| 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] |
| capillary attraction |
see "capillarity." |
| cap in hand |
in a humble manner. |
| capital1 |
the city where the central government of a nation or state is located. [10 definitions] |
| capital2 |
in architecture, the uppermost part of a column or pillar. |
| capitalism |
an economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately owned and prices are chiefly determined by open competition in a free market. |
| capitalist |
one who invests capital, esp. extensively, in business enterprises. [3 definitions] |