| contributor | (noun) someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money | Synonyms: subscriber |
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| (noun) a writer whose work is published in a newspaper or magazine or as part of a book | - |
| contriteness | (noun) sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation | Synonyms: attrition, contrition |
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| contrition | (noun) sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation | Synonyms: attrition, contriteness |
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| contrivance | (noun) the act of devising something | Synonyms: devisal |
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| (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, convenience, gadget, gismo, gizmo, widget |
| (noun) any improvised arrangement for temporary use | Synonyms: lash-up |
| (noun) an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade | Synonyms: dodge, stratagem |
| (noun) the faculty of contriving; inventive skill | - |
| (noun) an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc. | - |
| contriver | (noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: deviser, planner |
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| control | (noun) the activity of managing or exerting control over something | - |
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| (noun) (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc | - |
| (noun) a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine | Synonyms: controller |
| (noun) power to direct or determine | - |
| (noun) discipline in personal and social activities | Synonyms: restraint |
| (noun) great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity | Synonyms: command, mastery |
| (noun) a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment | Synonyms: control condition |
| (noun) the economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc. | - |
| (noun) a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance | - |
| (noun) a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another | - |
| (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, dominance |
| controller | (noun) a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine | Synonyms: control |
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| (noun) someone who maintains and audits business accounts | Synonyms: accountant, comptroller |
| (noun) a person who directs and restrains | Synonyms: restrainer |
| controllership | (noun) the position of controller | - |
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| controversialist | (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: disputant, eristic |
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| controversy | (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, disceptation, disputation, tilt |
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| coquetry | (noun) playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest | Synonyms: dalliance, flirt, flirtation, flirting, toying |
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| corticotrophin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotrophin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotropin |
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| corticotropin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotrophin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotrophin |
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| cosmolatry | (noun) the worship of the cosmos | - |
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| cosmotron | (noun) a large proton synchrotron; uses frequency modulation of an electric field to accelerate protons | - |
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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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| counterdemonstrator | (noun) someone who demonstrates in opposition to another demonstration | - |
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| countertransference | (noun) the psychoanalyst's displacement of emotion onto the patient or more generally the psychoanalyst's emotional involvement in the therapeutic interaction | - |
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| country | (noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government | Synonyms: body politic, commonwealth, land, nation, res publica, state |
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| (noun) the people who live in a nation or country | Synonyms: land, nation |
| (noun) the territory occupied by a nation | Synonyms: land, state |
| (noun) an area outside of cities and towns | Synonyms: rural area |
| (noun) a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography) | Synonyms: area |
| countryfolk | (noun) people raised in or living in a rural environment; rustics | Synonyms: country people |
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| (noun) people living in the same country; compatriots | Synonyms: country people |
| countryman | (noun) a man from your own country | - |
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| (noun) a man who lives in the country and has country ways | Synonyms: ruralist |
| countryseat | (noun) an estate in the country | - |
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| countryside | (noun) rural regions | - |
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| countrywoman | (noun) a woman from your own country | - |
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| (noun) a woman who lives in the country and has country ways | - |
| courtroom | (noun) a room in which a law court sits | Synonyms: court |
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| craniometry | (noun) the branch of physical anthropology dealing with the study and measurement of dry skulls after removal of its soft parts | - |
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| cyclotron | (noun) an accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles | - |
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| cytophotometry | (noun) the study of chemical compounds inside a cell by means of a cytophotometer | - |
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| daredeviltry | (noun) boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior | Synonyms: daredevilry |
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| deathtrap | (noun) any structure that is very unsafe; where people are likely to be killed | - |
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| decalitre | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters | Synonyms: dal, decaliter, dekaliter, dekalitre, dkl |
