| copyreader | (noun) an editor who prepares text for publication | Synonyms: copy editor, text editor |
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| corespondent | (noun) the codefendant charged with adultery with the estranged spouse in a divorce proceeding | Synonyms: co-respondent |
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| coriander | (noun) parsley-like herb used as seasoning or garnish | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, cilantro |
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| (noun) dried coriander seeds used whole or ground | Synonyms: coriander seed |
| (noun) Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, cilantro, coriander plant, Coriandrum sativum |
| correctitude | (noun) correct or appropriate behavior | Synonyms: properness, propriety |
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| correspondence | (noun) similarity by virtue of corresponding | Synonyms: parallelism |
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| (noun) compatibility of observations | Synonyms: agreement |
| (noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | Synonyms: balance, symmetricalness, symmetry |
| (noun) communication by the exchange of letters | - |
| (noun) the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount | Synonyms: commensurateness, proportionateness |
| correspondent | (noun) someone who communicates by means of letters | Synonyms: letter writer |
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| (noun) a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | Synonyms: newswriter |
| counterdemonstration | (noun) a demonstration held in opposition to another demonstration | - |
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| counterdemonstrator | (noun) someone who demonstrates in opposition to another demonstration | - |
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| counterevidence | (noun) (philosophy, law, sciences) Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis. | Synonyms: counter-evidence |
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| countryside | (noun) rural regions | - |
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| couvade | (noun) a custom among some peoples whereby the husband of a pregnant wife is put to bed at the time of bearing the child | - |
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| cowhide | (noun) a heavy flexible whip braided from leather made from the hide of a cow | - |
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| (noun) leather made from the hide of a cow | Synonyms: cowskin |
| (noun) the hide of a cow | - |
| crassitude | (noun) the quality of being crass--devoid of refinement | Synonyms: crassness |
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| credence | (noun) a kind of sideboard or buffet | Synonyms: credenza |
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| (noun) the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true | Synonyms: acceptance |
| credendum | (noun) (Christianity) any of the sections into which a creed or other statement of doctrine is divided | Synonyms: article of faith |
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| credential | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, certification, credentials |
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| credentials | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, certification, credential |
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| credenza | (noun) a kind of sideboard or buffet | Synonyms: credence |
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| crude | (noun) a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons | Synonyms: crude oil, fossil oil, oil, petroleum, rock oil |
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| crudeness | (noun) an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement | Synonyms: crudity, gaucheness |
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| (noun) an unpolished unrefined quality | Synonyms: roughness |
| (noun) a wild or unrefined state | Synonyms: crudity, primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness |
| crusade | (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, cause, drive, effort, movement |
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| crusader | (noun) a disputant who advocates reform | Synonyms: meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer |
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| cullender | (noun) bowl-shaped strainer; used to wash or drain foods | Synonyms: colander |
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| curandera | (noun) a Mexican woman who practices healing techniques inherited from the Mayans | - |
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| curandero | (noun) a Mexican man who practices healing techniques inherited from the Mayans | - |
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| curbside | (noun) the side of a sidewalk that is bordered by a curb | - |
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| cyanamide | (noun) a weak soluble dibasic acid (the parent acid of cyanamide salts) | Synonyms: cyanamid |
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| (noun) a compound used as a fertilizer and as a source of nitrogen compounds | Synonyms: calcium-cyanamide |
| cyanide | (noun) an extremely poisonous salt of hydrocyanic acid | - |
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| (noun) any of a class of organic compounds containing the cyano radical -CN | Synonyms: nitril, nitrile |
| cyanuramide | (noun) a white crystalline organic base; used mainly in making melamine resins | Synonyms: melamine |
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| cyder | (noun) a beverage made from juice pressed from apples | Synonyms: cider |
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| cylinder | (noun) a cylindrical container for oxygen or compressed air | - |
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| (noun) a chamber within which piston moves | Synonyms: piston chamber |
| (noun) a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line | - |
| (noun) a solid bounded by a cylindrical surface and two parallel planes (the bases) | - |
| daminozide | (noun) a chemical sprayed on fruit trees to regulate their growth so the entire crop can be harvested at one time | Synonyms: Alar |
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| dandelion | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Taraxacum having long tap roots and deeply notched leaves and bright yellow flowers followed by fluffy seed balls | Synonyms: blowball |
