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| chocolate |
a single small piece of chocolate candy, usually rectangular, round, or oval in shape and often containing a sweet filling or nuts. [1/7 definitions] |
| chocolate milk |
cow's milk with sweet, chocolate-flavored syrup or chocolate powder added. |
| cloy |
to oversupply with something sweet or pleasant so that the experience of these things becomes sickening or wearisome. [2 definitions] |
| cloying |
sickening or wearisome by being excessively sweet or pleasant. |
| coffeecake |
a sweet, breadlike cake, often containing nuts or raisins and served with coffee. |
| cola1 |
any of various sweet carbonated beverages made from kola nuts and other ingredients. |
| cookie |
a small, sweet, flat or ball-shaped cake baked from stiff dough. [1/4 definitions] |
| cordial |
a sweet, strong alcoholic liquor; liqueur. [2/4 definitions] |
| cottage pudding |
a dessert consisting of a simple cake covered with a sweet sauce, as of fruit. |
| crème de cacao |
a sweet, chocolate-flavored liqueur. |
| crème de menthe |
a sweet, mint-flavored liqueur, usu. green or colorless. |
| cruller |
a sweet cake made from deep-fried dough, usu. shaped into a ring or twisted into a spiral. |
| cute |
attractive or charming in a sweet or heartwarming way; darling. [1/3 definitions] |
| dessert |
a sweet or fruit served as the last course of a meal. |
| dianthus |
any of various plants related to pinks, such as the carnation or sweet william. |
| Dicumarol |
a white crystalline powder, produced synthetically or from sweet clover, used in medicine to prevent blood from clotting; dicoumarin. |
| dolce |
in a soft and sweet manner (used as a musical direction). |
| doughnut |
a small, sweet, usu. ring-shaped cake that has been fried in deep fat. [1/2 definitions] |
| dry |
of wines, not sweet. [1/14 definitions] |
| eglantine |
the sweet brier, a wild rose. |
| empanada |
a pastry turnover filled with a variety of sweet or savory ingredients and baked or fried. Empanadas originated in Spain and are particularly popular in both Spain and Latin America. |
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