| breaststroker | (noun) someone who swims the breaststroke | - |
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| breastwork | (noun) fortification consisting of a low wall | Synonyms: parapet |
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| brimstone | (noun) an old name for sulfur | Synonyms: native sulfur, native sulphur |
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| bristle | (noun) a stiff hair | - |
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| (noun) a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic | - |
| bristlegrass | (noun) grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet | Synonyms: bristle grass |
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| bristletail | (noun) small wingless insect with a long bristlelike tail | - |
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| bristliness | (noun) the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines | Synonyms: prickliness, spininess, thorniness |
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| broadcast | (noun) message that is transmitted by radio or television | - |
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| (noun) a radio or television show | Synonyms: program, programme |
| broadcaster | (noun) a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions | Synonyms: spreader |
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| (noun) someone who broadcasts on radio or television | - |
| broadcasting | (noun) taking part in a radio or tv program | - |
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| (noun) a medium that disseminates via telecommunications | Synonyms: broadcast medium |
| broncobuster | (noun) a person who breaks horses | Synonyms: bronco buster, buster |
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| broomstick | (noun) the handle of a broom | Synonyms: broom handle |
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| brownstone | (noun) a row house built of brownstone; reddish brown in color | - |
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| (noun) a reddish brown sandstone; used in buildings | - |
| buckminsterfullerene | (noun) a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene | Synonyms: buckyball |
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| bugologist | (noun) a zoologist who studies insects | Synonyms: bug-hunter, entomologist |
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| burgomaster | (noun) a mayor of a municipality in Germany or Holland or Flanders or Austria | - |
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| burst | (noun) the act of exploding or bursting | Synonyms: explosion |
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| (noun) rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms | Synonyms: fusillade, salvo, volley |
| (noun) a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason) | Synonyms: fit |
| (noun) a sudden intense happening | Synonyms: flare-up, outburst |
| burster | (noun) a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time | Synonyms: bursting charge, charge, explosive charge |
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| bust | (noun) an occasion for excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: binge, bout, tear |
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| (noun) a sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person | - |
| (noun) the chest of a woman | Synonyms: female chest |
| (noun) a complete failure | Synonyms: fizzle, flop |
| bustard | (noun) large heavy-bodied chiefly terrestrial game bird capable of powerful swift flight; classified with wading birds but frequents grassy steppes | - |
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| buster | (noun) a person (or thing) that breaks up or overpowers something | - |
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| (noun) a person who breaks horses | Synonyms: bronco buster, broncobuster |
| (noun) a robust child | - |
| (noun) an informal form of address for a man | Synonyms: dude, fellow |
| (noun) a person born in the generation following the baby boom when the birth rate fell dramatically | Synonyms: baby buster |
| bustier | (noun) a close-fitting and strapless top without sleeves that is worn by women either as lingerie or for evening dress | - |
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| bustle | (noun) a rapid active commotion | Synonyms: ado, flurry, fuss, hustle, stir |
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| (noun) a framework worn at the back below the waist for giving fullness to a woman's skirt | - |
| bystander | (noun) a nonparticipant spectator | - |
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| cabalist | (noun) an expert who is highly skilled in obscure or difficult or esoteric matters | Synonyms: kabbalist |
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| (noun) a member of a cabal | - |
| cabstand | (noun) a place where taxis park while awaiting customers | Synonyms: taxi rank, taxistand |
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| cacomistle | (noun) raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings | Synonyms: Bassariscus astutus, bassarisk, cacomixle, civet cat, coon cat, miner's cat, raccoon fox, ring-tailed cat, ringtail |
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| cadaster | (noun) a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land; made for the purpose of taxation | Synonyms: cadastre |
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| cadastre | (noun) a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land; made for the purpose of taxation | Synonyms: cadaster |
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| calisthenics | (noun) the practice of calisthenic exercises | Synonyms: callisthenics |
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| (noun) light exercises designed to promote general fitness | Synonyms: callisthenics |
| calligraphist | (noun) someone skilled in penmanship | Synonyms: calligrapher |
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| callisthenics | (noun) the practice of calisthenic exercises | Synonyms: calisthenics |
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| (noun) light exercises designed to promote general fitness | Synonyms: calisthenics |
| campstool | (noun) a folding stool | - |
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| canafistola | (noun) deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia | Synonyms: canafistula, Cassia fistula, drumstick tree, golden shower tree, pudding pipe tree, purging cassia |
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| canafistula | (noun) deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia | Synonyms: canafistola, Cassia fistula, drumstick tree, golden shower tree, pudding pipe tree, purging cassia |
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| canasta | (noun) a form of rummy using two decks of cards and four jokers; jokers and deuces are wild; the object is to form groups of the same rank | Synonyms: basket rummy, meld |
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| candlestick | (noun) a holder with sockets for candles | Synonyms: candle holder |
