| colours | (noun) a flag that shows its nationality | Synonyms: colors |
|---|
| (noun) a distinguishing emblem | Synonyms: colors |
| commodiousness | (noun) spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building) | Synonyms: capaciousness, roominess, spaciousness |
|---|
| compound | (noun) an enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient) | - |
|---|
| (noun) a whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts | - |
| (noun) a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes. | Synonyms: compound word |
| (noun) (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight | Synonyms: chemical compound |
| compounding | (noun) the act of combining things to form a new whole | Synonyms: combination, combining |
|---|
| concourse | (noun) a coming together of people | Synonyms: confluence |
|---|
| (noun) a wide hallway in a building where people can walk | - |
| (noun) a large gathering of people | Synonyms: multitude, throng |
| congou | (noun) black tea grown in China | Synonyms: congo, congou tea, English breakfast tea |
|---|
| congruousness | (noun) the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate | Synonyms: congruence, congruity |
|---|
| conscientiousness | (noun) the quality of being in accord with the dictates of conscience | - |
|---|
| (noun) the trait of being painstaking and careful | Synonyms: painstakingness |
| consciousness | (noun) an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation | - |
|---|
| (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: awareness, cognisance, cognizance, knowingness |
| conspicuousness | (noun) high visibility | - |
|---|
| (noun) the state of being conspicuous | - |
| contagiousness | (noun) The state or condition of being contagious, easily transmitted to others. | - |
|---|
| contemporaneousness | (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneity, modernism, modernity, modernness |
|---|
| (noun) the quality of belonging to the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporaneity |
| contemptuousness | (noun) the manifestation of scorn and contempt | - |
|---|
| contentiousness | (noun) an inclination to be quarrelsome and contentious | Synonyms: quarrelsomeness |
|---|
| contiguousness | (noun) the attribute of being so near as to be touching | Synonyms: adjacency, contiguity |
|---|
| continuousness | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: ceaselessness, incessancy, incessantness |
|---|
| contour | (noun) any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline) | Synonyms: configuration, conformation, form, shape |
|---|
| (noun) a feature (or the order or arrangement of features) of anything having a complex structure | - |
| (noun) a line drawn on a map connecting points of equal height | Synonyms: contour line |
| cookhouse | (noun) the area for food preparation on a ship | Synonyms: caboose, galley, ship's galley |
|---|
| (noun) a detached or outdoor shelter for cooking | - |
| cookout | (noun) an informal meal cooked and eaten outdoors | - |
|---|
| coonhound | (noun) any of several breeds of hound developed for hunting raccoons | - |
|---|
| copiousness | (noun) the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply | Synonyms: abundance, teemingness |
|---|
| copout | (noun) a failure to face some difficulty squarely | - |
|---|
| cornflour | (noun) starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener | Synonyms: cornstarch |
|---|
| cottonmouth | (noun) venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States | Synonyms: Agkistrodon piscivorus, cottonmouth moccasin, water moccasin |
|---|
| coucal | (noun) Old World ground-living cuckoo having a long dagger-like hind claw | - |
|---|
| couch | (noun) an upholstered seat for more than one person | Synonyms: lounge, sofa |
|---|
| (noun) a narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment | - |
| (noun) a flat coat of paint or varnish used by artists as a primer | - |
| couchette | (noun) a compartment on a European passenger train; contains 4 to 6 berths for sleeping | - |
|---|
| (noun) a sleeping berth in a couchette compartment. | - |
| cougar | (noun) large American feline resembling a lion | Synonyms: catamount, Felis concolor, mountain lion, painter, panther, puma |
|---|
| cough | (noun) a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis | Synonyms: coughing |
|---|
| coughing | (noun) a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis | Synonyms: cough |
|---|
| coulisse | (noun) a timber member grooved to take a sliding panel | - |
|---|
| (noun) a flat situated in the wings | Synonyms: wing flat |
