| contradistinction | (noun) a distinction drawn on the basis of contrast | - |
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| contraindication | (noun) (medicine) a reason that makes it inadvisable to prescribe a particular drug or employ a particular procedure or treatment | - |
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| contraption | (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gismo, gizmo, widget |
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| contravallation | (noun) a fortification build around a sieged target by the besiegers to prevent attacks by the defenders. | - |
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| contravention | (noun) coming into conflict with | Synonyms: dispute |
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| contribution | (noun) act of giving in common with others for a common purpose especially to a charity | Synonyms: donation |
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| (noun) a writing for publication especially one of a collection of writings as an article or story | - |
| (noun) the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result | Synonyms: part, share |
| (noun) a voluntary gift (as of money or service or ideas) made to some worthwhile cause | Synonyms: donation |
| (noun) an amount of money contributed | - |
| contrition | (noun) sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation | Synonyms: attrition, contriteness |
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| conurbation | (noun) an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities | Synonyms: sprawl, urban sprawl |
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| convection | (noun) the transfer of heat through a fluid (liquid or gas) caused by molecular motion | - |
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| (noun) (meteorology) the vertical movement of heat or other properties by massive motion within the atmosphere | - |
| convention | (noun) the act of convening | Synonyms: convening |
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| (noun) orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional | Synonyms: conventionalism, conventionality |
| (noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: formula, normal, pattern, rule |
| (noun) (diplomacy) an international agreement | - |
| (noun) a large formal assembly | - |
| conventionalisation | (noun) the act of conventionalizing; conforming to a conventional style | Synonyms: conventionalization |
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| conventionalism | (noun) orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional | Synonyms: convention, conventionality |
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| conventionality | (noun) orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional | Synonyms: convention, conventionalism |
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| (noun) unoriginality as a result of being too conventional | - |
| (noun) conformity with conventional thought and behavior | - |
| conventionalization | (noun) the act of conventionalizing; conforming to a conventional style | Synonyms: conventionalisation |
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| conventioneer | (noun) someone who attends a convention | - |
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| conversation | (noun) the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc. | - |
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| conversationalist | (noun) someone skilled at conversation | Synonyms: conversationist, schmoozer |
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| conversationist | (noun) someone skilled at conversation | Synonyms: conversationalist, schmoozer |
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| conviction | (noun) (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed | Synonyms: condemnation, judgment of conviction, sentence |
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| (noun) an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence | Synonyms: article of faith, strong belief |
| convocation | (noun) the act of convoking | Synonyms: calling together |
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| (noun) a group gathered in response to a summons | - |
| convolution | (noun) the action of coiling or twisting or winding together | - |
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| (noun) a convex fold or elevation in the surface of the brain | Synonyms: gyrus |
| (noun) the shape of something rotating rapidly | Synonyms: swirl, vortex, whirl |
| cooperation | (noun) joint operation or action | - |
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| (noun) the practice of cooperating | - |
| coordination | (noun) the regulation of diverse elements into an integrated and harmonious operation | - |
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| (noun) the skillful and effective interaction of movements | - |
| (noun) being of coordinate importance, rank, or degree | - |
| (noun) the grammatical relation of two constituents having the same grammatical form | - |
| copulation | (noun) sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur | Synonyms: carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, intercourse, relation, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation |
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| coronation | (noun) the ceremony of installing a new monarch | Synonyms: enthronement, enthronisation, enthronization, investiture |
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| corporation | (noun) slang for a paunch | Synonyms: bay window, pot, potbelly, tummy |
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| (noun) a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state | Synonyms: corp |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| corroboration | (noun) confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence | Synonyms: certification, documentation |
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| corrugation | (noun) the act of shaping into parallel ridges and grooves | - |
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| (noun) a ridge on a corrugated surface | - |
| corruption | (noun) destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity | Synonyms: subversion |
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| (noun) inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by committing a felony) | - |
| (noun) lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain | Synonyms: corruptness |
| (noun) moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles | Synonyms: degeneracy, depravation, depravity, putrefaction |
| (noun) decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation) | - |
| (noun) in a state of progressive putrefaction | Synonyms: putrescence, putridness, rottenness |
| coruscation | (noun) a sudden or striking display of brilliance | - |
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| (noun) the occurrence of a small flash or spark | Synonyms: glitter, sparkle |
| counteraction | (noun) action intended to nullify the effects of some previous action | Synonyms: neutralisation, neutralization |
