| carpetbagger | (noun) an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously | - |
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| carrageen | (noun) dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America | Synonyms: carageen, carragheen, Chondrus crispus, Irish moss |
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| carrageenan | (noun) a colloidal extract from carrageen seaweed and other red algae | Synonyms: carrageenin |
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| carrageenin | (noun) a colloidal extract from carrageen seaweed and other red algae | Synonyms: carrageenan |
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| carragheen | (noun) dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America | Synonyms: carageen, carrageen, Chondrus crispus, Irish moss |
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| carriage | (noun) a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses | Synonyms: equipage, rig |
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| (noun) a railcar where passengers ride | Synonyms: coach, passenger car |
| (noun) a machine part that carries something else | - |
| (noun) a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around | Synonyms: baby buggy, baby carriage, go-cart, perambulator, pram, pushchair, pusher, stroller |
| (noun) characteristic way of bearing one's body | Synonyms: bearing, posture |
| carriageway | (noun) one of the two sides of a motorway where traffic travels in one direction only usually in two or three lanes | - |
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| cartage | (noun) the work of taking something away in a cart or truck and disposing of it | Synonyms: carting |
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| cartilage | (noun) tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults | Synonyms: gristle |
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| cartilaginification | (noun) abnormal formation of cartilage from other tissues; observed in some Asians | - |
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| cellarage | (noun) a storage area in a cellar | - |
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| (noun) a charge for storing goods in a cellar | - |
| chagrin | (noun) strong feelings of embarrassment | Synonyms: humiliation, mortification |
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| champagne | (noun) a white sparkling wine either produced in Champagne or resembling that produced there | Synonyms: bubbly |
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| choragus | (noun) (ancient Greece) leader of a group or festival; leader of a chorus | - |
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| cleavage | (noun) the act of cleaving or splitting | - |
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| (noun) the line formed by a groove between two parts (especially the separation between a woman's breasts) | - |
| (noun) (embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum | Synonyms: segmentation |
| (noun) the breaking of a chemical bond in a molecule resulting in smaller molecules | - |
| (noun) the state of being split or cleft | - |
| clientage | (noun) relation of a client to a patron | - |
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| coagulant | (noun) an agent that produces coagulation | Synonyms: coagulator |
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| coagulase | (noun) an enzyme that induces coagulation | - |
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| coagulation | (noun) the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid | Synonyms: clotting, curdling |
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| coagulator | (noun) an agent that produces coagulation | Synonyms: coagulant |
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| coagulum | (noun) a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid | Synonyms: clot |
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| coinage | (noun) the act of inventing a word or phrase | Synonyms: neologism, neology |
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| (noun) a newly invented word or phrase | Synonyms: neologism, neology |
| (noun) coins collectively | Synonyms: metal money, mintage, specie |
| coliphage | (noun) a bacteriophage that infects the bacterium Escherichia coli | - |
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| collage | (noun) a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image | Synonyms: montage |
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| (noun) any collection of diverse things | - |
| collagen | (noun) a fibrous scleroprotein in bone and cartilage and tendon and other connective tissue; yields gelatin on boiling | - |
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| collagenase | (noun) any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of collagen and gelatin | - |
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| colleague | (noun) an associate that one works with | Synonyms: co-worker, fellow worker, workfellow |
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| (noun) a person who is member of one's class or profession | Synonyms: confrere, fellow |
| commonage | (noun) property held in common | - |
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| concubinage | (noun) cohabitation without being legally married | - |
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| conflagration | (noun) a very intense and uncontrolled fire | Synonyms: inferno |
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| contagion | (noun) the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people | Synonyms: infection |
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| (noun) an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted | Synonyms: infection, transmission |
| (noun) any disease easily transmitted by contact | Synonyms: contagious disease |
| contagiousness | (noun) The state or condition of being contagious, easily transmitted to others. | - |
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| contrafagotto | (noun) the bassoon that is the largest instrument in the oboe family | Synonyms: contrabassoon, double bassoon |
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| coprophagia | (noun) eating feces; in human a symptom of some kinds of insanity | Synonyms: coprophagy |
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| coprophagy | (noun) eating feces; in human a symptom of some kinds of insanity | Synonyms: coprophagia |
