| catamountain | (noun) bushy-tailed wildcat of Europe that resembles the domestic cat and is regarded as the ancestor of the domestic cat | Synonyms: European wildcat, Felis silvestris |
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| chemoimmunology | (noun) the field of chemistry concerned with chemical processes in immunology (such as chemical studies of antigens and antibodies) | Synonyms: immunochemistry |
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| chipmunk | (noun) a burrowing ground squirrel of western America and Asia; has cheek pouches and a light and dark stripe running down the body | - |
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| chunga | (noun) Argentinian Cariama | Synonyms: Chunga burmeisteri, seriema |
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| chunk | (noun) a compact mass | Synonyms: ball, clod, clump, glob, lump |
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| (noun) a substantial amount | - |
| chunking | (noun) (psychology) the configuration of smaller units of information into large coordinated units | Synonyms: unitisation, unitization |
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| chunnel | (noun) the railroad tunnel between France and England under the English Channel | Synonyms: Channel Tunnel |
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| clunch | (noun) stiff clay | - |
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| clunk | (noun) a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) | Synonyms: clump, thud, thump, thumping |
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| clunking | (noun) the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface | Synonyms: clip-clop, clippety-clop, clop, clopping, clumping |
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| cofounder | (noun) one of a group of founders | - |
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| cohune | (noun) tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory | Synonyms: cohune palm, Orbignya cohune |
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| communalism | (noun) the practice of communal living and common ownership | - |
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| (noun) loyalty and commitment to the interests of your own minority or ethnic group rather than to society as a whole | - |
| commune | (noun) a body of people or families living together and sharing everything | - |
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| (noun) the smallest administrative district of several European countries | - |
| communicant | (noun) a person entitled to receive Communion | - |
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| communicating | (noun) the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information | Synonyms: communication |
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| communication | (noun) something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups | - |
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| (noun) the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information | Synonyms: communicating |
| (noun) a connection allowing access between persons or places | - |
| communications | (noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmitting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.) | Synonyms: communication theory |
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| communicativeness | (noun) the trait of being communicative | - |
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| communicator | (noun) a person who communicates with others | - |
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| communion | (noun) sharing thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: sharing |
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| (noun) (Christianity) a group of Christians with a common religious faith who practice the same rites | - |
| communique | (noun) an official report (usually sent in haste) | Synonyms: despatch, dispatch |
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| communisation | (noun) the organization of a nation of the basis of communism | Synonyms: communization |
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| (noun) a change from private property to public property owned by the community | Synonyms: communization |
| (noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communization, nationalisation, nationalization |
| communism | (noun) a political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society | - |
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| (noun) a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership | - |
| communist | (noun) a socialist who advocates communism | Synonyms: commie |
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| community | (noun) a group of people living in a particular local area | - |
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| (noun) (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other | Synonyms: biotic community |
| (noun) a group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession, or other particular characteristic in common | - |
| (noun) a group of nations having common interests | - |
| (noun) a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences | Synonyms: residential area, residential district |
| (noun) common ownership | - |
| (noun) agreement as to goals | Synonyms: community of interests |
| communization | (noun) the organization of a nation of the basis of communism | Synonyms: communisation |
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| (noun) a change from private property to public property owned by the community | Synonyms: communisation |
| (noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communisation, nationalisation, nationalization |
| compound | (noun) an enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient) | - |
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| (noun) a whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts | - |
| (noun) a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes. | Synonyms: compound word |
| (noun) (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight | Synonyms: chemical compound |
| compounding | (noun) the act of combining things to form a new whole | Synonyms: combination, combining |
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| compunction | (noun) a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed) | Synonyms: remorse, self-reproach |
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| conjunction | (noun) something that joins or connects | Synonyms: junction |
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| (noun) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrence, coincidence, concurrence |
| (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunctive, connective, continuative |
| (noun) (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac | Synonyms: alignment |
| (noun) the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction | - |
| (noun) the state of being joined together | Synonyms: colligation, conjugation, junction |
| conjunctiva | (noun) a transparent lubricating mucous membrane that covers the eyeball and the under surface of the eyelid | - |
