| conservative | (noun) a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas | Synonyms: conservativist |
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| conservativism | (noun) a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes | Synonyms: conservatism |
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| conservativist | (noun) a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas | Synonyms: conservative |
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| conservatoire | (noun) a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts | Synonyms: conservatory |
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| conservator | (noun) the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library) | Synonyms: curator |
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| (noun) someone appointed by a court to assume responsibility for the interests of a minor or incompetent person | - |
| conservatory | (noun) a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner | Synonyms: hothouse, indoor garden |
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| (noun) a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts | Synonyms: conservatoire |
| (noun) the faculty and students of a school specializing in one of the fine arts | - |
| conserve | (noun) fruit preserved by cooking with sugar | Synonyms: conserves, preserve, preserves |
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| conserves | (noun) fruit preserved by cooking with sugar | Synonyms: conserve, preserve, preserves |
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| considerateness | (noun) kind and considerate regard for others | Synonyms: consideration, thoughtfulness |
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| consideration | (noun) a considerate and thoughtful act | Synonyms: thoughtfulness |
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| (noun) kind and considerate regard for others | Synonyms: considerateness, thoughtfulness |
| (noun) the process of giving careful thought to something | - |
| (noun) information that should be kept in mind when making a decision | Synonyms: circumstance, condition |
| (noun) a discussion of a topic (as in a meeting) | - |
| (noun) a fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone | Synonyms: retainer |
| consignee | (noun) the person to whom merchandise is delivered over | - |
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| consigner | (noun) the person who delivers over or commits merchandise | Synonyms: consignor |
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| consignment | (noun) the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) | Synonyms: commitment, committal |
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| (noun) the delivery of goods for sale or disposal | - |
| (noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, freight, lading, load, loading, payload, shipment |
| consignor | (noun) the person who delivers over or commits merchandise | Synonyms: consigner |
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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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| consolation | (noun) the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction | Synonyms: comfort, solace |
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| (noun) the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment | Synonyms: solace, solacement |
| console | (noun) housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television | Synonyms: cabinet |
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| (noun) an ornamental scroll-shaped bracket (especially one used to support a wall fixture) | - |
| (noun) a scientific instrument consisting of displays and an input device that an operator can use to monitor and control a system (especially a computer system) | - |
| (noun) a small table fixed to a wall or designed to stand against a wall | Synonyms: console table |
| consolidation | (noun) the act of combining into an integral whole | Synonyms: integration |
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| (noun) combining into a solid mass | - |
| (noun) something that has consolidated into a compact mass | - |
| consomme | (noun) clear soup usually of beef or veal or chicken | - |
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| consonance | (noun) the property of sounding harmonious | Synonyms: harmoniousness |
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| (noun) the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words | Synonyms: consonant rhyme |
| consonant | (noun) a speech sound that is not a vowel | - |
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| (noun) a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken consonant | - |
| consort | (noun) a family of similar musical instrument playing together | Synonyms: choir |
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| (noun) the husband or wife of a reigning monarch | - |
| consortium | (noun) an association of companies for some definite purpose | Synonyms: pool, syndicate |
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| conspecific | (noun) an organism belonging to the same species as another organism | - |
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| conspectus | (noun) an overall summary | - |
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| conspicuousness | (noun) high visibility | - |
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| (noun) the state of being conspicuous | - |
| conspiracy | (noun) a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot) | Synonyms: cabal |
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| (noun) a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act | Synonyms: confederacy |
| (noun) a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose | Synonyms: confederacy |
| conspirator | (noun) a member of a conspiracy | Synonyms: coconspirator, machinator, plotter |
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| constable | (noun) a lawman with less authority and jurisdiction than a sheriff | - |
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| (noun) a police officer of the lowest rank | Synonyms: police constable |
| constabulary | (noun) the force of policemen and officers | Synonyms: law, police, police force |
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| constancy | (noun) the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation | Synonyms: stability |
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| (noun) faithfulness and dependability in personal attachments (especially sexual fidelity) | - |
| (noun) (psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation | Synonyms: perceptual constancy |
| constant | (noun) a quantity that does not vary | Synonyms: constant quantity, invariable |
