cavalcade |
procession of riders or horse-drawn carriages; parade; CF. cavalry |
cavalier |
casual and offhand; arrogant; N: knight |
cavil |
quibble; make frivolous objections; find fault unnecessarily |
cede |
yield (title or territory) to (esp. after losing a war); surrender formally; N. cession |
celerity |
speed; rapidity |
celestial |
heavenly |
celibate |
abstaining from sexual intercourse; unmarried; N. celibacy |
cemetery |
place for burying the dead |
censor |
(in ancient Rome) overseer of morals (also taking the census); person who eliminates inappropriate matter; V. |
censorious |
severely critical |
censure |
blame; criticize; express strong disapproval; N: severe criticism; strong disapproval |
centaur |
mythical figure, half man and half horse |
centigrade |
denoting a widely used temperature scale (basically same as Celsius) |
centrifugal |
radiating; departing from the center |
centrifuge |
machine that separates substances by whirling them |
centripetal |
tending toward the center |
centurion |
Roman army officer (commanding a company of about 100 soldiers) |
cerebral |
pertaining to the brain or intellect; intellectual rather than emotional; CF. cerebrum |
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