| caretaker | (noun) a custodian who is hired to take care of something (property or a person) | - |
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| (noun) an official who performs the duties of an office temporarily | - |
| carmaker | (noun) a business engaged in the manufacture of automobiles | Synonyms: auto maker, auto manufacturer, automaker, car maker, car manufacturer |
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| caseworker | (noun) someone employed to provide social services (especially to the disadvantaged) | Synonyms: social worker, welfare worker |
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| casket | (noun) small and often ornate box for holding jewels or other valuables | Synonyms: jewel casket |
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| (noun) box in which a corpse is buried or cremated | Synonyms: coffin |
| checker | (noun) one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers | Synonyms: chequer |
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| (noun) one who checks the correctness of something | - |
| (noun) an attendant who checks coats or baggage | - |
| checkerberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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| (noun) creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil | Synonyms: creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen |
| checkerbloom | (noun) perennial purple-flowered wild mallow of western North America that is also cultivated | Synonyms: Sidalcea malviflora, wild hollyhock |
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| checkerboard | (noun) a board having 64 squares of two alternating colors | Synonyms: checker board, chequerboard |
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| checkers | (noun) a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces | Synonyms: draughts |
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| cheesecake | (noun) a photograph of an attractive woman in minimal attire | - |
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| (noun) made with sweetened cream cheese and eggs and cream baked in a crumb crust | - |
| chicken | (noun) a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl | Synonyms: Gallus gallus |
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| (noun) a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops | - |
| (noun) the flesh of a chicken used for food | Synonyms: poulet, volaille |
| (noun) a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy | Synonyms: crybaby, wimp |
| chickenfeed | (noun) a trifling sum of money | Synonyms: chump change, small change |
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| chickenpox | (noun) an acute contagious disease caused by herpes varicella zoster virus; causes a rash of vesicles on the face and body | Synonyms: varicella |
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| chickenshit | (noun) a false statement that is considered to indicate timidity or fear | - |
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| chickeree | (noun) far western United States counterpart of the red squirrel | Synonyms: Douglas squirrel, Tamiasciurus douglasi |
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| choke | (noun) a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine | - |
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| (noun) a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current | Synonyms: choke coil, choking coil |
| chokecherry | (noun) a common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birds | Synonyms: chokecherry tree, Prunus virginiana |
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| (noun) the fruit of the chokecherry tree | - |
| chokedamp | (noun) the atmosphere in a mine following an explosion; high in carbon dioxide and incapable of supporting life | Synonyms: blackdamp |
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| chokehold | (noun) a restraining hold; someone loops the arm around the neck of another person in a tight grip, usually from behind | Synonyms: choke hold |
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| (noun) complete power over a person or situation | Synonyms: stranglehold, throttlehold |
| chokepoint | (noun) a point of congestion or blockage | - |
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| (noun) a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel | Synonyms: bottleneck, constriction |
| choker | (noun) a high tight collar | Synonyms: neck ruff, ruff, ruffle |
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| (noun) necklace that fits tightly around a woman's neck | Synonyms: collar, dog collar, neckband |
| (noun) someone who kills by strangling | Synonyms: garroter, garrotter, strangler, throttler |
| (noun) an unfortunate person who is unable to perform effectively because of nervous tension or agitation | - |
| chokey | (noun) British slang (dated) for a prison | Synonyms: choky |
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| chukker | (noun) (polo) one of six divisions into which a polo match is divided | Synonyms: chukka |
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| clambake | (noun) a cookout at the seashore where clams and fish and other foods are cooked--usually on heated stones covered with seaweed | - |
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| clanker | (noun) something that makes a clanking noise. | - |
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| clinker | (noun) a hard brick used as a paving stone | Synonyms: clinker brick |
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| (noun) a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire | Synonyms: cinder |
| cloakmaker | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing fur garments | Synonyms: furrier |
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| clockmaker | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing clocks and watches | Synonyms: clocksmith |
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| cocker | (noun) a small breed with wavy silky hair; originally developed in England | Synonyms: cocker spaniel, English cocker spaniel |
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| cockerel | (noun) a young domestic cock; not older than one year | - |
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| cocksucker | (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
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| (noun) a person who performs fellatio | - |
| 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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| coffeecake | (noun) a cake or sweet bread usually served with coffee | Synonyms: coffee cake |
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| coke | (noun) street names for cocaine | Synonyms: blow, C, nose candy, snow |
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| (noun) carbon fuel produced by distillation of coal | - |
| conker | (noun) the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut | Synonyms: buckeye, horse chestnut |
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| cooker | (noun) a utensil for cooking | - |
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| cookery | (noun) the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat | Synonyms: cooking, preparation |
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| corker | (noun) a machine that is used to put corks in bottles | - |
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| (noun) (dated slang) a remarkable or excellent thing or person | - |
| corncrake | (noun) common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields | Synonyms: Crex crex, land rail |
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| cornhusker | (noun) a worker who husks corn | - |
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| cowpoke | (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowhand, cowherd, cowpuncher, puncher |
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| cracker | (noun) a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends | Synonyms: cracker bonbon, snapper |
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| (noun) firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing | Synonyms: banger, firecracker |
| (noun) a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet | - |
| (noun) a poor White person in the southern United States | Synonyms: redneck |
| (noun) a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things | - |
| crackerberry | (noun) creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska | Synonyms: bunchberry, Cornus canadensis, dwarf cornel, pudding berry |
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| crackerjack | (noun) something excellent of its kind | Synonyms: jimdandy, jimhickey |
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| (noun) someone excellent of their kind | Synonyms: jimdandy, jimhickey |
| crake | (noun) any of several short-billed Old World rails | - |
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| cricket | (noun) a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs | - |
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| (noun) leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together | - |
| cricketer | (noun) an athlete who plays cricket | - |
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| croaker | (noun) any of several fishes that make a croaking noise | - |