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| decametre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to ten meters | Synonyms: dam, decameter, dekameter, dekametre, dkm |
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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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| decilitre | (noun) a metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter | Synonyms: deciliter, dl |
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| decimetre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one tenth of a meter | Synonyms: decimeter, dm |
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| 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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| deconstructivism | (noun) a school of architecture based on the philosophical theory of deconstruction | - |
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| defenestration | (noun) the act of throwing someone or something out of a window | - |
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| dekalitre | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters | Synonyms: dal, decaliter, decalitre, dekaliter, dkl |
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| dekametre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to ten meters | Synonyms: dam, decameter, decametre, dekameter, dkm |
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| demonolatry | (noun) the acts or rites of worshiping devils | Synonyms: devil-worship, diabolatry |
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| demonstrability | (noun) capability of being demonstrated or logically proved | Synonyms: provability |
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| demonstration | (noun) a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view | Synonyms: presentation, presentment |
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| (noun) a public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature) | Synonyms: manifestation |
| (noun) a show of military force or preparedness | - |
| (noun) a visual presentation showing how something works | Synonyms: demo |
| (noun) proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion | Synonyms: monstrance |
| demonstrative | (noun) a pronoun that points out an intended referent | Synonyms: demonstrative pronoun |
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| demonstrativeness | (noun) tending to express your feelings freely | - |
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| demonstrator | (noun) someone who participates in a public display of group feeling | Synonyms: protester |
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| (noun) someone who demonstrates an article to a prospective buyer | Synonyms: sales demonstrator |
| (noun) a teacher or teacher's assistant who demonstrates the principles that are being taught | - |
| denitrator | (noun) Any device used to remove nitrates or other nitrogen compounds, especially from water. | - |
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| densitometry | (noun) measuring the optical density of a substance by shining light on it and measuring its transmission | - |
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| dentistry | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with the anatomy and development and diseases of the teeth | Synonyms: dental medicine, odontology |
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| destroyer | (noun) a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship | Synonyms: guided missile destroyer |
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| (noun) a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to | Synonyms: ruiner, undoer, uprooter, waster |
| destructibility | (noun) vulnerability to destruction | - |
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| destruction | (noun) the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists | Synonyms: devastation |
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| (noun) an event that completely destroys something | Synonyms: demolition, wipeout |
| (noun) a final state | Synonyms: death, end |
| destructiveness | (noun) the quality of causing destruction | - |
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| detraction | (noun) the act of discrediting or detracting from someone's reputation (especially by slander) | - |
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| (noun) a petty disparagement | Synonyms: petty criticism |
| detractor | (noun) one who disparages or belittles the worth of something | Synonyms: depreciator, disparager, knocker |
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| detribalisation | (noun) the decline or termination of tribal organization | Synonyms: detribalization |
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| (noun) the act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living | Synonyms: detribalization |
| detribalization | (noun) the decline or termination of tribal organization | Synonyms: detribalisation |
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| (noun) the act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living | Synonyms: detribalisation |
| detriment | (noun) a damage or loss | Synonyms: hurt |
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| detrition | (noun) effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure | Synonyms: friction, rubbing |
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| (noun) the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice | Synonyms: abrasion, attrition, grinding |
| (noun) erosion by friction | Synonyms: abrasion, attrition, corrasion |
| detritus | (noun) the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up | Synonyms: debris, dust, junk, rubble |
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| (noun) loose material (stone fragments and silt etc) that is worn away from rocks | - |
| deviltry | (noun) wicked and cruel behavior | Synonyms: devilry |
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| (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
| dextrality | (noun) preference for using the right hand | Synonyms: right-handedness |
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| dextrin | (noun) any of various polysaccharides obtained by hydrolysis of starch; a tasteless and odorless gummy substance that is used as a thickening agent and in adhesives and in dietary supplements | - |
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| dextrocardia | (noun) abnormal condition where the heart is located toward the right side of the chest | - |
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| dextroglucose | (noun) an isomer of glucose that is found in honey and sweet fruits | Synonyms: dextrose, grape sugar |
