Words containing c

Aaronic means: Alt. of Aaronical

Aaronical means: Pertaining to Aaron, the first high priest of the Jews.

Abaca means: The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila.

Abacinate means: To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes.

Abacination means: The act of abacinating.

Abaciscus means: One of the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement; an abaculus.

Abacist means: One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.

Aback means: Toward the back or rear; backward.

Aback means: Behind; in the rear.

Aback means: Backward against the mast; -- said of the sails when pressed by the wind.

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.