| contraceptive | (adjective) capable of preventing conception or impregnation | Synonyms: antifertility, prophylactic |
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| contraclockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: anticlockwise, counterclockwise |
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| contractable | (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: catching, communicable, contagious, transmissible, transmittable |
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| contractile | (adjective) capable of contracting or being contracted | - |
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| contrastive | (adjective) of words so related that one contrasts with the other | Synonyms: incompatible |
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| (adjective) strikingly different; tending to contrast | Synonyms: contrasting |
| (adjective) syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence | - |
| contributive | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributory, tributary |
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| contrite | (adjective) feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses | Synonyms: remorseful, rueful, ruthful |
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| controllable | (adjective) capable of being controlled | Synonyms: governable |
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| converse | (adjective) of words so related that one reverses the relation denoted by the other | - |
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| (adjective) turned about in order or relation | Synonyms: reversed, transposed |
| convertible | (adjective) capable of being exchanged for or replaced by something of equal value | Synonyms: exchangeable |
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| (adjective) designed to be changed from one use or form to another | - |
| (adjective) capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy | Synonyms: transformable, translatable, transmutable |
| conveyable | (adjective) legally transferable to the ownership of another | Synonyms: assignable, negotiable, transferable, transferrable |
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| convincible | (adjective) being susceptible to persuasion | Synonyms: persuadable, persuasible, suasible |
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| convolute | (adjective) rolled longitudinally upon itself | Synonyms: convoluted |
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| convulsive | (adjective) affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm | Synonyms: spasmodic, spastic |
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| (adjective) resembling a convulsion in being sudden and violent | - |
| cooperative | (adjective) done with or working with others for a common purpose or benefit | - |
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| (adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: concerted, conjunct, conjunctive, united |
| (adjective) willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement | Synonyms: accommodative |
| coordinate | (adjective) of equal importance, rank, or degree | - |
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| coordinative | (adjective) serving to connect two grammatical constituents of identical construction | Synonyms: coordinating |
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| copulative | (adjective) syntactically connecting sentences or elements of a sentence | - |
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| cordate | (adjective) (of a leaf) shaped like a heart | Synonyms: cordiform, heart-shaped |
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| cormose | (adjective) having or producing corms | Synonyms: cormous |
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| corporate | (adjective) of or belonging to a corporation | - |
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| (adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: bodied, corporal, embodied, incarnate |
| (adjective) done by or characteristic of individuals acting together | Synonyms: collective |
| (adjective) organized and maintained as a legal corporation | Synonyms: incorporated |
| correctable | (adjective) capable of being corrected by additions | Synonyms: amendable |
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| (adjective) capable of being returned to the original condition; not necessarily permanent | - |
| corrective | (adjective) tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition | - |
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| (adjective) designed to promote discipline | Synonyms: disciplinal, disciplinary |
| correlate | (adjective) mutually related | Synonyms: correlated, correlative |
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| correlative | (adjective) expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation | - |
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| (adjective) mutually related | Synonyms: correlate, correlated |
| corrigible | (adjective) capable of being corrected or set right | - |
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| corroborative | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| corrosive | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: caustic, erosive, mordant, vitriolic |
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| (adjective) spitefully sarcastic | - |
| corruptible | (adjective) capable of being corrupted | Synonyms: bribable, dishonest, purchasable, venal |
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| corruptive | (adjective) tending to corrupt or pervert | Synonyms: perversive, pestiferous |
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| corvine | (adjective) relating to or resembling a crow | - |
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| corymbose | (adjective) resembling a corymb | - |
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| costate | (adjective) having ribs | - |
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| (adjective) (of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture | Synonyms: ribbed |
| costive | (adjective) retarding evacuation of feces; binding; constipating | - |
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| countable | (adjective) that can be counted | Synonyms: denumerable, enumerable, numerable |
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| counteractive | (adjective) opposing or neutralizing or mitigating an effect by contrary action | - |
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| counterclockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: anticlockwise, contraclockwise |
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| counterintuitive | (adjective) contrary to what common sense would suggest | - |
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| counterproductive | (adjective) tending to hinder the achievement of a goal | - |
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| countrywide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a country or nation | Synonyms: nationwide |
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| countywide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a county | - |
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| couthie | (adjective) (chiefly Scottish) agreeable and genial | Synonyms: couthy |
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| crabwise | (adjective) (of movement) at an angle | Synonyms: sideways |
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| crackle | (adjective) having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware | - |
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| creative | (adjective) having the ability or power to create | Synonyms: originative |
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| (adjective) promoting construction or creation | - |
| credible | (adjective) capable of being believed | Synonyms: believable |
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| (adjective) appearing to merit belief or acceptance | - |
| (adjective) (a common but incorrect usage where `credulous' would be appropriate) credulous | - |
| creditable | (adjective) worthy of often limited commendation | - |
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| crenate | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenated, scalloped |
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| crenulate | (adjective) having a margin with small rounded teeth | Synonyms: crenulated |
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| criminative | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminatory, incriminating, incriminatory |
