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Phrases 1
- Alpha CenAbbreviation of Alpha Centauri: The brightest star in the southern constellation of Centaurus. It is actually a binary star with Proxima Centauri as a third component.
Compound words 63
- cenancestorThe last ancestor common of two or more lineages, especially the last universal common ancestor of all life.
- cenanthousThat lacks both stamens and pistil
- cenesthesiacoenesthesis
- cenesthesisAlternative form of coenesthesis: Common sensation or general sensibility, as distinguished from the special sensations which are located in, or ascribed to, separate organs, such as the eye and ear; general perception of one's own body.
- cenogamyThe state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members, i.e. in which husbands and wives are shared and held in common.
- centerThe point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
- centreAustralia, UK, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and South Africa standard spelling of center.
- censusAn official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.
- centersplural of center: The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
- censorOne of the two magistrates who originally administered the census of citizens, and by Classical times (between the 8th century B.C.E. and the 6th century C.E.) was a high judge of public behaviour and morality.