Word origins

• cecocentralof or relating to the blind spot and the central macular area
• cecutiencyPartial blindness, or a tendency toward blindness.
• cedentThe person who cedes a personal obligation to another.
• cedr-cedar
• cedreneA rich aromatic oil, C₁₅H₂₄, extracted from oil of red cedar.
• cedrineOf or relating to the cedar tree.
• cedrolA sesquiterpene alcohol found in the essential oil of conifers (cedar oil), especially in the cypress and juniper.
• cedrousOf, or relating to, trees in the genus Cedrus of the plant family Pinaceae.
• ceduousOf a tree: fit to be felled.
• ceduralRelated to ceding.
• celatureThe act or art of engraving or embossing.
• celebretA letter signed by a bishop or other higher official stating that a certain priest is allowed to say Mass in a different diocese.
• celebriousFamous, well-known.
• celestifyTo make like heaven.
• CeltiberiaA historical region of the Iberian Peninsula, inhabited during antiquity by the Celtiberi or Celtiberians
• CeltiberianA member of a Celtic people living in the Iberian Peninsula, chiefly in what is now north central Spain, before and during the Roman Empire.
• CeltibericCeltiberian
• cenatoryOf or relating to dinner (the evening meal) or supper.
• cenobiarchThe leader of a cenobium: an abbot, a guru.
• censor morumA censor of morals.
• censualRelating to, or containing, a census.
• centesimalDivided into a hundred parts.
• centesimateTo select one person in every hundred for a punishment.
• centesimationThe selection by lot of every hundredth man (of an army or group of prisoners or mutineers) for execution.
• centesmOne hundredth part; one percent.
• centifidousDivided into a hundred parts.
• centifoliousHaving more leaves than can be easily counted.
• centiloquiumA treatise consisting of a hundred astrological aphorisms.
• centiloquyA work divided into a hundred parts.
• CentimanesSynonym of Hecatoncheires.
• centriciputThe middle part of the head; the part of the head situated between the occiput and sinciput.
• centrioleA barrel-shaped microtubule structure found in most animal cells, important in the process of mitosis (nuclear division).
• centro-central, especially of mass nouns
• centrolinealHaving line converging to a centre.
• centumvirOne of a court of about 100 judges chosen to try civil suits. Under the Empire the court was increased to 180, and met usually in four sections.
• centumviralOf or pertaining to the centumviri
• centumvirateA group of one hundred people, especially (politics) a council of about 100 men who share power or rule, particularly (historical) such a group in ancient Rome.
• centuriateDivided into hundreds.
• centuriationA method of land measurement used in Ancient Rome, characterised by the regular layout of a square grid traced using surveyors' instruments.
• cepaeneAn organic compound with antiasthma properties, found in onions.
• cephalalgicRelating to, or affected with, headache.
• Cepheid variableA radially pulsating (expanding and contracting) variable star with a regular period and known relationship between period and intrinsic brightness.
• CephissusA river god of Ancient Greece, said to be the father of Narcissus.
• ceraceousWaxy.
• cerasinA white amorphous substance, the insoluble part of cherry gum; meta-arabinic acid.
• ceratedCovered with wax.
• ceratiumAn orchid (Eria compressa).
• cercousWaxy.
• CerealiaA festival in Ancient Rome, celebrated on the 10th of April, for the grain goddess Ceres.
• cerebrationThe act of cerebrating; reflection, thinking, thought.
• cerebrifugalApplied to those nerve fibers, or veins, which go from the brain to the spinal cord, and so transfer cerebral impulses (centrifugal impressions) outwards.
• cerebripetalGoing from the spinal cord to the brain, so as to transfer sensations (centripetal impressions) from the exterior inwards.
• cereclothCloth coated with wax so that it is waterproof, used for covering the dead.
• cereouswaxen; waxy; like wax
• cererianOf or relating to the Roman goddess Ceres
• CeresianOf or relating to the Roman goddess Ceres.
• Cerne AbbasA village and civil parish (served by Cerne Valley Parish Council) in Dorset, England, previously in West Dorset district (OS grid ref ST6601).
• cernuousInclining or nodding downward; pendulous; drooping.
• cero-wax
• cerosinA waxy substance obtained from the bark of sugar cane. Probably the same as sugarcane wax
• ceroteneA white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by the distillation of cerotin.
• cerrialOf or relating to the Turkey oak.
• certamenA team competition in which contestants answer questions about classical history, culture, and mythology, and the Latin language.
• certitudinalOf or pertaining to certitude.
• certitudinousCharacterised by certitude.
• ceruleCerulean.
• cerulescenceThe act of becoming blue; bluing
• ceruleumA greenish-blue pigment consisting essentially of cobalt stannate.
• cerussiteA mineral form of lead carbonate, PbCO₃, that is an ore of lead.
• cervicalgianeck pain
• cervicideThe killing of deer.
• cervico-Of or relating to the cervix.
• cervineOf, pertaining to, or characteristic of deer (in the broad sense).
• cerylA radical, C₂₇H₅₅, supposed to exist in several compounds obtained from waxes.
• CeryneiaA town and polis of ancient Achaea.
• cespitineAn oil obtained by distillation of peat, containing various members of the pyridine series.
• cessantDormant, inactive.
• cessavitA writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
• cessileOf the air, yielding.
• cessio bonorumBefore 1880, a debtor's surrender of his estate to his creditors in return for a judicial protection from imprisonment for his debts.
• cessionaryThe person who receives transfer or cession of a personal obligation from the cedent.
• cestuanOf, or pertaining to a boxer's gloves
• ceteris paribusAll things being equal; with all other things or factors remaining the same; other things held constant; all else unchanged.
• cetoleicOf or pertaining to cetoleic acid or its derivatives
• CévennesA cultural region in south-central France.
• cf.Compare; compare to; compare with.
• ChalcidicSynonym of Chalcidian
• chalcidicumIn ancient Roman architecture, the vestibule or portico of a public building opening on to the forum.
• ChalcisA city in Euboea regional unit, Greece.
• ChaldaicOf or pertaining to Chaldea.
• ChaldaismAn idiom or peculiarity in Biblical Aramaic.
• chamaeleonA small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky, imagined to resemble a chameleon, which lies south of the constellations Carina and Musca.
• chapellanyA subordinate chapel or church within the jurisdiction of another church or cathedral.
• CharaxA former city in Rhagiana, now within modern Iran.
• CharicleaA female given name.
• CharitesThe goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity, and fertility, and the patronesses of amusement and festivities; the retinue of Aphrodite.
• Charles the GreatSynonym of Charlemagne.
• chartaceousResembling paper or parchment; papery.
• chartulaA small piece of paper for the storage of one dose of a medicinal powder.
• cheliferpseudoscorpion