| bullterrier | (noun) a powerful short-haired terrier originated in England by crossing the bulldog with terriers | Synonyms: bull terrier |
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| bustier | (noun) a close-fitting and strapless top without sleeves that is worn by women either as lingerie or for evening dress | - |
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| butadiene | (noun) a gaseous hydrocarbon C4H6; used in making synthetic rubbers | - |
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| byrnie | (noun) a long (usually sleeveless) tunic of chain mail formerly worn as defensive armor | Synonyms: hauberk |
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| caddie | (noun) an attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player | Synonyms: golf caddie |
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| calorie | (noun) unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure | Synonyms: gram calorie, small calorie |
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| camaraderie | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: chumminess, comradeliness, comradery, comradeship |
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| canfield | (noun) a form of solitaire that involves gambling | - |
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| capercaillie | (noun) large black Old World grouse | Synonyms: capercailzie, horse of the wood, Tetrao urogallus |
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| capercailzie | (noun) large black Old World grouse | Synonyms: capercaillie, horse of the wood, Tetrao urogallus |
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| carabinier | (noun) a soldier (historically a mounted soldier) who is armed with a carbine | Synonyms: carabineer, carbineer |
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| caries | (noun) soft decayed area in a tooth; progressive decay can lead to the death of a tooth | Synonyms: cavity, dental caries, tooth decay |
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| carrier | (noun) (genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not apparent but can be passed on to offspring | - |
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| (noun) a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings | Synonyms: aircraft carrier, attack aircraft carrier, flattop |
| (noun) a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like | - |
| (noun) a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something | - |
| (noun) a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages | Synonyms: common carrier |
| (noun) (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others | Synonyms: immune carrier |
| (noun) a boy who delivers newspapers | Synonyms: newsboy |
| (noun) a man who delivers the mail | Synonyms: letter carrier, mail carrier, mailman, postman |
| (noun) someone whose employment involves carrying something | Synonyms: bearer, toter |
| (noun) a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal | Synonyms: carrier wave |
| (noun) an inactive substance that is a vehicle for a radioactive tracer of the same substance and that assists in its recovery after some chemical reaction | - |
| cashier | (noun) an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money | Synonyms: bank clerk, teller |
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| (noun) a person responsible for receiving payments for goods and services (as in a shop or restaurant) | - |
| cassie | (noun) tropical American thorny shrub or small tree; fragrant yellow flowers used in making perfumery | Synonyms: Acacia farnesiana, flame tree, huisache, mimosa bush, scented wattle, sweet acacia, sweet wattle |
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| catbrier | (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, brier, bullbrier, greenbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
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| cattie | (noun) any of various units of weight used in southeastern Asia (especially a Chinese measure equal to 500 grams) | Synonyms: catty |
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| causerie | (noun) light informal conversation for social occasions | Synonyms: chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle |
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| cavalier | (noun) a gallant or courtly gentleman | Synonyms: chevalier |
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| centerfield | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the central third of the outfield | Synonyms: center field |
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| (noun) the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher | Synonyms: center, center field, centre |
| centerfielder | (noun) the person who plays center field | Synonyms: center fielder |
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| centerpiece | (noun) something placed at the center of something else (as on a table) | Synonyms: centrepiece |
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| (noun) the central or most important feature | Synonyms: centrepiece |
| centrepiece | (noun) something placed at the center of something else (as on a table) | Synonyms: centerpiece |
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| (noun) the central or most important feature | Synonyms: centerpiece |
| chandelier | (noun) branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling | Synonyms: pendant, pendent |
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| charcuterie | (noun) a delicatessen that specializes in meats | - |
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| cheekpiece | (noun) either of two straps of a bridle that connect the bit to the headpiece | - |
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| chesterfield | (noun) a fitted overcoat with a velvet collar | - |
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| (noun) an overstuffed davenport with upright armrests | - |
| chevalier | (noun) a gallant or courtly gentleman | Synonyms: cavalier |