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| (noun) a number representing a quantity assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context | - |
| constantan | (noun) an alloy of copper and nickel with high electrical resistance and a low temperature coefficient; used as resistance wire | Synonyms: Eureka |
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| constatation | (noun) an assumption that is basic to an argument | Synonyms: basic assumption, self-evident truth |
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| constellation | (noun) an arrangement of parts or elements | Synonyms: configuration |
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| (noun) a configuration of stars as seen from the earth | - |
| consternation | (noun) fear resulting from the awareness of danger | Synonyms: alarm, dismay |
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| constipation | (noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: deadening, impairment, stultification |
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| (noun) irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels; can be a symptom of intestinal obstruction or diverticulitis | Synonyms: irregularity |
| constituency | (noun) the body of voters who elect a representative for their area | - |
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| constituent | (noun) an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system | Synonyms: component, element |
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| (noun) an abstract part of something | Synonyms: component, element, factor, ingredient |
| (noun) (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction | Synonyms: grammatical constituent |
| (noun) a member of a constituency; a citizen who is represented in a government by officials for whom he or she votes | - |
| (noun) something determined in relation to something that includes it | Synonyms: component, component part, part, portion |
| constitution | (noun) the act of forming or establishing something | Synonyms: establishment, formation, organisation, organization |
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| (noun) the way in which someone or something is composed | Synonyms: composition, make-up, makeup, physical composition |
| (noun) law determining the fundamental political principles of a government | Synonyms: fundamental law, organic law |
| constitutional | (noun) a regular walk taken as a form of exercise | - |
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| constitutionalism | (noun) advocacy of a system of government according to constitutional principles | - |
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| (noun) a constitutional system of government (usually with a written constitution) | - |
| constitutionalist | (noun) an advocate of constitutional government | - |
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| constraint | (noun) the act of constraining; the threat or use of force to control the thoughts or behavior of others | - |
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| (noun) a device that retards something's motion | Synonyms: restraint |
| (noun) the state of being physically constrained | Synonyms: restraint |
| constriction | (noun) the action or process of compressing | - |
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| (noun) a tight feeling in some part of the body | Synonyms: tightness |
| (noun) tight or narrow compression | Synonyms: coarctation |
| (noun) a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel | Synonyms: bottleneck, chokepoint |
| constrictor | (noun) any of various large nonvenomous snakes that kill their prey by crushing it in its coils | - |
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| construal | (noun) an interpretation of the meaning of something; the act of construing | - |
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| construct | (noun) an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances | Synonyms: concept, conception |
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| construction | (noun) the act of constructing something | Synonyms: building |
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| (noun) the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones | Synonyms: building |
| (noun) drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem | - |
| (noun) a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts | Synonyms: structure |
| (noun) the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought | Synonyms: mental synthesis |
| (noun) an interpretation of a text or action | Synonyms: twist |
| (noun) a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit | Synonyms: expression, grammatical construction |
| constructiveness | (noun) the quality of serving to build or improve | - |
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| constructivism | (noun) an abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I; industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects | - |
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| constructivist | (noun) an artist of the school of constructivism | - |
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| constructor | (noun) someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) | Synonyms: builder |
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| consubstantiation | (noun) the doctrine of the High Anglican Church that after the consecration of the Eucharist the substance of the body and blood of Christ coexists with the substance of the consecrated bread and wine | - |
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| consuetude | (noun) a custom or usage that has acquired the force of law | - |
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| consuetudinal | (noun) a manual describing the customs of a particular group (especially the ceremonial practices of a monastic order) | Synonyms: consuetudinary |
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| consuetudinary | (noun) a manual describing the customs of a particular group (especially the ceremonial practices of a monastic order) | Synonyms: consuetudinal |
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| consul | (noun) a diplomat appointed by a government to protect its commercial interests and help its citizens in a foreign country | - |
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| consulate | (noun) diplomatic building that serves as the residence or workplace of a consul | - |
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| consulship | (noun) the post of consul | - |
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| consultancy | (noun) the practice of giving expert advice within a particular field | - |
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| consultant | (noun) an expert who gives advice | Synonyms: adviser, advisor |
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| consultation | (noun) the act of referring or consulting | Synonyms: reference |
