| criterium | (noun) a bicycle race held on a short course (usually less than 5 km or 3 miles) | Synonyms: crit |
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| crumb | (noun) small piece of e.g. bread or cake | - |
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| (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
| (noun) a very small quantity of something | - |
| crumbliness | (noun) excessive breakableness | Synonyms: friability |
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| crumhorn | (noun) a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn) | Synonyms: cromorne, krummhorn |
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| crumpet | (noun) a thick soft cake with a porous texture; cooked on a griddle | - |
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| ctenidium | (noun) comb-like respiratory structure serving as the gill of certain mollusks | - |
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| cucumber | (noun) cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons | Synonyms: cuke |
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| (noun) a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit | Synonyms: cucumber vine, Cucumis sativus |
| cum | (noun) the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract | Synonyms: come, ejaculate, seed, semen, seminal fluid |
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| cumarone | (noun) a colorless oily compound extracted from coal tar and used in manufacturing synthetic resins | Synonyms: benzofuran, coumarone |
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| cumbersomeness | (noun) trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape | Synonyms: awkwardness, unwieldiness |
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| cumfrey | (noun) perennial herbs of Europe and Iran; make rapidly growing groundcover for shaded areas | Synonyms: comfrey |
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| cumin | (noun) aromatic seeds of the cumin herb of the carrot family | Synonyms: cumin seed |
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| (noun) dwarf Mediterranean annual long cultivated for its aromatic seeds | Synonyms: Cuminum cyminum |
| cummerbund | (noun) a broad pleated sash worn as formal dress with a tuxedo | - |
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| cummings | (noun) United States writer noted for his typographically eccentric poetry (1894-1962) | Synonyms: e. e. cummings, Edward Estlin Cummings |
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| cumquat | (noun) any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella bearing small orange-colored edible fruits with thick sweet-flavored skin and sour pulp | Synonyms: kumquat, kumquat tree |
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| cumulation | (noun) a collection of objects laid on top of each other | Synonyms: agglomerate, cumulus, heap, mound, pile |
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| cumulonimbus | (noun) a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity; associated with thunderstorms | Synonyms: cumulonimbus cloud, thundercloud |
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| cumulus | (noun) a collection of objects laid on top of each other | Synonyms: agglomerate, cumulation, heap, mound, pile |
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| (noun) a globular cloud | Synonyms: cumulus cloud |
| curium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by bombarding plutonium with helium nuclei | Synonyms: atomic number 96, Cm |
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| curriculum | (noun) an integrated course of academic studies | Synonyms: course of study, program, programme, syllabus |
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| cymatium | (noun) (architecture) a molding for a cornice; in profile it is shaped like an S (partly concave and partly convex) | Synonyms: cyma |
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| cymbidium | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Cymbidium having narrow leaves and a long drooping cluster of numerous showy and variously colored boat-shaped flowers; extensively hybridized and cultivated as houseplants and important florists' flowers | Synonyms: cymbid |
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| cynancum | (noun) any of various mostly giant tropical lianas of Africa and Madagascar having greenish or purple flowers and long smooth pods; roots formerly used as an emetic | - |
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| darmstadtium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element, with atomic number 110 | Synonyms: atomic number 110, Ds, element 110 |
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| datum | (noun) an item of factual information derived from measurement or research | Synonyms: data point |
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| decennium | (noun) a period of 10 years | Synonyms: decade, decennary |
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| decorum | (noun) propriety in manners and conduct | Synonyms: decorousness |
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| decumary | (noun) woody climber of southeastern United States having white flowers in compound terminal clusters | Synonyms: Decumaria barbara, Decumaria barbata |
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| dehumanisation | (noun) the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities | Synonyms: dehumanization |
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| dehumanization | (noun) the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities | Synonyms: dehumanisation |
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| dehumidifier | (noun) an appliance to extract moisture from the air and make the environment more comfortable | - |
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| deliquium | (noun) a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain | Synonyms: faint, swoon, syncope |
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| delirium | (noun) a usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations | - |
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| (noun) state of violent mental agitation | Synonyms: craze, frenzy, fury, hysteria |
| delphinium | (noun) any plant of the genus Delphinium having palmately divided leaves and showy spikes of variously colored spurred flowers; some contain extremely poisonous substances | - |