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| counterattraction | (noun) a rival attraction | - |
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| counterdemonstration | (noun) a demonstration held in opposition to another demonstration | - |
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| counterreformation | (noun) a reformation intended to counter the results of a prior reformation | - |
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| counterrevolution | (noun) a revolution whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by a previous revolution | - |
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| counterrevolutionary | (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionist |
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| counterrevolutionist | (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionary |
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| covariation | (noun) (statistics) correlated variation | - |
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| creation | (noun) the human act of creating | Synonyms: creative activity |
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| (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
| (noun) an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone | - |
| (noun) the event that occurred at the beginning of something | Synonyms: conception |
| (noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, existence, macrocosm, universe, world |
| creationism | (noun) the literal belief in the account of Creation given in the Book of Genesis | - |
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| cremation | (noun) the incineration of a dead body | - |
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| crenation | (noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | Synonyms: crenature, crenel, crenelle, scallop |
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| crenelation | (noun) the action of constructing ramparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows | Synonyms: crenellation |
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| (noun) a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns | Synonyms: battlement, crenellation |
| crenellation | (noun) the action of constructing ramparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows | Synonyms: crenelation |
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| (noun) a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns | Synonyms: battlement, crenelation |
| crepitation | (noun) the sharp sound of snapping noises | Synonyms: crackle, crackling |
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| criminalisation | (noun) legislation that makes something illegal | Synonyms: criminalization |
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| criminalization | (noun) legislation that makes something illegal | Synonyms: criminalisation |
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| crystallisation | (noun) the formation of crystals | Synonyms: crystallization, crystallizing |
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| crystallization | (noun) a mental synthesis that becomes fixed or concrete by a process resembling crystal formation | - |
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| (noun) a rock formed by the solidification of a substance; has regularly repeating internal structure; external plane faces | Synonyms: crystal |
| (noun) the formation of crystals | Synonyms: crystallisation, crystallizing |
| culmination | (noun) a concluding action | Synonyms: closing, completion, mop up, windup |
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| (noun) the decisive moment in a novel or play | Synonyms: climax |
| (noun) (astronomy) a heavenly body's highest celestial point above an observer's horizon | - |
| (noun) a final climactic stage | Synonyms: apogee |
| cultivation | (noun) (agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale) | - |
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| (noun) socialization through training and education to develop one's mind or manners | - |
| (noun) the act of raising or growing plants (especially on a large scale) | - |
| (noun) the process of fostering the growth of something | - |
| (noun) a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality | Synonyms: culture, finish, polish, refinement |
| cumulation | (noun) a collection of objects laid on top of each other | Synonyms: agglomerate, cumulus, heap, mound, pile |
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| cunctation | (noun) the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or deferring an action to a later time | Synonyms: procrastination, shillyshally |
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| cuspidation | (noun) a decoration using cusps | - |
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| cybernation | (noun) the control of processes by computer | Synonyms: computerization |
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| damnation | (noun) the act of damning | - |
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| (noun) the state of being condemned to eternal punishment in Hell | Synonyms: eternal damnation |
| deactivation | (noun) the act of deactivating or making ineffective (as a bomb) | Synonyms: defusing |
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| (noun) breaking up a military unit (by transfers or discharges) | Synonyms: inactivation |
| deamination | (noun) removal of the amino radical from an amino acid or other amino compound | Synonyms: deaminization |
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| deaminization | (noun) removal of the amino radical from an amino acid or other amino compound | Synonyms: deamination |
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| debarkation | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: disembarkation, disembarkment |
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| debilitation | (noun) serious weakening and loss of energy | Synonyms: enervation, enfeeblement, exhaustion |
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| decalcification | (noun) loss of calcium from bones or teeth | - |
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| decantation | (noun) the act of gently pouring off a clear liquor (as from its original bottle) without disturbing the lees | - |
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| decapitation | (noun) killing by cutting off the head | Synonyms: beheading |
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| (noun) execution by cutting off the victim's head | Synonyms: beheading |
| decarboxylation | (noun) the process of removing a carboxyl group from a chemical compound (usually replacing it with hydrogen) | - |
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| deceleration | (noun) the act of decelerating; decreasing the speed | - |
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| (noun) a decrease in rate of change | Synonyms: retardation, slowing |
| (noun) (physics) a rate of decrease in velocity | - |
| decentalisation | (noun) the social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts | Synonyms: decentralization |
