cesarean | (noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian, cesarian section |
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cesarian | (noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian section |
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cesium | (noun) a soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures); the most electropositive and alkaline metal | Synonyms: atomic number 55, caesium, Cs |
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cessation | (noun) a stopping | Synonyms: surcease |
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cession | (noun) the act of ceding | Synonyms: ceding |
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cesspit | (noun) a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it | Synonyms: cesspool, sink, sump |
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cesspool | (noun) a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it | Synonyms: cesspit, sink, sump |
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cestode | (noun) ribbonlike flatworms that are parasitic in the intestines of humans and other vertebrates | Synonyms: tapeworm |
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cetacean | (noun) large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales, dolphins, porpoises, narwhals | Synonyms: blower, cetacean mammal |
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cetchup | (noun) thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes | Synonyms: catsup, ketchup, tomato ketchup |
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cetrimide | (noun) a cationic detergent that is a powerful disinfectant | - |
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ceylonite | (noun) a dark-colored spinel containing iron | Synonyms: pleonaste |
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chalcedony | (noun) a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz | Synonyms: calcedony |
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chalice | (noun) a bowl-shaped drinking vessel; especially the Eucharistic cup | Synonyms: goblet |
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chance | (noun) a risk involving danger | - |
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(noun) a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible | Synonyms: probability |
(noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another | Synonyms: fortune, hazard, luck |
(noun) a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances | Synonyms: opportunity |
(noun) the possibility of future success | Synonyms: prospect |
chancel | (noun) area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing | Synonyms: bema, sanctuary |
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chancellery | (noun) a government building housing the office of a chancellor | - |
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chancellor | (noun) the person who is head of government (in several countries) | Synonyms: premier, prime minister |
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(noun) the honorary or titular head of a university | - |
chancellorship | (noun) the office of chancellor | - |
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chancery | (noun) an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records | - |
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(noun) a court with jurisdiction in equity | Synonyms: court of chancery |
cheekpiece | (noun) either of two straps of a bridle that connect the bit to the headpiece | - |
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chelicera | (noun) either of the first pair of fang-like appendages near the mouth of an arachnid; often modified for grasping and piercing | - |
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chemiluminescence | (noun) luminescence resulting from a chemical reaction as the oxidation of luciferin in fireflies | - |
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chemoreceptor | (noun) a sensory receptor that responds to chemical stimuli | - |
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chimneypiece | (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: mantel, mantelpiece, mantle, mantlepiece |
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chiromancer | (noun) fortuneteller who predicts your future by the lines on your palms | Synonyms: palmist, palmister |
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chloroacetophenone | (noun) a tear gas that is weaker than CS gas but lasts longer | Synonyms: CN gas |
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choice | (noun) the act of choosing or selecting | Synonyms: option, pick, selection |
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(noun) the person or thing chosen or selected | Synonyms: pick, selection |
(noun) one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen | Synonyms: alternative, option |
choiceness | (noun) the quality of being very good indeed | Synonyms: fineness |
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cicatrice | (noun) a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue | Synonyms: cicatrix, scar |
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cicero | (noun) a linear unit of the size of type slightly larger than an em | - |
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cicerone | (noun) a guide who conducts and informs sightseers | - |
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circumference | (noun) the size of something as given by the distance around it | Synonyms: perimeter |
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(noun) the length of the closed curve of a circle | - |
(noun) the boundary line encompassing an area or object | Synonyms: circuit |
circumstance | (noun) information that should be kept in mind when making a decision | Synonyms: condition, consideration |
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(noun) formal ceremony about important occasions | - |
(noun) a condition that accompanies or influences some event or activity | - |
(noun) the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event | Synonyms: context, setting |
circumstances | (noun) a person's financial situation (good or bad) | - |
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(noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: destiny, fate, fortune, lot, luck, portion |
clairvoyance | (noun) apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses | Synonyms: E.S.P., ESP, extrasensory perception, second sight |
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clarence | (noun) a closed carriage with four wheels and seats for four passengers | - |
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clearance | (noun) permission to proceed | - |