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| dendrobium | (noun) a plant of the genus Dendrobium having stems like cane and usually showy racemose flowers | - |
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| denotatum | (noun) an actual object referred to by a linguistic expression | - |
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| desideratum | (noun) something desired as a necessity | - |
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| designatum | (noun) something (whether existing or not) that is referred to by a linguistic expression | - |
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| detumescence | (noun) diminution of swelling; the subsidence of anything swollen | - |
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| deuterium | (noun) an isotope of hydrogen which has one neutron (as opposed to zero neutrons in hydrogen) | Synonyms: heavy hydrogen |
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| diazonium | (noun) the univalent cation R-N:N- (where R is an aromatic hydrocarbon); found in salts that are used in manufacturing azo dyes | - |
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| dicoumarol | (noun) an anticoagulant drug that has now been largely replaced by warfarin | Synonyms: dicumarol |
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| dictostylium | (noun) any slime mold of the genus Dictostylium | - |
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| dictum | (noun) an authoritative declaration | Synonyms: pronouncement, say-so |
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| (noun) an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding | Synonyms: obiter dictum |
| dicumarol | (noun) an anticoagulant drug that has now been largely replaced by warfarin | Synonyms: dicoumarol |
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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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| disequilibrium | (noun) loss of equilibrium attributable to an unstable situation in which some forces outweigh others | - |
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| diverticulum | (noun) a herniation through the muscular wall of a tubular organ (especially the colon) | - |
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| document | (noun) anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks | - |
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| (noun) writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature) | Synonyms: papers, written document |
| (noun) (computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters | Synonyms: text file |
| (noun) a written account of ownership or obligation | - |
| documentary | (noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: docudrama, documentary film, infotainment |
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| documentation | (noun) documentary validation | Synonyms: support |
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| (noun) confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence | Synonyms: certification, corroboration |
| (noun) program listings or technical manuals describing the operation and use of programs | Synonyms: software documentation |
| doldrums | (noun) a belt of calms and light winds between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific | - |
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| (noun) a state of inactivity (in business or art etc) | Synonyms: stagnancy, stagnation |
| doliolum | (noun) free-swimming oceanic tunicate with a barrel-shaped transparent body | - |
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| domatium | (noun) a part of a plant (e.g., a leaf) that has been modified to provide protection for insects or mites or fungi | - |
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| dorsum | (noun) the back of the body of a vertebrate or any analogous surface (as the upper or outer surface of an organ or appendage or part) | - |
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| (noun) the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine | Synonyms: back |
| dracontium | (noun) any plant of the genus Dracontium; strongly malodorous tropical American plants usually with gigantic leaves | - |
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| drum | (noun) small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise | Synonyms: drumfish |
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| (noun) a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end | Synonyms: membranophone, tympan |
| (noun) a cylindrical metal container, commonly used for shipping or storage of liquids | Synonyms: metal drum |
| (noun) a hollow cast iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes | Synonyms: brake drum |
| (noun) the sound of a drum | - |
| (noun) a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends | Synonyms: barrel |
| drumbeat | (noun) a vehement and vociferous advocacy of a cause | - |
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| (noun) (military) the beating of a drum as a signal for lowering the flag at sundown | - |
| (noun) the sound made by beating a drum | Synonyms: rataplan, rub-a-dub |
| drumbeater | (noun) a fervent and even militant proponent of something | Synonyms: partisan, zealot |
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| drumfire | (noun) intense and continuous artillery fire | Synonyms: cannonade |
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| drumfish | (noun) small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise | Synonyms: drum |
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| drumhead | (noun) a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum | Synonyms: head |
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| drumlin | (noun) a mound of glacial drift | - |
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| drummer | (noun) someone who plays a drum | - |
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| drumming | (noun) the act of playing drums | - |
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| drumstick | (noun) a stick used for playing a drum | - |
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| (noun) the lower joint of the leg of a fowl | - |
| dubnium | (noun) a transuranic element with atomic number 105 | Synonyms: atomic number 105, Db, element 105, hahnium |
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| dumbass | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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| dumbbell | (noun) an exercising weight; two spheres connected by a short bar that serves as a handle | - |
