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“C” Words

The old name for Chania, a city located on Crete, an island in Greece.

A constellation in the northern sky said to resemble a swan, containing the bright stars Deneb and Albireo.

A solid or hollow object with straight parallel sides and a circular cross-section, like a tube or a can.

Shaped like a cylinder; having straight sides and a circular cross-section.

A male given name of historical usage in Ancient Greece, notably Cylon of Athens, who attempted a coup in the 7th century BCE.

A round, flat metal plate that produces a sharp ringing crash when struck, used in drum kits and orchestras.

Another name for Welsh, the language spoken by the Welsh people.

A diminutive of the female given name Cynthia, a 20th-century variant spelling of Cindy.

Connected with hunting, especially hunting with dogs.

A person who habitually expects the worst of people and doubts their sincerity or motives.

Distrustful of people's sincerity, believing that self-interest is the real motive behind most actions.

A general distrust of people's sincerity, or the belief that self-interest drives most human behaviour.

A female given name of Ancient Greek origin, originally an epithet of the goddess Artemis.

Connected with Mount Cynthus.

A mountain of Delos, famous in Greek mythology as the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis

A surname of German origin.

An evergreen conifer with dense, dark, scale-like foliage, often planted in rows or seen in cemeteries.

The name of Saint Cyprian, a bishop of Carthage in the 3rd century, who was a theologian, martyr and saint.

An island nation in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, divided between Greek and Turkish Cypriot administration; capital Nicosia.

A male given name of Ancient Greek origin, borne notably by a ninth-century missionary to the Slavs.

A male given name of Old Persian origin, most famously borne by Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Empire.

A closed sac in the body, usually filled with fluid or other material, that forms within a tissue or organ.

Relating to a cyst — an abnormal fluid-filled sac in the body.

Another word for a biological cell, a mass of living material with a nucleus inside a membrane.

Cytology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of cells.

The jelly-like material that fills a living cell between the outer membrane and the nucleus, holding the organelles in place and hosting most of the cell's chemical reactions.

A sample of cells, in the form of a smear on a microscope slide, that has been stained ready for diagnostic examination

An emperor of Russia before the 1917 revolution; more generally, an autocratic ruler.

From, or relating to, the Czech Republic, its people, culture, or language.

A person from Czechoslovakia, the former Central European country.

A former Central European country, now divided into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

czechoslovakian

Relating to the country that used to be called Czechoslovakia.