| communion | (noun) sharing thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: sharing |
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| (noun) (Christianity) a group of Christians with a common religious faith who practice the same rites | - |
| communique | (noun) an official report (usually sent in haste) | Synonyms: despatch, dispatch |
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| communisation | (noun) the organization of a nation of the basis of communism | Synonyms: communization |
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| (noun) a change from private property to public property owned by the community | Synonyms: communization |
| (noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communization, nationalisation, nationalization |
| communism | (noun) a political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society | - |
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| (noun) a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership | - |
| communist | (noun) a socialist who advocates communism | Synonyms: commie |
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| 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 |
| communization | (noun) the organization of a nation of the basis of communism | Synonyms: communisation |
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| (noun) a change from private property to public property owned by the community | Synonyms: communisation |
| (noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communisation, nationalisation, nationalization |
| companion | (noun) a friend who is frequently in the company of another | Synonyms: associate, comrade, familiar, fellow |
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| (noun) one paid to accompany or assist or live with another | - |
| (noun) a traveler who accompanies you | Synonyms: fellow traveler, fellow traveller |
| companionability | (noun) suitability to be a companion | Synonyms: companionableness |
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| companionableness | (noun) suitability to be a companion | Synonyms: companionability |
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| companionship | (noun) the state of being with someone | Synonyms: company, fellowship, society |
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| companionway | (noun) a stairway or ladder that leads from one deck to another on a ship | - |
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| concertinist | (noun) a person who plays the concertina | - |
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| conditioning | (noun) a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment | - |
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| condominium | (noun) housing consisting of a complex of dwelling units (as an apartment house) in which each unit is individually owned | - |
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| (noun) one of the dwelling units in a condominium | Synonyms: condo |
| configurationism | (noun) (psychology) a theory of psychology that emphasizes the importance of configurational properties | Synonyms: Gestalt psychology |
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| congeniality | (noun) a congenial disposition | - |
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| (noun) compatibility between persons | Synonyms: congenialness |
| congenialness | (noun) compatibility between persons | Synonyms: congeniality |
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| conic | (noun) (geometry) a curve generated by the intersection of a plane and a circular cone | Synonyms: conic section |
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| conidiophore | (noun) a specialized fungal hypha that produces conidia | - |
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| conidiospore | (noun) an asexually produced fungal spore formed on a conidiophore | Synonyms: conidium |
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| conidium | (noun) an asexually produced fungal spore formed on a conidiophore | Synonyms: conidiospore |
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| conifer | (noun) any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones | Synonyms: coniferous tree |
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| conima | (noun) a gum resin from the poison hemlock, Conium maculatum | - |
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| conniption | (noun) a display of bad temper | Synonyms: fit, scene, tantrum |
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| connivance | (noun) agreement on a secret plot | Synonyms: collusion |
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| (noun) (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing | Synonyms: secret approval, tacit consent |
| consanguinity | (noun) (anthropology) the condition of being related by blood | Synonyms: blood kinship, cognation |
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| conservationist | (noun) someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution | Synonyms: environmentalist |
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| contortionist | (noun) an acrobat able to twist into unusual positions | - |
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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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| convening | (noun) the act of convening | Synonyms: convention |
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| conversationist | (noun) someone skilled at conversation | Synonyms: conversationalist, schmoozer |
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| coreligionist | (noun) someone having the same religion as another person | - |
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| cornice | (noun) the topmost projecting part of an entablature | - |
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| (noun) a molding at the corner between the ceiling and the top of a wall | - |
| (noun) a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing | Synonyms: pelmet, valance, valance board |
| coronilla | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Coronilla having purple or pink or yellow flowers in long axillary heads or umbels | - |
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| coronion | (noun) the craniometric point at the tip of the coronoid process of the mandible | - |
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| cosmopolitanity | (noun) a state or quality of being cosmopolitan | - |
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| counterrevolutionist | (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionary |
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| craniate | (noun) animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium | Synonyms: vertebrate |
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| craniologist | (noun) someone who claims to be able to read your character from the shape of your skull | Synonyms: phrenologist |
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| craniology | (noun) the scientific study of the skulls of various human races | - |
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| craniometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring skull sizes | - |
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| craniometry | (noun) the branch of physical anthropology dealing with the study and measurement of dry skulls after removal of its soft parts | - |
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| craniotomy | (noun) a surgical opening through the skull | - |
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| cranium | (noun) the part of the skull that encloses the brain | Synonyms: braincase, brainpan |
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| creationism | (noun) the literal belief in the account of Creation given in the Book of Genesis | - |
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| cretinism | (noun) severe hypothyroidism resulting in physical and mental stunting | - |
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| crinion | (noun) point where the hairline meets the midpoint of the forehead | Synonyms: trichion |
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| crooning | (noun) the act of singing popular songs in a sentimental manner | - |
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| (noun) singing in a soft low tone | - |
| cryogenics | (noun) the branch of physics that studies the phenomena that occur at very low temperatures | Synonyms: cryogeny |
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| cryonics | (noun) the freezing of a seriously ill or recently deceased person to stop tissues from decomposing; the body is preserved until new medical cures are developed that might bring the person back to life | - |
