All English words - page 989

Meanings of Cirque:

noun

A half-open steep-sided hollow at the head of a valley or on a mountainside, formed by glacial erosion.

Usage examples:

The fourth and fifth landscape types are alpine landscapes, consisting of branching networks of tro…

Meanings of Cirques:

noun

A half-open steep-sided hollow at the head of a valley or on a mountainside, formed by glacial erosion.

Usage examples:

The fourth and fifth landscape types are alpine landscapes, consisting of branching networks of tro…

Meanings of Cirrhosis:

noun

A chronic disease of the liver marked by degeneration of cells, inflammation, and fibrous thickening of tissue. it is typically a result of alcoholism or hepatitis.

Usage examples:

Chronic viral hepatitis is the main cause of chronic liver disease, cirrhosis and hepatocellular ca…

Meanings of Cirri:

noun

Cloud forming wispy filamentous tufted streaks or ‘mare's tails’ at high altitude (usually 5 to 13 km, 16,500 to 45,000 ft).

Usage examples:

Long strands of high cirrus stretched across the eastern sky

Meanings of Cirriped:

noun

A crustacean of the class cirripedia ; a barnacle.

Meanings of Cirripede:

noun

A crustacean of the class cirripedia ; a barnacle.

Meanings of Cirripedia:

plural noun

A class of crustaceans that comprises the barnacles.

Usage examples:

On the whole the maxillopodan groups ostracoda and cirripedia and the malacostraca have left the mo…

Meanings of Cirripeds:

noun

A crustacean of the class cirripedia ; a barnacle.

Meanings of Cirrocumulus:

noun

Cloud forming a broken layer of small fleecy clouds at high altitude (usually 5 to 13 km, 16,500 to 45,000 ft), typically with a rippled or granulated appearance (as in a mackerel sky).

Usage examples:

The breeze was soft, but bracingly cool, and the deep blue of the sky was checkered with a high cir…

Meanings of Cirrostratus:

noun

Cloud forming a thin, more or less uniform semi-translucent layer at high altitude (usually 5 to 13 km, 16,500 to 45,000 ft).

Usage examples:

The cloud most suited to halo formation is cirrostratus, which is most commonly observed well ahead…

Meanings of Cirrus:

noun

Cloud forming wispy filamentous tufted streaks or ‘mare's tails’ at high altitude (usually 5 to 13 km, 16,500 to 45,000 ft).

Usage examples:

Long strands of high cirrus stretched across the eastern sky

Meanings of Cis:

adjective

Denoting or relating to a molecular structure in which two particular atoms or groups lie on the same side of a given plane in the molecule, in particular denoting an isomer in which substituents at opposite ends of a carbon–carbon double bond are on the same side of the bond.

Usage examples:

The cis isomer of stilbene

prefix

On this side of; on the side nearer to the speaker.

Usage examples:

Cisatlantic

abbreviation

Commonwealth of independent states.

Meanings of Cisalpine:

adjective

On the southern side of the alps.

Meanings of Cisatlantic:

adjective

On the same side of the atlantic as the speaker.

Usage examples:

One thinks of his first book with its peerless interpretation of faith and culture in the cisatlant…

Meanings of Cisco:

noun

A freshwater whitefish of northern countries, most species of which are important food fishes.

Usage examples:

They prey on such fish as the cisco (lake herring), lake whitefish, central mudminnow, and golden s…

Meanings of Ciscoes:

noun

A freshwater whitefish of northern countries, most species of which are important food fishes.

Usage examples:

They prey on such fish as the cisco (lake herring), lake whitefish, central mudminnow, and golden s…

Meanings of Cislunar:

adjective

Between the earth and the moon.

Usage examples:

The darkness of cislunar space

Meanings of Cisplatine:

noun

A cytotoxic drug used in cancer chemotherapy.

Usage examples:

In this study, researchers developed head and neck cancer cell cultures resistant to the chemothera…

Meanings of Cispontine:

adjective

On the north side of the thames bridges in london (originally the better-known side).

Usage examples:

Cross a bridge over the thames and you were in the more respectable cispontine sector of london.

Meanings of Cissies:

noun

A person regarded as effeminate or cowardly.

Usage examples:

He would hate the other boys to think he was a sissy

adjective

Soft, timid, or oversensitive, or overly interested in things traditionally associated with women.

Usage examples:

They still think that dancing is a sissy thing for guys to do

Meanings of Cissing:

noun

(in decorating) failure of paint to adhere properly to a surface.

Usage examples:

Step 1: rub over the panel with a damp sponge and rottenstone powder to eliminate cissing.

Meanings of Cissus:

noun

A woody climbing vine of a genus that includes the kangaroo vine.

Usage examples:

I've some type of cissus, that does best in brightest light in winter but out of direct sun in summ…

Meanings of Cissy:

noun

A soft, timid, or oversensitive person, or a boy or man viewed as being overly interested in things traditionally associated with women.

Usage examples:

He would hate the other boys to think he was a sissy

adjective

A person regarded as effeminate or cowardly.

Usage examples:

He would hate the other boys to think he was a sissy

Meanings of Cist:

noun

An ancient coffin or burial chamber made from stone or a hollowed tree.

Usage examples:

He pointed at long flat slabs resting on stone kists.

Meanings of Cistercian:

noun

A monk or nun of an order founded in 1098 as a stricter branch of the benedictines. the monks are now divided into two observances, the strict observance, whose adherents are known popularly as trappists, and the common observance, which has certain relaxations.

Usage examples:

The cistercian order follows the reformed benedictine rule; cistercians of the strict observance fo…

adjective

Relating to the cistercians.

Usage examples:

A cistercian abbey