Caloric :: Caloric (n.) The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; -- not now used in scientific nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat..

Caloric :: Caloric (a.) Of or pertaining to caloric.

Caloricity :: Caloricity (n.) A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat necessary to life, that is, the animal heat..

Caloriduct :: Caloriduct (n.) A tube or duct for conducting heat; a caliduct.

Calorie :: Calorie (n.) The unit of heat according to the French standard; the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram (sometimes, one gram) of water one degree centigrade, or from 0¡ to 1¡. Compare the English standard unit, Foot pound..

Calorifacient :: Calorifacient (a.) See Calorificient.

Calorifere :: Calorifere (n.) An apparatus for conveying and distributing heat, especially by means of hot water circulating in tubes..

Calorifiant :: Calorifiant (a.) See Calorificient.

Calorific :: Calorific (a.) Possessing the quality of producing heat; heating.

Calorification :: Calorification (n.) Production of heat, esp. animal heat..

Calorificient :: Calorificient (a.) Having, or relating to the power of producing heat; -- applied to foods which, being rich in carbon, as the fats, are supposed to give rise to heat in the animal body by oxidation..

Calorimeter :: Calorimeter (n.) An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc..

Calorimeter :: Calorimeter (n.) An apparatus for measuring the proportion of unevaporated water contained in steam.

Calorimetric :: Calorimetric (a.) Of or pertaining to the process of using the calorimeter.

Calorimetry :: Calorimetry (n.) Measurement of the quantities of heat in bodies.

Calorimotor :: Calorimotor (n.) A voltaic battery, having a large surface of plate, and producing powerful heating effects..

Calycifloral :: Calycifloral (a.) Alt. of callyciflorou.

Chancellor :: Chancellor (n.) A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction..

Chancellorship :: Chancellorship (n.) The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.

Chloral :: Chloral (n.) A colorless oily liquid, CCl3.CHO, of a pungent odor and harsh taste, obtained by the action of chlorine upon ordinary or ethyl alcohol..

Chloral :: Chloral (n.) Chloral hydrate.

Chloralamide :: Chloralamide (n.) A compound of chloral and formic amide used to produce sleep.

Chloralism :: Chloralism (n.) A morbid condition of the system resulting from excessive use of chloral.

Chloralum :: Chloralum (n.) An impure aqueous solution of chloride of aluminium, used as an antiseptic and disinfectant..

Chloranil :: Chloranil (n.) A yellow crystalline substance, C6Cl4.O2, regarded as a derivative of quinone, obtained by the action of chlorine on certain benzene derivatives, as aniline..

Chlorate :: Chlorate (n.) A salt of chloric acid; as, chlorate of potassium..

Chloraurate :: Chloraurate (n.) See Aurochloride.

Chlorhydric :: Chlorhydric (a.) Same as Hydrochloric.

Chlorhydrin :: Chlorhydrin (n.) One of a class of compounds formed from certain polybasic alcohols (and especially glycerin) by the substitution of chlorine for one or more hydroxyl groups.

Chloric :: Chloric (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, chlorine; -- said of those compounds of chlorine in which this element has a valence of five, or the next to its highest; as, chloric acid, HClO3..

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