| 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 |
|---|
| coulter | (noun) a sharp steel wedge that precedes the plow and cuts vertically through the soil | Synonyms: colter |
|---|
| coumarone | (noun) a colorless oily compound extracted from coal tar and used in manufacturing synthetic resins | Synonyms: benzofuran, cumarone |
|---|
| council | (noun) a meeting of people for consultation | - |
|---|
| (noun) a body serving in an administrative capacity | - |
| (noun) (Christianity) an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine | - |
| councillor | (noun) a member of a council | Synonyms: council member |
|---|
| councillorship | (noun) the position of council member | Synonyms: councilorship |
|---|
| councilman | (noun) a man who is a council member | - |
|---|
| councilorship | (noun) the position of council member | Synonyms: councillorship |
|---|
| councilwoman | (noun) a woman who is a council member | - |
|---|
| counsel | (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counseling, counselling, direction, guidance |
|---|
| (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 |
|---|
| counselling | (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counsel, counseling, direction, guidance |
|---|
| counsellor | (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsel, counselor-at-law, counselor, pleader |
|---|
| (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 |
|---|
| counselor | (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsel, counsellor, counselor-at-law, pleader |
|---|
| (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 |
|---|
| count | (noun) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order | Synonyms: counting, enumeration, numeration, reckoning, tally |
|---|
| (noun) a nobleman (in various countries) having rank equal to a British earl | - |
| (noun) the total number counted | - |
| countdown | (noun) counting backward from an arbitrary number to indicate the time remaining before some event (such as launching a space vehicle) | - |
|---|
| countenance | (noun) the appearance conveyed by a person's face | Synonyms: visage |
|---|
| (noun) the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) | Synonyms: kisser, mug, phiz, physiognomy, smiler, visage |
| (noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: endorsement, imprimatur, indorsement, sanction, warrant |
| counter | (noun) a return punch (especially by a boxer) | Synonyms: counterpunch, parry |
|---|
| (noun) table consisting of a horizontal surface over which business is transacted | - |
| (noun) a calculator that keeps a record of the number of times something happens | Synonyms: tabulator |
| (noun) a piece of leather forming the back of a shoe or boot | Synonyms: heel counter |
| (noun) game equipment (as a piece of wood, plastic, or ivory) used for keeping a count or reserving a space in various card or board games | - |
| (noun) a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers | Synonyms: buffet, sideboard |
| (noun) (computer science) a register whose contents go through a regular series of states (usually states indicating consecutive integers) | - |
| (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: comeback, rejoinder, replication, retort, return, riposte |
| (noun) a person who counts things | - |
| counteraction | (noun) action intended to nullify the effects of some previous action | Synonyms: neutralisation, neutralization |
|---|
| counterargument | (noun) an argument offered in opposition to another argument | - |
|---|
| counterattack | (noun) an attack by a defending force against an attacking enemy force in order to regain lost ground or cut off enemy advance units etc. | Synonyms: countermove |
|---|
| (noun) (chess) an attack that is intended to counter the opponent's advantage in another part of the board | Synonyms: counterplay |
| counterattraction | (noun) a rival attraction | - |
|---|
| counterbalance | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterpoise, counterweight, equaliser, equalizer |
|---|
| (noun) a compensating equivalent | Synonyms: offset |
| (noun) equality of distribution | Synonyms: balance, equilibrium, equipoise |
| counterblast | (noun) a vigorous and unrestrained response | - |
|---|
| counterblow | (noun) a return blow; a retaliatory blow | - |
|---|
| counterbombardment | (noun) bombardment intended to destroy or neutralize enemy weapons | - |
|---|
| counterbore | (noun) a bit for enlarging the upper part of a hole | Synonyms: countersink, countersink bit |
|---|
| countercharge | (noun) a retaliatory charge | - |
