Words starting with c

Words and definitions

C means: The keynote of the normal or "natural" scale, which has neither flats nor sharps in its signature; also, the third note of the relative minor scale of the same.

C means: C after the clef is the mark of common time, in which each measure is a semibreve (four fourths or crotchets); for alla breve time it is written /.

C means: The "C clef," a modification of the letter C, placed on any line of the staff, shows that line to be middle C.

C means: As a numeral, C stands for Latin centum or 100, CC for 200, etc.

Caaba means: The small and nearly cubical stone building, toward which all Mohammedans must pray.

Caas means: Case.

Cab means: A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle.

Cab means: The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station.

Cab means: A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints.

Cabal means: Tradition; occult doctrine. See Cabala

Words and definitions

Zythum means: A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.

Zythepsary means: A brewery.

Zythem means: See Zythum.

Zymotic means: Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.

Zymotic means: Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.

Zymosis means: A zymotic disease.

Zymosis means: A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.

Zymose means: Invertin.

Zymophyte means: A bacteroid ferment.

Zymosimeter means: An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.