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| (noun) an ignorant or foolish person | Synonyms: boob, booby, dope, dummy, pinhead |
| dumbness | (noun) the quality of being mentally slow and limited | Synonyms: denseness, slow-wittedness |
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| dumbwaiter | (noun) a small elevator used to convey food (or other goods) from one floor of a building to another | Synonyms: food elevator |
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| dumdum | (noun) a soft-nosed small-arms bullet that expands when it hits a target and causes a gaping wound | Synonyms: dumdum bullet |
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| dummy | (noun) a figure representing the human form | - |
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| (noun) a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet | Synonyms: blank, blank shell |
| (noun) an ignorant or foolish person | Synonyms: boob, booby, dope, dumbbell, pinhead |
| (noun) a person who does not talk | Synonyms: silent person |
| dump | (noun) a place where supplies can be stored | - |
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| (noun) (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs | - |
| (noun) a piece of land where waste materials are dumped | Synonyms: dumpsite, garbage dump, rubbish dump, trash dump, waste-yard, wasteyard |
| (noun) a coarse term for defecation | Synonyms: shit |
| dumpcart | (noun) a cart that can be tilted to empty contents without handling | - |
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| dumper | (noun) truck whose contents can be emptied without handling; the front end of the platform can be pneumatically raised so that the load is discharged by gravity | Synonyms: dump truck, tip truck, tipper, tipper lorry, tipper truck |
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| dumpiness | (noun) a short and stout physique | Synonyms: squattiness |
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| dumping | (noun) selling goods abroad at a price below that charged in the domestic market | - |
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| dumpling | (noun) small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough | Synonyms: dumplings |
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| (noun) dessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastry | - |
| dumplings | (noun) small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough | Synonyms: dumpling |
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| dumps | (noun) an informal expression for a mildly depressed state | Synonyms: mopes |
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| dumpsite | (noun) a piece of land where waste materials are dumped | Synonyms: dump, garbage dump, rubbish dump, trash dump, waste-yard, wasteyard |
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| duodenum | (noun) the part of the small intestine between the stomach and the jejunum | - |
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| durum | (noun) wheat with hard dark-colored kernels high in gluten and used for bread and pasta; grown especially in southern Russia, North Africa, and northern central North America | Synonyms: durum wheat, hard wheat, macaroni wheat, Triticum durum, Triticum turgidum |
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| dysprosium | (noun) a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; forms compounds that are highly magnetic | Synonyms: atomic number 66, Dy |
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| eardrum | (noun) the membrane in the ear that vibrates to sound | Synonyms: myringa, tympanic membrane, tympanum |
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| ecumenicalism | (noun) (Christianity) the doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity | Synonyms: ecumenicism, ecumenism |
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| ecumenicism | (noun) (Christianity) the doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity | Synonyms: ecumenicalism, ecumenism |
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| ecumenism | (noun) (Christianity) the doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity | Synonyms: ecumenicalism, ecumenicism |
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| (noun) a movement promoting union between religions (especially between Christian churches) | Synonyms: oecumenism |
| effluvium | (noun) a foul-smelling outflow or vapor (especially a gaseous waste) | - |
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| einsteinium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons | Synonyms: atomic number 99, E, Es |
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| electrum | (noun) an alloy of gold and silver | - |
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| emolument | (noun) compensation received by virtue of holding an office or having employment (usually in the form of wages or fees) | - |
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| emporium | (noun) a large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise; commonly part of a retail chain | Synonyms: department store |
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| emunctorium | (noun) a white linen cloth which is used to wipe the chalice after each communicant partakes. | Synonyms: purificator, purificatorium |
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| encomium | (noun) a formal expression of praise | Synonyms: eulogy, paean, panegyric, pean |
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| encumbrance | (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventative, preventive |
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| (noun) an onerous or difficult concern | Synonyms: burden, incumbrance, load, onus |
| (noun) a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage) | Synonyms: incumbrance |
| endocardium | (noun) the membrane that lines the cavities of the heart and forms part of the heart valves | - |
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| endocranium | (noun) membrane lining the inside of the skull | - |
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| endometrium | (noun) (pregnancy) the mucous membrane that lines the uterus; thickens under hormonal control and (if pregnancy does not occur) is shed in menstruation; if pregnancy occurs it is shed along with the placenta at parturition | - |
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