| biochemistry | (noun) the organic chemistry of compounds and processes occurring in organisms; the effort to understand biology within the context of chemistry | - |
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| biologist | (noun) (biology) a scientist who studies living organisms | Synonyms: life scientist |
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| biophysicist | (noun) a physicist who applies the methods of physics to biology | - |
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| biostatistics | (noun) a branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations by means of statistical analysis | Synonyms: biometrics, biometry |
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| bister | (noun) a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot | Synonyms: bistre |
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| bistre | (noun) a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot | Synonyms: bister |
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| bistro | (noun) a small informal restaurant; serves wine | - |
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| blacklist | (noun) a list of people who are out of favor | Synonyms: black book, shitlist |
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| blister | (noun) (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid | Synonyms: bleb, bulla |
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| (noun) (botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin | - |
| (noun) a flaw on a surface resulting when an applied substance does not adhere (as an air bubble in a coat of paint) | - |
| blistering | (noun) the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin | Synonyms: vesication, vesiculation |
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| boisterousness | (noun) the property of being noisy and lively and unrestrained | - |
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| (noun) a turbulent and stormy state of the sea | - |
| bonavist | (noun) perennial twining vine of Old World tropics having trifoliate leaves and racemes of fragrant purple pea-like flowers followed by maroon pods of edible seeds; grown as an ornamental and as a vegetable on the Indian subcontinent; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos | Synonyms: Dolichos lablab, Egyptian bean, hyacinth bean, Indian bean, Lablab purpureus |
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| botanist | (noun) a biologist specializing in the study of plants | Synonyms: phytologist, plant scientist |
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| brachistochrone | (noun) a curve between two points along which a body can move under gravity in a shorter time than for any other curve. | - |
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| bristle | (noun) a stiff hair | - |
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| (noun) a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic | - |
| bristlegrass | (noun) grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet | Synonyms: bristle grass |
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| bristletail | (noun) small wingless insect with a long bristlelike tail | - |
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| bristliness | (noun) the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines | Synonyms: prickliness, spininess, thorniness |
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| bugologist | (noun) a zoologist who studies insects | Synonyms: bug-hunter, entomologist |
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| cabalist | (noun) an expert who is highly skilled in obscure or difficult or esoteric matters | Synonyms: kabbalist |
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| (noun) a member of a cabal | - |
| cacomistle | (noun) raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings | Synonyms: Bassariscus astutus, bassarisk, cacomixle, civet cat, coon cat, miner's cat, raccoon fox, ring-tailed cat, ringtail |
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| calisthenics | (noun) the practice of calisthenic exercises | Synonyms: callisthenics |
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| (noun) light exercises designed to promote general fitness | Synonyms: callisthenics |
| calligraphist | (noun) someone skilled in penmanship | Synonyms: calligrapher |
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| callisthenics | (noun) the practice of calisthenic exercises | Synonyms: calisthenics |
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| (noun) light exercises designed to promote general fitness | Synonyms: calisthenics |
| canafistola | (noun) deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia | Synonyms: canafistula, Cassia fistula, drumstick tree, golden shower tree, pudding pipe tree, purging cassia |
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| canafistula | (noun) deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia | Synonyms: canafistola, Cassia fistula, drumstick tree, golden shower tree, pudding pipe tree, purging cassia |
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| canistel | (noun) ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies | Synonyms: eggfruit |
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| (noun) tropical tree of Florida and West Indies yielding edible fruit | Synonyms: canistel tree, Pouteria campechiana nervosa |
| canister | (noun) metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour | Synonyms: cannister, tin |
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| (noun) a metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm | Synonyms: canister shot, case shot |
| cannister | (noun) metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour | Synonyms: canister, tin |
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| canoeist | (noun) someone paddling a canoe | Synonyms: paddler |
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| canonist | (noun) a specialist in canon law | - |
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| capitalist | (noun) a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business) | - |
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| (noun) a conservative advocate of capitalism | - |
| cardiologist | (noun) a specialist in cardiology; a specialist in the structure and function and disorders of the heart | Synonyms: heart specialist, heart surgeon |
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| careerist | (noun) a professional who is intent on furthering his or her career by any possible means and often at the expense of their own integrity | - |
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| caricaturist | (noun) someone who parodies in an exaggerated manner | - |
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| cartoonist | (noun) a person who draws cartoons | - |
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| casuist | (noun) someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious | Synonyms: sophist |
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| casuistry | (noun) moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas | - |
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| (noun) argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading | - |
| catechist | (noun) one who instructs catechumens in preparation for baptism (especially one using a catechism) | - |
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| cellist | (noun) someone who plays a violoncello | Synonyms: violoncellist |
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| centrist | (noun) a person who takes a position in the political center | Synonyms: middle of the roader, moderate, moderationist |
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| ceramicist | (noun) a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them in a kiln | Synonyms: ceramist, potter, thrower |
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| ceramist | (noun) a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them in a kiln | Synonyms: ceramicist, potter, thrower |
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| characteristic | (noun) a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something | - |
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| (noun) any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions | Synonyms: device characteristic |
| (noun) a prominent attribute or aspect of something | Synonyms: feature |
| (noun) the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2 | - |
| characteristicness | (noun) The quality or state of being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing. | - |
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| chartist | (noun) a stock market analyst who tries to predict market trends from graphs of recent prices of securities | Synonyms: technical analyst |
