| cockscomb | (noun) the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds | Synonyms: comb, coxcomb |
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| (noun) a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red | Synonyms: coxcomb |
| (noun) a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments | Synonyms: coxcomb |
| (noun) garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers | Synonyms: Celosia argentea cristata, Celosia cristata, common cockscomb |
| collembolan | (noun) any of numerous minute wingless primitive insects possessing a special abdominal appendage that allows the characteristic nearly perpetual springing pattern; found in soil rich in organic debris or on the surface of snow or water | Synonyms: springtail |
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| columbarium | (noun) a sepulchral vault or other structure having recesses in the walls to receive cinerary urns | - |
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| (noun) a niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead | Synonyms: cinerarium |
| (noun) a birdhouse for pigeons | Synonyms: columbary, dovecote |
| columbary | (noun) a birdhouse for pigeons | Synonyms: columbarium, dovecote |
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| columbine | (noun) a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains | Synonyms: aquilege, aquilegia |
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| columbite | (noun) a black mineral that is an ore of niobium and tantalum | Synonyms: niobite |
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| columbium | (noun) a former name for niobium | - |
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| columbo | (noun) any of various tall perennial herbs constituting the genus Frasera; widely distributed in warm dry upland areas of California, Oregon, and Washington | Synonyms: American columbo, American gentian, deer's-ear, deer's-ears, pyramid plant |
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| comb | (noun) the act of drawing a comb through hair | Synonyms: combing |
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| (noun) ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore | - |
| (noun) the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds | Synonyms: cockscomb, coxcomb |
| (noun) a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair | - |
| (noun) any of several tools for straightening fibers | - |
| combat | (noun) an engagement fought between two military forces | Synonyms: armed combat |
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| (noun) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle | Synonyms: fight, fighting, scrap |
| combatant | (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, belligerent, fighter, scrapper |
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| combativeness | (noun) a militant aggressiveness | Synonyms: militance, militancy |
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| comber | (noun) a machine that separates and straightens the fibers of cotton or wool | - |
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| (noun) a long curling sea wave | - |
| (noun) a person who separates and straightens the fibers of cotton or wool | - |
| combination | (noun) the act of combining things to form a new whole | Synonyms: combining, compounding |
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| (noun) the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order | - |
| (noun) a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities | - |
| (noun) a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose | - |
| (noun) a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock | - |
| (noun) an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes) | - |
| (noun) a coordinated sequence of chess moves | - |
| combine | (noun) harvester that heads and threshes and cleans grain while moving across the field | - |
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| (noun) an occurrence that results in things being united | Synonyms: combining |
| (noun) a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service | Synonyms: cartel, corporate trust, trust |
| combing | (noun) the act of drawing a comb through hair | Synonyms: comb |
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| combining | (noun) the act of combining things to form a new whole | Synonyms: combination, compounding |
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| (noun) an occurrence that results in things being united | Synonyms: combine |
| combo | (noun) a small band of jazz musicians | Synonyms: jazz band, jazz group |
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| combretum | (noun) any of numerous shrubs or small trees of the genus Combretum having spikes of small flowers | - |
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| combustibility | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: burnability, combustibleness |
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| combustible | (noun) a substance that can be burned to provide heat or power | Synonyms: combustible material |
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| combustibleness | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: burnability, combustibility |
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| combustion | (noun) the act of burning something | Synonyms: burning |
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| (noun) a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light | Synonyms: burning |
| (noun) a state of violent disturbance and excitement | - |
| corymb | (noun) flat-topped or convex inflorescence in which the individual flower stalks grow upward from various points on the main stem to approximately the same height; outer flowers open first | - |
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| cothromboplastin | (noun) a coagulation factor formed in the kidney under the influence of vitamin K | Synonyms: factor VII, proconvertin, stable factor |
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| coulomb | (noun) a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second | Synonyms: ampere-second, C |
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| counterbombardment | (noun) bombardment intended to destroy or neutralize enemy weapons | - |
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| coxcomb | (noun) the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds | Synonyms: cockscomb, comb |
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| (noun) a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red | Synonyms: cockscomb |
| (noun) a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments | Synonyms: cockscomb |
| crumb | (noun) small piece of e.g. bread or cake | - |
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| (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
