| confectionery | (noun) the occupation and skills of a confectioner | - |
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| (noun) a confectioner's shop | Synonyms: candy store, confectionary |
| (noun) candy and other sweets considered collectively | - |
| conflict | (noun) an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals) | Synonyms: battle, struggle |
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| (noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war | Synonyms: battle, engagement, fight |
| (noun) an incompatibility of dates or events | - |
| (noun) a disagreement or argument about something important | Synonyms: difference, difference of opinion, dispute |
| (noun) opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings | - |
| (noun) opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot) | - |
| (noun) a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests | - |
| conjecture | (noun) a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence) | Synonyms: speculation |
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| (noun) reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence | - |
| (noun) a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | Synonyms: guess, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmisal, surmise |
| conjunction | (noun) something that joins or connects | Synonyms: junction |
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| (noun) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrence, coincidence, concurrence |
| (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunctive, connective, continuative |
| (noun) (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac | Synonyms: alignment |
| (noun) the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction | - |
| (noun) the state of being joined together | Synonyms: colligation, conjugation, junction |
| conjunctiva | (noun) a transparent lubricating mucous membrane that covers the eyeball and the under surface of the eyelid | - |
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| conjunctive | (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, connective, continuative |
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| conjunctivitis | (noun) inflammation of the conjunctiva of the eye | Synonyms: pinkeye |
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| conjuncture | (noun) a critical combination of events or circumstances | - |
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| connectedness | (noun) a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it) | Synonyms: connection, connexion |
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| (noun) the state of being connected | Synonyms: connection, link |
| connecter | (noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connection, connective, connector, connexion |
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| connection | (noun) the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication) | Synonyms: connexion, joining |
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| (noun) shifting from one form of transportation to another | Synonyms: connexion |
| (noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connecter, connective, connector, connexion |
| (noun) the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination | Synonyms: association, connexion |
| (noun) a supplier (especially of narcotics) | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) a person who is influential and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship) | - |
| (noun) a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it) | Synonyms: connectedness, connexion |
| (noun) a connecting shape | Synonyms: connexion, link |
| (noun) the state of being connected | Synonyms: connectedness, link |
| connective | (noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connecter, connection, connector, connexion |
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| (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, conjunctive, continuative |
| connectivity | (noun) the property of being connected or the degree to which something has connections | - |
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| connector | (noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connecter, connection, connective, connexion |
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| conspectus | (noun) an overall summary | - |
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| constriction | (noun) the action or process of compressing | - |
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| (noun) a tight feeling in some part of the body | Synonyms: tightness |
| (noun) tight or narrow compression | Synonyms: coarctation |
| (noun) a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel | Synonyms: bottleneck, chokepoint |
| constrictor | (noun) any of various large nonvenomous snakes that kill their prey by crushing it in its coils | - |
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| construct | (noun) an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances | Synonyms: concept, conception |
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| construction | (noun) the act of constructing something | Synonyms: building |
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| (noun) the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones | Synonyms: building |
| (noun) drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem | - |
| (noun) a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts | Synonyms: structure |
| (noun) the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought | Synonyms: mental synthesis |
| (noun) an interpretation of a text or action | Synonyms: twist |
| (noun) a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit | Synonyms: expression, grammatical construction |
| constructiveness | (noun) the quality of serving to build or improve | - |
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| constructivism | (noun) an abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I; industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects | - |
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| constructivist | (noun) an artist of the school of constructivism | - |
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| constructor | (noun) someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) | Synonyms: builder |
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| contact | (noun) the act of touching physically | Synonyms: physical contact |
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| (noun) close interaction | - |
| (noun) (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact | Synonyms: tangency |
| (noun) a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication | Synonyms: contact lens |
| (noun) a channel for communication between groups | Synonyms: inter-group communication, liaison, link |
| (noun) a communicative interaction | Synonyms: touch |
| (noun) the physical coming together of two or more things | Synonyms: impinging, striking |
| (noun) a person who is in a position to give you special assistance | Synonyms: middleman |
| (noun) the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity | - |
| contract | (noun) a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid | Synonyms: contract bridge |
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| (noun) a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law | - |
| (noun) (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make | Synonyms: declaration |
| contractility | (noun) the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting, especially by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter | - |
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| contracting | (noun) becoming infected | Synonyms: catching |
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| contraction | (noun) the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope | - |
