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beginning with letter C
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catatonia
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noun
  1. a severe psychiatric condition, often associated with schizophrenia, characterized by a tendency to remain in a rigid state of stupor for long periods which give way to short periods of extreme agitation
cathect
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verb
  1. To focus one's emotional energies on something.
circumstantiality
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noun (circumstantialities)
  1. minute, Minute detail.
  2. An irrelevant detail that disturbs one's thought process.
claustrophobia
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noun
  1. The fear of closed, tight places.
claustrophobic
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noun
  1. Someone with claustrophobia
adjective
  1. (psychology) Suffering from claustrophobia; being scared of being enclosed in a confined space.
cleptomania
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noun
  1. (dated) alternative spelling of kleptomania
compulsive
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adjective
  1. with an uncontrolled need to do things, obsessive
confabulate
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verb (confabulat, ing)
  1. (intransitive) To speak casually with; to chat.
  2. (intransitive) To confer.
  3. (context, intransitive, psychology) To fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory.
confabulation
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noun
  1. A casual conversation; a chat.
  2. (context, psychology) A fabricated memory believed to be true.
conscious
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adjective ((compar): more conscious, (superl): most conscious)
  1. alert, awake.
The noise woke me, but it was another few minutes before I was fully .
  1. aware.
I was of a noise behind me.
conversion
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noun
  1. The act of having converted something or someone.
His to Christianity
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  1. (chemistry) A chemical reaction wherein a substrate is transformed into a product.
  2. (rugby) A free-kick, after scoring a try, worth two points
  3. (American football) extra point scored by kicking a field goal after scoring a touchdown.
  4. (marketing) An online advertising performance metric representing a visitor performing whatever the intended result of an ad is defined to be. This can be a purchase or a download of a whitepaper.
cycloid
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noun (plural cycloids)
  1. (geometry) The locus of a point on the circumference of a circle that rolls without slipping on a fixed straight line.
  2. (zoology) A fish having cycloid scales.
adjective
  1. resemble, Resembling a circle; cycloidal.
  2. (zoology) (of fish scales) Thin and rounded, with smooth edges.
cyclothymia
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noun
  1. (medicine) a chronic mental disturbance characterized by mood swings and depression
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