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| cordage | (noun) the ropes in the rigging of a ship | - |
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| (noun) the amount of wood in an area as measured in cords | - |
| corkage | (noun) a charge added at a restaurant for every bottle of wine served that was not bought on the premises | - |
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| corsage | (noun) an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present | Synonyms: bouquet, nosegay, posy |
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| cottage | (noun) a small house with a single story | Synonyms: bungalow |
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| cottager | (noun) someone who lives in a cottage | Synonyms: cottage dweller |
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| counterespionage | (noun) spying on the spies | - |
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| courage | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: braveness, bravery, courageousness |
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| courageousness | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: braveness, bravery, courage |
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| coverage | (noun) the extent to which something is covered | - |
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| (noun) the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television | Synonyms: reportage, reporting |
| (noun) the total amount and type of insurance carried | Synonyms: insurance coverage |
| cowage | (noun) the annual woody vine of Asia having long clusters of purplish flowers and densely hairy pods; cultivated in southern United States for green manure and grazing | Synonyms: Bengal bean, Benghal bean, Florida bean, Mucuna aterrima, Mucuna deeringiana, Mucuna pruriens utilis, Stizolobium deeringiana, velvet bean |
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| (noun) pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey | - |
| cozenage | (noun) a fraudulent business scheme | Synonyms: scam |
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| crag | (noun) a steep rugged rock or cliff | - |
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| cragsman | (noun) a climber of vertical rock faces | Synonyms: rock climber |
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| cribbage | (noun) a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two | Synonyms: crib |
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| curettage | (noun) surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette | Synonyms: curettement |
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| curtilage | (noun) the enclosed land around a house or other building | Synonyms: grounds, yard |
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| dag | (noun) a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing | Synonyms: jag |
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| (noun) 10 grams | Synonyms: decagram, dekagram, dkg |
| dagame | (noun) source of a tough elastic wood | Synonyms: Calycophyllum candidissimum, lemonwood tree |
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| dagga | (noun) relatively nontoxic South African herb smoked like tobacco | Synonyms: Cape dagga, Leonotis leonurus, red dagga, wilde dagga |
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| dagger | (noun) a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing | Synonyms: sticker |
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| (noun) a character used in printing to indicate a second cross reference or footnote when the asterisk has already been used | Synonyms: obelisk |
| daggerboard | (noun) a removable centerboard on a small sailboat that can be lowered into the water to serve as a keel | - |
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| dago | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent | Synonyms: ginzo, greaseball, Guinea, wop |
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| daguerreotype | (noun) a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor | - |
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| damage | (noun) the act of damaging something or someone | Synonyms: harm, hurt, scathe |
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| (noun) any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right | Synonyms: legal injury, wrong |
| (noun) the occurrence of a change for the worse | Synonyms: harm, impairment |
| (noun) loss of military equipment | Synonyms: equipment casualty |
| (noun) the amount of money needed to purchase something | Synonyms: price, terms |
| damages | (noun) a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury | Synonyms: amends, indemnification, indemnity, redress, restitution |
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| decagon | (noun) a polygon with 10 sides and 10 angles | - |
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| decagram | (noun) 10 grams | Synonyms: dag, dekagram, dkg |
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| decoagulant | (noun) medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood | Synonyms: anticoagulant, anticoagulant medication |
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| decolletage | (noun) a low-cut neckline on a woman's dress | - |
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| decoupage | (noun) the art of decorating a surface with shapes or pictures and then coating it with varnish or lacquer | - |
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| (noun) art produced by decorating a surface with cutouts and then coating it with several layers of varnish or lacquer | - |
| deflagration | (noun) combustion that propagates through a gas or along the surface of an explosive at a rapid rate driven by the transfer of heat | - |
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| dekagram | (noun) 10 grams | Synonyms: dag, decagram, dkg |
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| demagnetisation | (noun) the process of removing magnetization | Synonyms: demagnetization |
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| demagnetization | (noun) the process of removing magnetization | Synonyms: demagnetisation |
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| demagog | (noun) a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices | Synonyms: demagogue, rabble-rouser |
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| demagogue | (noun) a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices | Synonyms: demagog, rabble-rouser |