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| (noun) (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber) | Synonyms: muscle contraction, muscular contraction |
| (noun) a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds | - |
| (noun) the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together | Synonyms: compression, condensation |
| contractor | (noun) a bodily organ that contracts | Synonyms: contractile organ |
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| (noun) someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things | - |
| (noun) (law) a party to a contract | - |
| (noun) the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps | Synonyms: declarer |
| contracture | (noun) an abnormal and usually permanent contraction of a muscle | - |
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| contradiction | (noun) the speech act of contradicting someone | - |
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| (noun) (logic) a statement that is necessarily false | Synonyms: contradiction in terms |
| (noun) opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas | - |
| contradictoriness | (noun) the relation that exists when opposites cannot coexist | - |
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| contradictory | (noun) two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time | - |
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| contradistinction | (noun) a distinction drawn on the basis of contrast | - |
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| convection | (noun) the transfer of heat through a fluid (liquid or gas) caused by molecular motion | - |
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| (noun) (meteorology) the vertical movement of heat or other properties by massive motion within the atmosphere | - |
| convector | (noun) a space heater that transfers heat to the surrounding air by convection | - |
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| convict | (noun) a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison | Synonyms: con, inmate, yard bird, yardbird |
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| (noun) a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense | - |
| convictfish | (noun) greenling with whitish body marked with black bands | Synonyms: convict fish, Oxylebius pictus, painted greenling |
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| conviction | (noun) (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed | Synonyms: condemnation, judgment of conviction, sentence |
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| (noun) an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence | Synonyms: article of faith, strong belief |
| correction | (noun) the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right | Synonyms: rectification |
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| (noun) treatment of a specific defect | - |
| (noun) the act of disciplining | Synonyms: discipline |
| (noun) a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases | - |
| (noun) a rebuke for making a mistake | Synonyms: chastening, chastisement |
| (noun) something substituted for an error | - |
| (noun) a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure | Synonyms: fudge factor |
| corrections | (noun) the social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole | - |
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| (noun) the department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders | Synonyms: department of corrections |
| correctitude | (noun) correct or appropriate behavior | Synonyms: properness, propriety |
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| corrective | (noun) a device for treating injury or disease | Synonyms: restorative |
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| correctness | (noun) conformity to fact or truth | Synonyms: rightness |
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| (noun) the quality of conformity to social expectations | - |
| corynebacterium | (noun) any species of the genus Corynebacterium | - |
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| counteraction | (noun) action intended to nullify the effects of some previous action | Synonyms: neutralisation, neutralization |
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| counterattraction | (noun) a rival attraction | - |
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| counterfactuality | (noun) the quality of being contrary to fact | - |
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| counterproject | (noun) a project, scheme, or proposal brought forward in opposition to another, as in the negotiation of a treaty. | - |
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| ctene | (noun) a locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused | Synonyms: comb-plate |
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| ctenidium | (noun) comb-like respiratory structure serving as the gill of certain mollusks | - |
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| ctenophore | (noun) biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb | Synonyms: comb jelly |
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| cunctation | (noun) the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or deferring an action to a later time | Synonyms: procrastination, shillyshally |
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| cunctator | (noun) someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness) | Synonyms: postponer, procrastinator |
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| cunnilinctus | (noun) oral stimulation of the vulva or clitoris | Synonyms: cunnilingus |
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| cyanobacteria | (noun) predominantly photosynthetic prokaryotic organisms containing a blue pigment in addition to chlorophyll; occur singly or in colonies in diverse habitats; important as phytoplankton | Synonyms: blue-green algae |
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| cytoarchitectonics | (noun) the cellular composition of a bodily structure | Synonyms: cytoarchitecture |
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| cytoarchitecture | (noun) the cellular composition of a bodily structure | Synonyms: cytoarchitectonics |
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| dactyl | (noun) a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates | Synonyms: digit |
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| (noun) a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables | - |
| dactylomegaly | (noun) abnormally large fingers or toes | - |
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| deactivation | (noun) the act of deactivating or making ineffective (as a bomb) | Synonyms: defusing |
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| (noun) breaking up a military unit (by transfers or discharges) | Synonyms: inactivation |
| decoction | (noun) (pharmacology) the extraction of water-soluble drug substances by boiling | - |
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| deconstruction | (noun) a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning | Synonyms: deconstructionism |
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| deconstructionism | (noun) a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning | Synonyms: deconstruction |
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| deconstructivism | (noun) a school of architecture based on the philosophical theory of deconstruction | - |
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| deductible | (noun) a clause in an insurance policy that relieves the insurer of responsibility to pay the initial loss up to a stated amount | - |
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| (noun) (taxes) an amount that can be deducted (especially for the purposes of calculating income tax) | - |
| deduction | (noun) the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole) | Synonyms: subtraction |
