| ACCORAGE | • ACCORAGE v. (Spenser) to encourage. |
| ACCURATE | • accurate adj. Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty. • accurate adj. Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits. • accurate adj. (Obsolete) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful. |
| BRACCATE | • BRACCATE adj. having feathered legs. |
| CARACOLE | • caracole n. A half-turn performed by a horse and rider in dressage. • caracole n. (Cavalry) A combat maneuver where riders of the same squadron turn simultaneously to their left or to their right. • caracole n. (Architecture) A spiral staircase. |
| CARAPACE | • carapace n. A hard protective covering of bone or chitin, especially one which covers the dorsal portion of an animal. • carapace n. In figurative use. • CARAPACE n. the shell of an animal such as a turtle or armadillo, also CARAPAX. |
| CARCAKES | • carcakes n. Plural of carcake. • CARCAKE n. (Scots) a small cake baked with eggs, eaten on Shrove Tuesday in parts of Scotland. |
| CARCANET | • carcanet n. (Archaic) A richly decorative collar. • CARCANET n. (obsolete) an ornamental necklace, collar or headband. |
| CARCASED | • CARCASE v. to put a carcase or frame on, also CARCASS. |
| CARCASES | • carcases n. Plural of carcase. • CARCASE v. to put a carcase or frame on, also CARCASS. |
| CARCERAL | • carceral adj. (Formal or literary) Of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison. • CARCERAL adj. pertaining to prison. |
| CARDCASE | • cardcase n. A case for visiting cards. • CARDCASE n. a case or wallet for carrying business or credit cards. |
| CARUCAGE | • carucage n. (Historical) A form of land taxation that replaced Danegeld in twelfth-century England. • carucage n. (Obsolete) The act of ploughing. • CARUCAGE n. a feudal tax levied on each carucate of land, i.e. as much land as may be tilled in a year and a day by one plough. |
| CARUCATE | • carucate n. (Historical) The notional area of land able to be farmed in a year by a team of 8 oxen pulling a carruca… • CARUCATE n. (historical) as much land as may be tilled in a year and a day by one plough. |
| CERCARIA | • cercaria n. The parasitic larva of trematodes that infect the final host generally. • CERCARIA n. (Greek) the final larval stage of many trematode worms. |
| RACECARD | • racecard n. (Sports) Alternative form of race card. • race␣card n. (Sports) A printed card or pamphlet giving information about a series of horse races and listing the… • race␣card n. The invocation of a person’s race in a discussion in order to score points in that discussion. |