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| dander | (noun) a feeling of anger and animosity | Synonyms: hackles |
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| (noun) small scales from animal skins or hair or bird feathers that can cause allergic reactions in some people | - |
| daredevil | (noun) a reckless impetuous irresponsible person | Synonyms: harum-scarum, hothead, lunatic, madcap, swashbuckler |
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| daredevilry | (noun) boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior | Synonyms: daredeviltry |
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| daredeviltry | (noun) boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior | Synonyms: daredevilry |
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| deacon | (noun) a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders | - |
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| (noun) a Protestant layman who assists the minister | Synonyms: Protestant deacon |
| deaconess | (noun) a woman deacon | - |
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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 |
| dead | (noun) people who are no longer living | - |
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| (noun) a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense | - |
| deadbeat | (noun) someone who fails to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: defaulter |
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| deadbolt | (noun) the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key | Synonyms: bolt |
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| deadening | (noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: constipation, impairment, stultification |
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| deadeye | (noun) (nautical) a round hardwood disk with holes and a grooved perimeter used to tighten a shroud | - |
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| (noun) a dead shot | - |
| deadhead | (noun) a train or bus or taxi traveling empty | - |
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| (noun) a nonenterprising person who is not paying his way | - |
| deadlift | (noun) a weight training exercise in which a loaded barbell is lifted off the ground to the hips, then lowered back to the ground | - |
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| deadlight | (noun) a strong shutter over a ship's porthole that is closed in stormy weather | - |
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| deadline | (noun) the point in time at which something must be completed | - |
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| deadliness | (noun) the quality of being deadly | Synonyms: lethality |
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| deadlock | (noun) a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible | Synonyms: dead end, impasse, stalemate, standstill |
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| deadness | (noun) the inanimate property of something that has died | - |
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| (noun) the physical property of something that has lost its elasticity | - |
| (noun) the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events | Synonyms: unresponsiveness |
| deadwood | (noun) someone or something that is unwanted and unneeded | Synonyms: fifth wheel |
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| (noun) a branch or a part of a tree that is dead | - |
| deaf | (noun) people who have severe hearing impairments | - |
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| deafness | (noun) partial or complete loss of hearing | Synonyms: hearing loss |
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| deal | (noun) the act of distributing playing cards | - |
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| (noun) the act of apportioning or distributing something | - |
| (noun) a particular instance of buying or selling | Synonyms: business deal, trade |
| (noun) an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each | Synonyms: bargain |
| (noun) the type of treatment received (especially as the result of an agreement) | - |
| (noun) the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time | Synonyms: hand |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (noun) a plank of softwood (fir or pine board) | - |
| (noun) wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir) | Synonyms: softwood |
| dealer | (noun) a firm engaged in trading | - |
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| (noun) a seller of illicit goods | - |
| (noun) the person who distributes the playing cards in a card game | - |
| (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: bargainer, monger, trader |
| (noun) the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account | Synonyms: principal |
| dealership | (noun) a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area | Synonyms: franchise |
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| dealfish | (noun) deep-sea ribbonfish | Synonyms: Trachipterus arcticus |
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| dealignment | (noun) a process whereby voters are moved toward nonpartisanship thus weakening the structure of political parties | - |
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| dealing | (noun) method or manner of conduct in relation to others | - |
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| (noun) the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities) | Synonyms: dealings, transaction |
| dealings | (noun) the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities) | Synonyms: dealing, transaction |
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| (noun) social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') | Synonyms: traffic |
| (noun) mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups | Synonyms: relations |
| deamination | (noun) removal of the amino radical from an amino acid or other amino compound | Synonyms: deaminization |
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| deaminization | (noun) removal of the amino radical from an amino acid or other amino compound | Synonyms: deamination |
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| dean | (noun) an administrator in charge of a division of a university or college | - |
