| chemiluminescent | (adjective) relating to the phenomenon of chemiluminescence | - |
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| chemoreceptive | (adjective) of or relating to chemoreceptors | - |
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| choice | (adjective) of superior grade | Synonyms: prime, prize, quality, select |
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| (adjective) appealing to refined taste | - |
| chylaceous | (adjective) consisting of chyle or having the properties of chyle | Synonyms: chylous |
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| coalesced | (adjective) joined together into a whole | Synonyms: amalgamate, amalgamated, consolidated, fused |
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| coalescent | (adjective) growing together, fusing | Synonyms: coalescing |
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| commonplace | (adjective) not challenging; dull and lacking excitement | Synonyms: humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous |
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| (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
| (adjective) completely ordinary and unremarkable | - |
| complacent | (adjective) contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions | Synonyms: self-complacent, self-satisfied |
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| concealed | (adjective) hidden on any grounds for any motive | - |
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| (adjective) not accessible to view | Synonyms: hidden, out of sight |
| concealing | (adjective) covering or hiding | - |
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| conceited | (adjective) characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance | Synonyms: egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen-headed, swollen, vain |
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| conceivable | (adjective) capable of being imagined | Synonyms: imaginable |
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| concentrated | (adjective) gathered together or made less diffuse | - |
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| (adjective) (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source | Synonyms: hard |
| (adjective) being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance | Synonyms: saturated |
| (adjective) intensely focused | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to a solution whose dilution has been reduced | - |
| concentric | (adjective) having a common center | Synonyms: concentrical, homocentric |
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| concentrical | (adjective) having a common center | Synonyms: concentric, homocentric |
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| conceptional | (adjective) being of the nature of a notion or concept | Synonyms: ideational, notional |
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| conceptive | (adjective) capable of conceiving | Synonyms: impregnable |
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| conceptual | (adjective) being or characterized by concepts or their formation | - |
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| conceptualistic | (adjective) involving or characteristic of conceptualism | - |
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| concerned | (adjective) feeling or showing worry or solicitude | - |
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| (adjective) involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in | Synonyms: interested |
| (adjective) culpably involved | Synonyms: implicated |
| concerted | (adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: conjunct, conjunctive, cooperative, united |
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| concessive | (adjective) of or pertaining to concession | - |
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| concupiscent | (adjective) vigorously passionate | Synonyms: lustful, lusty |
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| condescending | (adjective) (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension | Synonyms: arch, patronising, patronizing |
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| conscienceless | (adjective) lacking a conscience | Synonyms: unconscionable |
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| contraceptive | (adjective) capable of preventing conception or impregnation | Synonyms: antifertility, prophylactic |
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| convalescent | (adjective) returning to health after illness or debility | Synonyms: recovering |
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| convinced | (adjective) having a strong belief or conviction | - |
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| (adjective) persuaded of; very sure | Synonyms: confident, positive |
| copacetic | (adjective) completely satisfactory | Synonyms: copasetic, copesetic, copesettic |
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| coriaceous | (adjective) resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable | Synonyms: leathered, leatherlike, leathery |
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| counterbalanced | (adjective) brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another | Synonyms: counterpoised |
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| crescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually increasing in volume | - |
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| crescent | (adjective) resembling the new moon in shape | Synonyms: crescent-shaped, lunate, semilunar |
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| cretaceous | (adjective) abounding in chalk | - |
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| crustacean | (adjective) of or belonging to the class Crustacea | Synonyms: crustaceous |
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| crustaceous | (adjective) being or having or resembling a hard crust or shell | - |
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| (adjective) of or belonging to the class Crustacea | Synonyms: crustacean |
| cucurbitaceous | (adjective) of or relating to plants of the family Cucurbitaceae | - |
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| curvaceous | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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| damascene | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Damascus or its people | - |
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| (adjective) (of metals) decorated or inlaid with a wavy pattern of different (especially precious) metals | - |
| danceable | (adjective) suitable for dancing | - |
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| decalescent | (adjective) absorbing heat without increase in temperature when heated beyond a certain point | - |
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| deceased | (adjective) dead | Synonyms: asleep, at peace, at rest, departed, gone |
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| deceitful | (adjective) marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another | Synonyms: ambidextrous, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced |
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| (adjective) involving deception | Synonyms: fallacious, fraudulent |
| decent | (adjective) conforming to conventions of sexual behavior | - |
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| (adjective) meeting requirements | Synonyms: acceptable, satisfactory |
| (adjective) observing conventional sexual mores in speech or behavior or dress | - |
| (adjective) in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion | Synonyms: fitting |
| (adjective) socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous | Synonyms: nice |
| (adjective) sufficiently clothed to see visitors or appear in public | - |
| decentralised | (adjective) withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities | Synonyms: decentralized |
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| decentralising | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralizing |
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| decentralized | (adjective) withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities | Synonyms: decentralised |
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| decentralizing | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralising |
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| deceptive | (adjective) designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently | Synonyms: misleading |
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| (adjective) causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true | Synonyms: delusory |
| decrescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in volume | Synonyms: diminuendo |
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| defenceless | (adjective) lacking weapons for self-defense | Synonyms: defenseless |