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| canistel | (noun) ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies | Synonyms: eggfruit |
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| (noun) tropical tree of Florida and West Indies yielding edible fruit | Synonyms: canistel tree, Pouteria campechiana nervosa |
| canister | (noun) metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour | Synonyms: cannister, tin |
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| (noun) a metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm | Synonyms: canister shot, case shot |
| cannister | (noun) metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour | Synonyms: canister, tin |
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| canoeist | (noun) someone paddling a canoe | Synonyms: paddler |
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| canonist | (noun) a specialist in canon law | - |
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| capitalist | (noun) a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business) | - |
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| (noun) a conservative advocate of capitalism | - |
| capstan | (noun) a windlass rotated in a horizontal plane around a vertical axis; used on ships for weighing anchor or raising heavy sails | - |
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| capstone | (noun) a stone that forms the top of wall or building | Synonyms: copestone, coping stone, stretcher |
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| (noun) a final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination | Synonyms: copestone, finishing touch |
| cardcastle | (noun) an unstable construction with playing cards | Synonyms: card-house, cardhouse, house of cards |
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| cardiologist | (noun) a specialist in cardiology; a specialist in the structure and function and disorders of the heart | Synonyms: heart specialist, heart surgeon |
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| careerist | (noun) a professional who is intent on furthering his or her career by any possible means and often at the expense of their own integrity | - |
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| caricaturist | (noun) someone who parodies in an exaggerated manner | - |
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| cartoonist | (noun) a person who draws cartoons | - |
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| cast | (noun) the act of throwing dice | Synonyms: roll |
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| (noun) the act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel | Synonyms: casting |
| (noun) a violent throw | Synonyms: hurl |
| (noun) object formed by a mold | Synonyms: casting |
| (noun) bandage consisting of a firm covering (often made of plaster of Paris) that immobilizes broken bones while they heal | Synonyms: plaster bandage, plaster cast |
| (noun) container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens | Synonyms: mold, mould |
| (noun) the visual appearance of something or someone | Synonyms: form, shape |
| (noun) the actors in a play | Synonyms: cast of characters, dramatis personae |
| (noun) the distinctive form in which a thing is made | Synonyms: mold, mould, stamp |
| castanets | (noun) (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance | Synonyms: bones, clappers, finger cymbals |
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| castaway | (noun) a shipwrecked person | Synonyms: shipwreck survivor |
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| (noun) a person who is rejected (from society or home) | Synonyms: Ishmael, outcast, pariah |
| caste | (noun) in some social insects (such as ants) a physically distinct individual or group of individuals specialized to perform certain functions in the colony | - |
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| (noun) a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth | - |
| (noun) (Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity | - |
| (noun) social status or position conferred by a system based on class | - |
| caster | (noun) a pivoting roller attached to the bottom of furniture or trucks or portable machines to make them movable | Synonyms: castor |
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| (noun) a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling powdered sugar | Synonyms: castor |
| (noun) a worker who casts molten metal into finished products | - |
| castigation | (noun) verbal punishment | Synonyms: chastisement |
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| (noun) a severe scolding | Synonyms: bawling out, chewing out, dressing down, earful, going-over, upbraiding |
| casting | (noun) the act of creating something by casting it in a mold | Synonyms: molding |
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| (noun) the act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel | Synonyms: cast |
| (noun) the choice of actors to play particular roles in a play or movie | - |
| (noun) object formed by a mold | Synonyms: cast |
| castle | (noun) interchanging the positions of the king and a rook | Synonyms: castling |
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| (noun) a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack | - |
| (noun) (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard | Synonyms: rook |
| (noun) a large and stately mansion | Synonyms: palace |
| castling | (noun) interchanging the positions of the king and a rook | Synonyms: castle |
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| castor | (noun) a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material) | Synonyms: beaver |
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| (noun) a pivoting roller attached to the bottom of furniture or trucks or portable machines to make them movable | Synonyms: caster |
| (noun) a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling powdered sugar | Synonyms: caster |
| castrate | (noun) a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction | Synonyms: eunuch |
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| castration | (noun) neutering a male animal by removing the testicles | Synonyms: emasculation |
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| (noun) surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men) | - |
| (noun) the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work | Synonyms: expurgation |
| castrato | (noun) a male singer who was castrated before puberty and retains a soprano or alto voice | - |
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| casuist | (noun) someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious | Synonyms: sophist |
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| casuistry | (noun) moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas | - |
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| (noun) argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading | - |
| catacaustic | (noun) a caustic curve formed by light reflecting from a curved surface. | - |
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| catalyst | (noun) something that causes an important event to happen | - |
