| carcass | (noun) the dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food | Synonyms: carcase |
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| cassareep | (noun) a flavoring made by boiling down the juice of the bitter cassava; used in West Indian cooking | - |
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| cassava | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch | Synonyms: casava |
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| (noun) cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca | Synonyms: manioc |
| (noun) a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics | Synonyms: cassava starch, manioc, manioca |
| casserole | (noun) large deep dish in which food can be cooked and served | - |
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| (noun) food cooked and served in a casserole | - |
| cassette | (noun) a container that holds a magnetic tape used for recording or playing sound or video | - |
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| cassia | (noun) any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods | - |
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| (noun) Chinese tree with aromatic bark; yields a less desirable cinnamon than Ceylon cinnamon | Synonyms: cassia-bark tree, Cinnamomum cassia |
| cassie | (noun) tropical American thorny shrub or small tree; fragrant yellow flowers used in making perfumery | Synonyms: Acacia farnesiana, flame tree, huisache, mimosa bush, scented wattle, sweet acacia, sweet wattle |
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| cassino | (noun) a card game in which cards face up on the table are taken with eligible cards in the hand | Synonyms: casino |
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| cassiri | (noun) a drink resembling beer; made from fermented cassava juice | - |
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| cassiterite | (noun) a hard heavy dark mineral that is the chief source of tin | - |
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| cassock | (noun) a black garment reaching down to the ankles; worn by priests or choristers | - |
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| cassowary | (noun) large black flightless bird of Australia and New Guinea having a horny head crest | - |
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| chasse | (noun) (ballet) quick gliding steps with one foot always leading | Synonyms: sashay |
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| chassis | (noun) the skeleton of a motor vehicle consisting of a steel frame supported on springs that holds the body and motor | - |
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| (noun) a metal mounting for the circuit components of an electronic device | - |
| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
| cheatgrass | (noun) annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of the Mediterranean | Synonyms: Bromus tectorum, downy brome, downy bromegrass, downy cheat, downy chess, drooping brome |
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| class | (noun) education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings | Synonyms: course, course of instruction, course of study |
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| (noun) elegance in dress or behavior | - |
| (noun) a collection of things sharing a common attribute | Synonyms: category, family |
| (noun) people having the same social, economic, or educational status | Synonyms: social class, socio-economic class, stratum |
| (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders | - |
| (noun) a body of students who are taught together | Synonyms: course, form, grade |
| (noun) a body of students who graduate together | Synonyms: year |
| (noun) a league ranked by quality | Synonyms: division |
| classic | (noun) a creation of the highest excellence | - |
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| (noun) an artist who has created classic works | - |
| classical | (noun) traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste | Synonyms: classical music, serious music |
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| classicalism | (noun) a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms | Synonyms: classicism |
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| classicism | (noun) a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms | Synonyms: classicalism |
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| classicist | (noun) an artistic person who adheres to classicism | - |
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| (noun) a student of ancient Greek and Latin | Synonyms: classical scholar |
| classics | (noun) study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome | - |
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| classification | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization |
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| (noun) restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people | - |
| (noun) the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories | Synonyms: categorisation, categorization, sorting |
| (noun) a group of people or things arranged by class or category | Synonyms: categorisation, categorization |
| classified | (noun) a short ad in a newspaper or magazine (usually in small print) and appearing along with other ads of the same type | Synonyms: classified ad, classified advertisement |
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| classifier | (noun) an algorithm that implements classification. | - |
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| (noun) a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs | - |
| (noun) a person who creates classifications | - |
| classmate | (noun) an acquaintance that you go to school with | Synonyms: class fellow, schoolfellow, schoolmate |
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| classroom | (noun) a room in a school where lessons take place | Synonyms: schoolroom |
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| classwork | (noun) the part of a student's work that is done in the classroom | - |
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| compass | (noun) navigational instrument for finding directions | - |
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| (noun) drafting instrument used for drawing circles | - |
| (noun) an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: | Synonyms: ambit, orbit, range, reach, scope |
| (noun) the limit of capability | Synonyms: grasp, range, reach |
| compassion | (noun) the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it | Synonyms: pity |
