Carpellum :: Carpellum (n.) A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See Illust of Carpaphore..

Carpenter :: Carpenter (n.) An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc..

Carpentering :: Carpentering (n.) The occupation or work of a carpenter; the act of working in timber; carpentry.

Carpentry :: Carpentry (n.) The art of cutting, framing, and joining timber, as in the construction of buildings..

Carpentry :: Carpentry (n.) An assemblage of pieces of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter..

Carper :: Carper (n.) One who carps; a caviler.

Carpet :: Carpet (n.) A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be sewed together and nailed to the floor, as distinguished from a rug or mat; originally, also, a wrought cover for tables..

Carpet :: Carpet (n.) A smooth soft covering resembling or suggesting a carpet.

Carpet :: Carpet (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a carpet; to spread with carpets; to furnish with a carpet or carpets..

Carpetbag :: Carpetbag (n.) A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because originally made of carpet.

Carpetbagger :: Carpetbagger (n.) An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865).

Carpeted :: Carpeted (imp. & p. p.) of Carpe.

Carpeting :: Carpeting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Carpe.

Carpeting :: Carpeting (n.) The act of covering with carpets.

Carpeting :: Carpeting (n.) Cloth or materials for carpets; carpets, in general..

Carpetless :: Carpetless (a.) Without a carpet.

Carpetmonger :: Carpetmonger (n.) One who deals in carpets; a buyer and seller of carpets.

Carpetmonger :: Carpetmonger (n.) One fond of pleasure; a gallant.

Carpetway :: Carpetway (n.) A border of greensward left round the margin of a plowed field.

Carphology :: Carphology (n.) See Floccillation.

Carpi :: Carpi (pl. ) of Carpu.

Carping :: Carping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Car.

Carping :: Carping (a.) Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See Captious.

Carpintero :: Carpintero (n.) A california woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus), noted for its habit of inserting acorns in holes which it drills in trees. The acorns become infested by insect larvae, which, when grown, are extracted for food by the bird..

Carpogenic :: Carpogenic (a.) Productive of fruit, or causing fruit to be developed..

Carpolite :: Carpolite (n.) A general term for a fossil fruit, nut, or seed..

Carpological :: Carpological (a.) Of or pertaining to carpology.

Carpologist :: Carpologist (n.) One who describes fruits; one versed in carpology.

Carpology :: Carpology (n.) That branch of botany which relates to the structure of seeds and fruit.

Carpophagous :: Carpophagous (a.) Living on fruits; fruit-consuming.

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