| caterer | (noun) someone who provides food and service (as for a party) | - |
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| catering | (noun) providing food and services | - |
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| caterpillar | (noun) a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth | - |
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| caterwaul | (noun) the yowling sound made by a cat in heat | - |
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| caudate | (noun) amphibians that resemble lizards | Synonyms: urodele |
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| (noun) a tail-shaped basal ganglion located in a lateral ventricle of the brain | Synonyms: caudate nucleus |
| celebrater | (noun) a person who is celebrating | Synonyms: celebrant, celebrator |
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| celibate | (noun) an unmarried person who has taken a religious vow of chastity | - |
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| cephalochordate | (noun) fish-like animals having a notochord rather than a true spinal column | - |
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| cerate | (noun) a hard medicated paste made of lard or oil mixed with wax or resin | - |
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| certificate | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certification, credential, credentials |
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| (noun) a formal declaration that documents a fact of relevance to finance and investment; the holder has a right to receive interest or dividends | Synonyms: security |
| chateau | (noun) an impressive country house (or castle) in France | - |
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| chatelaine | (noun) a chain formerly worn at the waist by women; for carrying a purse or bunch of keys etc. | - |
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| (noun) the mistress of a chateau or large country house | - |
| cheapskate | (noun) a miserly person | Synonyms: tightwad |
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| cheater | (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
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| checkmate | (noun) a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king | Synonyms: mate |
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| (noun) complete victory | - |
| chelate | (noun) a heterocyclic compound having a metal ion attached by coordinate bonds to at least two nonmetal ions | Synonyms: chelate compound |
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| chlorate | (noun) any salt of chloric acid | - |
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| chloroplatinate | (noun) any salt of chloroplatinic acid. | - |
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| chocolate | (noun) a medium brown to dark-brown color | Synonyms: burnt umber, coffee, deep brown, umber |
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| (noun) a food made from roasted ground cacao beans | - |
| (noun) a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot | Synonyms: cocoa, drinking chocolate, hot chocolate |
| chordate | (noun) any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column | - |
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| chromate | (noun) any salt or ester of chromic acid | - |
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| ciliate | (noun) a protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell | Synonyms: ciliated protozoan, ciliophoran |
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| citrate | (noun) a salt or ester of citric acid | - |
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| classmate | (noun) an acquaintance that you go to school with | Synonyms: class fellow, schoolfellow, schoolmate |
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| climate | (noun) the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time | Synonyms: clime |
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| (noun) the prevailing psychological state | Synonyms: mood |
| clofibrate | (noun) a drug (trade name Atromid-S) that reduces lipids in the blood serum; used to treat some cardiovascular diseases | Synonyms: Atromid-S |
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| coatee | (noun) a short close-fitting coat | - |
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| cockateel | (noun) small grey Australian parrot with a yellow crested head | Synonyms: cockatiel, cockatoo parrot, Nymphicus hollandicus |
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| coelenterate | (noun) radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms | Synonyms: cnidarian |
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| cognate | (noun) a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language | Synonyms: cognate word |
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| (noun) one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another | Synonyms: blood relation, blood relative, sib |
| collateral | (noun) a security pledged for the repayment of a loan | - |
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| commensurateness | (noun) the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount | Synonyms: correspondence, proportionateness |
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| compassionateness | (noun) a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering | Synonyms: compassion |
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| complicatedness | (noun) puzzling complexity | Synonyms: complication, knottiness, tortuousness |
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| concatenation | (noun) the act of linking together as in a series or chain | - |
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| (noun) a series of things depending on each other as if linked together | Synonyms: chain |
| (noun) the linking together of a consecutive series of symbols or events or ideas etc | - |
| (noun) the state of being linked together as in a chain; union in a linked series | - |
| concentrate | (noun) a concentrated example of something | - |
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| (noun) a concentrated form of a foodstuff; the bulk is reduced by removing water | - |
| (noun) the desired mineral that is left after impurities have been removed from mined ore | Synonyms: dressed ore |
| condensate | (noun) atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold | Synonyms: condensation |
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| (noun) a product of condensation | - |
| confederate | (noun) a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan) | Synonyms: accomplice |
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| (noun) someone who assists in a plot | Synonyms: collaborator, henchman, partner in crime |
| conglomerate | (noun) a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization | Synonyms: empire |
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| (noun) a composite rock made up of particles of varying size | Synonyms: pudding stone |
| conjugate | (noun) a mixture of two partially miscible liquids A and B produces two conjugate solutions: one of A in B and another of B in A | Synonyms: conjugate solution |
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| considerateness | (noun) kind and considerate regard for others | Synonyms: consideration, thoughtfulness |
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| consulate | (noun) diplomatic building that serves as the residence or workplace of a consul | - |
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| coordinate | (noun) a number that identifies a position relative to an axis | Synonyms: co-ordinate |
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| copperplate | (noun) an engraving consisting of a smooth plate of copper that has been etched or engraved | Synonyms: copperplate engraving |
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| (noun) a print made from an engraved copperplate | - |
| (noun) a graceful style of handwriting based on the writing used on copperplate engravings | - |
| correlate | (noun) either of two or more related or complementary variables | Synonyms: correlative |
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| craniate | (noun) animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium | Synonyms: vertebrate |
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| crate | (noun) a rugged box (usually made of wood); used for shipping | - |
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| (noun) the quantity contained in a crate | Synonyms: crateful |
| crateful | (noun) the quantity contained in a crate | Synonyms: crate |
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| crater | (noun) a bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite or bomb | - |
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| (noun) a bowl-shaped geological formation at the top of a volcano | Synonyms: volcanic crater |
