1530s, "writing in secret code or occult characters," verbal noun from cipher (v.). Meaning "action of using figures in arithmetic" is from 1610s.
cinquain
cinque
cinquecento
cinquefoil
cipher
ciphering
circa
circadian
Circassian
Circe
circensian
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