| choreographer | (noun) someone who creates new dances | - |
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| choreography | (noun) a show involving artistic dancing | Synonyms: stage dancing |
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| (noun) the representation of dancing by symbols as music is represented by notes | - |
| (noun) a notation used by choreographers | - |
| chorioretinitis | (noun) inflammation of the choroid layer behind the retina | - |
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| chrestomathy | (noun) a selection of passages from different authors that is compiled as an aid in learning a language | - |
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| chromophore | (noun) the chemical group that gives color to a molecule | - |
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| chromosphere | (noun) a gaseous layer of the sun's atmosphere (extending from the photosphere to the corona) that is visible during a total eclipse of the sun | - |
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| ciderpress | (noun) a press that is used to extract the juice from apples | - |
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| cigaret | (noun) finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking | Synonyms: butt, cigarette, coffin nail, fag |
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| cigarette | (noun) finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking | Synonyms: butt, cigaret, coffin nail, fag |
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| cincture | (noun) a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers | Synonyms: girdle, sash, waistband, waistcloth |
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| circumference | (noun) the size of something as given by the distance around it | Synonyms: perimeter |
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| (noun) the length of the closed curve of a circle | - |
| (noun) the boundary line encompassing an area or object | Synonyms: circuit |
| clarence | (noun) a closed carriage with four wheels and seats for four passengers | - |
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| claret | (noun) a dark purplish-red color | - |
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| (noun) dry red Bordeaux or Bordeaux-like wine | Synonyms: red Bordeaux |
| claymore | (noun) an antipersonnel land mine whose blast is aimed at the oncoming enemy | Synonyms: claymore mine |
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| (noun) a large double-edged broadsword; formerly used by Scottish Highlanders | - |
| clayware | (noun) ceramic ware made from clay and baked in a kiln | Synonyms: pottery |
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| clerestory | (noun) part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light | Synonyms: clearstory |
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| closure | (noun) termination of operations | Synonyms: closedown, closing, shutdown |
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| (noun) the act of blocking | Synonyms: blockage, occlusion |
| (noun) approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap | Synonyms: closing |
| (noun) an obstruction in a pipe or tube | Synonyms: block, blockage, occlusion, stop, stoppage |
| (noun) a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric | Synonyms: law of closure |
| (noun) something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making | Synonyms: resolution, settlement |
| (noun) a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body | Synonyms: cloture, gag law, gag rule |
| clothespress | (noun) a closet where clothes are stored | Synonyms: clothes closet |
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| cloture | (noun) a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body | Synonyms: closure, gag law, gag rule |
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| coatdress | (noun) a dress that is tailored like a coat and buttons up the front | - |
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| cockerel | (noun) a young domestic cock; not older than one year | - |
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| cocksureness | (noun) total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant | Synonyms: certitude, overconfidence |
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| coherence | (noun) logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherency |
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| (noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness |
| coherency | (noun) logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherence |
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| (noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherence, cohesion, cohesiveness |
| coiffure | (noun) the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair) | Synonyms: coif, hair style, hairdo, hairstyle |
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| coldcream | (noun) a cream used cosmetically (mostly by women) for softening and cleaning the skin | Synonyms: cold cream, face cream, vanishing cream |
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| colored | (noun) a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive | Synonyms: colored person, coloured, coloured person |
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| coloured | (noun) a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive | Synonyms: colored, colored person, coloured person |
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| combretum | (noun) any of numerous shrubs or small trees of the genus Combretum having spikes of small flowers | - |
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| comfrey | (noun) leaves make a popular tisane; young leaves used in salads or cooked | Synonyms: healing herb |
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| (noun) perennial herbs of Europe and Iran; make rapidly growing groundcover for shaded areas | Synonyms: cumfrey |
| commissionaire | (noun) a uniformed doorman | - |
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| commissure | (noun) a bundle of nerve fibers passing from one side to the other of the brain or spinal cord | - |
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| commixture | (noun) the act of mixing together | Synonyms: admixture, intermixture, mix, mixing, mixture |
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| commodore | (noun) a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a captain and below a rear admiral; the lowest grade of admiral | - |
