bonce | (noun) informal terms for a human head | Synonyms: attic, bean, dome, noggin, noodle |
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concealing | (noun) the activity of keeping something secret | Synonyms: concealment, hiding |
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concealment | (noun) the activity of keeping something secret | Synonyms: concealing, hiding |
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(noun) a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something | Synonyms: cover, covert, screen |
(noun) the condition of being concealed or hidden | Synonyms: privacy, privateness, secrecy |
conceding | (noun) the act of conceding or yielding | Synonyms: concession, yielding |
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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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conceivableness | (noun) the state of being conceivable | Synonyms: conceivability |
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conceiver | (noun) someone who creates new things | Synonyms: mastermind, originator |
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concentrate | (noun) a concentrated example of something | - |
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(noun) a concentrated form of a foodstuff; the bulk is reduced by removing water | - |
(noun) the desired mineral that is left after impurities have been removed from mined ore | Synonyms: dressed ore |
concentration | (noun) strengthening the concentration (as of a solute in a mixture) by removing diluting material | - |
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(noun) bringing together military forces | - |
(noun) great and constant diligence and attention | Synonyms: assiduity, assiduousness |
(noun) the strength of a solution; number of molecules of a substance in a given volume | - |
(noun) the spatial property of being crowded together | Synonyms: compactness, denseness, density, tightness |
(noun) complete attention; intense mental effort | Synonyms: absorption, engrossment, immersion |
(noun) increase in density | - |
concentricity | (noun) the quality of having the same center (as circles inside one another) | - |
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concept | (noun) an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances | Synonyms: conception, construct |
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conception | (noun) the act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon | - |
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(noun) an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances | Synonyms: concept, construct |
(noun) the creation of something in the mind | Synonyms: design, excogitation, innovation, invention |
(noun) the event that occurred at the beginning of something | Synonyms: creation |
conceptualisation | (noun) inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally | Synonyms: conceptualization, formulation |
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(noun) an elaborated concept | Synonyms: conceptuality, conceptualization |
conceptualism | (noun) the doctrine that the application of a general term to various objects indicates the existence of a mental entity that mediates the application | - |
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conceptuality | (noun) an elaborated concept | Synonyms: conceptualisation, conceptualization |
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conceptualization | (noun) inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally | Synonyms: conceptualisation, formulation |
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(noun) an elaborated concept | Synonyms: conceptualisation, conceptuality |
conceptus | (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: embryo, fertilized egg |
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concern | (noun) something that interests you because it is important or affects you | - |
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(noun) something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: headache, vexation, worry |
(noun) a feeling of sympathy for someone or something | - |
(noun) an anxious feeling | Synonyms: care, fear |
(noun) a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it | Synonyms: business, business concern, business organisation, business organization |
concert | (noun) a performance of music by players or singers not involving theatrical staging | - |
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concertina | (noun) free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds | - |
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(noun) coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle | - |
concertinist | (noun) a person who plays the concertina | - |
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concerto | (noun) a composition for orchestra and a soloist | - |
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concession | (noun) a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business | Synonyms: grant |
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(noun) a point conceded or yielded | - |
(noun) the act of conceding or yielding | Synonyms: conceding, yielding |
concessionaire | (noun) someone who holds or operates a concession | Synonyms: concessioner |
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concessioner | (noun) someone who holds or operates a concession | Synonyms: concessionaire |
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disconcertion | (noun) anxious embarrassment | Synonyms: discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertment |
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disconcertment | (noun) anxious embarrassment | Synonyms: discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion |
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inconceivability | (noun) the state of being impossible to conceive | Synonyms: inconceivableness |
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inconceivableness | (noun) the state of being impossible to conceive | Synonyms: inconceivability |
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misconception | (noun) an incorrect conception | - |
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nonce | (noun) the present occasion | Synonyms: time being |
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pennoncel | (noun) a small pennant borne on a lance | Synonyms: pennoncelle, penoncel |
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pennoncelle | (noun) a small pennant borne on a lance | Synonyms: pennoncel, penoncel |
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penoncel | (noun) a small pennant borne on a lance | Synonyms: pennoncel, pennoncelle |
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ponce | (noun) someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) | Synonyms: fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, pimp, procurer |
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(noun) a man who is effeminate in his manner and fussy in the way he dresses | - |
preconception | (noun) an opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence | Synonyms: parti pris, preconceived idea, preconceived notion, preconceived opinion, prepossession |
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(noun) a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation | Synonyms: bias, prejudice |
sconce | (noun) a decorative wall bracket for holding candles or other sources of light | - |
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(noun) a candle or flaming torch secured in a sconce | - |
(noun) a small fort or earthwork defending a ford, pass, or castle gate | - |
(noun) a shelter or screen providing protection from enemy fire or from the weather | - |
unconcern | (noun) the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern | Synonyms: indifference, nonchalance |
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(noun) a feeling of lack of concern | - |
violoncellist | (noun) someone who plays a violoncello | Synonyms: cellist |
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violoncello | (noun) a large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing | Synonyms: cello |
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