A person who campaigns for a person running for political office or works, or supports, in an organised and active way towards a goal; an activist.
A person who has served in a military campaign.
Someone with experience in a certain field.
campaigners
campaigners
noun
plural of campaigner
campanero
campanero
noun
The bellbird of South America.
campanologer
campanulariae
campanularidae
campbellsburg
camper
camper
adj
comparative form of camp: more camp
noun
(video games) A person who stays in one spot during a first-person shooting game, to guard an item etc.
A motor vehicle with a rear compartment for living and sleeping in.
A person who camps, especially in a tent etc.
campers
campers
noun
plural of camper
campership
campership
noun
Money paid to admit a child to summer camp.
campestral
campestral
adj
Relating to open fields or uncultivated land.
campestrian
campestrian
adj
Relating to open fields; growing in a field, or open ground.
campfire
campfire
noun
A fire at a campground or on a camping trip, often used for cooking, to provide light and heat, to drive away bugs, and as a focal point for sitting around in the evening and talking, telling stories, and singing.
campfires
campfires
noun
plural of campfire
camphire
camphire
noun
1734, George Sale, The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed, London: C. Ackers, Chapter 78, page 475:
1786, Hunter, John, A Treatise on the Venereal Disease, London, Part II, Chapter IX, Section VI, page 108:
Camphor.
Câfûr is the name of a fountain in paradise, so called from its resembling camphire (which the word signifies) in odour, and whiteness. Some take the word for an appellative, and think the wine of paradise will be mixed with camphire, because of its agreeable coolness and smell.
Sitting over the steam of warm water with camphire, might be tried, especially in such cases as are not disposed to be permanent, and rubbing the scrotum with mercurial ointment joined with camphire.
Of, relating to, similar to, or containing camphor.
camphorate
camphorate
adj
camphoric
noun
(chemistry) Any salt of camphoric acid.
verb
(transitive) To treat or impregnate with camphor.
camphorated
camphorated
adj
Treated or impregnated with camphor.
camphorates
camphorates
noun
plural of camphorate
camphorize
camphorone
camphorphorone
camphorphorone
noun
(chemistry) A substance produced, with calcium carbonate, by heating the calcium salt of camphoric acid.
camphorweed
camphorweed
noun
Any of the genus Pluchea of flowering plants in the Asteraceae family.
campier
campier
adj
comparative form of campy: more campy
campimeter
campimeter
noun
A device used to measure a person's field of vision
campimetrical
campimetrical
adj
Related to campimetry.
campimetry
campimetry
noun
perimetry
campmaster
campmaster
noun
The person in charge of a camp.
campodeiform
campodeiform
adj
(zoology) Of, pertaining to, or resembling an insect or larva of the genus Campodea.
camporeale
camporee
camporee
noun
(US) A gathering of Scouts in which accommodation is in tents
camporees
camporees
noun
plural of camporee
camptodrome
campylodrome
campylometer
campyloneuron
campylospermous
campylospermous
adj
(botany) Having seeds grooved lengthwise on the inner face, as in sweet cicely.
capernaism
capernaum
capersome
capersome
adj
Full of capers; frolicsome.
capersomeness
capillarimeter
capitelliform
capmaker
capmaker
noun
A person or company that manufactures caps (the headgear).
capmakers
capmakers
noun
plural of capmaker
capreomycin
capreomycin
noun
(pharmacology) A cyclic peptide antibiotic obtained from a bacterium Saccharothrix mutabilis capreolus, commonly grouped with the aminoglycosides, given in combination with other antibiotics for tuberculosis.
caprimulgidae
caprimulgiformes
caprimulgine
capsomer
capsomer
noun
capsomere
capsomere
capsomere
noun
Any of the individual protein subunits of a viral capsid
capsomers
capsomers
noun
plural of capsomer
cardiemphraxia
cardiopneumatic
cardiopneumograph
cardiospermum
carpellum
carpellum
noun
Synonym of carpel
carpenterworm
carpenterworm
noun
The larva of the moth Prionoxystus robinae
carpetbaggism
carpetbaggism
noun
The practices of a carpetbagger
carpetbagism
carpetbagism
noun
Alternative form of carpetbaggism
carpetmaker
carpetmaker
noun
One who manufactures carpets.
carpetmaking
carpetmaking
noun
The manufacture of carpets.
carpetmonger
carpetmonger
noun
(obsolete) One fond of pleasure; a gallant.
One who deals in carpets; a buyer and seller of carpets.
carpocephalum
carpocephalum
noun
An organelle, in some liverworts, that carries the spore cases
carpometacarpal
carpometacarpal
adj
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to carpometacarpus, fusion of digits.
carpometacarpi
carpometacarpi
noun
plural of carpometacarpus
carpometacarpus
carpometacarpus
noun
(anatomy) The fusion of digits (carpals and metacarpals) that forms the wing in birds.
carposperm
carposperm
noun
(biology) The egg of a red alga
carpostome
carpostome
noun
(biology) The opening in the cystocarp of red algae through which the spores are discharged
castanospermum
cataleptiform
cataleptiform
adj
(medicine) Resembling catalepsy.
cecomorphae
cecomorphic
celeomorph
celeomorphae
celeomorphic
centripetalism
centripetalism
noun
The advocacy of a centripetal state.
centroplasm
centroplasm
noun
The substance of the centrosome
centropomidae
centropomus
centrospermae
cephalogram
cephalogram
noun
An X-ray of the craniofacial area.
cephalohumeral
cephalohumeralis
cephalomere
cephalomere
noun
(zoology) One of the somites (arthromeres) which make up the head of arthropods.
cephalometer
cephalometer
noun
A device for positioning the head, and holding it steady, for an X-ray or surgery; a cephalostat.