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| chief | (noun) a person who is in charge | Synonyms: head, top dog |
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| (noun) a person who exercises control over workers | Synonyms: boss, foreman, gaffer, honcho |
| (noun) the head of a tribe or clan | Synonyms: chieftain, headman, tribal chief |
| chieftain | (noun) the head of a tribe or clan | Synonyms: chief, headman, tribal chief |
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| (noun) the leader of a group of people | Synonyms: captain |
| chieftaincy | (noun) the position of chieftain | Synonyms: chieftainship |
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| chieftainship | (noun) the position of chieftain | Synonyms: chieftaincy |
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| chiffonier | (noun) a tall elegant chest of drawers | Synonyms: commode |
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| chimneypiece | (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: mantel, mantelpiece, mantle, mantlepiece |
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| chinoiserie | (noun) a style in art reflecting Chinese influence; elaborately decorated and intricately patterned | - |
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| civies | (noun) civilian garb as opposed to a military uniform | Synonyms: civvies |
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| civvies | (noun) civilian garb as opposed to a military uniform | Synonyms: civies |
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| classified | (noun) a short ad in a newspaper or magazine (usually in small print) and appearing along with other ads of the same type | Synonyms: classified ad, classified advertisement |
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| classifier | (noun) an algorithm that implements classification. | - |
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| (noun) a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs | - |
| (noun) a person who creates classifications | - |
| clavier | (noun) a bank of keys on a musical instrument | Synonyms: fingerboard, piano keyboard |
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| (noun) a stringed instrument that has a keyboard | Synonyms: Klavier |
| client | (noun) (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network | Synonyms: guest, node |
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| (noun) a person who seeks the advice of a lawyer | - |
| (noun) someone who pays for goods or services | Synonyms: customer |
| clientage | (noun) relation of a client to a patron | - |
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| clientele | (noun) customers collectively | Synonyms: business, patronage |
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| clothier | (noun) a merchant who sells men's clothing | Synonyms: haberdasher |
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| coalfield | (noun) a region where there is coal underground | - |
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| cockatiel | (noun) small grey Australian parrot with a yellow crested head | Synonyms: cockateel, cockatoo parrot, Nymphicus hollandicus |
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| codpiece | (noun) (15th-16th century) a flap for the crotch of men's tight-fitting breeches | - |
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| coefficient | (noun) a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic | - |
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| collie | (noun) a silky-coated sheepdog with a long ruff and long narrow head developed in Scotland | - |
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| collier | (noun) someone who works in a coal mine | Synonyms: coal miner, pitman |
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| colliery | (noun) a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it | Synonyms: pit |
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| comedienne | (noun) a female comedian | - |
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| (noun) a female actor in a comedy | - |
| commie | (noun) a socialist who advocates communism | Synonyms: communist |
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| complexifier | (noun) someone makes things complex | - |
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| concierge | (noun) a French caretaker of apartments or a hotel; lives on the premises and oversees people entering and leaving and handles mail and acts as janitor or porter | - |
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| congeries | (noun) a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together | Synonyms: aggregate, conglomeration |
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| conscience | (noun) conformity to one's own sense of right conduct | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of shame when you do something immoral | - |
| (noun) motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions | Synonyms: moral sense, scruples, sense of right and wrong |
| conscientiousness | (noun) the quality of being in accord with the dictates of conscience | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being painstaking and careful | Synonyms: painstakingness |
| contemporaries | (noun) all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age | Synonyms: coevals, generation |
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| contrariety | (noun) the relation between contraries | - |
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| convenience | (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, contrivance, gadget, gismo, gizmo, widget |
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| (noun) a toilet that is available to the public | Synonyms: comfort station, public convenience, public lavatory, public toilet, restroom, toilet facility, wash room |
| (noun) the quality of being useful and convenient | - |
| (noun) the state of being suitable or opportune | - |
| conveniences | (noun) things that make you comfortable and at ease | Synonyms: amenities, comforts, creature comforts |
