English to English Dictionary

Cerebration

The action or process of thinking; thought or mental activity.

Cerebrovascular

Relating to the blood vessels supplying the brain.

Cernuous

Describing a plant or flower that is bent or drooping.

Ceromancy

A form of divination involving the interpretation of patterns formed by melted wax.

Charlatan

A person falsely claiming to have a special knowledge or skill; a fraud, impostor, or quack.

Charnel House

A building or vault where corpses or bones are stored.

Charter-colony

A colony established and governed under a charter granted by the monarch or parliament, granting the inhabitants considerable self-governing privileges.

Chelonian

A reptile of the order Testudines, comprising the turtles, tortoises, and terrapins.

Chemotaxis

The movement of a motile cell or organism in a direction corresponding to a gradient of increasing or decreasing concentration of a particular chemical substance.

Child Homicide

The act of unlawfully killing a child.

Child-Murder

The act of unlawfully killing a child.

Chiliasm

The belief that Christ will establish a kingdom on earth for a thousand years before the Last Judgment, synonymous with millenarianism.