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| (noun) the lean flesh of a saltwater fish caught along Atlantic coast of southern U.S. | - |
| crockery | (noun) tableware (eating and serving dishes) collectively | Synonyms: dishware |
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| crocket | (noun) an architectural ornament of curved foliage used at the edge of a spire or gable | - |
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| crookedness | (noun) having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being deceitful and underhanded | Synonyms: deviousness |
| (noun) a tortuous and twisted shape or position | Synonyms: contortion, torsion, tortuosity, tortuousness |
| cuke | (noun) cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons | Synonyms: cucumber |
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| cupcake | (noun) small cake baked in a muffin tin | - |
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| cupronickel | (noun) a 60/40 alloy of copper and nickel | - |
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| cycloalkene | (noun) alkene hydrocarbon which contains a closed ring of carbon atoms, but has no aromatic character. | Synonyms: cycloolefin |
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| cytoskeleton | (noun) a microscopic network of actin filaments and microtubules in the cytoplasm of many living cells that gives the cell shape and coherence | - |
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| darkening | (noun) changing to a darker color | Synonyms: blackening |
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| darkey | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people | Synonyms: darkie, darky |
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| decker | (noun) (often used in combinations) something constructed with multiple levels | - |
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| deerstalker | (noun) a tight-fitting hat with visors front and back; formerly worn by hunters | - |
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| dickens | (noun) a word used in exclamations of confusion | Synonyms: deuce, devil |
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| dickey | (noun) a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt | Synonyms: dickie, dicky, shirtfront |
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| (noun) a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater | Synonyms: dickey-seat, dickie-seat, dickie, dicky-seat, dicky |
| dickeybird | (noun) small bird; adults talking to children sometimes use these words to refer to small birds | Synonyms: dickey-bird, dicky-bird, dickybird |
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| diemaker | (noun) someone who makes dies | Synonyms: die-sinker, diesinker |
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| diesinker | (noun) someone who makes dies | Synonyms: die-sinker, diemaker |
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| dike | (noun) a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea | Synonyms: dam, dyke |
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| (noun) (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine | Synonyms: butch, dyke |
| dinkey | (noun) a small locomotive | Synonyms: dinky |
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| diskette | (noun) a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer | Synonyms: floppy, floppy disk |
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| dislike | (noun) an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group | Synonyms: disapproval, disfavor, disfavour |
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| (noun) a feeling of aversion or antipathy | - |
| docker | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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| docket | (noun) a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to | Synonyms: agenda, schedule |
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| (noun) (law) the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court's activities | - |
| dockworker | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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| donkey | (noun) domestic beast of burden descended from the African wild ass; patient but stubborn | Synonyms: domestic ass, Equus asinus |
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| (noun) the symbol of the Democratic Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874 | - |
| donkeywork | (noun) hard monotonous routine work | Synonyms: drudgery, grind, plodding |
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| doohickey | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| doorkeeper | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorman, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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| (noun) an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber | Synonyms: usher |
| (noun) the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: ostiarius, ostiary |
| doorknocker | (noun) a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door | Synonyms: knocker, rapper |
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| downstroke | (noun) a stroke normally made in a downward direction | - |
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| drake | (noun) adult male of a wild or domestic duck | - |
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| dressmaker | (noun) a person who makes garments | Synonyms: garment-worker, garment worker, garmentmaker |
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| drinker | (noun) a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) | Synonyms: imbiber, juicer, toper |
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| (noun) a person who drinks liquids | - |
| dropkicker | (noun) a football kicker who drops the ball and kicks it just as it reaches the ground | - |
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| drunkenness | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drink, drinking |
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| (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
| (noun) habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms | Synonyms: alcohol addiction, alcoholism, inebriation |
| duke | (noun) a British peer of the highest rank | - |
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| (noun) a nobleman (in various countries) of high rank | - |
| dukedom | (noun) the domain controlled by a duke or duchess | Synonyms: duchy |
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| (noun) the dignity or rank or position of a duke | - |
| dunker | (noun) a basketball player who is able to make dunk shots | - |
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| (noun) an eater who dips food into a liquid before eating it | - |
| dyke | (noun) a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea | Synonyms: dam, dike |
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| (noun) (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine | Synonyms: butch, dike |
| earthquake | (noun) shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity | Synonyms: quake, seism, temblor |
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| (noun) a disturbance that is extremely disruptive | - |
| eggshake | (noun) a milkshake with egg in it | - |
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| endoskeleton | (noun) the internal skeleton; bony and cartilaginous structure (especially of vertebrates) | - |
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| enkephalin | (noun) an endorphin having opiate qualities that occurs in the brain and spinal cord and elsewhere | - |
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| epikeratophakia | (noun) using a piece of donated corneal tissue to repair the eye of someone who has had a cataract removed | - |
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| esker | (noun) (geology) a long winding ridge of post glacial gravel and other sediment; deposited by meltwater from glaciers or ice sheets | - |
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| exoskeleton | (noun) the exterior protective or supporting structure or shell of many animals (especially invertebrates) including bony or horny parts such as nails or scales or hoofs | - |
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| fake | (noun) (football) a deceptive move made by a football player | Synonyms: juke |
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| (noun) something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be | Synonyms: postiche, sham |
| (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
| fakeer | (noun) a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man | Synonyms: fakir, faqir, faquir |
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| faker | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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| fakery | (noun) the act of faking (or the product of faking) | - |
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| fieldworker | (noun) a researcher who works in the field | - |
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| filmmaker | (noun) a producer of motion pictures | Synonyms: film maker, film producer, movie maker |
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