| CEPHALOCELE | • cephalocele n. (Medicine) encephalocele. • CEPHALOCELE n. the protrusion of the membranes of the brain through a hole in the skull. |
| COMEUPPANCE | • comeuppance n. Retribution or outcome that is justly deserved. • come-uppance n. Alternative form of comeuppance. • COMEUPPANCE n. a deserved rebuke or penalty. |
| COMPEARANCE | • compearance n. (Scotland, law) Appearance before a judge in court. • COMPEARANCE n. the state of being a compearant. |
| COMPLACENCE | • complacence n. (Archaic) Being complacent; a feeling of contentment or satisfaction; complacency. • complacence n. (Obsolete) Delight, pleasure. • complacence n. (Obsolete) Complaisance; a willingness to comply with others’ wishes. |
| CONCEPTACLE | • conceptacle n. (Obsolete) A cavity or receptacle, especially in the body. • conceptacle n. (Phycology) A cavity in some marine algae that contains the reproductive organs. • conceptacle n. (Botany) A pericarp of one valve; a follicle. |
| COPARCENERS | • coparceners n. Plural of coparcener. • COPARCENER n. one who has an equal portion with others of an inheritance. |
| COPARCENERY | • COPARCENERY n. joint heirship or ownership, also COPARCENARY. |
| COPARCENIES | • coparcenies n. Plural of coparceny. • COPARCENY n. a form of joint ownership of property. |
| COUNTERPACE | • COUNTERPACE n. a step in opposition to another; a contrary measure. |
| CYPERACEOUS | • cyperaceous adj. (Botany) Of or pertaining to the Cyperaceae, or sedges. • CYPERACEOUS adj. belonging to the Cyperaceae, a family of grasslike plants including the sedges, certain rushes and papyrus. |
| LEPTOCERCAL | • LEPTOCERCAL adj. slender-tailed. |
| OPALESCENCE | • opalescence n. The state of being opalescent. • opalescence n. (Physics) the milky iridescent appearance of a dense transparent medium when it is illuminated by polychromatic… • OPALESCENCE n. a milky iridescence. |
| PEACOCKIEST | • peacockiest adj. Superlative form of peacocky: most peacocky. • PEACOCKY adj. vain, strutting. |
| PREOCCUPATE | • preoccupate v. (Obsolete) To influence, to occupy (the mind) in advance; to be preoccupied with. • preoccupate v. (Obsolete) To meet in advance; to forestall, pre-empt. • PREOCCUPATE v. (obsolete) to preoccupy. |
| RECIPROCATE | • reciprocate v. (Transitive) To exchange two things, with both parties giving one thing and taking another thing. • reciprocate v. (Transitive) To give something else in response (where the "thing" may also be abstract, a feeling or… • reciprocate v. (Intransitive) To move backwards and forwards, like a piston. |
| RECOMPACTED | • recompacted v. Simple past tense and past participle of recompact. • RECOMPACT v. to compact or join anew. |