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| (noun) a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering | Synonyms: compassionateness |
| compassionateness | (noun) a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering | Synonyms: compassion |
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| contrabass | (noun) largest and lowest member of the violin family | Synonyms: bass fiddle, bass viol, bull fiddle, double bass, string bass |
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| contrabassoon | (noun) the bassoon that is the largest instrument in the oboe family | Synonyms: contrafagotto, double bassoon |
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| cordgrass | (noun) any of several perennial grasses of the genus Spartina; some important as coastal soil binders | Synonyms: cord grass |
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| crabgrass | (noun) grasses with creeping stems that root freely; a pest in lawns | Synonyms: crab grass, finger grass |
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| crassitude | (noun) the quality of being crass--devoid of refinement | Synonyms: crassness |
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| crassness | (noun) the quality of being crass--devoid of refinement | Synonyms: crassitude |
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| crevasse | (noun) a deep fissure | - |
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| cuirass | (noun) medieval body armor that covers the chest and back | - |
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| cuirassier | (noun) a cavalryman equipped with a cuirass | - |
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| curassow | (noun) large crested arboreal game bird of warm parts of the Americas having long legs and tails; highly esteemed as game and food | - |
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| cutlass | (noun) a short heavy curved sword with one edge; formerly used by sailors | Synonyms: cutlas |
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| cutlassfish | (noun) long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel | Synonyms: frost fish, hairtail |
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| dallisgrass | (noun) tall tufted perennial tropical American grass naturalized as pasture and forage grass in southern United States | Synonyms: dallis grass, paspalum, Paspalum dilatatum |
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| dassie | (noun) any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes | Synonyms: coney, cony, das, hyrax |
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| declassification | (noun) reduction or removal by the government of restrictions on a classified document or weapon | - |
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| demitasse | (noun) small coffee cup; for serving black coffee | - |
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| (noun) small cup of strong black coffee without milk or cream | Synonyms: cafe noir |
| disassembly | (noun) the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: dismantlement, dismantling |
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| disassociation | (noun) a state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently | Synonyms: dissociation |
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| (noun) the state of being unconnected in memory or imagination | - |
| disembarrassment | (noun) something that extricates you from embarrassment | - |
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| dispassion | (noun) objectivity and detachment | Synonyms: dispassionateness, dryness |
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| dispassionateness | (noun) objectivity and detachment | Synonyms: dispassion, dryness |
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| dumbass | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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| eelgrass | (noun) submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts | Synonyms: grass wrack, sea wrack, Zostera marina |
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| (noun) submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World and Australia | Synonyms: tape grass, Vallisneria spiralis, wild celery |
| embarrassment | (noun) extreme excess | Synonyms: overplus, plethora, superfluity |
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| (noun) some event that causes someone to be embarrassed | - |
| (noun) the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public | - |
| (noun) the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy) | - |
| embassador | (noun) a diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another | Synonyms: ambassador |
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| embassy | (noun) a diplomatic building where ambassadors live or work | - |
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| (noun) an ambassador and his entourage collectively | - |
| encompassment | (noun) including entirely | - |
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| eyeglass | (noun) lens for correcting defective vision in one eye; held in place by facial muscles | Synonyms: monocle |
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| eyeglasses | (noun) (plural) optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision | Synonyms: glasses, specs, spectacles |
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| fiberglass | (noun) a covering material made of glass fibers in resins | Synonyms: fibreglass |
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| fibreglass | (noun) a covering material made of glass fibers in resins | Synonyms: fiberglass |
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| fricassee | (noun) pieces of chicken or other meat stewed in gravy with e.g. carrots and onions and served with noodles or dumplings | - |
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| gassing | (noun) the deliberate act of poisoning some person or animal with gas | - |
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| (noun) the process of interacting with gas | - |
| glass | (noun) a container made of glass for holding liquids while drinking | Synonyms: drinking glass |
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| (noun) an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant | Synonyms: chalk, chicken feed, crank, deoxyephedrine, ice, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, shabu, trash |
| (noun) a mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror | Synonyms: looking glass |
| (noun) a small refracting telescope | Synonyms: field glass, spyglass |
| (noun) glassware collectively | - |
