💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Cancellus"
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| Word | Definition |
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| chauncelnoun | Obsolete form of chancel. [The space around the altar in a church, often enclosed, for use by the clergy and the choir. In medieval cathedrals the chancel was usually enclosed or blocked off from the nave by an altar screen.] |
| paraclosenoun | (architecture) Alternative form of parclose. [A partition that closes off part of a building; especially one that separates an altar or chapel from the rest of a church.] |
| crenelnoun | The space between merlons in a crenelated battlement. |
| cuneusnoun | (neuroanatomy) A portion of the occipital lobe of the human brain, involved in visual processing. |
| crossingnoun | An intersection where roads, lines, or tracks cross. |
| cancellationnoun | The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself. |
| cellanoun | (architecture) The central, enclosed part of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticos. |
| blocking coursenoun | (architecture) The finishing courseof a wall showing above a cornice. |
| cullisnoun | (architecture) A gutter in a roof. |
| chevetnoun | (architecture) An apse chapel |
| crenellationnoun | (countable, uncountable) A pattern along the top of a parapet (fortified wall), most often in the form of multiple, regular, rectangular spaces in the top of the wall, through which arrows or other weaponry may be shot, especially as used in medieval European architecture. |
| cillnoun | Alternative form of sill (“a threshold or brink across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against”). [(architecture, also "window sill") A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.] |
| crenelationnoun | Alternative form of crenellation. [(countable, uncountable) A pattern along the top of a parapet (fortified wall), most often in the form of multiple, regular, rectangular spaces in the top of the wall, through which arrows or other weaponry may be shot, especially as used in medieval European architecture.] |
| crenellenoun | Alternative spelling of crenel. [The space between merlons in a crenelated battlement.] |
| cellnoun | (biology) The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself. |
| casingnoun | That which encloses or encases. |
| curbnoun | (figurative) Something that checks or restrains; a restraint. |
| bellcotenoun | Alternative form of bell cot. [(architecture) A small or subsidiary construction, frequently corbelled out from the walls of a structure, and used to contain and support one or more bells.] |
| cimborionoun | (architecture) A lantern (typically octagonal) built over the crossing of a Gothic cathedral |
| crenelated moldingnoun | (architecture) A kind of indented molding used in Norman buildings. |
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