| CHEMORECEPTIVE | • chemoreceptive adj. (Of a sense organ) able to respond to a chemical stimulus. • CHEMORECEPTIVE adj. relating to chemoreception. |
| CIRCUMNAVIGATE | • circumnavigate v. (Transitive) To travel completely around somewhere or something, especially by sail. • circumnavigate v. (Transitive) To circumvent or bypass. • circumnavigate v. (Intransitive, sailing) To sail around the world. |
| CIRCUMSPECTIVE | • circumspective adj. Looking in all directions; cautious or watchful of danger. • CIRCUMSPECTIVE adj. looking around; wary. |
| CIRCUMVALLATED | • circumvallated v. Simple past tense and past participle of circumvallate. • CIRCUMVALLATE v. to surround with a rampart or fortification. |
| CIRCUMVALLATES | • circumvallates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumvallate. • CIRCUMVALLATE v. to surround with a rampart or fortification. |
| CIRCUMVENTIONS | • circumventions n. Plural of circumvention. • CIRCUMVENTION n. the act of circumventing. |
| CIRCUMVOLUTION | • circumvolution n. The act of revolution, rotation or gyration around an axis. • circumvolution n. Anything winding or sinuous. • CIRCUMVOLUTION n. anything winding or sinuous. |
| CIRCUMVOLUTORY | • circumvolutory adj. Exhibiting or relating to circumvolution. • CIRCUMVOLUTORY adj. winding around. |
| CLAVICYTHERIUM | • clavicytherium n. (Music) A harpsichord in which the soundboard and strings are mounted vertically facing the player. • CLAVICYTHERIUM n. a harpsichord-like musical instrument. |
| CLISHMACLAVERS | • CLISHMACLAVER n. (Scots) gossip. |
| CONSTRUCTIVISM | • constructivism n. (Art) A Russian movement in modern art characterized by the creation of nonrepresentational geometric… • constructivism n. (Mathematics) A philosophy that asserts the need to construct a mathematical object to prove it exists. • constructivism n. (Philosophy, psychology) A psychological epistemology which argues that humans generate knowledge and… |
| CRUCIVERBALISM | • cruciverbalism n. The construction of crosswords. • CRUCIVERBALISM n. the compiling and solving of crosswords. |
| OVERCOMPLIANCE | • overcompliance n. Compliance beyond what is necessary. • OVERCOMPLIANCE n. excessive compliance. |
| OVERCOMPLICATE | • overcomplicate v. (Transitive) To make something excessively complicated. • OVERCOMPLICATE v. to complicate excessively. |