C: alternatives and connections

Of fundamental importance; preeminent; superior; chief; principal.

Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

Of fundamental importance; preeminent; superior; chief; principal.

Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralo…

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

Plumbago; graphite. It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

Alt. of Charr

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It…

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from c…

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme hardness.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

Native carbon in hexagonal crystals, also foliated or granular massive, of black color and metallic luster, and so soft as to leave a trace on paper.…

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

The fine impalpable soot obtained from the smoke of carbonaceous substances which have been only partly burnt, as in the flame of a smoking lamp. It…

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

Same as Graphite.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

A black substance formed by combustion, or disengaged from fuel in the process of combustion, which rises in fine particles, and adheres to the sides…

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

A powerful alkaloid, C17H21NO4, obtained from the leaves of coca. It is a bitter, white, crystalline substance, and is remarkable for producing local…

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Firm; solid; fixed; immovable; -- opposed to fluid.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

A step, stair, or staircase.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

The tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or passage is written; the fundamental tone of the chord, to which all the modulations of the p…

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as…

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstructi…

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Quickness of motion; swiftness; speed; celerity; rapidity; as, the velocity of wind; the velocity of a planet or comet in its orbit or course; the ve…

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a containing group, substance or whole.

In its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; undressed; not altered, refined, or prepared for use by any artificial process; raw; as…

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a containing group, substance or whole.

The molecule that carries genetic information in living organisms

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a containing group, substance or whole.

A rock consisting chiefly of calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime. It sometimes contains also magnesium carbonate, and is then called magnesian or…

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a containing group, substance or whole.

Any one of a great variety of unctuous combustible substances, not miscible with water; as, olive oil, whale oil, rock oil, etc. They are of animal,…

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a containing group, substance or whole.

Rock oil, mineral oil, or natural oil, a dark brown or greenish inflammable liquid, which, at certain points, exists in the upper strata of the earth…

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a containing group, substance or whole.

A molecule similar to DNA that plays a central role in protein synthesis

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a containing group, substance or whole.

To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

An elementary substance, not metallic in its nature, which is present in all organic compounds. Atomic weight 11.97. Symbol C. it is combustible, and…

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Mineral coal charred, or depriver of its bitumen, sulphur, or other volatile matter by roasting in a kiln or oven, or by distillation, as in gas work…

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

The standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. It is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the current produced by an elec…

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

The product of ten mulitplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score.…

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.