cloud
- COADJUTORSplural of coadjutor
- COADJUTRIXA female coadjutor
- COAXALAlternative form of coaxial.
- COAXIALHaving a common central axis
- COBOL
- COGENTLYIn a cogent manner.
- COMELYAttractive; visually pleasing; good-looking. Of a person: attractive or pleasing to look at; beautiful, handsome; also, attractive but not particularly beautiful or handsome.
- COOEEA long, loud call used to attract attention when at a distance, mainly done in the Australian bush.
- COOEEINGpresent participle and gerund of cooee
- COOEYAlternative spelling of cooee.
- COOEYSthird-person singular simple present indicative of cooey
- COQUETRIESplural of coquetry
- COQUETRYCoquettish behaviour; actions designed to excite erotic attention, without intending to reciprocate such feelings (chiefly of women towards men); flirtatious teasing.
- CORBELA structural member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight.
- CORONISA device, curved stroke, or flourish formed with a pen, coming at the end of a book or chapter; a colophon. For example: ⸎, ۞.
- CORONIUMA supposed chemical element, hypothesized in the 19th century in order to explain a green emission line seen during the total solar eclipse of 7 August 1869 (actually highly ionize
- CORONIUMSA supposed chemical element, hypothesized in the 19th century in order to explain a green emission line seen during the total solar eclipse of 7 August 1869 (actually highly ionize
- COSEYArchaic spelling of cosy.
- COTQUEANAlternative spelling of cot-quean.
- COTQUEANSplural of cotquean
- COTYLEDONEach of the patches of villi on the foetal chorion in the placenta of ruminants and some other mammals.
- COUTHFamiliar, known; well-known, renowned.
- COUTHSplural of couth
- COXAEplural of coxa
- COXALsciatic (relating to the hip)
- CRAPULENTExhibiting or relating to crapulence.
- CROUSEbrisk; lively; bold
- CUISHAlternative form of cuisse (“thigh armour”).
- CUITS
- CULEXAny of various mosquitoes of the genus Culex, some of which carry disease.
- CUMAN
- CURATEDsimple past and past participle of curate
- CYLICESplural of cylix
- CYLIXAlternative form of kylix.
- CYMAThe wavelike, curved shape of a cymatium, consisting of a concave and a convex line; the cymatium itself.
- CYPRIAN