| (noun) a very small quantity of something | - |
| crumbliness | (noun) excessive breakableness | Synonyms: friability |
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| cucumber | (noun) cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons | Synonyms: cuke |
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| (noun) a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit | Synonyms: cucumber vine, Cucumis sativus |
| cumbersomeness | (noun) trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape | Synonyms: awkwardness, unwieldiness |
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| cumulonimbus | (noun) a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity; associated with thunderstorms | Synonyms: cumulonimbus cloud, thundercloud |
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| currycomb | (noun) a square comb with rows of small teeth; used to curry horses | - |
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| cymbal | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a concave brass disk; makes a loud crashing sound when hit with a drumstick or when two are struck together | - |
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| cymbalist | (noun) a performer on the cymbals | - |
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| cymbid | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Cymbidium having narrow leaves and a long drooping cluster of numerous showy and variously colored boat-shaped flowers; extensively hybridized and cultivated as houseplants and important florists' flowers | Synonyms: cymbidium |
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| cymbidium | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Cymbidium having narrow leaves and a long drooping cluster of numerous showy and variously colored boat-shaped flowers; extensively hybridized and cultivated as houseplants and important florists' flowers | Synonyms: cymbid |
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| cytomembrane | (noun) a thin membrane (a double layer of lipids) enclosing the cytoplasm of a cell; proteins in the membrane control passage of ions (like sodium or potassium or calcium) in and out of the cell | Synonyms: cell membrane, plasma membrane |
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| delimber | (noun) a machine for removing limbs from trees with a saw or flailing chains. | Synonyms: stroke delimber |
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| disambiguation | (noun) clarification that follows from the removal of ambiguity | - |
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| disambiguator | (noun) (computer science) a natural language processing application that tries to determine the intended meaning of a word or phrase by examining the linguistic context in which it is used | - |
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| disassembly | (noun) the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: dismantlement, dismantling |
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| discombobulation | (noun) a feeling of embarrassment that leaves you confused | Synonyms: confusion |
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| disembarkation | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: debarkation, disembarkment |
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| disembarkment | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: debarkation, disembarkation |
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| disembarrassment | (noun) something that extricates you from embarrassment | - |
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| disembowelment | (noun) the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude | Synonyms: evisceration |
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| dismemberment | (noun) the removal of limbs; being cut to pieces | Synonyms: taking apart |
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| dissembler | (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender |
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| dissembling | (noun) the act of deceiving | Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation |
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| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretense |
| dithyramb | (noun) (ancient Greece) a passionate hymn (usually in honor of Dionysus) | - |
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| (noun) a wildly enthusiastic speech or piece of writing | - |
| dombeya | (noun) any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Dombeya grown for their rounded clusters of exquisite often sweet-scented flowers usually hanging beneath the leaves | - |
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| doorjamb | (noun) a jamb for a door | Synonyms: doorpost |
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| drumbeat | (noun) a vehement and vociferous advocacy of a cause | - |
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| (noun) (military) the beating of a drum as a signal for lowering the flag at sundown | - |
| (noun) the sound made by beating a drum | Synonyms: rataplan, rub-a-dub |
| drumbeater | (noun) a fervent and even militant proponent of something | Synonyms: partisan, zealot |
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| dumbass | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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| dumbbell | (noun) an exercising weight; two spheres connected by a short bar that serves as a handle | - |
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| (noun) an ignorant or foolish person | Synonyms: boob, booby, dope, dummy, pinhead |
| dumbness | (noun) the quality of being mentally slow and limited | Synonyms: denseness, slow-wittedness |
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| dumbwaiter | (noun) a small elevator used to convey food (or other goods) from one floor of a building to another | Synonyms: food elevator |
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| embalmer | (noun) a mortician who treats corpses with preservatives | - |
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| embalmment | (noun) preservation (of a dead body) by treating with balsams and drugs and other chemicals | - |
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| embankment | (noun) a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection | - |
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| embargo | (noun) a government order imposing a trade barrier | Synonyms: trade embargo, trade stoppage |
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| embarkation | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: boarding, embarkment |
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| embarkment | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: boarding, embarkation |