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| (noun) a conference (usually with someone important) | Synonyms: audience, interview |
| (noun) a conference between two or more people to consider a particular question | - |
| consumer | (noun) a person who uses goods or services | - |
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| consumerism | (noun) a movement advocating greater protection of the interests of consumers | - |
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| (noun) the theory that an increasing consumption of goods is economically beneficial | - |
| consummation | (noun) the act of bringing to completion or fruition | - |
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| (noun) the completion of marriage by sexual intercourse | - |
| consumption | (noun) the act of consuming something | Synonyms: expenditure, using up |
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| (noun) the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) | Synonyms: ingestion, intake, uptake |
| (noun) (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing | Synonyms: economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services |
| (noun) involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body | Synonyms: phthisis, pulmonary tuberculosis, wasting disease, white plague |
| consumptive | (noun) a person with pulmonary tuberculosis | Synonyms: lunger, tubercular |
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| contredanse | (noun) a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line | Synonyms: contra danse, contradance, country-dance, country dancing |
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| coonskin | (noun) a raccoon cap with the tail hanging down the back | Synonyms: coonskin cap |
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| cornsilk | (noun) each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn | Synonyms: corn silk |
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| cornsmut | (noun) a smut fungus attacking Indian corn | Synonyms: corn smut |
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| cornstalk | (noun) the stalk of a corn plant | Synonyms: corn stalk |
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| cornstarch | (noun) starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener | Synonyms: cornflour |
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| corrections | (noun) the social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole | - |
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| (noun) the department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders | Synonyms: department of corrections |
| cottonseed | (noun) seed of cotton plants; source of cottonseed oil | - |
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| counsel | (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counseling, counselling, direction, guidance |
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| (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsellor, counselor-at-law, counselor, pleader |
| counseling | (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counsel, counselling, direction, guidance |
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| counselling | (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counsel, counseling, direction, guidance |
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| counsellor | (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsel, counselor-at-law, counselor, pleader |
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| (noun) someone who gives advice about problems | Synonyms: counselor |
| (noun) someone who has supervisory duties at a summer camp | Synonyms: counselor |
| counsellorship | (noun) the position of counselor | Synonyms: counselorship |
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| counselor | (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsel, counsellor, counselor-at-law, pleader |
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| (noun) someone who gives advice about problems | Synonyms: counsellor |
| (noun) someone who has supervisory duties at a summer camp | Synonyms: counsellor |
| counselorship | (noun) the position of counselor | Synonyms: counsellorship |
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| counterdemonstration | (noun) a demonstration held in opposition to another demonstration | - |
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| counterdemonstrator | (noun) someone who demonstrates in opposition to another demonstration | - |
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| counterinsurgency | (noun) actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | Synonyms: pacification |
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| counteroffensive | (noun) a large scale offensive (more than a counterattack) undertaken by a defending force to seize the initiative from an attacking force | - |
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| countertransference | (noun) the psychoanalyst's displacement of emotion onto the patient or more generally the psychoanalyst's emotional involvement in the therapeutic interaction | - |
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| craftsmanship | (noun) skill in an occupation or trade | Synonyms: craft, workmanship |
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| cremains | (noun) the remains of a dead body after cremation | - |
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| custodianship | (noun) the position of custodian | - |
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| danseur | (noun) a male ballet dancer who is the partner of a ballerina | Synonyms: danseur noble |
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| danseuse | (noun) a female ballet dancer | Synonyms: ballerina |
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| deanship | (noun) the position or office of a dean | Synonyms: deanery |
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| declension | (noun) a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms | - |
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| (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declination, decline, declivity, descent, downslope, fall |
| (noun) process of changing to an inferior state | Synonyms: decline in quality, deterioration, worsening |
| (noun) the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages | - |
| deconstruction | (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: deconstructionism |
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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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| deconstructivism | (noun) a school of architecture based on the philosophical theory of deconstruction | - |
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