Words starting with c

Words, definitions, meanings and synonyms

c means: street names for cocaine

c means: the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet

c means: (music) the keynote of the scale of C major

c means: a general-purpose programing language closely associated with the UNIX operating system

c means: a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second

c means: a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature

c means: ten 10s

c means: an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds

c means: a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine

c means: one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose)

Words, definitions, meanings and synonyms

barking frog means: of southwest United States and Mexico; call is like a dog's bark

bladder stone means: a calculus formed in the bladder

dental amalgam means: an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams

diamond jim brady means: United States financier noted for his love of diamonds and his extravagant lifestyle (1856-1917)

flash camera means: a camera with a photoflash attachment

grimm means: the older of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories; also author of Grimm's law describing consonant changes in Germanic languages (1785-1863)

grimm means: the younger of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories (1786-1859)

hermann means: German hero; leader at the battle of Teutoburger Wald in AD 9 (circa 18 BC - AD 19)

knife fight means: fighting with knives

meeter means: a person who is present and participates in a meeting

military post means: military installation at which a body of troops is stationed

motor nerve means: a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands

nullity means: something that is null (especially an enactment that has no legal validity)

nullity means: the state of nonexistence

pleasance means: a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience

pleasance means: a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion

pogonophoran means: slender animal with tentacles and a tubelike outer covering; lives on the deep ocean bottom

projectionist means: the person who operates the projector in a movie house

snowball means: snow pressed into a ball for throwing (playfully)

snowball means: ball of crushed ice with fruit syrup