| colobus | (noun) arboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbs | Synonyms: colobus monkey |
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| cologne | (noun) a perfumed liquid made of essential oils and alcohol | Synonyms: cologne water, eau de cologne |
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| colon | (noun) the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted | - |
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| (noun) a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter) | - |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos | Synonyms: Costa Rican colon |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos | Synonyms: El Salvadoran colon |
| colonel | (noun) a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general | - |
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| colonial | (noun) a resident of a colony | - |
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| colonialism | (noun) exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger country | - |
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| colonialist | (noun) a believer in colonialism | - |
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| colonic | (noun) a water enema given to flush out the colon | Synonyms: colonic irrigation |
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| colonisation | (noun) the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies | Synonyms: colonization, settlement |
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| coloniser | (noun) someone who helps to found a colony | Synonyms: colonizer |
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| colonist | (noun) a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country | Synonyms: settler |
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| colonization | (noun) the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies | Synonyms: colonisation, settlement |
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| colonizer | (noun) someone who helps to found a colony | Synonyms: coloniser |
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| colonnade | (noun) structure consisting of a row of evenly spaced columns | - |
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| (noun) a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns | Synonyms: arcade |
| colonoscope | (noun) an elongated fiberoptic endoscope for examining the entire colon from cecum to rectum | - |
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| colonoscopy | (noun) visual examination of the colon (with a colonoscope) from the cecum to the rectum; requires sedation | - |
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| colony | (noun) a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government | Synonyms: settlement |
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| (noun) a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together | - |
| (noun) (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell | - |
| (noun) a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country | Synonyms: dependency |
| (noun) a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated | - |
| colophon | (noun) a publisher's emblem printed in a book (usually on the title page) | - |
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| colophony | (noun) translucent brittle substance produced from pine oleoresin; used especially in varnishes and inks and on the bows of stringed instruments | - |
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| color | (noun) a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect | Synonyms: coloring, colour, colouring |
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| (noun) the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation | Synonyms: colour |
| (noun) the timbre of a musical sound | Synonyms: coloration, colour, colouration |
| (noun) interest and variety and intensity | Synonyms: colour, vividness |
| (noun) an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading | Synonyms: colour, gloss, semblance |
| (noun) (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction | Synonyms: colour |
| (noun) any material used for its color | Synonyms: coloring material, colour, colouring material |
| coloradillo | (noun) handsome shrub with showy orange to scarlet or crimson flowers; Florida and West Indies to Mexico and Brazil | Synonyms: Hamelia erecta, Hamelia patens, scarlet bush, scarlet hamelia |
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| coloration | (noun) choice and use of colors (as by an artist) | Synonyms: colouration |
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| (noun) appearance with regard to color | Synonyms: colouration |
| (noun) the timbre of a musical sound | Synonyms: color, colour, colouration |
| coloratura | (noun) singing with florid ornamentation | - |
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| (noun) a lyric soprano who specializes in coloratura vocal music | Synonyms: coloratura soprano |
| colorcast | (noun) a television program that is broadcast in color | Synonyms: colourcast |
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| colored | (noun) a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive | Synonyms: colored person, coloured, coloured person |
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| colorimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument used in colorimetric analysis to determine the quantity of a substance from the color it yields with specific reagents | Synonyms: tintometer |
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| colorimetry | (noun) quantitative chemical analysis by color using a colorimeter | Synonyms: colorimetric analysis |
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| coloring | (noun) the act or process of changing the color of something | Synonyms: colouring |
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| (noun) a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect | Synonyms: color, colour, colouring |
| (noun) a digestible substance used to give color to food | Synonyms: colouring, food color, food coloring, food colour, food colouring |
| colorist | (noun) a painter able to achieve special effects with color | - |
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| colorlessness | (noun) the visual property of being without chromatic color | Synonyms: achromaticity, achromatism, colourlessness |
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| colors | (noun) a flag that shows its nationality | Synonyms: colours |
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| (noun) a distinguishing emblem | Synonyms: colours |
| colossus | (noun) someone that is abnormally large and powerful | Synonyms: behemoth, giant, goliath, monster |
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| (noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation | Synonyms: behemoth, giant, heavyweight, titan |
| colostomy | (noun) a surgical operation that creates an opening from the colon to the surface of the body to function as an anus | - |
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| colostrum | (noun) milky fluid secreted for the first day or two after parturition | Synonyms: foremilk |
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| colour | (noun) a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect | Synonyms: color, coloring, colouring |
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| (noun) the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation | Synonyms: color |
| (noun) the timbre of a musical sound | Synonyms: color, coloration, colouration |
| (noun) interest and variety and intensity | Synonyms: color, vividness |
| (noun) an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading | Synonyms: color, gloss, semblance |
| (noun) (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction | Synonyms: color |
| (noun) any material used for its color | Synonyms: color, coloring material, colouring material |
| colouration | (noun) choice and use of colors (as by an artist) | Synonyms: coloration |
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| (noun) appearance with regard to color | Synonyms: coloration |
| (noun) the timbre of a musical sound | Synonyms: color, coloration, colour |
| colourcast | (noun) a television program that is broadcast in color | Synonyms: colorcast |
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| coloured | (noun) a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive | Synonyms: colored, colored person, coloured person |
