| Christmas cactus |
a Brazilian cactus with flat fleshy spineless stems that is widely cultivated as a houseplant for its showy red flowers. |
| Christmas Eve |
the evening or day before Christmas. |
| Christmastide |
the portion of the year associated with Christmas, often December 24 to January 6. |
| Christmas tree |
a real or imitation evergreen tree, usu. mounted indoors and decorated with lights and ornaments at Christmas. |
| Christopher Columbus |
an Italian navigator and explorer, and leader of the Spanish expedition that landed in America in 1492 (b.1451?--d.1506). |
| chroma |
the purity or degree of saturation of a color; relative absence of white or gray in a color. |
| chromate |
a salt or uncharged ester of chromic acid. |
| chromatic |
having to do with color or colors. [2 definitions] |
| chromatics |
(used with a sing. verb) the scientific study of color characteristics and variations. |
| chromatic scale |
a musical scale consisting of all half steps. |
| chromatin |
a protoplasmic substance in cell nuclei that contains the genes and forms the chromosomes. |
| chromato- |
color. |
| chromatography |
a method of separating a mixture by passing it through a medium in which the component parts move at different rates. |
| -chrome |
colored (as specified). [3 definitions] |
| Chrome |
a web browser developed by Google. |
| chrome |
chromium or an alloy of chromium. [5 definitions] |
| chromemoly |
shortened form of "chromium molybdenum steel," a steel alloy used for making such things as bicycle frames. |
| chromic |
of or containing trivalent chromium. |
| chromic acid |
an acid containing chromium that exists only in solution or in the form of its salts. |
| chromium |
a chemical element that has twenty-four protons in each nucleus and that occurs as a silver-gray, lustrous, corrosion-resistant solid metal, chiefly used in electroplating, alloys such as stainless steel, or compounds with other elements. (symbol: Cr) |
| chromium steel |
a very strong steel that contains chromium. |