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| dextrorotation | (noun) rotation to the right | Synonyms: clockwise rotation |
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| dextrose | (noun) an isomer of glucose that is found in honey and sweet fruits | Synonyms: dextroglucose, grape sugar |
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| diabolatry | (noun) the acts or rites of worshiping devils | Synonyms: demonolatry, devil-worship |
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| diastrophism | (noun) the process of deformation that produces continents and ocean basins in the earth's crust | - |
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| diatribe | (noun) thunderous verbal attack | Synonyms: fulmination |
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| dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane | (noun) an insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans; banned in the United States since 1972 | Synonyms: DDT |
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| dielectric | (noun) a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity | Synonyms: insulator, nonconductor |
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| dielectrolysis | (noun) the motion of charged particles in a colloid under the influence of an electric field; particles with a positive charge go to the cathode and negative to the anode | Synonyms: cataphoresis, electrophoresis, ionophoresis |
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| diestrum | (noun) (of animals having several estrous cycles in one breeding season) a state or interval of sexual inactivity or quiescence between periods of activity | Synonyms: diestrus |
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| diestrus | (noun) (of animals having several estrous cycles in one breeding season) a state or interval of sexual inactivity or quiescence between periods of activity | Synonyms: diestrum |
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| diethylstilbestrol | (noun) a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry | Synonyms: DES, diethylstilboestrol, stilbestrol, stilboestrol |
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| diethylstilboestrol | (noun) a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry | Synonyms: DES, diethylstilbestrol, stilbestrol, stilboestrol |
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| dihydrostreptomycin | (noun) antibiotic consisting of a hydrogenated form of streptomycin; used against tuberculosis and tularemia and Gram-negative organisms | - |
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| dimetrodon | (noun) carnivorous dinosaur of the Permian in North America having a crest or dorsal sail | - |
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| dioptre | (noun) a unit of measurement of the refractive power of a lens which is equal to the reciprocal of the focal length measured in meters; used by oculists | Synonyms: diopter |
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| dissymmetry | (noun) lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something | Synonyms: disproportion, imbalance |
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| distraction | (noun) an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations | Synonyms: beguilement |
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| (noun) the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something | Synonyms: misdirection |
| (noun) mental turmoil | - |
| (noun) an obstacle to attention | - |
| distraint | (noun) the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim | Synonyms: distress |
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| distress | (noun) the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim | Synonyms: distraint |
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| (noun) psychological suffering | Synonyms: hurt, suffering |
| (noun) extreme physical pain | - |
| (noun) a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need) | - |
| distressfulness | (noun) the quality of arousing fear or distress | Synonyms: seriousness |
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| distressingness | (noun) the quality of being painful | Synonyms: painfulness |
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| distributary | (noun) a branch of a river that flows away from the main stream and does not rejoin it | - |
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| distributer | (noun) electrical device that distributes voltage to the spark plugs of a gasoline engine in the order of the firing sequence | Synonyms: distributor, electrical distributor |
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| (noun) someone who markets merchandise | Synonyms: distributor |
| distribution | (noun) the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning | - |
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| (noun) the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer | - |
| (noun) the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume | Synonyms: dispersion |
| (noun) (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence | Synonyms: statistical distribution |
| distributor | (noun) electrical device that distributes voltage to the spark plugs of a gasoline engine in the order of the firing sequence | Synonyms: distributer, electrical distributor |
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| (noun) a company that markets merchandise | - |
| (noun) someone who markets merchandise | Synonyms: distributer |
| (noun) a person with authority to allot or deal out or apportion | Synonyms: allocator |
| district | (noun) a region marked off for administrative or other purposes | Synonyms: dominion, territorial dominion, territory |
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| distrust | (noun) the trait of not trusting others | Synonyms: distrustfulness, mistrust |
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| (noun) doubt about someone's honesty | Synonyms: misgiving, mistrust, suspicion |
| distrustfulness | (noun) the trait of not trusting others | Synonyms: distrust, mistrust |
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| doctrinaire | (noun) a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions | Synonyms: dogmatist |
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| doctrine | (noun) a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school | Synonyms: ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought |
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| dogtrot | (noun) a steady trot like that of a dog | - |
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