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| colouring | (noun) the act or process of changing the color of something | Synonyms: coloring |
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| (noun) a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect | Synonyms: color, coloring, colour |
| (noun) a digestible substance used to give color to food | Synonyms: coloring, food color, food coloring, food colour, food colouring |
| colourlessness | (noun) the visual property of being without chromatic color | Synonyms: achromaticity, achromatism, colorlessness |
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| colours | (noun) a flag that shows its nationality | Synonyms: colors |
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| (noun) a distinguishing emblem | Synonyms: colors |
| decolonisation | (noun) the action of changing from colonial to independent status | Synonyms: decolonization |
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| decolonization | (noun) the action of changing from colonial to independent status | Synonyms: decolonisation |
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| discoloration | (noun) the act of changing the natural color of something by making it duller or dingier or unnatural or faded | Synonyms: discolouration |
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| (noun) a soiled or discolored appearance | Synonyms: discolouration, stain |
| discolouration | (noun) the act of changing the natural color of something by making it duller or dingier or unnatural or faded | Synonyms: discoloration |
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| (noun) a soiled or discolored appearance | Synonyms: discoloration, stain |
| ecologist | (noun) a biologist who studies the relation between organisms and their environment | - |
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| ecology | (noun) the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment | Synonyms: bionomics, environmental science |
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| (noun) the environment as it relates to living organisms | - |
| gynaecologist | (noun) a specialist in gynecology | Synonyms: gynecologist, woman's doctor |
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| gynaecology | (noun) the branch of medicine that deals with the diseases and hygiene of women | Synonyms: gynecology |
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| gynecologist | (noun) a specialist in gynecology | Synonyms: gynaecologist, woman's doctor |
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| gynecology | (noun) the branch of medicine that deals with the diseases and hygiene of women | Synonyms: gynaecology |
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| homotoxicology | (noun) analysis of sickness within the framework of the body's failure to deal with the burden of toxins. Homeopathic remedies often are used as treatment. Developed by Hans Heinrich Reckeweg. | - |
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| lexicologist | (noun) a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language | Synonyms: lexicographer |
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| lexicology | (noun) the branch of linguistics that studies the lexical component of language | - |
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| malacologist | (noun) a zoologist specializing in the study of mollusks | - |
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| malacology | (noun) the branch of zoology that studies the structure and behavior of mollusks | - |
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| megacolon | (noun) an abnormal enlargement of the colon; can be congenital (as in Hirschsprung's disease) or acquired (as when children refuse to defecate) | - |
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| mesocolon | (noun) mesentery that holds the lower colon to the dorsal abdominal wall | - |
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| musicologist | (noun) a student of musicology | - |
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| musicology | (noun) the scholarly and scientific study of music | - |
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| mycologist | (noun) a botanist who specializes in the study of fungi | - |
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| mycology | (noun) the branch of botany that studies fungi and fungus-caused diseases | - |
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| neocolonialism | (noun) control by a powerful country of its former colonies (or other less developed countries) by economic pressures | - |
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| oncologist | (noun) a specialist in oncology | - |
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| oncology | (noun) the branch of medicine concerned with the study and treatment of tumors | - |
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| palaeoecology | (noun) the branch of ecology that studies ancient ecology | Synonyms: paleoecology |
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| paleoecology | (noun) the branch of ecology that studies ancient ecology | Synonyms: palaeoecology |
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| pharmacologist | (noun) someone trained in the science of drugs (their composition and uses and effects) | Synonyms: pharmaceutical chemist |
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| pharmacology | (noun) the science or study of drugs: their preparation and properties and uses and effects | Synonyms: materia medica, pharmacological medicine |
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| phycology | (noun) the branch of botany that studies algae | Synonyms: algology |
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| piccolo | (noun) a small flute; pitched an octave above the standard flute | - |
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| psychopharmacology | (noun) the study of drugs that affect the mind | - |
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| scolopendrium | (noun) a fern thought to resemble a millipede | - |
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| semicolon | (noun) a punctuation mark (;) used to connect independent clauses; indicates a closer relation than does a period | - |
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| technicolor | (noun) a trademarked method of making color motion pictures | - |
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| tocology | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with childbirth and care of the mother | Synonyms: midwifery, OB, obstetrics |
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| toxicologist | (noun) one who studies the nature and effects of poisons and their treatment | - |
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| toxicology | (noun) the branch of pharmacology that deals with the nature and effects and treatments of poisons | - |
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| tricolor | (noun) a flag having three colored stripes (especially the French flag) | Synonyms: tricolour |
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| tricolour | (noun) a flag having three colored stripes (especially the French flag) | Synonyms: tricolor |
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| watercolor | (noun) the art or technique of painting with watercolors | Synonyms: water-color, water-colour, watercolour |
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| (noun) a painting produced with watercolors | Synonyms: water-color, water-colour, watercolour |
| (noun) a water-base paint (with water-soluble pigments); used by artists | Synonyms: water-color, water-colour, watercolour |
| (noun) water-soluble pigment | Synonyms: water-color, water-colour, watercolour |
| watercolorist | (noun) a painter who paints with watercolors | Synonyms: watercolourist |
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| watercolour | (noun) the art or technique of painting with watercolors | Synonyms: water-color, water-colour, watercolor |
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| (noun) a painting produced with watercolors | Synonyms: water-color, water-colour, watercolor |
| (noun) a water-base paint (with water-soluble pigments); used by artists | Synonyms: water-color, water-colour, watercolor |
| (noun) water-soluble pigment | Synonyms: water-color, water-colour, watercolor |
| watercolourist | (noun) a painter who paints with watercolors | Synonyms: watercolorist |
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