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(noun) the distance by which one thing clears another; the space between them | - |
(noun) vertical space available to allow easy passage under something | Synonyms: headroom, headway |
clinocephalism | (noun) a congenital defect in which the top of the head is depressed (concave instead of convex) | Synonyms: clinocephaly |
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clinocephaly | (noun) a congenital defect in which the top of the head is depressed (concave instead of convex) | Synonyms: clinocephalism |
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coalescence | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination |
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coalescency | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescence, coalition, concretion, conglutination |
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coalface | (noun) the part of a coal seam that is being cut | - |
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cockatrice | (noun) monster hatched by a reptile from a cock's egg; able to kill with a glance | - |
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codpiece | (noun) (15th-16th century) a flap for the crotch of men's tight-fitting breeches | - |
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coexistence | (noun) existing peacefully together | - |
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cognisance | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: awareness, cognizance, consciousness, knowingness |
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cognizance | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: awareness, cognisance, consciousness, knowingness |
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(noun) range of what one can know or understand | Synonyms: ken |
(noun) range or scope of what is perceived | - |
cognoscente | (noun) an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts | Synonyms: connoisseur |
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coherence | (noun) logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherency |
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(noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness |
coincidence | (noun) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrence, concurrence, conjunction |
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(noun) the quality of occupying the same position or area in space | - |
(noun) an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental | Synonyms: happenstance |
coinsurance | (noun) insurance issued jointly by two or more underwriters | - |
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colpocele | (noun) hernia projecting into the vagina | Synonyms: vaginocele |
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colpocystocele | (noun) hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes through the wall of the vagina; sometimes occurs after childbirth | Synonyms: cystocele |
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comeupance | (noun) an outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved and fitting | Synonyms: comeuppance, just deserts, poetic justice |
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comeuppance | (noun) an outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved and fitting | Synonyms: comeupance, just deserts, poetic justice |
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commencement | (noun) the act of starting something | Synonyms: beginning, start |
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(noun) an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred | Synonyms: commencement ceremony, commencement exercise, graduation, graduation exercise |
(noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
commerce | (noun) transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) | Synonyms: commercialism, mercantilism |
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(noun) social exchange, especially of opinions, attitudes, etc. | - |
commonplace | (noun) a trite or obvious remark | Synonyms: banality, bromide, cliche, platitude |
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commonplaceness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace | Synonyms: commonness, everydayness |
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competence | (noun) the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually | Synonyms: competency |
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complacence | (noun) the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself | Synonyms: complacency, self-complacency, self-satisfaction |
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complacency | (noun) the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself | Synonyms: complacence, self-complacency, self-satisfaction |
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complaisance | (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: compliance, compliancy, deference, obligingness |
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compliance | (noun) the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another | Synonyms: submission |
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(noun) acting according to certain accepted standards | Synonyms: abidance, conformation, conformity |
(noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: complaisance, compliancy, deference, obligingness |
concealing | (noun) the activity of keeping something secret | Synonyms: concealment, hiding |
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concealment | (noun) the activity of keeping something secret | Synonyms: concealing, hiding |
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(noun) a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something | Synonyms: cover, covert, screen |
(noun) the condition of being concealed or hidden | Synonyms: privacy, privateness, secrecy |
conceding | (noun) the act of conceding or yielding | Synonyms: concession, yielding |
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conceit | (noun) the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride | Synonyms: conceitedness, vanity |
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(noun) a witty or ingenious turn of phrase | - |
(noun) an artistic device or effect | - |
(noun) an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things | - |
(noun) feelings of excessive pride | Synonyms: amour propre, self-love, vanity |
conceitedness | (noun) the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride | Synonyms: conceit, vanity |
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conceivability | (noun) the state of being conceivable | Synonyms: conceivableness |