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| crystallinity | (noun) (chemistry) The degree of structural order in a solid. | - |
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| ctenidium | (noun) comb-like respiratory structure serving as the gill of certain mollusks | - |
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| culteranismo | (noun) an esoteric style of writing that attempted to elevate poetic language and themes by re-Latinizing them, using classical allusions, vocabulary, syntax, and word order. | Synonyms: Gongorismo |
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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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| cunnilinctus | (noun) oral stimulation of the vulva or clitoris | Synonyms: cunnilingus |
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| cunnilingus | (noun) oral stimulation of the vulva or clitoris | Synonyms: cunnilinctus |
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| cunning | (noun) crafty artfulness (especially in deception) | - |
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| (noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | Synonyms: craft, craftiness, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness |
| cupronickel | (noun) a 60/40 alloy of copper and nickel | - |
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| cushioning | (noun) artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort | Synonyms: padding |
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| cyanide | (noun) an extremely poisonous salt of hydrocyanic acid | - |
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| (noun) any of a class of organic compounds containing the cyano radical -CN | Synonyms: nitril, nitrile |
| cyanite | (noun) a grey or greenish-blue mineral consisting of aluminum silicate in crystalline form; occurs in metaphoric rock, used as a refractory | Synonyms: kyanite |
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| cynic | (noun) someone who is critical of the motives of others | Synonyms: faultfinder |
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| cynicism | (noun) a cynical feeling of distrust | - |
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| cyprinid | (noun) soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales | Synonyms: cyprinid fish |
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| cytoarchitectonics | (noun) the cellular composition of a bodily structure | Synonyms: cytoarchitecture |
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| cytokinin | (noun) any of a class of plant hormones that promote cell division and delay the senescence of leaves | Synonyms: kinin |
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| cytopenia | (noun) a deficiency of some cellular element of the blood | - |
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| czworniak | (noun) a Polish mead, made using three units of water for each unit of honey. | - |
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| dampening | (noun) the act of making something slightly wet | Synonyms: moistening |
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| danish | (noun) light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruits or cheese | Synonyms: danish pastry |
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| daphnia | (noun) minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae | Synonyms: water flea |
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| darkening | (noun) changing to a darker color | Synonyms: blackening |
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| darning | (noun) the act of mending a hole in a garment with crossing threads | - |
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| dawning | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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| deadening | (noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: constipation, impairment, stultification |
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| deaminization | (noun) removal of the amino radical from an amino acid or other amino compound | Synonyms: deamination |
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| decalcomania | (noun) the art of transferring designs from specially prepared paper to a wood or glass or metal surface | - |
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| (noun) either a design that is fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design which is to be transferred to the surface | Synonyms: decal |
| decennium | (noun) a period of 10 years | Synonyms: decade, decennary |
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| decolonisation | (noun) the action of changing from colonial to independent status | Synonyms: decolonization |
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| decolonization | (noun) the action of changing from colonial to independent status | Synonyms: decolonisation |
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| deconstructionism | (noun) a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning | Synonyms: deconstruction |
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| deepening | (noun) a process of becoming deeper and more profound | - |
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| defining | (noun) any process serving to define the shape of something | Synonyms: shaping |
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| definiteness | (noun) the quality of being predictable with great confidence | Synonyms: determinateness |
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| definition | (noun) clarity of outline | - |
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| (noun) a concise explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase or symbol | - |
| definitors | (noun) council in a religious order who provide counsel and assistance to the superiors general and provincial superior of their order. | - |
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| dehumanisation | (noun) the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities | Synonyms: dehumanization |
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| dehumanization | (noun) the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities | Synonyms: dehumanisation |
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| delphinium | (noun) any plant of the genus Delphinium having palmately divided leaves and showy spikes of variously colored spurred flowers; some contain extremely poisonous substances | - |
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| demoniac | (noun) someone who acts as if possessed by a demon | - |
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| demonisation | (noun) to represent as diabolically evil | Synonyms: demonization |
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| demonism | (noun) a belief in and reverence for devils (especially Satan) | Synonyms: diabolism, Satanism |
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| demonization | (noun) to represent as diabolically evil | Synonyms: demonisation |
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| denial | (noun) a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him | Synonyms: defence, defense, demurrer |
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| (noun) renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others | Synonyms: abnegation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-renunciation |
| (noun) the act of refusing to comply (as with a request) | - |
| (noun) the act of asserting that something alleged is not true | Synonyms: disaffirmation |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts | - |
| denier | (noun) any of various former European coins of different denominations | - |
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| (noun) a unit of measurement for the fineness of silk or nylon or rayon | - |
| (noun) one who denies | - |
| denigration | (noun) the act of expressing disapproval (especially of yourself) | Synonyms: deprecation |
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| (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | Synonyms: aspersion, calumny, defamation, slander |
| (noun) a belittling comment | Synonyms: belittling |
| denim | (noun) a coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric | Synonyms: dungaree, jean |
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| (noun) (used in the plural) close-fitting trousers of heavy denim for manual work or casual wear | Synonyms: blue jeans, jeans |
| denitrator | (noun) Any device used to remove nitrates or other nitrogen compounds, especially from water. | - |
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