| 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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| cholangitis | (noun) inflammation of the bile ducts | - |
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| cholecystitis | (noun) inflammation of the gall bladder | - |
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| cholelithiasis | (noun) the presence of gallstones in the gallbladder | - |
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| cholelithotomy | (noun) removal of gallstone through an incision in the gallbladder | - |
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| chondrite | (noun) a rock of meteoric origin containing chondrules | - |
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| chorditis | (noun) inflammation of the vocal cords | - |
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| (noun) inflammation of the spermatic cord or vocal cords or vocal folds | - |
| choriomeningitis | (noun) a cerebral meningitis with cellular infiltration of the meninges | - |
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| chorioretinitis | (noun) inflammation of the choroid layer behind the retina | - |
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| chromaticity | (noun) the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength | Synonyms: hue |
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| chromite | (noun) a brownish-black mineral; the major source of chromium | - |
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| chromolithograph | (noun) a print made by chromolithography. | - |
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| chromolithography | (noun) single- or multi-color lithography | - |
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| chrysolite | (noun) a brown or yellow-green olivine found in igneous and metamorphic rocks and used as a gemstone | - |
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| circuit | (noun) a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area | Synonyms: tour |
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| (noun) movement once around a course | Synonyms: circle, lap |
| (noun) an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow | Synonyms: electric circuit, electrical circuit |
| (noun) a racetrack for automobile races | Synonyms: racing circuit |
| (noun) (law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different locations); one of the twelve groups of states in the United States that is covered by a particular circuit court of appeals | - |
| (noun) an established itinerary of venues or events that a particular group of people travel to | - |
| (noun) the boundary line encompassing an area or object | Synonyms: circumference |
| circuitousness | (noun) The state of being roundabout, indirect or not to the point. | - |
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| circuitry | (noun) electronic equipment consisting of a system of circuits | - |
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| circularity | (noun) the roundness of a 2-dimensional figure | Synonyms: disk shape |
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| citadel | (noun) a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle | Synonyms: bastion |
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| citation | (noun) an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement | Synonyms: commendation |
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| (noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: acknowledgment, cite, credit, mention, quotation, reference |
| (noun) a summons that commands the appearance of a party at a proceeding | - |
| (noun) a passage or expression that is quoted or cited | Synonyms: quotation, quote |
| (noun) (law) the act of citing (as of spoken words or written passages or legal precedents etc.) | - |
| cite | (noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: acknowledgment, citation, credit, mention, quotation, reference |
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| cither | (noun) a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers | Synonyms: zither, zithern |
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| (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cithern, citole, cittern, gittern |
| cithern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, citole, cittern, gittern |
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| citizen | (noun) a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community | - |
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| citizenry | (noun) the body of citizens of a state or country | Synonyms: people |
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| citizenship | (noun) conduct as a citizen | - |
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| (noun) the status of a citizen with rights and duties | - |
| citole | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, cithern, cittern, gittern |
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| citrange | (noun) more aromatic and acid tasting than oranges; used in beverages and marmalade | - |
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| (noun) more aromatic and acidic than oranges | Synonyms: citrange tree, Citroncirus webberi |
| citrate | (noun) a salt or ester of citric acid | - |
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| citrin | (noun) a vitamin that maintains the resistance of cell and capillary walls to permeation | Synonyms: bioflavinoid, vitamin P |
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| citrine | (noun) semiprecious yellow quartz resembling topaz | - |
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| citron | (noun) large lemonlike fruit with thick aromatic rind; usually preserved | - |
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| (noun) thorny evergreen small tree or shrub of India widely cultivated for its large lemonlike fruits that have thick warty rind | Synonyms: citron tree, Citrus medica |
| citronwood | (noun) wood of a citron tree | - |
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| (noun) durable fragrant wood; used in building (as in the roof of the cathedral at Cordova, Spain) | Synonyms: sandarac |
| citrulline | (noun) an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is an intermediate in the conversion of ornithine to arginine | - |
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| citrus | (noun) any of numerous fruits of the genus Citrus having thick rind and juicy pulp; grown in warm regions | Synonyms: citrous fruit, citrus fruit |
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| (noun) any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds | Synonyms: citrus tree |
| cittern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, cithern, citole, gittern |
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| city | (noun) people living in a large densely populated municipality | Synonyms: metropolis |
