| centipede |
any of various nocturnal arthropods, with a narrow, wormlike body consisting of many segments, each segment having a pair of legs and the front segment having poison fangs or claws. |
| central |
of or being the center. [4 definitions] |
| Central Africa |
a large region of Africa in the central part of the continent usually consisting of Chad, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, the Republic of the Congo, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and often including, in addition, other nearby nations depending on which definition of the region is used. |
| Central African Republic |
an African country bordered by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, Chad, and Sudan. |
| Central America |
an extension of the North American continent from the Mexican border to South America, comprising seven countries. |
| central city |
the city at about the center of a metropolitan area, as distinguished from suburbs and smaller towns. |
| centralism |
a system or principle of organization, esp. of government, in which power is assigned to a central authority. |
| centralization |
the act or process of drawing toward or consolidating at a common center. [2 definitions] |
| centralize |
to draw toward or consolidate at a common center. [3 definitions] |
| Central Park |
the first urban park in the U.S., developed in 1873, located in the Manhattan borough of New York City. |
| Central Powers |
a World War I alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary together with Turkey and Bulgaria. |
| central processing unit |
in computing, the part of a computer that interprets program commands and executes its instructions. |
| Central Standard Time |
the standard time used in the central region of the United States, six hours behind Greenwich time. |
| centre |
a spelling of "center" used in Canada and Britain. See "center" for more information. |
| centri- |
center. |
| -centric |
having a (specified) number or arrangement of centers. [2 definitions] |
| centric |
at or near the center. [2 definitions] |
| centrifugal |
moving or being directed outward from a center point or axis. [3 definitions] |
| centrifugal force |
a force that tends to pull a particle or body outward, away from the axis around which it rotates. (Cf. centripetal force.) |
| centrifugalize |
to centrifuge. |
| centrifuge |
a machine that uses centrifugal force to separate materials of different densities. [2 definitions] |