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| chauvinist | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingo, jingoist, patrioteer |
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| (noun) a person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kind | - |
| checklist | (noun) a list of items (names or tasks etc.) to be checked or consulted | - |
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| chemist | (noun) a scientist who specializes in chemistry | - |
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| (noun) a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs | Synonyms: apothecary, druggist, pharmacist, pill pusher, pill roller |
| chemistry | (noun) the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions | Synonyms: chemical science |
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| (noun) the way two individuals relate to each other | Synonyms: alchemy, interpersonal chemistry |
| (noun) the chemical composition and properties of a substance or object | - |
| chiropodist | (noun) a specialist in care for the feet | Synonyms: foot doctor, podiatrist |
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| chorister | (noun) a singer in a choir | - |
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| christ | (noun) any expected deliverer | Synonyms: messiah |
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| christella | (noun) any of several tropical ferns of the genus Christella having thin brittle fronds | - |
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| christening | (noun) giving a Christian name at baptism | - |
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| cistern | (noun) an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater | - |
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| (noun) a tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet | Synonyms: water tank |
| (noun) a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid | Synonyms: cisterna |
| cisterna | (noun) a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid | Synonyms: cistern |
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| cistron | (noun) (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity | Synonyms: factor, gene |
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| cladistics | (noun) a taxonomic system of classifying species based on the branching patterns of cladograms that are built to infer phylogenetic relations | Synonyms: cladistic analysis |
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| clarinetist | (noun) a musician who plays the clarinet | Synonyms: clarinettist |
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| clarinettist | (noun) a musician who plays the clarinet | Synonyms: clarinetist |
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| classicist | (noun) an artistic person who adheres to classicism | - |
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| (noun) a student of ancient Greek and Latin | Synonyms: classical scholar |
| cleistocarp | (noun) closed spore-bearing structure of some fungi (especially Aspergillaceae and Erysiphaceae) from which spores are released only by decay or disintegration | Synonyms: cleistothecium |
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| cleistogamy | (noun) the production of small nonopening self-pollinating flowers | - |
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| cleistothecium | (noun) closed spore-bearing structure of some fungi (especially Aspergillaceae and Erysiphaceae) from which spores are released only by decay or disintegration | Synonyms: cleistocarp |
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| clericalist | (noun) one who advocates clericalism | - |
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| climatologist | (noun) someone who is expert in climatology | - |
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| cloister | (noun) residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery) | Synonyms: religious residence |
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| (noun) a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions) | - |
| coexistence | (noun) existing peacefully together | - |
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| collaborationist | (noun) someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force | Synonyms: collaborator, quisling |
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| collectivist | (noun) a person who belongs to the political left | Synonyms: left-winger, leftist |
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| colonialist | (noun) a believer in colonialism | - |
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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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| colorist | (noun) a painter able to achieve special effects with color | - |
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| columnist | (noun) a journalist who writes editorials | Synonyms: editorialist |
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| communist | (noun) a socialist who advocates communism | Synonyms: commie |
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| concertinist | (noun) a person who plays the concertina | - |
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| conchologist | (noun) a collector and student of mollusc shells | - |
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| conformist | (noun) someone who conforms to established standards of conduct (especially in religious matters) | - |
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| conquistador | (noun) an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century) | - |
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| conservationist | (noun) someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution | Synonyms: environmentalist |
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| conservativist | (noun) a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas | Synonyms: conservative |
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| consistence | (noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: body, consistency, substance |
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| (noun) a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts | Synonyms: consistency |
| consistency | (noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: body, consistence, substance |
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| (noun) (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another | - |
| (noun) a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts | Synonyms: consistence |
| (noun) logical coherence and accordance with the facts | - |
| consistory | (noun) a church tribunal or governing body | - |
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| constitutionalist | (noun) an advocate of constitutional government | - |
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| constructivist | (noun) an artist of the school of constructivism | - |
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| contortionist | (noun) an acrobat able to twist into unusual positions | - |
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| contrabandist | (noun) someone who imports or exports without paying duties | Synonyms: moon-curser, moon curser, runner, smuggler |
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| contradistinction | (noun) a distinction drawn on the basis of contrast | - |
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| contrapuntist | (noun) a composer who specializes in counterpoint | - |
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| controversialist | (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: disputant, eristic |
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| conversationalist | (noun) someone skilled at conversation | Synonyms: conversationist, schmoozer |
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| conversationist | (noun) someone skilled at conversation | Synonyms: conversationalist, schmoozer |
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| copyist | (noun) someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts | Synonyms: scribe, scrivener |
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| coreligionist | (noun) someone having the same religion as another person | - |
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| cornetist | (noun) a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet | Synonyms: trumpeter |
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| corporatist | (noun) a supporter of corporatism | - |
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| cosmetologist | (noun) an expert in the use of cosmetics | - |
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| cosmographist | (noun) a scientist knowledgeable about cosmography | Synonyms: cosmographer |
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