| 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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| catchy | (adjective) likely to attract attention | Synonyms: attention-getting |
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| (adjective) having concealed difficulty | Synonyms: tricky |
| catechetic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a rigorous catechism | Synonyms: catechistic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or involving catechesis | Synonyms: catechetical |
| catechetical | (adjective) of or relating to or involving catechesis | Synonyms: catechetic |
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| catechismal | (adjective) of or relating to a catechism summarizing the principles of Christianity | - |
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| catechistic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a rigorous catechism | Synonyms: catechetic |
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| categorematic | (adjective) of a term or phrase capable of standing as the subject or (especially) the predicate of a proposition | - |
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| categorial | (adjective) of or relating to the concept of categories | - |
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| categoric | (adjective) relating to or included in a category or categories | Synonyms: categorical |
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| (adjective) not modified or restricted by reservations | Synonyms: categorical, flat, unconditional |
| categorical | (adjective) relating to or included in a category or categories | Synonyms: categoric |
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| (adjective) not modified or restricted by reservations | Synonyms: categoric, flat, unconditional |
| categorised | (adjective) arranged into categories | Synonyms: categorized |
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| categorized | (adjective) arranged into categories | Synonyms: categorised |
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| catenulate | (adjective) having a chainlike form | Synonyms: chainlike |
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| catercorner | (adjective) slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line | Synonyms: cata-cornered, catacorner, cater-cornered, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered |
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| cathartic | (adjective) emotionally purging (of e.g. art) | Synonyms: releasing |
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| (adjective) strongly laxative | Synonyms: evacuant, purgative |
| (adjective) emotionally purging | Synonyms: psychotherapeutic |
| cathectic | (adjective) of or relating to cathexis | - |
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| cathedral | (adjective) relating to or containing or issuing from a bishop's office or throne | - |
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| cathodic | (adjective) of or at or pertaining to a cathode | - |
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| catholic | (adjective) free from provincial prejudices or attachments | - |
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| cationic | (adjective) of or relating to cations | - |
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| catkinate | (adjective) resembling a catkin | - |
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| catoptric | (adjective) of or relating to catoptrics; produced by or based on mirrors | Synonyms: catoptrical |
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| catoptrical | (adjective) of or relating to catoptrics; produced by or based on mirrors | Synonyms: catoptric |
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| cattish | (adjective) marked by or arising from malice | Synonyms: bitchy, catty |
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| catty | (adjective) marked by or arising from malice | Synonyms: bitchy, cattish |
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| caudal | (adjective) constituting or relating to a tail | - |
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| (adjective) resembling a tail | Synonyms: taillike |
| (adjective) situated in or directed toward the part of the body from which the tail arises | - |
| caudate | (adjective) having a tail or taillike appendage | Synonyms: caudated |
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| (adjective) (of a leaf shape) tapering gradually into a long taillike tip | - |
| caudated | (adjective) having a tail or taillike appendage | Synonyms: caudate |
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| caulescent | (adjective) (of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground | Synonyms: cauline, stemmed |
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| cauline | (adjective) especially of leaves; growing on a stem especially on the upper part of a stem | - |
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| (adjective) (of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground | Synonyms: caulescent, stemmed |
| caulked | (adjective) having cracks and crevices stopped up with a filler | - |
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| causal | (adjective) involving or constituting a cause; causing | - |
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| causative | (adjective) producing an effect | - |
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| causeless | (adjective) having no cause or apparent cause | Synonyms: fortuitous, uncaused |
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| (adjective) having no justifying cause or reason | Synonyms: reasonless |
| caustic | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: corrosive, erosive, mordant, vitriolic |
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| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
| cautionary | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, exemplary, monitory, warning |
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| (adjective) warding off | Synonyms: prophylactic |
| cautious | (adjective) showing careful forethought | - |
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| (adjective) avoiding excess | Synonyms: conservative |
| cavalier | (adjective) given to haughty disregard of others | Synonyms: high-handed |
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| cavernous | (adjective) filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood | Synonyms: erectile |
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| (adjective) being or suggesting a cavern | - |
| cavitied | (adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) | Synonyms: alveolate, faveolate, honeycombed, pitted |
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