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| (adjective) lacking protection or support | Synonyms: defenseless |
| defervescent | (adjective) of or relating to the reduction of a fever | - |
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| dehiscent | (adjective) (of e.g. fruits and anthers) opening spontaneously at maturity to release seeds | - |
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| deliquescent | (adjective) (especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air | - |
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| demulcent | (adjective) having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin | Synonyms: emollient, salving, softening |
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| descendant | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendent |
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| (adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
| descendent | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendant |
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| (adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendant |
| descending | (adjective) coming down or downward | - |
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| deuced | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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| dicey | (adjective) of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk | Synonyms: chanceful, chancy, dodgy |
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| diocesan | (adjective) belonging to or governing a diocese | - |
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| discalceate | (adjective) (used of certain religious orders) barefoot or wearing only sandals | Synonyms: discalced, unshod |
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| discalced | (adjective) (used of certain religious orders) barefoot or wearing only sandals | Synonyms: discalceate, unshod |
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| discernable | (adjective) perceptible by the senses or intellect | Synonyms: discernible |
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| discernible | (adjective) perceptible by the senses or intellect | Synonyms: discernable |
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| (adjective) capable of being seen or noticed | Synonyms: evident, observable |
| (adjective) capable of being perceived clearly | - |
| discerning | (adjective) having or revealing keen insight and good judgment | - |
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| (adjective) able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive | - |
| (adjective) quick to understand | Synonyms: apprehensive |
| (adjective) unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic | Synonyms: discreet |
| discomycetous | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of fungi of the subclass Discomycetes | - |
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| disconcerted | (adjective) having self-possession upset; thrown into confusion | Synonyms: discombobulated |
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| disconcerting | (adjective) causing an emotional disturbance | Synonyms: upsetting |
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| disgraced | (adjective) suffering shame | Synonyms: discredited, dishonored, shamed |
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| disgraceful | (adjective) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | Synonyms: black, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful |
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| (adjective) giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation | Synonyms: scandalous, shameful, shocking |
| divorced | (adjective) of someone whose marriage has been legally dissolved | - |
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| dolichocephalic | (adjective) having a relatively long head with a cephalic index of under 75 | Synonyms: dolichocranial, dolichocranic |
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| drupaceous | (adjective) of or related to a drupe | - |
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| dulcet | (adjective) pleasing to the ear | Synonyms: honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant, sweet |
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| (adjective) extremely pleasant in a gentle way | - |
| eccentric | (adjective) not having a common center; not concentric | Synonyms: nonconcentric |
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| (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, flakey, flaky, freakish, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
| effaceable | (adjective) capable of being effaced | Synonyms: erasable |
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| effervescent | (adjective) (of a liquid) giving off bubbles | - |
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| (adjective) used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: sparkling |
| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: bubbling, frothy, scintillating, sparkly |
| efflorescent | (adjective) when the bud, or buds, on a plant are bursting into flower | Synonyms: abloom |
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| egocentric | (adjective) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: egoistic, egoistical, self-centered, self-centred, self-seeking, self-serving, selfish |
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| electroencephalographic | (adjective) of or relating to an electroencephalograph | - |
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| enceinte | (adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: big, expectant, gravid, great, heavy, large, with child |
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| endocentric | (adjective) fulfilling the grammatical role of one of its constituents | - |
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| enforceable | (adjective) capable of being enforced | - |
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| enforced | (adjective) forced or compelled or put in force | Synonyms: implemented |
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| enhanced | (adjective) increased or intensified in value or beauty or quality | - |
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| ensorcelled | (adjective) captured, as if under a spell | Synonyms: bewitched |
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| entranced | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: beguiled, captivated, charmed, delighted, enthralled |
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| epicene | (adjective) having an ambiguous sexual identity | Synonyms: bisexual |
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| (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, effeminate, emasculate, sissified, sissy, sissyish |
| ethnocentric | (adjective) centered on a specific ethnic group, usually one's own | - |
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| evanescent | (adjective) tending to vanish like vapor | - |
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| evidenced | (adjective) supported by evidence | - |
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| eviscerate | (adjective) having been disembowelled | - |
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| exacerbating | (adjective) making worse | Synonyms: aggravating, exasperating |
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| exceeding | (adjective) far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree | Synonyms: exceptional, olympian, prodigious, surpassing |
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| excellent | (adjective) very good; of the highest quality | Synonyms: fantabulous, first-class, mean, ripping, splendid |
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| exceptionable | (adjective) liable to objection or debate; used of something one might take exception to | Synonyms: objectionable |
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| exceptional | (adjective) deviating widely from a norm of physical or mental ability; used especially of children below normal in intelligence | - |
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| (adjective) far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree | Synonyms: exceeding, olympian, prodigious, surpassing |
| (adjective) surpassing what is common or usual or expected | Synonyms: especial, particular, special |
| excess | (adjective) more than is needed, desired, or required | Synonyms: extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus |
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| excessive | (adjective) beyond normal limits | Synonyms: inordinate, undue, unreasonable |
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| (adjective) unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings | Synonyms: extravagant, exuberant, overweening |