brooder | (noun) apparatus consisting of a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat; used for chicks or premature infants | Synonyms: incubator |
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builder | (noun) someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) | Synonyms: constructor |
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(noun) a person who creates a business or who organizes and develops a country | - |
(noun) a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action | Synonyms: detergent builder |
bullheadedness | (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: obstinacy, obstinance, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness |
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burden | (noun) weight to be borne or conveyed | Synonyms: load, loading |
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(noun) the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse | - |
(noun) an onerous or difficult concern | Synonyms: encumbrance, incumbrance, load, onus |
(noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | Synonyms: core, effect, essence, gist |
burdensomeness | (noun) unwelcome burdensome difficulty | Synonyms: heaviness, onerousness, oppressiveness |
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burnside | (noun) facial hair that has grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off) | Synonyms: mutton chop, side-whiskers, sideburn |
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bystander | (noun) a nonparticipant spectator | - |
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cacodemon | (noun) an evil spirit | Synonyms: cacodaemon |
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cadence | (noun) a recurrent rhythmical series | Synonyms: cadency |
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(noun) the close of a musical section | - |
(noun) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse | Synonyms: beat, measure, meter, metre |
cadency | (noun) a recurrent rhythmical series | Synonyms: cadence |
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cadenza | (noun) a brilliant solo passage occurring near the end of a piece of music | - |
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cadet | (noun) a military trainee (as at a military academy) | Synonyms: plebe |
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cadetship | (noun) the position of cadet | - |
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caladenia | (noun) any of various orchids of the genus Caladenia | - |
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caldera | (noun) a large crater caused by the violent explosion of a volcano that collapses into a depression | - |
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calender | (noun) a machine that smooths or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers | - |
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camaraderie | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: chumminess, comradeliness, comradery, comradeship |
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camcorder | (noun) a portable television camera and videocassette recorder | - |
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candela | (noun) the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin | Synonyms: candle, cd, standard candle |
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candelabra | (noun) branched candlestick; ornamental; has several lights | Synonyms: candelabrum |
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candelabrum | (noun) branched candlestick; ornamental; has several lights | Synonyms: candelabra |
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candelilla | (noun) wax-coated shrub of northern Mexico and southwestern United States | Synonyms: Euphorbia antisyphilitica |
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(noun) wax-coated Mexican shrub related to Euphorbia antisyphilitica | Synonyms: Pedilanthus bracteatus, Pedilanthus pavonis |
cannonade | (noun) intense and continuous artillery fire | Synonyms: drumfire |
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canyonside | (noun) the steeply sloping side of a canyon | - |
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carbamide | (noun) the chief solid component of mammalian urine; synthesized from ammonia and carbon dioxide and used as fertilizer and in animal feed and in plastics | Synonyms: urea |
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carbide | (noun) a binary compound of carbon with a more electropositive element | - |
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cardholder | (noun) a player who holds a card or cards in a card game | - |
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(noun) a person who holds a credit card or debit card | - |
cascade | (noun) a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower | Synonyms: shower |
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(noun) a succession of stages or operations or processes or units | - |
(noun) a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls | - |
cathode | (noun) a negatively charged electrode that is the source of electrons entering an electrical device | - |
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(noun) the positively charged terminal of a voltaic cell or storage battery that supplies current | - |
caudex | (noun) woody stem of palms and tree ferns | - |
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(noun) persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant | Synonyms: stock |
cavalcade | (noun) a procession of people traveling on horseback | - |
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centerfielder | (noun) the person who plays center field | Synonyms: center fielder |
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centipede | (noun) chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors | - |
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cerebroside | (noun) A cerebroside is any of various organic lipid compounds containing glucose or galactose and glucose; it occurs in the myelin sheath of cerebrospinal neurons. | - |
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certitude | (noun) total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant | Synonyms: cocksureness, overconfidence |
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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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cetrimide | (noun) a cationic detergent that is a powerful disinfectant | - |
