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- clock radio — a radio combined with an alarm clock in a compact cabinet, the clock serving as a timer to turn the radio on or off at a preset time.
- clock-radio — a device combining the functions of a radio and alarm clock which can be used to play the radio at a set time
- coade stone — a ceramic imitation of carved stonework popular in England around 1800.
- coadjacency — the state of two or more things being adjacent in experience or thought
- coadjutants — Plural form of coadjutant.
- coadjuvancy — (rare) cooperation, mutual effort, joint-help.
- coadunation — (obsolete) union into a single body or mass; unity.
- coadventure — adventure in which two or more share.
- coloradoite — a mineral, mercury telluride, HgTe, occurring in the form of grayish-black masses.
- common toad — an amphibian of the class Bufonidae, Bufo bufo of Europe
- comraderies — camaraderie.
- comradeship — Comradeship is friendship between a number of people who are doing the same work or who share the same difficulties or dangers.
- contradance — contredanse
- contradanza — A popular Cuban dance music genre of the 19th century, or a work composed in this genre.
- contradicts — Deny the truth of (a statement), esp. by asserting the opposite.
- cool-headed — If you describe someone as cool-headed, you mean that they stay calm in difficult situations.
- copperheads — Plural form of copperhead.
- copyreaders — Plural form of copyreader.
- countrymade — (in India) Describing a weapon manufactured illegally in a cottage industry.
- cradle roof — a roof having trusses the undersides of which form an arch.
- cradleboard — a wooden frame worn on the back, used by North American Indian women for carrying an infant.
- crescentade — a religious crusade or war fought under the flag of Turkey
- crime squad — (in Britain) a division of the police which identifies and prevents major crimes, esp those crossing regional or national boundaries
- crispbreads — Plural form of crispbread.
- cross-heads — Printing. a title or heading filling a line or group of lines the full width of the column.
- cross-trade — cross (def 26).
- crossfaders — Plural form of crossfader.
- cryptomonad — any of various protozoalike algae of the phylum Cryptophyta usually having two flagella, common in both marine and freshwater environments where they appear along the shore as algal blooms, some also occurring as intestinal parasites.
- custom-made — If something is custom-made, it is made according to someone's special requirements.
- cut sb dead — If you see someone you know and cut them dead, you ignore them.
- cycadaceous — belonging or pertaining to the order Cycadales.
- cycadophyte — any plant belonging to the phylum Cycadophyta
- cystadenoma — Hidrocystoma.
- dad dancing — enthusiastic but inelegant dancing to pop music, regarded as typical of middle-aged men
- daddy track — a career path for men who are willing to forgo promotions, raises, etc., so as to spend more time with their children.
- day trading — the practice of buying and selling shares on the same day, often via the internet, in order to make a quick profit
- dead center — the position of maximum (top dead center) or minimum (bottom dead center) extension of a crank and a connecting rod, in which both are in the same straight line
- dead centre — the exact top (top dead centre) or bottom (bottom dead centre) of the piston stroke in a reciprocating engine or pump
- dead firing — firing of a furnace or boiler at less than normal operating temperature in order to maintain conditions desirable during a period of idleness.
- dead letter — If you say that a law or agreement is a dead letter, you mean that it still exists but people ignore it.
- dead matter — type that has already been used or is not going to be used
- dead nettle — any of various plants belonging to the genus Lamium, of the mint family, native to the Old World, having opposite leaves and clusters of small reddish or white flowers.
- dead ringer — a person or thing that closely resembles another; ringer: That old car is a dead ringer for the one we used to own.
- dead season — a period during which there is very little activity either in business or in the political world
- dead weight — A dead weight is a load which is surprisingly heavy and difficult to lift.
- dead-headed — a person who attends a performance, sports event, etc., or travels on a train, airplane, etc., without having paid for a ticket, especially a person using a complimentary ticket or free pass.
- dead-nettle — any Eurasian plant of the genus Lamium, such as L. alba (white dead-nettle), having leaves resembling nettles but lacking stinging hairs: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
- dead-reckon — to calculate (one's position) by means of dead reckoning.
- dead-smooth — noting a double-cut metal file having the minimum commercial grade of coarseness.
- dead-stroke — relating to a stroke made that has no kickback or reverberation