Associations to the word «Cavendish»

Wiktionary

CAVENDISH, proper noun. A surname​.
CAVENDISH, noun. Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.

Dictionary definition

CAVENDISH, noun. British chemist and physicist who established that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the density of the earth (1731-1810).

Wise words

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis