| canalboat |
a long narrow vessel used to transport freight along canals and riverways. |
| capillary |
a minute, hairlike blood vessel connecting the end of an artery to the beginning of a vein. [1/6 definitions] |
| captain |
the chief officer of a merchant vessel or a commercial airplane. [1/8 definitions] |
| carrier |
a very large naval vessel equipped with a flight deck; aircraft carrier. [1/6 definitions] |
| chine |
the intersection of the side and bottom of a boat or other vessel. [1/4 definitions] |
| coffeepot |
a vessel or device for making and serving coffee. |
| congest |
in pathology, to cause an excessive accumulation of blood in (an organ or vessel). [1/3 definitions] |
| congestion |
in pathology, an excessive accumulation of blood in an organ or vessel. [1/3 definitions] |
| coronary |
a blood vessel arising in the aorta and supplying the heart. [1/5 definitions] |
| corvette |
an obsolete sailing vessel that was smaller than a frigate and usu. armed with one row of guns. [1/2 definitions] |
| crucible |
a vessel used at high temperatures, esp. to melt metals or minerals. [1/2 definitions] |
| cup |
a decorative vessel, often of precious metal, that is awarded as a prize to the winner of a contest or game. [1/7 definitions] |
| cuspidor |
a vessel designed to spit in; spittoon. |
| cutter |
a sailing vessel with one mast. [1/4 definitions] |
| Danaides |
in Greek legend, the daughters of Danaus, king of Argos, who murdered their husbands and were condemned in Hades to draw water forever with a perforated vessel. |
| deck hand |
a seaman employed mostly on the deck of a vessel. |
| dhow |
a vessel having a lateen sail or sails, sometimes having a raised deck at the stern, used primarily by Arabs along the coast of the Indian Ocean. |
| dockage1 |
the docking of a vessel. [1/3 definitions] |
| embolectomy |
the surgical removal of an embolus, usu. from a blood vessel. |
| embolism |
in pathology, the obstruction or closure of a blood vessel by undissolved matter carried in the blood stream. |
| escutcheon |
a plate on the stern of a vessel which shows its name. [1/3 definitions] |