| cap and gown |
a mortarboard and robe worn at certain academic ceremonies such as graduation. |
| cap-a-pie |
from head to foot; completely. |
| caparison |
decorative trappings to cover a horse's saddle or harness. [4 definitions] |
| cape1 |
a sleeveless, loose-fitting garment that fastens at the neck and hangs loosely from the shoulders. |
| cape2 |
a point of land jutting into a large body of water. |
| Cape buffalo |
a large, fierce, black buffalo native to southern Africa whose horns form a helmetlike structure. |
| Cape Cod |
a peninsula on the southern coast of Massachusetts. [2 definitions] |
| Cape Horn |
a cape on an island that belongs to Chile, at the extreme southern end of South America. |
| Capella |
a yellow triple star in the constellation Auriga, having a magnitude of 0.1. |
| Cape Maleia |
the southeastern promontory of the Peloponnesus, where, in Greek mythology, Odysseus was thrown off course. |
| Cape of Good Hope |
a cape on the Atlantic at the southern tip of Africa. |
| caper1 |
a playful bound or leap. [5 definitions] |
| caper2 |
a low, spiny shrub of the Mediterranean region. [2 definitions] |
| capercaillie |
a large grouse with a fanlike tail, native to the forests of northern Europe. |
| Cape Town |
the legislative capital of South Africa. (Cf. Bloemfontein, Pretoria.) |
| Cape Verde |
an African country comprising Atlantic islands west of the Senegal coast. |
| capful |
the amount that the cap of a bottle will hold. |
| capias |
a legal document directing an officer to arrest a specific person. |
| capillaceous |
having hairlike fibers. [2 definitions] |
| capillarity |
the tension between contacting surfaces of a liquid and a solid that causes the liquid to rise or fall; capillary action. |
| capillary |
a minute, hairlike blood vessel connecting the end of an artery to the beginning of a vein. [6 definitions] |