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conceivableness | (noun) the state of being conceivable | Synonyms: conceivability |
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conceiver | (noun) someone who creates new things | Synonyms: mastermind, originator |
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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 |
concentration | (noun) strengthening the concentration (as of a solute in a mixture) by removing diluting material | - |
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(noun) bringing together military forces | - |
(noun) great and constant diligence and attention | Synonyms: assiduity, assiduousness |
(noun) the strength of a solution; number of molecules of a substance in a given volume | - |
(noun) the spatial property of being crowded together | Synonyms: compactness, denseness, density, tightness |
(noun) complete attention; intense mental effort | Synonyms: absorption, engrossment, immersion |
(noun) increase in density | - |
concentricity | (noun) the quality of having the same center (as circles inside one another) | - |
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concept | (noun) an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances | Synonyms: conception, construct |
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conception | (noun) the act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon | - |
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(noun) an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances | Synonyms: concept, construct |
(noun) the creation of something in the mind | Synonyms: design, excogitation, innovation, invention |
(noun) the event that occurred at the beginning of something | Synonyms: creation |
conceptualisation | (noun) inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally | Synonyms: conceptualization, formulation |
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(noun) an elaborated concept | Synonyms: conceptuality, conceptualization |
conceptualism | (noun) the doctrine that the application of a general term to various objects indicates the existence of a mental entity that mediates the application | - |
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conceptuality | (noun) an elaborated concept | Synonyms: conceptualisation, conceptualization |
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conceptualization | (noun) inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally | Synonyms: conceptualisation, formulation |
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(noun) an elaborated concept | Synonyms: conceptualisation, conceptuality |
conceptus | (noun) an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life | Synonyms: embryo, fertilized egg |
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concern | (noun) something that interests you because it is important or affects you | - |
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(noun) something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: headache, vexation, worry |
(noun) a feeling of sympathy for someone or something | - |
(noun) an anxious feeling | Synonyms: care, fear |
(noun) a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it | Synonyms: business, business concern, business organisation, business organization |
concert | (noun) a performance of music by players or singers not involving theatrical staging | - |
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concertina | (noun) free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds | - |
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(noun) coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle | - |
concertinist | (noun) a person who plays the concertina | - |
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concerto | (noun) a composition for orchestra and a soloist | - |
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concession | (noun) a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business | Synonyms: grant |
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(noun) a point conceded or yielded | - |
(noun) the act of conceding or yielding | Synonyms: conceding, yielding |
concessionaire | (noun) someone who holds or operates a concession | Synonyms: concessioner |
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concessioner | (noun) someone who holds or operates a concession | Synonyms: concessionaire |
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concomitance | (noun) occurrence or existence together or in connection with one another | - |
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concordance | (noun) an index of all main words in a book along with their immediate contexts | - |
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(noun) agreement of opinions | Synonyms: concord, harmony |
(noun) a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole | Synonyms: concord, harmony |
concupiscence | (noun) a desire for sexual intimacy | Synonyms: eros, physical attraction, sexual desire |
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concurrence | (noun) acting together, as agents or circumstances or events | Synonyms: concurrency |
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(noun) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrence, coincidence, conjunction |
(noun) agreement of results or opinions | Synonyms: concurrency |
(noun) a state of cooperation | Synonyms: meeting of minds |
condescendingness | (noun) affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for differences of position or rank | Synonyms: condescension |
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condescension | (noun) the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior | Synonyms: disdainfulness, superciliousness |
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(noun) affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for differences of position or rank | Synonyms: condescendingness |
(noun) a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient | Synonyms: disdain, patronage |
condolence | (noun) an expression of sympathy with another's grief | Synonyms: commiseration |
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conductance | (noun) a material's capacity to conduct electricity; measured as the reciprocal of electrical resistance | - |
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conference | (noun) a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic | Synonyms: group discussion |
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(noun) a prearranged meeting for consultation or exchange of information or discussion (especially one with a formal agenda) | - |
(noun) an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members | Synonyms: league |