caput

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ca=put

CIDE DICTIONARY

caput, n. [L., the head.].

•  The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum.  [1913 Webster]
•  The top or superior part of a thing.  [1913 Webster]
•  The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856.  [1913 Webster]

  "Your caputs and heads of colleges."  [1913 Webster]

Caput mortuum (. [L., dead head.] (Old Chem.) The residuum after distillation or sublimation; hence, worthless residue.

ROGET THESAURUS

caput

Council

N council, committee, subcommittee, comitia, court, chamber, cabinet, board, bench, staff, senate, senatus, parliament, chamber of deputies, directory, reichsrath, rigsdag, cortes, storthing, witenagemote, junta, divan, musnud, sanhedrim, classis, Amphictyonic council, duma, house of representatives, legislative assembly, legislative council, riksdag, volksraad, witan, caput, consistory, chapter, syndicate, court of appeal, board of control, board of works, vestry, county council, local board, audience chamber, council chamber, state chamber, cabinet council, privy council, cockpit, convocation, synod, congress, convention, diet, states-general, assembly, caucus, conclave, clique, conventicle, meeting, sitting, seance, conference, convention, exhibition, session, palaver, pourparler, durbar, house, quorum, council fire, powwow, primary, meeting, assemblage, member, senator, member of parliament, M, P, councilor, representative of the people, assemblyman, congressman, councilman, councilwoman, alderman, freeholder, senatorial, curule, congressional, parliamentary, legislative, law-making, regulatory, deliberative.