curing

the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization; "the hardening of concrete"; "he tested the set of the glue" ;

curio

something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting ;

curiosa

books on strange or unusual subjects (especially erotica) ;

curiosity

something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting ; a state in which you want to learn more about something ;

curiousness

the quality of being alien or not native; "the strangeness of a foreigner" ; a state of active curiosity ;

curitiba

a city in southeastern Brazil ;

curium

a radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by bombarding plutonium with helium nuclei ;

curl

a strand or cluster of hair ; American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933) ; a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) ;

curled pondweed

European herb naturalized in the eastern United States and California ;

curler

a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it; "a woman with her head full of curlers is not a pretty sight" ;

curlew

large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill ;

curlew sandpiper

Old World sandpiper with a curved bill like a curlew ;

curleyleaf pondweed

European herb naturalized in the eastern United States and California ;

curlicue

a short twisting line ; a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) ;

curliness

of hair: a tendency to curl ;

curling

a game played on ice in which heavy stones with handles are slid toward a target ;

curling iron

a cylindrical metal home appliance that heats a lock of hair that has been curled around it ;

curly-coated retriever

an English breed having a tightly curled black or liver-colored coat; retrieves game from land or water ;

curly-heads

shrubby clematis of the eastern United States having curly foliage ;

curly clematis

climber of southern United States having bluish-purple flowers ;

curly endive

crisp spiky leaves with somewhat bitter taste ;

curly grass

rare small fern of northeastern North America having numerous slender spiraling fronds and forming dense tufts ;

curly grass fern

rare small fern of northeastern North America having numerous slender spiraling fronds and forming dense tufts ;

curlycup gumweed

perennial gumweed of western and central North America ;

curmudgeon

a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas ;

currajong

widely distributed tree of eastern Australia yielding a tough durable fiber and soft light attractively grained wood; foliage is an important emergency food for cattle ;

currant

any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for jellies and jams ; small dried seedless raisin grown in the Mediterranean region and California; used in cooking ; any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing currants ;

currant bush

any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing currants ;

currawong

bluish black fruit-eating bird with a bell-like call ;

currency

general acceptance or use; "the currency of ideas" ; the property of belonging to the present time; "the currency of a slang term" ; the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used ; a current state of general acceptance and use ;

current

a steady flow (usually from natural causes); "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air" ; dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas; "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history" ; a flow of electricity through a conductor; "the current was measured in amperes" ;

current account

that part of the balance of payments recording a nation's exports and imports of goods and services and transfer payments ;

current assets

assets in the form of cash (or easily convertible into cash) ;

current electricity

a flow of electric charge ;

current intelligence

intelligence of all types and forms of immediate interest; usually disseminated without delays for evaluation or interpretation ;

current of air

air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure; "trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere" ;

current unit

a measure of the amount of electric charge flowing past a circuit point at a specific time ;

currentness

the property of belonging to the present time; "the currency of a slang term" ;

currer bell

English novelist; one of three Bronte sisters (1818-1848) ;

curriculum

an integrated course of academic studies; "he was admitted to a new program at the university" ;