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| cookie | (noun) a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site | - |
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| (noun) any of various small flat sweet cakes | Synonyms: biscuit, cooky |
| (noun) the cook on a ranch or at a camp | Synonyms: cooky |
| coolie | (noun) (ethnic slur) an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer | Synonyms: cooly |
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| coontie | (noun) small tough woody zamia of Florida and West Indies and Cuba; roots and half-buried stems yield an arrowroot | Synonyms: Florida arrowroot, Seminole bread, Zamia pumila |
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| cootie | (noun) a parasitic louse that infests the body of human beings | Synonyms: body louse, Pediculus corporis |
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| copier | (noun) apparatus that makes copies of typed, written or drawn material | Synonyms: duplicator |
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| corbiestep | (noun) (architecture) a step on the top of a gable wall | Synonyms: corbel step, corbie-step, crow step |
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| cordierite | (noun) a blue mineral of magnesium and iron and aluminum and silicon and oxygen; often used as a gemstone | - |
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| cornfield | (noun) a field planted with corn | Synonyms: corn field |
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| corrie | (noun) a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake | Synonyms: cirque, cwm |
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| costumier | (noun) someone who designs or supplies costumes (as for a play or masquerade) | Synonyms: costume designer, costumer |
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| coterie | (noun) an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose | Synonyms: camp, clique, ingroup, inner circle, pack |
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| cottier | (noun) a medieval English villein | Synonyms: cotter |
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| courier | (noun) a person who carries a message | Synonyms: messenger |
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| courtier | (noun) an attendant at the court of a sovereign | - |
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| couturier | (noun) someone who designs clothing | Synonyms: clothes designer, designer, fashion designer |
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| cowpie | (noun) fecal matter of a cow | Synonyms: cow pie |
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| cowrie | (noun) any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells | Synonyms: cowry |
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| coxsackievirus | (noun) enterovirus causing a disease resembling poliomyelitis but without paralysis | Synonyms: Coxsackie virus |
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| crappie | (noun) small sunfishes of central United States rivers | - |
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| (noun) small sunfishes of the genus Pomoxis of central United States rivers | - |
| creampie | (noun) Ejaculate inside a vagina or anus | - |
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| crier | (noun) (formerly) an official who made public announcements | Synonyms: town crier |
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| (noun) a person who weeps | Synonyms: weeper |
| (noun) a peddler who shouts to advertise the goods he sells | - |
| crosier | (noun) a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office | Synonyms: crozier |
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| crosspiece | (noun) a transverse brace | - |
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| (noun) a horizontal beam that extends across something | Synonyms: crossbeam, trave, traverse |
| crosstie | (noun) one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track | Synonyms: railroad tie, sleeper, tie |
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| croupier | (noun) someone who collects and pays bets at a gaming table | - |
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| crozier | (noun) a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office | Synonyms: crosier |
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| cubitiere | (noun) body armor that protects the elbow | - |
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| cuirassier | (noun) a cavalryman equipped with a cuirass | - |
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| curie | (noun) a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second | Synonyms: Ci |
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| currier | (noun) a craftsman who curries leather for use | - |
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| dachsie | (noun) small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into burrows | Synonyms: badger dog, dachshund |
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| dallier | (noun) someone who wastes time | Synonyms: dilly-dallier, dillydallier, lounger, mope |
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| darkie | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people | Synonyms: darkey, darky |
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| dassie | (noun) any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes | Synonyms: coney, cony, das, hyrax |
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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 |
| debriefing | (noun) report of a mission or task | - |
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| deficiency | (noun) lack of an adequate quantity or number | Synonyms: inadequacy, insufficiency |
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| (noun) the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable | Synonyms: lack, want |
| dehumidifier | (noun) an appliance to extract moisture from the air and make the environment more comfortable | - |
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