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| (noun) a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts | Synonyms: metropolis, urban center |
| (noun) an incorporated administrative district established by state charter | - |
| cityscape | (noun) painting depicting a city or urban area | - |
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| (noun) a viewpoint toward a city or other heavily populated area | - |
| civility | (noun) the act of showing regard for others | Synonyms: politeness |
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| (noun) formal or perfunctory politeness | - |
| clarity | (noun) the quality of clear water | Synonyms: clearness, uncloudedness |
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| (noun) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression | Synonyms: clearness, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity |
| clit | (noun) a female sexual organ homologous to the penis | Synonyms: button, clitoris |
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| clitic | (noun) a word that is treated in pronunciation as forming a part of a neighboring word and that is often unaccented or contracted. | - |
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| clitoridectomy | (noun) excision of the clitoris | Synonyms: female circumcision |
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| clitoris | (noun) a female sexual organ homologous to the penis | Synonyms: button, clit |
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| clocksmith | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing clocks and watches | Synonyms: clockmaker |
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| coalition | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescence, coalescency, concretion, conglutination |
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| (noun) an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty | Synonyms: alignment, alinement, alliance |
| (noun) the state of being combined into one body | Synonyms: fusion |
| coalpit | (noun) a mine where coal is dug from the ground | Synonyms: coal mine |
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| cobaltite | (noun) a rare silvery-white mineral; important ore of cobalt | - |
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| cockpit | (noun) compartment where the pilot sits while flying the aircraft | - |
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| (noun) seat where the driver sits while driving a racing car | - |
| (noun) a pit for cockfights | - |
| coenobite | (noun) a member of a religious order living in common | Synonyms: cenobite |
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| cogitation | (noun) attentive consideration and meditation | Synonyms: study |
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| (noun) a carefully considered thought about something | - |
| cognition | (noun) the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning | Synonyms: knowledge, noesis |
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| cohabitation | (noun) the act of living together and having a sexual relationship (especially without being married) | - |
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| coition | (noun) sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur | Synonyms: carnal knowledge, coitus, copulation, intercourse, relation, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation |
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| coitus | (noun) sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur | Synonyms: carnal knowledge, coition, copulation, intercourse, relation, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation |
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| colitis | (noun) inflammation of the colon | Synonyms: inflammatory bowel disease |
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| collectibility | (noun) The quality of being subject to payment or likely to be paid. | - |
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| colpitis | (noun) inflammation of the vagina | - |
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| colpocystitis | (noun) inflammation of the vagina and bladder | - |
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| columbite | (noun) a black mineral that is an ore of niobium and tantalum | Synonyms: niobite |
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| combustibility | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: burnability, combustibleness |
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| comfit | (noun) candy containing a fruit or nut | - |
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| comicality | (noun) the quality of being comical | - |
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| comity | (noun) a state or atmosphere of harmony or mutual civility and respect | - |
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| commitment | (noun) the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action | Synonyms: allegiance, dedication, loyalty |
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| (noun) the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) | Synonyms: committal, consignment |
| (noun) an engagement by contract involving financial obligation | - |
| (noun) the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose | Synonyms: committedness |
| (noun) a message that makes a pledge | Synonyms: dedication |
| committal | (noun) the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) | Synonyms: commitment, consignment |
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| (noun) the act of committing a crime | Synonyms: commission, perpetration |
| committedness | (noun) the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose | Synonyms: commitment |
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| committee | (noun) a special group delegated to consider some matter | Synonyms: commission |
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| (noun) a self-constituted organization to promote something | Synonyms: citizens committee |
| committeeman | (noun) a man who is a member of committee | - |
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| committeewoman | (noun) a woman who is a member of a committee | - |
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| commodity | (noun) a raw material that is sold in large quantities, usually to other businesses for manufacturing or production purposes | Synonyms: good, trade good |
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| commonality | (noun) sharing of common attributes | Synonyms: commonness |
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| (noun) a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank | Synonyms: commonalty, commons |
| community | (noun) a group of people living in a particular local area | - |