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| demagoguery | (noun) impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace | Synonyms: demagogy |
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| demagogy | (noun) impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace | Synonyms: demagoguery |
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| demurrage | (noun) detention of a ship or freight car or other cargo beyond its scheduled time of departure | - |
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| (noun) a charge required as compensation for the delay of a ship or freight car or other cargo beyond its scheduled time of departure | - |
| diaglyph | (noun) glyptic art consisting of a sunken or depressed engraving or carving on a stone or gem (as opposed to cameo) | Synonyms: intaglio |
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| diagnosing | (noun) identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon | Synonyms: diagnosis |
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| diagnosis | (noun) identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon | Synonyms: diagnosing |
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| diagnostician | (noun) a doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis | Synonyms: pathologist |
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| diagnostics | (noun) the branch of medical science dealing with the classification of disease | Synonyms: nosology |
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| diagonal | (noun) a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information | Synonyms: separatrix, slash, solidus, stroke, virgule |
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| (noun) an oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard | - |
| (noun) (mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from the upper right to lower left entry | - |
| (noun) a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric | Synonyms: bias |
| (noun) (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent | - |
| diagonalisation | (noun) changing a square matrix to diagonal form (with all non-zero elements on the principal diagonal) | Synonyms: diagonalization |
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| diagonalization | (noun) changing a square matrix to diagonal form (with all non-zero elements on the principal diagonal) | Synonyms: diagonalisation |
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| diagram | (noun) a drawing intended to explain how something works; a drawing showing the relation between the parts | - |
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| diagramming | (noun) providing a chart or outline of a system | Synonyms: schematisation, schematization |
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| diamagnet | (noun) a substance that exhibits diamagnetism | - |
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| diamagnetism | (noun) phenomenon exhibited by materials like copper or bismuth that become magnetized in a magnetic field with a polarity opposite to the magnetic force; unlike iron they are slightly repelled by a magnet | - |
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| diaphragm | (noun) a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens | Synonyms: stop |
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| (noun) electro-acoustic transducer that vibrates to receive or produce sound waves | - |
| (noun) a contraceptive device consisting of a flexible dome-shaped cup made of rubber or plastic; it is filled with spermicide and fitted over the uterine cervix | Synonyms: contraceptive diaphragm, pessary |
| (noun) (anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration | Synonyms: midriff |
| dinoflagellate | (noun) chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella; a chief constituent of plankton | - |
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| disadvantage | (noun) the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position | - |
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| disagreeableness | (noun) an ill-tempered and offensive disposition | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being disagreeable and unpleasant | - |
| disagreement | (noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | Synonyms: discrepancy, divergence, variance |
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| (noun) the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing | - |
| (noun) a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: dissension, dissonance |
| discouragement | (noun) the act of discouraging | - |
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| (noun) the expression of opposition and disapproval | - |
| (noun) the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles | Synonyms: disheartenment, dismay |
| disengagement | (noun) to break off a military action with an enemy | Synonyms: fallback, pullout |
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| (noun) the act of releasing from an attachment or connection | Synonyms: detachment |
| dishrag | (noun) a cloth for washing dishes | Synonyms: dishcloth |
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| disparagement | (noun) the act of speaking contemptuously of | Synonyms: dispraise |
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| (noun) a communication that belittles somebody or something | Synonyms: depreciation, derogation |
| disparager | (noun) one who disparages or belittles the worth of something | Synonyms: depreciator, detractor, knocker |
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| divagation | (noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, deviation, digression, diversion |
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| (noun) a message that departs from the main subject | Synonyms: aside, digression, excursus, parenthesis |
| dockage | (noun) the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes | Synonyms: docking, moorage, tying up |
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| (noun) landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out | Synonyms: dock, docking facility |
| (noun) a fee charged for a vessel to use a dock | Synonyms: docking fee |
| dodecagon | (noun) a twelve-sided polygon | - |
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| dosage | (noun) a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time | Synonyms: dose |
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| (noun) the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time | Synonyms: dose |