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chandelier | (noun) branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling | Synonyms: pendant, pendent |
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chandelle | (noun) a flight maneuver consisting of a steep climbing turn executed to gain altitude while changing direction | - |
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charade | (noun) making a false outward show | Synonyms: masquerade |
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(noun) a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades | - |
charades | (noun) guessing game in which one player pantomimes a word or phrase for others to guess | - |
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cheerleader | (noun) someone who leads the cheers by spectators at a sporting event | - |
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(noun) an enthusiastic and vocal supporter | - |
chickadee | (noun) any of various small grey-and-black songbirds of North America | - |
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chlordiazepoxide | (noun) a tranquilizer (trade names Librium and Libritabs) used in the treatment of alcoholism | Synonyms: Libritabs, Librium |
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chloride | (noun) any compound containing a chlorine atom | - |
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(noun) any salt of hydrochloric acid (containing the chloride ion) | - |
chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile | (noun) a tear gas that is stronger than CN gas but wears off faster; can be deployed by grenades or cluster bombs; can cause skin burns and fatal pulmonary edema | Synonyms: CS gas |
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chlorothiazide | (noun) a diuretic drug (trade name Diuril) used in the treatment of edema and hypertension | Synonyms: Diuril |
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chordamesoderm | (noun) the area of mesoderm that forms the notochord | Synonyms: chordomesoderm |
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chordomesoderm | (noun) the area of mesoderm that forms the notochord | Synonyms: chordamesoderm |
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chowder | (noun) a thick soup or stew made with milk and bacon and onions and potatoes | - |
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churchwarden | (noun) an officer in the Episcopal church who helps a parish priest with secular matters | - |
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chyloderma | (noun) swelling of the scrotum resulting from chronic lymphatic obstruction | Synonyms: elephantiasis scroti |
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cider | (noun) a beverage made from juice pressed from apples | Synonyms: cyder |
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ciderpress | (noun) a press that is used to extract the juice from apples | - |
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cinder | (noun) a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire | Synonyms: clinker |
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cirripede | (noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces | Synonyms: barnacle, cirriped |
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citadel | (noun) a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle | Synonyms: bastion |
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clade | (noun) a group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor | - |
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cladode | (noun) a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf | Synonyms: cladophyll, phylloclad, phylloclade |
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clitoridectomy | (noun) excision of the clitoris | Synonyms: female circumcision |
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clowder | (noun) a group of cats | - |
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coachbuilder | (noun) a craftsman who makes the bodies of motor vehicles | - |
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cockade | (noun) an ornament (such as a knot of ribbon or a rosette) usually worn on the hat | - |
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code | (noun) a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy | - |
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(noun) a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones) | Synonyms: codification |
(noun) (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions | Synonyms: computer code |
(noun) a series of letters, numbers or symbols assigned to something for the purpose of classification or identification | - |
codefendant | (noun) a defendant who has been joined together with one or more other defendants in a single action | Synonyms: co-defendant |
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codeine | (noun) derivative of opium; used as an antitussive (to relieve coughing) and an analgesic (to relieve pain) | - |
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coder | (noun) a person who designs and writes and tests computer programs | Synonyms: computer programmer, programmer, software engineer |
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codetalker | (noun) a secret agent who was one of the Navajos who devised and used a code based on their native language; the code was unbroken by the Japanese during World War II | Synonyms: windtalker |
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codex | (noun) an unbound manuscript of some ancient classic (as distinguished from a scroll) | Synonyms: leaf-book |
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(noun) an official list of chemicals or medicines etc. | - |
cofounder | (noun) one of a group of founders | - |
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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 |
colander | (noun) bowl-shaped strainer; used to wash or drain foods | Synonyms: cullender |
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collider | (noun) an accelerator in which two beams of particles are forced to collide head on | - |
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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 |
commander | (noun) an officer in command of a military unit | Synonyms: commandant, commanding officer |