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| decentralisation | (noun) the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments | Synonyms: decentralization |
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| decentralization | (noun) the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments | Synonyms: decentralisation |
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| (noun) the social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts | Synonyms: decentalisation |
| decentration | (noun) Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others. | Synonyms: decentering |
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| deception | (noun) the act of deceiving | Synonyms: deceit, dissembling, dissimulation |
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| (noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, illusion, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick |
| (noun) a misleading falsehood | Synonyms: deceit, misrepresentation |
| decimalisation | (noun) the act of changing to a decimal system | Synonyms: decimalization |
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| decimalization | (noun) the act of changing to a decimal system | Synonyms: decimalisation |
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| decimation | (noun) destroying or killing a large part of the population | - |
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| declamation | (noun) vehement oratory | - |
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| (noun) recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric | - |
| declaration | (noun) a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written) | - |
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| (noun) a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote | Synonyms: resolution, resolve |
| (noun) (law) unsworn statement that can be admitted in evidence in a legal transaction | - |
| (noun) a formal public statement | Synonyms: announcement, annunciation, proclamation |
| (noun) (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make | Synonyms: contract |
| (noun) a statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties | - |
| declassification | (noun) reduction or removal by the government of restrictions on a classified document or weapon | - |
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| declination | (noun) a polite refusal of an invitation | Synonyms: regrets |
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| (noun) (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial body north or to the south of the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere | Synonyms: celestial latitude, dec |
| (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, decline, declivity, descent, downslope, fall |
| (noun) a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline | Synonyms: decline |
| decoction | (noun) (pharmacology) the extraction of water-soluble drug substances by boiling | - |
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| decolonisation | (noun) the action of changing from colonial to independent status | Synonyms: decolonization |
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| decolonization | (noun) the action of changing from colonial to independent status | Synonyms: decolonisation |
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| decomposition | (noun) the analysis of a vector field | Synonyms: vector decomposition |
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| (noun) the organic phenomenon of rotting | Synonyms: decay |
| (noun) (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action | Synonyms: breakdown, putrefaction, rot, rotting |
| (noun) (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance | Synonyms: breakdown, chemical decomposition reaction, decomposition reaction |
| (noun) in a decomposed state | Synonyms: disintegration |
| deconstruction | (noun) a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning | Synonyms: deconstructionism |
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| deconstructionism | (noun) a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning | Synonyms: deconstruction |
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| decontamination | (noun) the removal of contaminants | - |
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| decoration | (noun) the act of decorating something (in the hope of making it more attractive) | - |
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| (noun) something used to beautify | Synonyms: ornament, ornamentation |
| (noun) an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event | Synonyms: laurel wreath, medal, medallion, palm, ribbon |
| decortication | (noun) removal of the outer covering of an organ or part | - |
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| decrementation | (noun) the operation of subtracting one from the operand. | - |
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| decrepitation | (noun) the crackling or breaking up of certain crystals when they are heated | - |
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| decriminalisation | (noun) legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal | Synonyms: decriminalization |
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| decriminalization | (noun) legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal | Synonyms: decriminalisation |
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| decryption | (noun) the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text | Synonyms: decipherment, decoding |
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| decussation | (noun) an intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X | Synonyms: chiasm, chiasma |
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| dedication | (noun) the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action | Synonyms: allegiance, commitment, loyalty |
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| (noun) complete and wholehearted fidelity | - |
| (noun) a short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something | Synonyms: inscription |
| (noun) a message that makes a pledge | Synonyms: commitment |
| (noun) a ceremony in which something (as a building) is dedicated to some goal or purpose | - |
| dedifferentiation | (noun) the loss of specialization in form or function | - |
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| deduction | (noun) the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole) | Synonyms: subtraction |
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| (noun) the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise | Synonyms: discount, price reduction |
| (noun) reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect) | Synonyms: deductive reasoning, synthesis |
| (noun) something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied) | Synonyms: entailment, implication |
| (noun) an amount or percentage deducted | Synonyms: discount |
| (noun) a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket | Synonyms: tax deduction, tax write-off |
| defalcation | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation |
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| (noun) the sum of money that is misappropriated | - |