| curate | (noun) a person authorized to conduct religious worship | Synonyms: minister, minister of religion, parson, pastor, rector |
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| cyclamate | (noun) any salt or ester of cyclamic acid. | - |
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| date | (noun) sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed | - |
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| (noun) a meeting arranged in advance | Synonyms: appointment, engagement |
| (noun) a participant in a date | Synonyms: escort |
| (noun) the specified day of the month | Synonyms: day of the month |
| (noun) the present | - |
| (noun) the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred | - |
| (noun) a particular day specified as the time something happens | - |
| dateline | (noun) a line at the beginning of a news article giving the date and place of origin of the news dispatch | - |
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| (noun) an imaginary line on the surface of the earth following (approximately) the 180th meridian | Synonyms: date line, International Date Line |
| deathrate | (noun) the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year | Synonyms: death rate, fatality rate, mortality, mortality rate |
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| debate | (noun) the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote) | Synonyms: disputation, public debate |
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| (noun) a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal | Synonyms: argument, argumentation |
| debater | (noun) someone who engages in debate | Synonyms: arguer |
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| defeated | (noun) people who are defeated | Synonyms: discomfited |
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| degenerate | (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: deviant, deviate, perv, perve, pervert |
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| delegate | (noun) a person appointed or elected to represent others | - |
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| deliberateness | (noun) the trait of thoughtfulness in action or decision | Synonyms: deliberation |
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| (noun) a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry | Synonyms: deliberation, slowness, unhurriedness |
| delicatessen | (noun) a shop selling ready-to-eat food products | Synonyms: deli, food shop |
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| (noun) ready-to-eat food products | Synonyms: delicatessen food |
| desperate | (noun) a person who is frightened and in need of help | - |
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| determinateness | (noun) the quality of being predictable with great confidence | Synonyms: definiteness |
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| deviate | (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: degenerate, deviant, perv, perve, pervert |
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| dibranchiate | (noun) cephalopods having two gills | Synonyms: dibranch, dibranchiate mollusk |
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| dichromate | (noun) a salt of the hypothetical dichromic acid | Synonyms: bichromate |
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| dictate | (noun) a guiding principle | - |
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| (noun) an authoritative rule | - |
| dilater | (noun) a surgical instrument that is used to dilate or distend an opening or an organ | Synonyms: dilator |
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| dimenhydrinate | (noun) antihistamine and antiemetic (trade name Dramamine) used to treat motion sickness | Synonyms: Dramamine |
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| dinocerate | (noun) an extinct ungulate | - |
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| dinoflagellate | (noun) chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella; a chief constituent of plankton | - |
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| diplomate | (noun) medical specialist whose competence has been certified by a diploma granted by an appropriate professional group | - |
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| directmate | (noun) A type of problem where White, moving first, is required to checkmate Black in a specified number of moves against any defence. | - |
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| directorate | (noun) a group of persons chosen to govern the affairs of a corporation or other large institution | Synonyms: board of directors |
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| disconsolateness | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondence, despondency, heartsickness |
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| dishwater | (noun) water in which dishes and cooking utensils are washed | - |
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| disparateness | (noun) utter dissimilarity | Synonyms: distinctiveness |
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| dispassionateness | (noun) objectivity and detachment | Synonyms: dispassion, dryness |
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| distillate | (noun) a purified liquid produced by condensation from a vapor during distilling; the product of distilling | Synonyms: distillation |
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| doctorate | (noun) one of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university | Synonyms: doctor's degree |
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| doorplate | (noun) a nameplate fastened to a door; indicates the person who works or lives there | - |
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| drumbeater | (noun) a fervent and even militant proponent of something | Synonyms: partisan, zealot |
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| duplicate | (noun) a copy that corresponds to an original exactly | Synonyms: duplication |
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| (noun) something additional of the same kind | Synonyms: extra |
| eater | (noun) any green goods that are good to eat | - |
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| (noun) someone who consumes food for nourishment | Synonyms: feeder |
| eatery | (noun) a building where people go to eat | Synonyms: eating house, eating place, restaurant |
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| edentate | (noun) primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America | - |
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| educatee | (noun) a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution | Synonyms: pupil, student |
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| effeminateness | (noun) the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man) | Synonyms: effeminacy, sissiness, softness, unmanliness, womanishness |
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| eggbeater | (noun) a mixer for beating eggs or whipping cream | Synonyms: eggwhisk |
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| (noun) an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades | Synonyms: chopper, helicopter, whirlybird |
| ejaculate | (noun) the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract | Synonyms: come, cum, seed, semen, seminal fluid |
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| elaborateness | (noun) marked by elaborately complex detail | Synonyms: elaboration, intricacy, involution |
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| (noun) an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated | Synonyms: ornateness |
| elater | (noun) any of various widely distributed beetles | Synonyms: elaterid, elaterid beetle |
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| elaterid | (noun) any of various widely distributed beetles | Synonyms: elater, elaterid beetle |
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| electorate | (noun) the body of enfranchised citizens; those qualified to vote | - |
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| electroplate | (noun) any artifact that has been plated with a thin coat of metal by electrolysis | - |
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| electroplater | (noun) a plater who uses electrolysis | - |
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| elevated | (noun) a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level | Synonyms: el, elevated railroad, elevated railway, overhead railway |
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| eluate | (noun) a liquid solution that results from elution | - |
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| emirate | (noun) the office of an emir | - |
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| (noun) the domain controlled by an emir | - |
| enate | (noun) one related on the mother's side | Synonyms: matrikin, matrilineal kin, matrilineal sib, matrisib |
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