Word origins

• burden of proofThe duty of a party in a legal proceeding to prove an assertion of fact; it includes both the burden of production and the burden of persuasion; the onus probandi.
• burgeryThe governing body of a burgh or borough; burgage.
• burttinolAny of a class of isoflav-3-enes found in the flowering plant Erythrina burttii.
• butyro-butyric substance.
• by JoveInvocation of the Roman god Jupiter.
• by JupiterInvocation of the Roman god Jupiter.
• byssateRelating to, or possessing a byssus
• byssineMade of, or resembling, silk; silken.
• byssusThe long fine silky filaments excreted by several mollusks (particularly Pinna nobilis) by which they attach themselves to the sea bed, and from which sea silk is manufactured.
• by the Grace of GodBy divine will and benevolence.
• Byzantine EmpireAn ancient Greek empire in Southeastern Europe and Western Asia; the predominantly Greek-speaking continuation of the Roman Empire during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages with its capital at Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul), originally known as Byzantium, which fell in 1453.
• ByzasThe legendary founder of Byzantium.
• c.Century.
• c̄With.
• caballineOf, or pertaining to, a horse.
• cachecticHaving cachexia; wasting away from a disease or chronic illness.
• cachinnateTo laugh immoderately, loudly, or too often.
• cacoethesCompulsion; mania.
• cacophemismdysphemism
• cacozeliaA stylistic affectation of diction, such as throwing in foreign words to appear learned.
• cacumenThe smallest possible piece of matter, making up part of an atom.
• cacuminalPertaining to a point, top, or crown.
• cacuminateTo make sharp or pointed.
• cacuminousHaving a pyramidal top.
• cadencyAny systematic way of distinguishing similar coats of arms belonging to members of the same family.
• cadmiaSynonym of calamine, a pink form of zinc oxide.
• caducecaducous.
• caducibranchiateWith temporary gills; applied to those amphibians (most amphibians do this) in which the gills do not remain in adult life, but generally turn into legs.
• caducicornHaving deciduous horns or antlers.
• caducousOf a part of an organism, disappearing in the normal course of development.
• caecilianAny of a group of burrowing amphibians of the order Gymnophiona that resemble earthworms or snakes.
• Caelian HillOne of the seven hills of Rome: a long promontory near the Temple of Claudius.
• caeremoniariusAn official in charge of religious ceremonies.
• CaesaraugustaAn ancient city in Roman Spain, now Zaragoza.
• caesiousHaving a blue color very low in chroma.
• caetraA short Spanish shield.
• cainitoSynonym of star apple.
• CaireneOf or pertaining to Cairo, the capital of Egypt.
• calamaryA squid.
• calamiferousHaving or producing reeds.
• calamistrateTo curl (the hair).
• calamistrumA comb-like structure on the metatarsus of the hind legs of cribellate spiders (Ciniflonidae), used to comb out fine bands of silk in the construction of their webs.
• calamiticRod-shaped; long and thin.
• calathiformBasket-shaped.
• calathusA vase-shaped basket made from reeds or twigs, used in Ancient Greece.
• calcaneumThe calcaneus.
• calcarA small oven or furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit.
• calcarateHaving a spur; spurred.
• calcateSynonym of trample: to crush or stomp underfoot.
• calcationSynonym of trampling, the act of trampling someone or something, an instance of trampling.
• calcatorySynonym of winepress, particularly a location where grapes are crushed underfoot to produce juice or wine.
• calceamentumA red silk embroidered sandal forming part of the insignia of the Holy Roman Empire.
• calceateSynonym of shod: wearing shoes, particularly (Christianity) as opposed to the barefoot mendicant orders.
• calceatedSynonym of shod: wearing shoes, particularly (Christianity) as distinguished from the barefoot mendicant orders.
• calcedSynonym of shod, wearing shoes, particularly (Christianity) religious orders that do not eschew normal footwear.
• calceiformShoe-shaped, shaped like a shoe.
• calceusA kind of low leather Roman boot or hightop shoe.
• calcigerousContaining lime.
• calcimineA form of whitewash (inexpensive white paint) made from calcium carbonate, glue and water, used to coat wooden or plaster surfaces.
• calcitrantstubborn; refractory
• calcitrateTo kick.
• calcographydrawing with chalk
• calculandumAn equation, ratio, or other quantitative problem designated for calculation; “that which is to be calculated”.
• calculiformHaving the shape of a pebble
• caldariumIn Roman baths, the hottest room, with a plunge-pool. It preceded the tepidarium and frigidarium.
• calefactionThe act of warming or heating.
• calefactorywarming
• calendariumA calendar or timeline or events.
• calesceTo undergo calescence; to become or grow warm; to heat up; to warm; to glow with heat.
• calic-Cup, cup-like.
• caliciformHaving the shape of a cup or calyx.
• calicleAny cup-shaped depression.
• calidWarm, hot.
• calidariumSynonym of caldarium.
• calidityHeat.
• caliductA pipe or duct used, especially in ancient times, to convey hot air or steam for heating purposes.
• califonta type of water heater
• caligaA heavy ancient Roman military sandal.
• caligateWearing caligae or military boots.
• caligationdimness; cloudiness
• caliginositydarkness; obscurity.
• caligodimness or obscurity of sight, caused by a speck on the cornea
• CalixtineA Utraquist.
• calliditycraftiness, cunning
• CallinicumAn ancient city in Syria, corresponding to modern-day Raqqa
• CallipolisSynonym of Kallipolis in its various senses.
• callisectionpainless vivisection
• CallisthenesAn ancient Greek historian
• caloricsThe study of heat flow and heat transfer.
• calorimotorA voltaic battery, from the 19th century, with a large surface of plate, producing (by the then standards) powerful heating effects.
• calorizeTo form a protective surface on (a ferrous metal) by coating with aluminum powder and then heating.
• caloronIn mathematical physics, a finite temperature instanton.
• calthemiteAny secondary calcareous deposit, created by the action of water outside the natural cave environment. They are typically found on man made structures and mimic the shapes and forms of cave speleothems, such as stalactites, stalagmites, flowstone etc.
• calumniateTo make hurtful untrue comments about.
• calumniatorA person who calumniates (slanders, or makes personal attacks upon, others).
• calvariumThe upper, domelike portion of the skull (without the lower jaw).
• calvitiesBaldness, the condition of being bald.
• calvityBaldness.
• calvousLacking most or all of one's hair; bald, hairless.
• calxThe substance which remains after a metal or mineral has been thoroughly burnt, once seen as being the essential substance left after the expulsion of phlogiston, but now recognised as being the metallic oxide (or, in some cases, the metal in a state of sublimation).