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Cryptic
- adjective - having a puzzling terseness; "a cryptic note"
- having a secret or hidden meaning; "cabalistic symbols engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther
- of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutable workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands"
Cryptid
- unknown - Cryptids are animals that cryptozoologists believe may exist somewhere in the wild, but whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated by science.
Culprit
- noun - someone who perpetrates wrongdoing
Cupping
- verb - a treatment in which evacuated cups are applied to the skin to draw blood through the surface
- form into the shape of a cup; "She cupped her hands"
- put into a cup; "cup the milk"
- treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin
Cuspate
- adjective - having cusps or points
Cuspids
- noun - one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars
Cy Pres
- noun - a rule that when literal compliance is impossible the intention of a donor or testator should be carried out as nearly as possible
Dampens
- verb -
- check; keep in check (a fire)
- deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
- make moist; "The dew moistened the meadows"
- make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible; "muffle the message"
- reduce the amplitude (of oscillations or waves)
- smother or suppress; "Stifle your curiosity"
Dampers
- noun - a depressing restraint; "rain put a damper on our picnic plans"
- a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations
- a movable iron plate that regulates the draft in a stove or chimney or furnace
- a traditional Australian soda bread