| (noun) the quantity a glass will hold | Synonyms: glassful |
| (noun) a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure | - |
| glassblower | (noun) someone skilled in blowing bottles from molten glass | - |
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| glasses | (noun) (plural) optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision | Synonyms: eyeglasses, specs, spectacles |
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| glassful | (noun) the quantity a glass will hold | Synonyms: glass |
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| glasshouse | (noun) a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions | Synonyms: greenhouse |
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| glassmaker | (noun) someone who makes glass | - |
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| glassware | (noun) an article of tableware made of glass | Synonyms: glasswork |
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| glasswork | (noun) an article of tableware made of glass | Synonyms: glassware |
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| glassworker | (noun) someone who cuts flat glass to size | Synonyms: glass-cutter, glass cutter, glazer, glazier |
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| glassworks | (noun) a workplace where glass is made | - |
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| glasswort | (noun) fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass | Synonyms: Salicornia europaea, samphire |
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| (noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash | Synonyms: barilla, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda, saltwort |
| grass | (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: dope, gage, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sens, sess, skunk, smoke, weed |
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| (noun) bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle | Synonyms: eatage, forage, pasturage, pasture |
| (noun) a police informer who implicates many people | Synonyms: supergrass |
| (noun) narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay | - |
| grassfinch | (noun) usually brightly-colored Australian weaverbirds; often kept as cage birds | Synonyms: grass finch |
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| grassfire | (noun) an uncontrolled fire in a grassy area | Synonyms: prairie fire |
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| grasshopper | (noun) terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping | Synonyms: hopper |
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| (noun) a cocktail made of creme de menthe and cream (sometimes with creme de cacao) | - |
| grassland | (noun) land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life | - |
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| groundmass | (noun) (geology) the matrix of fine-grained crystalline material in which larger crystals are embedded | - |
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| gyrocompass | (noun) a compass that does not depend on magnetism but uses a gyroscope instead | - |
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| harasser | (noun) a persistent attacker | Synonyms: harrier |
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| (noun) a persistent tormentor | - |
| harassment | (noun) the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism | Synonyms: molestation |
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| (noun) a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented | Synonyms: torment |
| hardinggrass | (noun) perennial grass of Australia and South Africa; introduced in North America as forage grass | Synonyms: Harding grass, Phalaris aquatica, Phalaris tuberosa, toowomba canary grass |
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| hassium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element, with atomic number 108 | Synonyms: atomic number 108, element 108, Hs |
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| hassle | (noun) disorderly fighting | Synonyms: dogfight, rough-and-tumble, scuffle, tussle |
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| (noun) an angry disturbance | Synonyms: bother, fuss, trouble |
| hassock | (noun) a cushion for kneeling on (as when praying in church) | - |
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| (noun) thick cushion used as a seat | Synonyms: ottoman, pouf, pouffe, puff |
| hourglass | (noun) a sandglass that runs for sixty minutes | - |
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| immunoassay | (noun) identification of a substance (especially a protein) by its action as an antigen | Synonyms: immunochemical assay |
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| impasse | (noun) a street with only one way in or out | Synonyms: blind alley, cul de sac, dead-end street |
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| (noun) a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible | Synonyms: dead end, deadlock, stalemate, standstill |
| impassiveness | (noun) apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions | Synonyms: emotionlessness, impassivity, indifference, phlegm, stolidity, unemotionality |
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| impassivity | (noun) apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions | Synonyms: emotionlessness, impassiveness, indifference, phlegm, stolidity, unemotionality |
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| isinglass | (noun) any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves; used as dielectrics because of their resistance to electricity | Synonyms: mica |
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| jackass | (noun) male donkey | Synonyms: jack |
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| (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, fathead, goof, goofball, goose, twat, zany |
| jassid | (noun) a variety of leafhopper | - |
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| knotgrass | (noun) low-growing weedy grass with spikelets along the leaf stems | Synonyms: Paspalum distichum |
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| kvass | (noun) fermented beverage resembling beer but made from rye or barley | - |
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| landmass | (noun) a large continuous extent of land | Synonyms: land mass |
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| lass | (noun) a girl or young woman who is unmarried | Synonyms: jeune fille, lassie, young girl |
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