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| (noun) the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise | Synonyms: discount, price reduction |
| (noun) reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect) | Synonyms: deductive reasoning, synthesis |
| (noun) something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied) | Synonyms: entailment, implication |
| (noun) an amount or percentage deducted | Synonyms: discount |
| (noun) a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket | Synonyms: tax deduction, tax write-off |
| defect | (noun) a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body) | Synonyms: blemish, mar |
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| (noun) a failing or deficiency | Synonyms: shortcoming |
| (noun) an imperfection in an object or machine | Synonyms: fault, flaw |
| (noun) an imperfection in a bodily system | - |
| defection | (noun) withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility | Synonyms: abandonment, desertion |
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| (noun) the state of having rejected your religious beliefs for your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes) | Synonyms: apostasy, renunciation |
| defectiveness | (noun) the state of being defective | Synonyms: faultiness |
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| defector | (noun) a person who abandons their duty (as on a military post) | Synonyms: deserter |
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| deflection | (noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflexion, deviation, digression, divagation, diversion |
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| (noun) the property of being bent or deflected | Synonyms: bending, deflexion |
| (noun) the amount by which a propagating wave is bent | Synonyms: deflexion, refraction |
| (noun) the movement of the pointer or pen of a measuring instrument from its zero position | Synonyms: deflexion |
| (noun) a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting | Synonyms: warp |
| deflector | (noun) a device intended to turn aside the flow of something (water or air or smoke etc) | - |
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| defunctness | (noun) no longer in existence | Synonyms: extinction |
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| deictic | (noun) a word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs | Synonyms: deictic word |
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| dejectedness | (noun) a feeling of low spirits | Synonyms: dispiritedness, downheartedness, low-spiritedness, lowness |
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| dejection | (noun) a state of melancholy depression | - |
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| (noun) solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels | Synonyms: BM, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, ordure, stool |
| delectability | (noun) extreme appetizingness | Synonyms: deliciousness, lusciousness, toothsomeness |
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| delectation | (noun) act of receiving pleasure from something | Synonyms: enjoyment |
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| (noun) a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction | Synonyms: delight |
| depicting | (noun) a representation by picture or portraiture | Synonyms: depiction, portrayal, portraying |
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| depiction | (noun) representation by drawing or painting etc | Synonyms: delineation, portrayal |
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| (noun) a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects | Synonyms: delineation, limning, line drawing |
| (noun) a representation by picture or portraiture | Synonyms: depicting, portrayal, portraying |
| (noun) a graphic or vivid verbal description | Synonyms: characterisation, characterization, delineation, picture, word-painting, word picture |
| derelict | (noun) a ship abandoned on the high seas | Synonyms: abandoned ship |
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| (noun) a person without a home, job, or property | - |
| dereliction | (noun) willful negligence | - |
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| (noun) a tendency to be negligent and uncaring | Synonyms: delinquency, willful neglect |
| destructibility | (noun) vulnerability to destruction | - |
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| destruction | (noun) the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists | Synonyms: devastation |
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| (noun) an event that completely destroys something | Synonyms: demolition, wipeout |
| (noun) a final state | Synonyms: death, end |
| destructiveness | (noun) the quality of causing destruction | - |
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| detectability | (noun) The state of being noticeable. | - |
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| detecting | (noun) a police investigation to determine the perpetrator | Synonyms: detection, detective work, sleuthing |
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| detection | (noun) the act of detecting something; catching sight of something | Synonyms: catching, espial, spotting, spying |
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| (noun) a police investigation to determine the perpetrator | Synonyms: detecting, detective work, sleuthing |
| (noun) the perception that something has occurred or some state exists | Synonyms: sensing |
| (noun) the detection that a signal is being received | Synonyms: signal detection |
| detective | (noun) a police officer who investigates crimes | Synonyms: investigator, police detective, tec |
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| (noun) an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public | - |
| detector | (noun) any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner | Synonyms: sensing element, sensor |
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| (noun) electronic equipment that detects the presence of radio signals or radioactivity | - |
| (noun) rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave | Synonyms: demodulator |
| detraction | (noun) the act of discrediting or detracting from someone's reputation (especially by slander) | - |
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| (noun) a petty disparagement | Synonyms: petty criticism |
| detractor | (noun) one who disparages or belittles the worth of something | Synonyms: depreciator, disparager, knocker |
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| dialect | (noun) the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people | Synonyms: accent, idiom |
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| dialectic | (noun) any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments | - |
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| (noun) a contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction | - |
| dialectician | (noun) a logician skilled in dialectic | - |
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| dialectics | (noun) a rationale for dialectical materialism based on change through the conflict of opposing forces | - |
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| dialectology | (noun) the branch of philology that is devoted to the study of dialects | - |
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| dictate | (noun) a guiding principle | - |
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| (noun) an authoritative rule | - |
| dictation | (noun) speech intended for reproduction in writing | - |
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| (noun) an authoritative direction or instruction to do something | Synonyms: bid, bidding, command |
| (noun) matter that has been dictated and transcribed; a dictated passage | - |