|---|
| (noun) a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser | - |
| countercheck | (noun) something that checks the correctness of a previous check | Synonyms: double check |
|---|
| (noun) a check that restrains another check | - |
| counterclaim | (noun) a claim filed in opposition to another claim in a legal action | - |
|---|
| countercoup | (noun) a sudden and decisive overthrow of a government that gained power by a coup d'etat | - |
|---|
| counterculture | (noun) a culture with lifestyles and values opposed to those of the established culture | - |
|---|
| countercurrent | (noun) actions counter to the main group activity | Synonyms: crosscurrent |
|---|
| (noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: crosscurrent, rip, riptide, tide rip |
| counterdemonstration | (noun) a demonstration held in opposition to another demonstration | - |
|---|
| counterdemonstrator | (noun) someone who demonstrates in opposition to another demonstration | - |
|---|
| counterespionage | (noun) spying on the spies | - |
|---|
| counterevidence | (noun) (philosophy, law, sciences) Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis. | Synonyms: counter-evidence |
|---|
| counterexample | (noun) refutation by example | - |
|---|
| counterfactuality | (noun) the quality of being contrary to fact | - |
|---|
| counterfeit | (noun) a copy that is represented as the original | Synonyms: forgery |
|---|
| counterfeiter | (noun) someone who makes copies illegally | Synonyms: forger |
|---|
| counterfire | (noun) fire intended to neutralize or destroy enemy weapons | - |
|---|
| counterfoil | (noun) the part of a check that is retained as a record | Synonyms: check stub, stub |
|---|
| counterglow | (noun) a faint spot of light in the night sky that appears directly opposite the position of the sun; a reflection of sunlight by micrometeoric material in space | Synonyms: gegenschein |
|---|
| counterinsurgency | (noun) actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | Synonyms: pacification |
|---|
| counterintelligence | (noun) intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism | - |
|---|
| counterirritant | (noun) a medicine applied locally to produce superficial inflammation in order to reduce deeper inflammation | - |
|---|
| counterman | (noun) a male who attends a counter (as in a diner) | - |
|---|
| countermand | (noun) a contrary command cancelling or reversing a previous command | - |
|---|
| countermarch | (noun) (military) a march in the reverse direction or back along the same route | - |
|---|
| countermeasure | (noun) an action taken to offset another action | - |
|---|
| countermine | (noun) (military) a tunnel dug to defeat similar activities by the enemy | - |
|---|
| countermove | (noun) an attack by a defending force against an attacking enemy force in order to regain lost ground or cut off enemy advance units etc. | Synonyms: counterattack |
|---|
| counteroffensive | (noun) a large scale offensive (more than a counterattack) undertaken by a defending force to seize the initiative from an attacking force | - |
|---|
| counteroffer | (noun) an offer made by someone who has rejected a prior offer | - |
|---|
| counterpane | (noun) decorative cover for a bed | Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedcover, bedspread, spread |
|---|
| counterpart | (noun) a duplicate copy | Synonyms: similitude, twin |
|---|
| (noun) a person or thing having the same function or characteristics as another | Synonyms: opposite number, vis-a-vis |
| counterperson | (noun) someone who attends a counter (as in a diner) | - |
|---|
| counterplan | (noun) a plot intended to subvert another plot | Synonyms: counterplot |
|---|
| counterplay | (noun) (chess) an attack that is intended to counter the opponent's advantage in another part of the board | Synonyms: counterattack |
|---|
| counterplea | (noun) a plaintiff's reply to a defendant's plea | - |
|---|
| counterplot | (noun) a plot intended to subvert another plot | Synonyms: counterplan |
|---|
| counterpoint | (noun) a musical form involving the simultaneous sound of two or more melodies | - |
|---|
| counterpoise | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterweight, equaliser, equalizer |
|---|
| counterpoison | (noun) a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison | Synonyms: antidote |
|---|
| counterproject | (noun) a project, scheme, or proposal brought forward in opposition to another, as in the negotiation of a treaty. | - |
|---|
| counterproposal | (noun) a proposal offered as an alternative to an earlier proposal | - |
|---|