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| (noun) (chemistry) a substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected | Synonyms: accelerator |
| catastrophe | (noun) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune | Synonyms: calamity, cataclysm, disaster, tragedy |
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| (noun) a sudden violent change in the earth's surface | Synonyms: cataclysm |
| (noun) a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune | Synonyms: disaster |
| catechist | (noun) one who instructs catechumens in preparation for baptism (especially one using a catechism) | - |
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| catostomid | (noun) a cypriniform fish of the family Catostomidae | - |
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| caustic | (noun) the envelope of light rays reflected or refracted by a curved surface or object | - |
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| (noun) any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue | - |
| celesta | (noun) a musical instrument consisting of graduated steel plates that are struck by hammers activated by a keyboard | - |
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| celestite | (noun) a mineral consisting of strontium sulphate | - |
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| cellist | (noun) someone who plays a violoncello | Synonyms: violoncellist |
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| centrist | (noun) a person who takes a position in the political center | Synonyms: middle of the roader, moderate, moderationist |
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| ceramicist | (noun) a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them in a kiln | Synonyms: ceramist, potter, thrower |
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| ceramist | (noun) a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them in a kiln | Synonyms: ceramicist, potter, thrower |
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| cerastes | (noun) highly venomous viper of northern Africa and southwestern Asia having a horny spine above each eye | Synonyms: Cerastes cornutus, horned asp, horned viper, sand viper |
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| cerivastatin | (noun) an oral drug (trade name Baycol) to reduce blood cholesterol levels | Synonyms: Baycol |
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| ceroplastics | (noun) the art of modeling in wax. | - |
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| cestode | (noun) ribbonlike flatworms that are parasitic in the intestines of humans and other vertebrates | Synonyms: tapeworm |
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| chalkstone | (noun) a deposit of urates around a joint or in the external ear; diagnostic of advanced or chronic gout | Synonyms: tophus |
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| characteristic | (noun) a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something | - |
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| (noun) any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions | Synonyms: device characteristic |
| (noun) a prominent attribute or aspect of something | Synonyms: feature |
| (noun) the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2 | - |
| characteristicness | (noun) The quality or state of being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing. | - |
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| chartist | (noun) a stock market analyst who tries to predict market trends from graphs of recent prices of securities | Synonyms: technical analyst |
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| chasteness | (noun) lack of ornamentation | Synonyms: restraint, simpleness, simplicity |
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| chastening | (noun) a rebuke for making a mistake | Synonyms: chastisement, correction |
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| chastisement | (noun) verbal punishment | Synonyms: castigation |
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| (noun) a rebuke for making a mistake | Synonyms: chastening, correction |
| chastity | (noun) abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) | Synonyms: celibacy, sexual abstention |
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| (noun) morality with respect to sexual relations | Synonyms: sexual morality, virtue |
| chauvinist | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingo, jingoist, patrioteer |
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| (noun) a person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kind | - |
| checklist | (noun) a list of items (names or tasks etc.) to be checked or consulted | - |
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| chemist | (noun) a scientist who specializes in chemistry | - |
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| (noun) a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs | Synonyms: apothecary, druggist, pharmacist, pill pusher, pill roller |
| chemistry | (noun) the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions | Synonyms: chemical science |
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| (noun) the way two individuals relate to each other | Synonyms: alchemy, interpersonal chemistry |
| (noun) the chemical composition and properties of a substance or object | - |
| cherrystone | (noun) a half-grown quahog | Synonyms: cherrystone clam |
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| (noun) small quahog larger than a littleneck; eaten raw or cooked as in e.g. clams casino | Synonyms: cherrystone clam |
| chest | (noun) box with a lid; used for storage; usually large and sturdy | - |
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| (noun) furniture with drawers for keeping clothes | Synonyms: bureau, chest of drawers, dresser |
| (noun) the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates | Synonyms: pectus, thorax |
| (noun) the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen | Synonyms: breast |
| chesterfield | (noun) a fitted overcoat with a velvet collar | - |
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| (noun) an overstuffed davenport with upright armrests | - |
| chestnut | (noun) a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse | - |
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| (noun) a small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's leg | - |
| (noun) the brown color of chestnuts | - |
| (noun) edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea | - |
| (noun) any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur | Synonyms: chestnut tree |
| (noun) wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea | - |
| chiliast | (noun) a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity) | Synonyms: millenarian, millenarist |
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| chimneystack | (noun) the part of the chimney that is above the roof; usually has several flues | - |
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| chiropodist | (noun) a specialist in care for the feet | Synonyms: foot doctor, podiatrist |
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