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| (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) the head of the College of Cardinals | - |
| (noun) a man who is the senior member of a group | Synonyms: doyen |
| deanery | (noun) the position or office of a dean | Synonyms: deanship |
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| (noun) the official residence of a dean | - |
| deanship | (noun) the position or office of a dean | Synonyms: deanery |
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| dear | (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
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| (noun) a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child) | Synonyms: lamb |
| dearest | (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
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| dearie | (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, deary, ducky, favorite, favourite, pet |
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| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
| dearness | (noun) the quality possessed by something with a great price or value | Synonyms: costliness, preciousness |
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| dearth | (noun) an insufficient quantity or number | Synonyms: paucity |
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| (noun) an acute insufficiency | Synonyms: famine, shortage |
| deary | (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, ducky, favorite, favourite, pet |
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| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
| death | (noun) the act of killing | - |
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| (noun) the event of dying or departure from life | Synonyms: decease, expiry |
| (noun) the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism | - |
| (noun) the absence of life or state of being dead | - |
| (noun) a final state | Synonyms: destruction, end |
| (noun) the time when something ends | Synonyms: demise, dying |
| (noun) the time at which life ends; continuing until dead | Synonyms: last |
| deathbed | (noun) the bed on which a person dies | - |
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| (noun) the last few hours before death | - |
| deathblow | (noun) the blow that kills (usually mercifully) | Synonyms: coup de grace |
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| 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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| deathtrap | (noun) any structure that is very unsafe; where people are likely to be killed | - |
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| deathwatch | (noun) bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death | Synonyms: deathwatch beetle, Xestobium rufovillosum |
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| (noun) minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers | Synonyms: book louse, booklouse, Liposcelis divinatorius |
| deb | (noun) a young woman making her debut into society | Synonyms: debutante |
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| debacle | (noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
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| (noun) a sudden and violent collapse | Synonyms: fiasco |
| (noun) flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer | - |
| debarkation | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: disembarkation, disembarkment |
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| debarment | (noun) the act of prevention by legal means | - |
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| (noun) the state of being debarred (excluded from enjoying certain possessions or rights or practices) | - |
| debasement | (noun) changing to a lower state (a less respected state) | Synonyms: degradation |
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| (noun) being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adulterating | Synonyms: adulteration |
| debaser | (noun) a person who lowers the quality or character or value (as by adding cheaper metal to coins) | Synonyms: degrader |
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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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| debauch | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
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| debauchee | (noun) a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained | Synonyms: libertine, rounder |
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| debaucher | (noun) someone who assaults others sexually | Synonyms: ravisher, violator |
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| debauchery | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
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| debenture | (noun) a certificate or voucher acknowledging a debt | - |
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| (noun) the ability of a customer to obtain goods or services before payment, based on the trust that payment will be made in the future | Synonyms: debenture bond, unsecured bond |
| debilitation | (noun) serious weakening and loss of energy | Synonyms: enervation, enfeeblement, exhaustion |
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| debility | (noun) the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) | Synonyms: feebleness, frailness, frailty, infirmity, valetudinarianism |
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| debit | (noun) an accounting entry acknowledging sums that are owing | Synonyms: debit entry |
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| debitor | (noun) a person who owes a creditor; someone who has the obligation of paying a debt | Synonyms: debtor |
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| debridement | (noun) surgical removal of foreign material and dead tissue from a wound in order to prevent infection and promote healing | - |
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| debriefing | (noun) report of a mission or task | - |
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| debris | (noun) the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up | Synonyms: detritus, dust, junk, rubble |
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| debt | (noun) an obligation to pay or do something | - |
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| (noun) money or goods or services owed by one person to another | - |
| (noun) the state of owing something (especially money) | - |