| carbocyclic | (adjective) having or relating to or characterized by a ring composed of carbon atoms | - |
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| carbolated | (adjective) containing or treated with carbolic acid | - |
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| carbonaceous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonic, carboniferous, carbonous |
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| carbonated | (adjective) having carbonation (especially artificially carbonated) | - |
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| carbonic | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonaceous, carboniferous, carbonous |
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| carboniferous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonaceous, carbonic, carbonous |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the Carboniferous geologic era | - |
| carbonous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonaceous, carbonic, carboniferous |
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| carbonyl | (adjective) relating to or containing the carbonyl group | Synonyms: carbonylic |
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| carbonylic | (adjective) relating to or containing the carbonyl group | Synonyms: carbonyl |
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| carboxyl | (adjective) relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl radical | Synonyms: carboxylic |
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| carboxylic | (adjective) relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl radical | Synonyms: carboxyl |
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| carbuncled | (adjective) set with carbuncles | - |
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| (adjective) afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle | Synonyms: carbuncular |
| carbuncular | (adjective) afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle | Synonyms: carbuncled |
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| carcinogenic | (adjective) causing or tending to cause cancer | - |
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| carcinomatous | (adjective) being or relating to carcinoma | - |
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| cardboard | (adjective) without substance | Synonyms: unlifelike |
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| cardiac | (adjective) of or relating to the heart | - |
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| cardinal | (adjective) being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order | - |
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| (adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: central, fundamental, key, primal |
| cardiographic | (adjective) of or relating to a cardiograph | - |
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| cardiologic | (adjective) of or relating to or used in or practicing cardiology | - |
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| cardiopulmonary | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions | Synonyms: cardiorespiratory |
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| cardiorespiratory | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions | Synonyms: cardiopulmonary |
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| cardiovascular | (adjective) of or pertaining to or involving the heart and blood vessels | - |
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| carefree | (adjective) cheerfully irresponsible | Synonyms: devil-may-care, freewheeling, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy |
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| (adjective) free of trouble and worry and care | Synonyms: unworried |
| careful | (adjective) exercising caution or showing care or attention | - |
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| (adjective) cautiously attentive | Synonyms: heedful |
| (adjective) mindful of the future in spending money | Synonyms: thrifty |
| (adjective) full of cares or anxiety | - |
| (adjective) unhurried and with care and dignity | Synonyms: deliberate, measured |
| careless | (adjective) marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful | - |
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| (adjective) effortless and unstudied | - |
| (adjective) (usually followed by `of') without due thought or consideration | Synonyms: regardless |
| careworn | (adjective) showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering | Synonyms: drawn, haggard, raddled, worn |
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| carinal | (adjective) relating to or resembling a carina | - |
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| carinate | (adjective) having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship | Synonyms: carinated, keeled, ridged |
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| carinated | (adjective) having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship | Synonyms: carinate, keeled, ridged |
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| caring | (adjective) feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others | - |
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| carious | (adjective) (of teeth) affected with cavities or decay | - |
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| carminative | (adjective) relieving gas in the alimentary tract (colic or flatulence or griping) | Synonyms: flatus-relieving |
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| carmine | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, cerise, cherry-red, cherry, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
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| carnal | (adjective) of or relating to the body or flesh | - |
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| (adjective) marked by the appetites and passions of the body | Synonyms: animal, fleshly, sensual |
| carnassial | (adjective) (of a tooth) adapted for shearing flesh | - |
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| carnation | (adjective) pink or pinkish | - |
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| carnivorous | (adjective) (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of carnivores | - |
| carotid | (adjective) of or relating to either of the two major arteries supplying blood to the head and neck | - |
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| carousing | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchic, orgiastic |
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| carpal | (adjective) of or relating to the wrist | - |
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| carpellary | (adjective) belonging to or forming or containing carpels | - |
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| carpellate | (adjective) bearing or consisting of carpels | Synonyms: pistillate |
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| carpetbag | (adjective) following the practices or characteristic of carpetbaggers | - |
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| (adjective) presumptuously seeking success or a position in a new locality | Synonyms: carpetbagging |
| carpetbagging | (adjective) presumptuously seeking success or a position in a new locality | Synonyms: carpetbag |
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| carpeted | (adjective) covered with or as if with carpeting or with carpeting as specified; often used in combination | - |
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| carpophagous | (adjective) feeding on fruit | Synonyms: fruit-eating |
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| carposporic | (adjective) relating to or resembling a carpospore | - |
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| carposporous | (adjective) having carpospores | - |
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| carroty | (adjective) resembling the bright orange of the root of the carrot plant | - |
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| carsick | (adjective) experiencing motion sickness | Synonyms: air sick, airsick, seasick |
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| cartilaginous | (adjective) of or relating to cartilage | - |