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| crispate | (adjective) wavy or notched and curled very irregularly | - |
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| crosswise | (adjective) lying or extending across the length of a thing or in a cross direction | - |
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| (adjective) in the shape of (a horizontal piece on) a cross | - |
| cruciate | (adjective) shaped like a cross | Synonyms: cruciform |
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| crude | (adjective) not refined or processed | Synonyms: unprocessed, unrefined |
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| (adjective) belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness | Synonyms: primitive, rude |
| (adjective) conspicuously and tastelessly indecent | Synonyms: earthy, gross, vulgar |
| (adjective) not processed or subjected to analysis | Synonyms: raw |
| (adjective) devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment | Synonyms: blunt, stark |
| (adjective) not carefully or expertly made | Synonyms: rough |
| crustlike | (adjective) having a hardened crust as a covering | Synonyms: crusted, crusty, encrusted |
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| crustose | (adjective) (of lichens) having a thin crusty thallus that adheres closely to the surface on which it is growing | - |
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| crystalline | (adjective) consisting of or containing or of the nature of crystals | - |
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| (adjective) transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity | Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid, transparent |
| (adjective) distinctly or sharply outlined | - |
| cubelike | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubical, cubiform, cuboid, cuboidal |
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| cuddlesome | (adjective) inviting cuddling or hugging | Synonyms: cuddly |
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| culpable | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blamable, blameable, blameful, blameworthy, censurable |
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| cultivable | (adjective) (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively | Synonyms: arable, cultivatable, tillable |
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| cultivatable | (adjective) (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively | Synonyms: arable, cultivable, tillable |
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| cumbersome | (adjective) not elegant or graceful in expression | Synonyms: awkward, clumsy, ill-chosen, inapt, inept |
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| (adjective) difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight | Synonyms: cumbrous |
| cumulative | (adjective) increasing by successive addition | Synonyms: accumulative |
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| cuneate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) narrowly triangular, wider at the apex and tapering toward the base | Synonyms: wedge-shaped |
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| cuplike | (adjective) resembling the shape of a cup | - |
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| cupulate | (adjective) shaped like (or supporting) a cupule | Synonyms: cupular |
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| curable | (adjective) able to be cured or healed | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being hardened by some additive or other agent | - |
| curative | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: alterative, healing, remedial, sanative, therapeutic |
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| cursive | (adjective) having successive letters joined together | - |
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| cuspate | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspated, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidated |
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| cuspidate | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidated |
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| cute | (adjective) obviously contrived to charm | Synonyms: precious |
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| (adjective) attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness | Synonyms: cunning |
| cuttable | (adjective) able to be chewed or cut | Synonyms: chewable |
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| cyanophyte | (adjective) relating to or caused by photosynthetic bacteria of the class Cyanobacteria | Synonyms: cyanobacterial |
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| cymose | (adjective) having a usually flat-topped flower cluster in which the main and branch stems each end in a flower that opens before those below it or to its side | - |
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| daisylike | (adjective) resembling a daisy | - |
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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 | - |
| damnable | (adjective) deserving to be execrated | Synonyms: execrable |
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| danceable | (adjective) suitable for dancing | - |
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| datable | (adjective) that can be given a date | Synonyms: dateable |
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| dateable | (adjective) that can be given a date | Synonyms: datable |
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| deathlike | (adjective) having the physical appearance of death | Synonyms: deathly |
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| debatable | (adjective) capable of being disproved | Synonyms: disputable |
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| (adjective) open to argument or debate | Synonyms: arguable, disputable, moot |
| (adjective) open to doubt or debate | Synonyms: problematic, problematical |
| debile | (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: decrepit, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly |
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| debilitative | (adjective) causing debilitation | Synonyms: enervating, enfeebling, weakening |
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| debonaire | (adjective) having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air | Synonyms: chipper, debonair, jaunty |
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| (adjective) having a sophisticated charm | Synonyms: debonair, debonnaire, suave |
| debonnaire | (adjective) having a sophisticated charm | Synonyms: debonair, debonaire, suave |
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| decayable | (adjective) liable to decay or spoil or become putrid | Synonyms: putrefiable, putrescible, spoilable |
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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 |
| decideable | (adjective) capable of being decided as following or not following from the axioms of a logical system | - |
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| decipherable | (adjective) easily deciphered | Synonyms: clear, readable |
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| decisive | (adjective) determining or having the power to determine an outcome | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by decision and firmness | - |
| (adjective) forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis | Synonyms: critical |
| (adjective) unmistakable | - |
| declarable | (adjective) that must be declared | - |
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| declarative | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: asserting, declaratory |
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| (adjective) relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements | Synonyms: indicative |
| decollete | (adjective) (of a garment) having a low-cut neckline | Synonyms: low-cut, low-necked |
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| decomposable | (adjective) capable of being partitioned | Synonyms: analyzable |
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| decorative | (adjective) serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose | Synonyms: cosmetic, ornamental |
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| decussate | (adjective) crossed or intersected in the form of an X | Synonyms: intersectant, intersecting |
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| deducible | (adjective) capable of being deduced | - |
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