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| (noun) (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other | Synonyms: biotic community |
| (noun) a group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession, or other particular characteristic in common | - |
| (noun) a group of nations having common interests | - |
| (noun) a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences | Synonyms: residential area, residential district |
| (noun) common ownership | - |
| (noun) agreement as to goals | Synonyms: community of interests |
| commutability | (noun) the quality of being commutable | Synonyms: transmutability |
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| (noun) exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable | Synonyms: replaceability, substitutability |
| companionability | (noun) suitability to be a companion | Synonyms: companionableness |
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| comparability | (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: compare, comparison, equivalence |
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| compatibility | (noun) capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of sympathetic understanding | - |
| competition | (noun) the act of competing as for profit or a prize | Synonyms: contention, rivalry |
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| (noun) an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants | Synonyms: contest |
| (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competitor, contender, rival |
| (noun) a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers | - |
| competitiveness | (noun) an aggressive willingness to compete | Synonyms: fight |
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| competitor | (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competition, contender, rival |
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| complementarity | (noun) a relation between two opposite states or principles that together exhaust the possibilities | - |
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| (noun) the interrelation of reciprocity whereby one thing supplements or depends on the other | - |
| complexity | (noun) the quality of being intricate and compounded | Synonyms: complexness |
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| complicity | (noun) guilt as an accomplice in a crime or offense | - |
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| composite | (noun) a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts | Synonyms: complex |
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| (noun) considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers | Synonyms: composite plant |
| compositeness | (noun) the property of being a composite number | - |
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| composition | (noun) the act of creating written works | Synonyms: authorship, penning, writing |
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| (noun) musical creation | Synonyms: composing |
| (noun) something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole | - |
| (noun) the way in which someone or something is composed | Synonyms: constitution, make-up, makeup, physical composition |
| (noun) the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole | Synonyms: composing |
| (noun) an essay (especially one written as an assignment) | Synonyms: paper, report, theme |
| (noun) a musical work that has been created | Synonyms: musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music |
| (noun) art and technique of printing with movable type | Synonyms: typography |
| (noun) a mixture of ingredients | - |
| compositor | (noun) one who sets written material into type | Synonyms: setter, typesetter, typographer |
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| comprehensibility | (noun) the quality of comprehensible language or thought | Synonyms: understandability |
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| compressibility | (noun) the property of being able to occupy less space | Synonyms: sponginess, squeezability |
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| compulsivity | (noun) the trait of acting compulsively | Synonyms: compulsiveness |
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| concavity | (noun) the property possessed by a concave shape | Synonyms: concaveness |
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| (noun) a shape that curves or bends inward | Synonyms: concave shape, incurvation, incurvature |
| conceit | (noun) the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride | Synonyms: conceitedness, vanity |
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| (noun) a witty or ingenious turn of phrase | - |
| (noun) an artistic device or effect | - |
| (noun) an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things | - |
| (noun) feelings of excessive pride | Synonyms: amour propre, self-love, vanity |
| conceitedness | (noun) the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride | Synonyms: conceit, vanity |
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| conceivability | (noun) the state of being conceivable | Synonyms: conceivableness |
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| concentricity | (noun) the quality of having the same center (as circles inside one another) | - |
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| conceptuality | (noun) an elaborated concept | Synonyms: conceptualisation, conceptualization |
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| concomitance | (noun) occurrence or existence together or in connection with one another | - |
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| concomitant | (noun) an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another | Synonyms: accompaniment, attendant, co-occurrence |
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| condition | (noun) information that should be kept in mind when making a decision | Synonyms: circumstance, consideration |
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| (noun) the procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition | Synonyms: experimental condition |
| (noun) an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else | Synonyms: precondition, stipulation |
| (noun) (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement | Synonyms: strings, term |
| (noun) a state at a particular time | Synonyms: status |
| (noun) a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing | - |
| (noun) the state of (good) health (especially in the phrases `in condition' or `in shape' or `out of condition' or `out of shape') | Synonyms: shape |
| (noun) an illness, disease, or other medical problem | - |
| conditionality | (noun) the state of being conditional | - |
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