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| (adjective) difficult to chew | Synonyms: gristly, rubbery |
| cartographic | (adjective) of or relating to the making of maps or charts | Synonyms: cartographical |
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| cartographical | (adjective) of or relating to the making of maps or charts | Synonyms: cartographic |
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| caruncular | (adjective) resembling a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculous |
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| carunculate | (adjective) having a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculated |
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| carunculated | (adjective) having a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculate |
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| carunculous | (adjective) resembling a caruncle | Synonyms: caruncular |
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| carved | (adjective) made for or formed by carving (`carven' is archaic or literary) | Synonyms: carven |
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| carven | (adjective) made for or formed by carving (`carven' is archaic or literary) | Synonyms: carved |
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| caryophyllaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to plants of the family Caryophyllaceae | - |
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| casebook | (adjective) according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical | Synonyms: textbook |
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| cased | (adjective) enclosed in a case | - |
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| (adjective) covered or protected with or as if with a case | Synonyms: encased, incased |
| caseous | (adjective) of damaged or necrotic tissue; cheeselike | - |
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| cashable | (adjective) able to be converted into ready money or the equivalent | Synonyms: redeemable |
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| cashed | (adjective) for which money has been paid | - |
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| cassocked | (adjective) dressed in a cassock | - |
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| casteless | (adjective) not belonging to or having been expelled from a caste and thus having no place or status in society | Synonyms: outcaste |
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| castellated | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: battlemented, castled, crenelated, embattled |
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| castled | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: battlemented, castellated, crenelated, embattled |
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| castrated | (adjective) deprived of sexual capacity or sexual attributes | Synonyms: unsexed |
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| casual | (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: cursory, passing, perfunctory, superficial |
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| (adjective) not showing effort or strain | Synonyms: effortless |
| (adjective) occurring on a temporary or irregular basis | Synonyms: occasional |
| (adjective) marked by blithe unconcern | Synonyms: insouciant, nonchalant |
| (adjective) appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions | Synonyms: daily, everyday |
| (adjective) occurring or appearing or singled out by chance | Synonyms: chance |
| (adjective) natural and unstudied | Synonyms: free-and-easy |
| (adjective) characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility | Synonyms: fooling |
| (adjective) without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand | - |
| casuistic | (adjective) of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems | Synonyms: casuistical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or practicing casuistry | Synonyms: casuistical |
| casuistical | (adjective) of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems | Synonyms: casuistic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or practicing casuistry | Synonyms: casuistic |
| catabatic | (adjective) of an air current or wind; moving downward or down a slope because of cooling especially at night | Synonyms: katabatic |
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| catabolic | (adjective) characterized by destructive metabolism | Synonyms: katabolic |
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| (adjective) relating to or characterized by catabolism | Synonyms: katabolic |
| catachrestic | (adjective) constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis | Synonyms: catachrestical |
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| catachrestical | (adjective) constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis | Synonyms: catachrestic |
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| cataclinal | (adjective) of valleys and rivers; running in the direction of the dip in surrounding rock strata | - |
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| cataclysmal | (adjective) severely destructive | Synonyms: cataclysmic |
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| cataclysmic | (adjective) severely destructive | Synonyms: cataclysmal |
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| catacorner | (adjective) slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line | Synonyms: cata-cornered, cater-cornered, catercorner, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered |
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| catadromous | (adjective) migrating from fresh water to the sea to spawn | - |
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| catalatic | (adjective) of or relating to the enzyme catalase | - |
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| catalectic | (adjective) (verse) metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot | - |
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| cataleptic | (adjective) of or having characteristics of or affected with catalepsy | - |
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| catalytic | (adjective) relating to or causing or involving catalysis | - |
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| catamenial | (adjective) of or relating to menstruation or the menses | Synonyms: menstrual |
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| cataphatic | (adjective) of or relating to the religious belief that God can be known to humans positively or affirmatively | - |
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| cataphoretic | (adjective) of or relating to electrophoresis | Synonyms: electrophoretic |
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| cataplastic | (adjective) of or relating to cataplasia | - |
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| catapultian | (adjective) of or like a catapult | Synonyms: catapultic |
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| catapultic | (adjective) of or like a catapult | Synonyms: catapultian |
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| catarrhal | (adjective) of or relating to a catarrh | - |
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| catarrhine | (adjective) of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward | Synonyms: catarrhinian |
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| catarrhinian | (adjective) of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward | Synonyms: catarrhine |
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| catastrophic | (adjective) extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin | Synonyms: ruinous |
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| catatonic | (adjective) characterized by catatonia especially either rigidity or extreme laxness of limbs | - |
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| catching | (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable |
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| catchpenny | (adjective) designed to sell quickly without concern for quality | - |
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