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| embarrassment | (noun) extreme excess | Synonyms: overplus, plethora, superfluity |
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| (noun) some event that causes someone to be embarrassed | - |
| (noun) the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public | - |
| (noun) the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy) | - |
| embassador | (noun) a diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another | Synonyms: ambassador |
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| embassy | (noun) a diplomatic building where ambassadors live or work | - |
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| (noun) an ambassador and his entourage collectively | - |
| embayment | (noun) an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf | Synonyms: bay |
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| embellishment | (noun) the act of adding extraneous decorations to something | Synonyms: ornamentation |
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| (noun) a superfluous ornament | - |
| (noun) elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail | Synonyms: embroidery |
| ember | (noun) a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering | Synonyms: coal |
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| embezzlement | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: defalcation, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation |
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| embezzler | (noun) someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use | Synonyms: defalcator, peculator |
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| embitterment | (noun) the state of being embittered | - |
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| emblem | (noun) special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc. | - |
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| (noun) a visible symbol representing an abstract idea | Synonyms: allegory |
| embodiment | (noun) giving concrete form to an abstract concept | - |
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| (noun) a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept | Synonyms: shape |
| (noun) a new personification of a familiar idea | Synonyms: avatar, incarnation |
| embolectomy | (noun) surgical removal of an embolus (usually from an artery) | - |
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| embolism | (noun) occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus (a loose clot or air bubble or other particle) | - |
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| (noun) an insertion into a calendar | Synonyms: intercalation |
| embolus | (noun) an abnormal particle (e.g. an air bubble or part of a clot) circulating in the blood | - |
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| embonpoint | (noun) the bodily property of being well rounded | Synonyms: plumpness, roundness |
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| embossment | (noun) sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background | Synonyms: relief, relievo, rilievo, sculptural relief |
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| (noun) an impression produced by pressure or printing | Synonyms: imprint |
| embouchure | (noun) the aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly | Synonyms: mouthpiece |
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| embrace | (noun) the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection) | Synonyms: embracement, embracing |
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| (noun) a close affectionate and protective acceptance | Synonyms: bosom |
| (noun) the state of taking in or encircling | - |
| embracement | (noun) the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection) | Synonyms: embrace, embracing |
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| embracing | (noun) the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection) | Synonyms: embrace, embracement |
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| embrasure | (noun) an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through | Synonyms: port, porthole |
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| embrocation | (noun) a medicinal liquid that is rubbed into the skin to relieve muscular stiffness and pain | Synonyms: liniment |
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| embroiderer | (noun) someone who ornaments with needlework | - |
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| embroideress | (noun) a woman embroiderer | - |
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| embroidery | (noun) decorative needlework | Synonyms: fancywork |
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| (noun) elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail | Synonyms: embellishment |
| embroilment | (noun) an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation | Synonyms: imbroglio |
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| embryo | (noun) an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life | Synonyms: conceptus, fertilized egg |
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| (noun) (botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium | - |
| embryologist | (noun) a physician who specializes in embryology | - |
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| embryology | (noun) the branch of biology that studies the formation and early development of living organisms | - |
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| encumbrance | (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventative, preventive |
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| (noun) an onerous or difficult concern | Synonyms: burden, incumbrance, load, onus |
| (noun) a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage) | Synonyms: incumbrance |
| enjambement | (noun) the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause | Synonyms: enjambment |
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| enjambment | (noun) the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause | Synonyms: enjambement |
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| ensemble | (noun) a coordinated outfit (set of clothing) | - |
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| (noun) the chorus of a ballet company | Synonyms: corps de ballet |
| (noun) a group of musicians playing or singing together | - |
| (noun) an assemblage of parts or details (as in a work of art) considered as forming a whole | Synonyms: tout ensemble |
| (noun) a cast other than the principals | Synonyms: supporting players |
| entombment | (noun) the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave | Synonyms: burial, inhumation, interment, sepulture |
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