An instrument for measuring the head.
cephalometric
cephalometric
adj
Relating to cephalometrics
cephalometry
cephalometry
noun
The measurement of the head, especially in order to study growth, development, and disease.
cephalomotor
cephalosporium
ceramographic
ceramography
ceratophyllum
ceruloplasmin
ceruloplasmin
noun
(biochemistry) A blue metalloprotein that contains copper; it acts as a ferroxidase in association with transferrin.
cerumniparous
cetomorpha
cetomorphic
chamaecyparis
chamaepericlymenum
chamaeprosopic
chamaerops
chamberlainship
chamberlainship
noun
The office or post of chamberlain.
champer
champer
noun
One who champs (bites or chews).
One who engages in champing, in the sense of camping in churches.
champerator
champers
champers
noun
(informal) Champagne (wine).
Plural of champer.
champert
champerties
champerties
noun
plural of champerty
champertor
champertor
noun
(law) One guilty of champerty; one who purchases a suit, or the right of suing, and carries it on at his or her own expense, in order to obtain a share of the gain.
champertous
champertous
adj
Having the quality of champerty; being an instance of champerty.
champerty
champerty
noun
(law) The investing of money into an individual's lawsuit.
chapelmaster
chapelmaster
noun
A director of music in a chapel, the musical director of a court and/or major church's choir and/or orchestra; often also a composer.
charadriomorphae
cheiropatagium
cheiropompholyx
cheiropompholyx
noun
(medicine) pompholyx affecting the hand
cheiropterygium
cheiropterygium
noun
(anatomy) The typical pentadactyloid limb of the higher vertebrates.
cheirospasm
cheirospasm
noun
(pathology) Any spasm of the muscles of the hand
chemicopharmaceutical
chemicopharmaceutical
adj
Relating to chemistry and pharmacy.
chemigraph
chemigrapher
chemigraphic
chemigraphic
adj
Relating to chemigraphy.
chemigraphically
chemigraphy
chemigraphy
noun
Any mechanical engraving process depending upon chemical action; specifically, a process of zinc etching not employing photography.
chemiotropic
chemiotropism
chemisorption
chemisorption
noun
(chemistry) the process in which a substance is adsorbed on the surface of another by means of chemical rather than physical bonding
chemisorptive
chemisorptive
adj
Relating to chemisorption
chemoautotrophic
chemoautotrophic
adj
(biology, of an organism) obtaining its nutrition through the oxidation of non-organic compounds (or other chemical processes); as opposed to the process of photosynthesis.
chemoautotrophically
chemoautotrophically
adv
By chemoautotrophic means.
chemoautotrophy
chemoautotrophy
noun
(biology) A mode of growth in which CO₂ is the exclusive source of assimilated carbon, and energy is derived from chemical processes rather than light.
chemoceptor
chemoceptor
noun
chemoreceptor
chemoprophyalctic
chemoprophylactic
chemoprophylactic
adj
Of or pertaining to chemoprophylaxis.
noun
A chemoprophylactic drug.
chemoprophylaxis
chemoprophylaxis
noun
chemoprevention; the prevention of disease using food supplements or drugs.
chemoreception
chemoreception
noun
the physiological sensory response of a sense organ to a chemical stimulus
chemoreceptive
chemoreceptive
adj
(of a sense organ) able to respond to a chemical stimulus
chemoreceptivities
chemoreceptivity
chemoreceptivity
noun
the ability of a sense organ to respond to a chemical stimulus
chemoreceptor
chemoreceptor
noun
a sense organ, or one of its cells (such as those for the sense of taste or smell), that can respond to a chemical stimulus; a chemosensor
chemoserotherapy
chemosorption
chemosorptive
chemosphere
chemosphere
noun
The region of the Earth's atmosphere (from 20 to 120 miles above the surface) in which photochemical reactions take place.
chemospheric
chemotherapeutic
chemotherapeutic
adj
(medicine, oncology) Of or having to do with chemotherapy.
noun
(medicine, oncology) A chemical agent used in chemotherapy
chemotherapeutical
chemotherapeutical
adj
Synonym of chemotherapeutic
chemotherapeutically
chemotherapeutically
adv
By means of chemotherapy
chemotherapeuticness
chemotherapeutics
chemotherapeutics
noun
plural of chemotherapeutic
chemotherapies
chemotherapies
noun
plural of chemotherapy
chemotherapist
chemotherapist
noun
One who administers chemotherapy.
chemotherapists
chemotherapists
noun
plural of chemotherapist
chemotherapy
chemotherapy
noun
(medicine) Any chemical treatment intended to be therapeutic with respect to a disease state.
(oncology, most common usage) chemical treatment to kill or halt the replication and/or spread of cancerous cells in a patient.
chemotroph
chemotroph
noun
An organism that obtains energy by the oxidation of electron-donating molecules in the environment.
chemotrophic
chemotrophic
adj
Of or relating to chemotropism.
chemotropic
chemotropic
adj
(biology) of, related to, or in response to chemotropism