| cantaloup | (noun) the fruit of a cantaloup vine; small to medium-sized melon with yellowish flesh | Synonyms: cantaloupe |
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| (noun) a variety of muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange flesh | Synonyms: cantaloup vine, cantaloupe, cantaloupe vine, Cucumis melo cantalupensis |
| cantaloupe | (noun) the fruit of a cantaloup vine; small to medium-sized melon with yellowish flesh | Synonyms: cantaloup |
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| (noun) a variety of muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange flesh | Synonyms: cantaloup, cantaloup vine, cantaloupe vine, Cucumis melo cantalupensis |
| countercoup | (noun) a sudden and decisive overthrow of a government that gained power by a coup d'etat | - |
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| coup | (noun) a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force | Synonyms: coup d'etat, putsch, takeover |
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| (noun) a brilliant and notable success | - |
| coupe | (noun) a car with two doors and front seats and a luggage compartment | - |
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| couple | (noun) a pair who associate with one another | Synonyms: duet, duo, twosome |
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| (noun) a pair of people who live together | Synonyms: match, mates |
| (noun) (physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines | - |
| (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
| (noun) a small indefinite number | - |
| coupler | (noun) a mechanical device that serves to connect the ends of adjacent objects | Synonyms: coupling |
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| couplet | (noun) a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed | - |
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| (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
| coupling | (noun) the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes | Synonyms: conjugation, mating, pairing, sexual union, union |
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| (noun) a mechanical device that serves to connect the ends of adjacent objects | Synonyms: coupler |
| (noun) a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together | Synonyms: yoke |
| coupon | (noun) a test sample of some substance | - |
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| (noun) a negotiable certificate that can be detached and redeemed as needed | Synonyms: voucher |
| croup | (noun) the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks | Synonyms: croupe, hindquarters, rump |
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| (noun) a disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing | Synonyms: spasmodic laryngitis |
| croupe | (noun) the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks | Synonyms: croup, hindquarters, rump |
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| croupier | (noun) someone who collects and pays bets at a gaming table | - |
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| decoupage | (noun) the art of decorating a surface with shapes or pictures and then coating it with varnish or lacquer | - |
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| (noun) art produced by decorating a surface with cutouts and then coating it with several layers of varnish or lacquer | - |
| group | (noun) any number of entities (members) considered as a unit | Synonyms: grouping |
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| (noun) a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse | Synonyms: mathematical group |
| (noun) (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule | Synonyms: chemical group, radical |
| grouper | (noun) usually solitary bottom sea basses of warm seas | - |
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| (noun) flesh of a saltwater fish similar to sea bass | - |
| groupie | (noun) an enthusiastic young fan (especially a young woman who follows rock groups around) | - |
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| grouping | (noun) any number of entities (members) considered as a unit | Synonyms: group |
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| (noun) the activity of putting things together in groups | - |
| (noun) a system for classifying things into groups | Synonyms: pigeonholing |
| groupthink | (noun) decision making by a group (especially in a manner that discourages creativity or individual responsibility) | - |
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| groupware | (noun) software that can be used by a group of people who are working on the same information but may be distributed in space | - |
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| ingroup | (noun) an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose | Synonyms: camp, clique, coterie, inner circle, pack |
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| loupe | (noun) small magnifying glass (usually set in an eyepiece) used by jewelers and horologists | Synonyms: jeweler's loupe |
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| newsgroup | (noun) an area on a computer network, especially on the internet, devoted to the discussion of a specified topic | - |
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| soup | (noun) liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food | - |
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| (noun) an unfortunate situation | - |
| (noun) any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup | - |
| soupcon | (noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: hint, jot, mite, pinch, speck, tinge, touch |
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| soupfin | (noun) Pacific shark valued for its fins (used by Chinese in soup) and liver (rich in vitamin A) | Synonyms: Galeorhinus zyopterus, soup-fin, soupfin shark |
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| soupiness | (noun) the property of having the thickness of heavy cream | Synonyms: creaminess |
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| (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mawkishness, mushiness, sentimentality, sloppiness |
| soupspoon | (noun) a spoon with a rounded bowl for eating soup | Synonyms: soup spoon |
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| stoup | (noun) basin for holy water | Synonyms: stoop |
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| (noun) an archaic drinking vessel | - |
| subgroup | (noun) (mathematics) a subset (that is not empty) of a mathematical group | - |
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| (noun) a distinct and often subordinate group within a group | - |
| thermocouple | (noun) a kind of thermometer consisting of two wires of different metals that are joined at both ends; one junction is at the temperature to be measured and the other is held at a fixed lower temperature; the current generated in the circuit is proportional to the temperature difference | Synonyms: thermocouple junction |
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| toupe | (noun) a small hairpiece to cover partial baldness | Synonyms: toupee |
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| toupee | (noun) a small hairpiece to cover partial baldness | Synonyms: toupe |
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| troupe | (noun) organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical) | Synonyms: company |
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| trouper | (noun) an actor who travels around the country presenting plays | Synonyms: barnstormer, play-actor, playactor |
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| (noun) a person who is reliable and uncomplaining and hard working | - |