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| compare | (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: comparability, comparison, equivalence |
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| compere | (noun) British term for someone who introduces television acts or cabarets etc | - |
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| composure | (noun) steadiness of mind under stress | Synonyms: calm, calmness, equanimity |
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| comprehensibility | (noun) the quality of comprehensible language or thought | Synonyms: understandability |
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| comprehension | (noun) an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result) | - |
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| (noun) the relation of comprising something | Synonyms: inclusion |
| comprehensive | (noun) an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge | Synonyms: comp, comprehensive examination |
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| comprehensiveness | (noun) the capacity to understand a broad range of topics | Synonyms: breadth, largeness |
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| (noun) completeness over a broad scope | Synonyms: fullness |
| compress | (noun) a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever) | - |
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| compressibility | (noun) the property of being able to occupy less space | Synonyms: sponginess, squeezability |
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| compressing | (noun) applying pressure | Synonyms: compression |
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| compression | (noun) applying pressure | Synonyms: compressing |
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| (noun) encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required | - |
| (noun) the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together | Synonyms: condensation, contraction |
| (noun) an increase in the density of something | Synonyms: compaction, concretion, densification |
| compressor | (noun) a mechanical device that compresses gasses | - |
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| (noun) an electronic device that reduces the dynamic range of an audio signal. | - |
| concessionaire | (noun) someone who holds or operates a concession | Synonyms: concessioner |
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| concrete | (noun) a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water | - |
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| concreteness | (noun) the quality of being concrete (not abstract) | - |
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| concretion | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescence, coalescency, coalition, conglutination |
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| (noun) an increase in the density of something | Synonyms: compaction, compression, densification |
| (noun) a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body | Synonyms: calculus |
| (noun) the formation of stonelike objects within a body organ (e.g., the kidneys) | - |
| concretism | (noun) a representation of an abstract idea in concrete terms | Synonyms: concrete representation |
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| concurrence | (noun) acting together, as agents or circumstances or events | Synonyms: concurrency |
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| (noun) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrence, coincidence, conjunction |
| (noun) agreement of results or opinions | Synonyms: concurrency |
| (noun) a state of cooperation | Synonyms: meeting of minds |
| concurrency | (noun) acting together, as agents or circumstances or events | Synonyms: concurrence |
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| (noun) agreement of results or opinions | Synonyms: concurrence |
| conductress | (noun) a woman conductor | - |
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| conferee | (noun) a member of a conference | - |
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| (noun) a person on whom something is bestowed | - |
| conference | (noun) a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic | Synonyms: group discussion |
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| (noun) a prearranged meeting for consultation or exchange of information or discussion (especially one with a formal agenda) | - |
| (noun) an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members | Synonyms: league |
| conferrer | (noun) person who makes a gift of property | Synonyms: bestower, donor, giver, presenter |
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| (noun) someone who converses or confers (as in a conference) | - |
| confiture | (noun) preserved or candied fruit | - |
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| confrere | (noun) a person who is member of one's class or profession | Synonyms: colleague, fellow |
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| congregant | (noun) a member of a congregation (especially that of a church or synagogue) | - |
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| congregating | (noun) the act of congregating | Synonyms: congregation |
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| congregation | (noun) the act of congregating | Synonyms: congregating |
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| (noun) a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church | Synonyms: faithful, fold |
| (noun) an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together | - |
| congress | (noun) the social act of assembling for some common purpose | Synonyms: coming together, meeting |
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| (noun) a meeting of elected or appointed representatives | - |
| (noun) a national legislative assembly | - |
| congressman | (noun) a male member of the United States House of Representatives | - |
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| congresswoman | (noun) a female member of the United States House of Representatives | - |
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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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| conjecture | (noun) a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence) | Synonyms: speculation |
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| (noun) reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence | - |
| (noun) a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | Synonyms: guess, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmisal, surmise |
| conjuncture | (noun) a critical combination of events or circumstances | - |
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| conjurer | (noun) a witch doctor who practices conjury | Synonyms: conjure man, conjuror |
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| (noun) someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | Synonyms: conjuror, illusionist, magician, prestidigitator |
| conservatoire | (noun) a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts | Synonyms: conservatory |
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| contracture | (noun) an abnormal and usually permanent contraction of a muscle | - |
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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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| contretemps | (noun) an awkward clash | - |
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| cookfire | (noun) a fire for cooking | - |
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| cookware | (noun) a kitchen utensil made of material that does not melt easily; used for cooking | Synonyms: cooking utensil |
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| copperware | (noun) utensils made with copper | - |
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| copyreader | (noun) an editor who prepares text for publication | Synonyms: copy editor, text editor |
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| core | (noun) a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil | - |
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| (noun) the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place | - |
| (noun) (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories | Synonyms: magnetic core |
| (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
| (noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | Synonyms: burden, effect, essence, gist |
| (noun) a small group of indispensable persons or things | Synonyms: core group, nucleus |
| (noun) the center of an object | - |
| (noun) the central part of the Earth | - |
| (noun) a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill | - |
| coreference | (noun) the grammatical relation between two words that have a common referent | - |
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| coreid | (noun) a true bug | Synonyms: coreid bug |
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| coreligionist | (noun) someone having the same religion as another person | - |
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| coreopsis | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods; North and South America | Synonyms: tick-weed, tickseed, tickweed |
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| corer | (noun) a device for removing the core from apples | - |
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| corespondent | (noun) the codefendant charged with adultery with the estranged spouse in a divorce proceeding | Synonyms: co-respondent |
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| corkscrew | (noun) a bottle opener that pulls corks | Synonyms: bottle screw |
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| cornbread | (noun) bread made primarily of cornmeal | - |
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| corporeality | (noun) the quality of being physical; consisting of matter | Synonyms: corporality, materiality, physicalness |
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| correction | (noun) the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right | Synonyms: rectification |
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| (noun) treatment of a specific defect | - |
| (noun) the act of disciplining | Synonyms: discipline |
| (noun) a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases | - |
| (noun) a rebuke for making a mistake | Synonyms: chastening, chastisement |
| (noun) something substituted for an error | - |
| (noun) a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure | Synonyms: fudge factor |
| 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 |
| correctitude | (noun) correct or appropriate behavior | Synonyms: properness, propriety |
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| corrective | (noun) a device for treating injury or disease | Synonyms: restorative |
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| correctness | (noun) conformity to fact or truth | Synonyms: rightness |
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| (noun) the quality of conformity to social expectations | - |
| correlate | (noun) either of two or more related or complementary variables | Synonyms: correlative |
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| correlation | (noun) a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; it can vary from -1 (perfect negative correlation) through 0 (no correlation) to +1 (perfect positive correlation) | Synonyms: coefficient of correlation, correlation coefficient |
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| (noun) a statistical relation between two or more variables such that systematic changes in the value of one variable are accompanied by systematic changes in the other | Synonyms: correlational statistics |
| (noun) a reciprocal relation between two or more things | Synonyms: correlativity |
| correlative | (noun) either of two or more related or complementary variables | Synonyms: correlate |
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| correlativity | (noun) a reciprocal relation between two or more things | Synonyms: correlation |
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| correspondence | (noun) similarity by virtue of corresponding | Synonyms: parallelism |
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| (noun) compatibility of observations | Synonyms: agreement |
| (noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | Synonyms: balance, symmetricalness, symmetry |
| (noun) communication by the exchange of letters | - |
| (noun) the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount | Synonyms: commensurateness, proportionateness |
| correspondent | (noun) someone who communicates by means of letters | Synonyms: letter writer |
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| (noun) a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | Synonyms: newswriter |
| counterbore | (noun) a bit for enlarging the upper part of a hole | Synonyms: countersink, countersink bit |
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