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(noun) a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a lieutenant commander and below a captain | - |
(noun) an officer in the airforce | Synonyms: air force officer |
(noun) someone in an official position of authority who can command or control others | - |
commandership | (noun) the position or office of commander | Synonyms: commandery |
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commandery | (noun) the position or office of commander | Synonyms: commandership |
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commode | (noun) a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination | Synonyms: can, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne, toilet |
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(noun) a tall elegant chest of drawers | Synonyms: chiffonier |
compander | (noun) a system for improving the signal-to-noise ratio of a signal at a transmitter or recorder by first compressing the volume range of the signal and then restoring it to its original amplitude level at the receiving or reproducing apparatus. | - |
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comrade | (noun) a friend who is frequently in the company of another | Synonyms: associate, companion, familiar, fellow |
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(noun) used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement | Synonyms: brother |
comradeliness | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: camaraderie, chumminess, comradery, comradeship |
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comradery | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: camaraderie, chumminess, comradeliness, comradeship |
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comradeship | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: camaraderie, chumminess, comradeliness, comradery |
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condemnation | (noun) (law) the act of condemning (as land forfeited for public use) or judging to be unfit for use (as a food product or an unsafe building) | - |
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(noun) (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed | Synonyms: conviction, judgment of conviction, sentence |
(noun) an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable | Synonyms: disapprobation |
(noun) an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group | Synonyms: curse, execration |
(noun) the condition of being strongly disapproved of | - |
condensate | (noun) atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold | Synonyms: condensation |
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(noun) a product of condensation | - |
condensation | (noun) the act of increasing the density of something | Synonyms: condensing |
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(noun) (psychoanalysis) an unconscious process whereby two ideas or images combine into a single symbol; especially in dreams | - |
(noun) a shortened version of a written work | Synonyms: abridgement, abridgment, capsule |
(noun) the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together | Synonyms: compression, contraction |
(noun) atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold | Synonyms: condensate |
(noun) the process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state | - |
condenser | (noun) lens used to concentrate light on an object | Synonyms: optical condenser |
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(noun) an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge | Synonyms: capacitance, capacitor, electrical condenser |
(noun) a hollow coil that condenses by abstracting heat | - |
(noun) an apparatus that converts vapor into liquid | - |
condensing | (noun) the act of increasing the density of something | Synonyms: condensation |
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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 |
confederacy | (noun) a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act | Synonyms: conspiracy |
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(noun) a union of political organizations | Synonyms: confederation, federation |
(noun) a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose | Synonyms: conspiracy |
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 |
confederation | (noun) the act of forming an alliance or confederation | Synonyms: alliance |
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(noun) a union of political organizations | Synonyms: confederacy, federation |
(noun) the state of being allied or confederated | Synonyms: alliance |
confidence | (noun) freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities | Synonyms: assurance, authority, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness |
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(noun) a secret that is confided or entrusted to another | - |
(noun) a feeling of trust (in someone or something) | - |
(noun) a state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable | - |
(noun) a trustful relationship | Synonyms: trust |
confidentiality | (noun) discretion in keeping secret information | - |
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(noun) the state of being secret | - |
considerateness | (noun) kind and considerate regard for others | Synonyms: consideration, thoughtfulness |
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consideration | (noun) a considerate and thoughtful act | Synonyms: thoughtfulness |
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(noun) kind and considerate regard for others | Synonyms: considerateness, thoughtfulness |
(noun) the process of giving careful thought to something | - |
(noun) information that should be kept in mind when making a decision | Synonyms: circumstance, condition |
(noun) a discussion of a topic (as in a meeting) | - |
(noun) a fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone | Synonyms: retainer |
consuetude | (noun) a custom or usage that has acquired the force of law | - |
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contender | (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competition, competitor, rival |
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copyholder | (noun) mechanical device used in printing; holds the copy for the compositor | - |
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