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| conjunctive | (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, connective, continuative |
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| conjunctivitis | (noun) inflammation of the conjunctiva of the eye | Synonyms: pinkeye |
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| conjuncture | (noun) a critical combination of events or circumstances | - |
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| contrapuntist | (noun) a composer who specializes in counterpoint | - |
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| conundrum | (noun) a difficult problem | Synonyms: brain-teaser, enigma, riddle |
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| coonhound | (noun) any of several breeds of hound developed for hunting raccoons | - |
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| corundom | (noun) very hard mineral used as an abrasive | Synonyms: corundum |
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| corundum | (noun) very hard mineral used as an abrasive | Synonyms: corundom |
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| council | (noun) a meeting of people for consultation | - |
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| (noun) a body serving in an administrative capacity | - |
| (noun) (Christianity) an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine | - |
| councillor | (noun) a member of a council | Synonyms: council member |
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| councillorship | (noun) the position of council member | Synonyms: councilorship |
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| councilman | (noun) a man who is a council member | - |
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| councilorship | (noun) the position of council member | Synonyms: councillorship |
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| councilwoman | (noun) a woman who is a council member | - |
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| counsel | (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counseling, counselling, direction, guidance |
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| (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsellor, counselor-at-law, counselor, pleader |
| counseling | (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counsel, counselling, direction, guidance |
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| counselling | (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counsel, counseling, direction, guidance |
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| counsellor | (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsel, counselor-at-law, counselor, pleader |
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| (noun) someone who gives advice about problems | Synonyms: counselor |
| (noun) someone who has supervisory duties at a summer camp | Synonyms: counselor |
| counsellorship | (noun) the position of counselor | Synonyms: counselorship |
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| counselor | (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsel, counsellor, counselor-at-law, pleader |
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| (noun) someone who gives advice about problems | Synonyms: counsellor |
| (noun) someone who has supervisory duties at a summer camp | Synonyms: counsellor |
| counselorship | (noun) the position of counselor | Synonyms: counsellorship |
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| count | (noun) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order | Synonyms: counting, enumeration, numeration, reckoning, tally |
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| (noun) a nobleman (in various countries) having rank equal to a British earl | - |
| (noun) the total number counted | - |
| countdown | (noun) counting backward from an arbitrary number to indicate the time remaining before some event (such as launching a space vehicle) | - |
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| countenance | (noun) the appearance conveyed by a person's face | Synonyms: visage |
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| (noun) the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) | Synonyms: kisser, mug, phiz, physiognomy, smiler, visage |
| (noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: endorsement, imprimatur, indorsement, sanction, warrant |
| counter | (noun) a return punch (especially by a boxer) | Synonyms: counterpunch, parry |
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| (noun) table consisting of a horizontal surface over which business is transacted | - |
| (noun) a calculator that keeps a record of the number of times something happens | Synonyms: tabulator |
| (noun) a piece of leather forming the back of a shoe or boot | Synonyms: heel counter |
| (noun) game equipment (as a piece of wood, plastic, or ivory) used for keeping a count or reserving a space in various card or board games | - |
| (noun) a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers | Synonyms: buffet, sideboard |
| (noun) (computer science) a register whose contents go through a regular series of states (usually states indicating consecutive integers) | - |
| (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: comeback, rejoinder, replication, retort, return, riposte |
| (noun) a person who counts things | - |
| counteraction | (noun) action intended to nullify the effects of some previous action | Synonyms: neutralisation, neutralization |
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| counterargument | (noun) an argument offered in opposition to another argument | - |
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| counterattack | (noun) an attack by a defending force against an attacking enemy force in order to regain lost ground or cut off enemy advance units etc. | Synonyms: countermove |
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| (noun) (chess) an attack that is intended to counter the opponent's advantage in another part of the board | Synonyms: counterplay |
| counterattraction | (noun) a rival attraction | - |
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| counterbalance | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterpoise, counterweight, equaliser, equalizer |
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| (noun) a compensating equivalent | Synonyms: offset |
| (noun) equality of distribution | Synonyms: balance, equilibrium, equipoise |
| counterblast | (noun) a vigorous and unrestrained response | - |
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| counterblow | (noun) a return blow; a retaliatory blow | - |
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| counterbombardment | (noun) bombardment intended to destroy or neutralize enemy weapons | - |
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| counterbore | (noun) a bit for enlarging the upper part of a hole | Synonyms: countersink, countersink bit |
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| countercharge | (noun) a retaliatory charge | - |
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| (noun) a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser | - |
| countercheck | (noun) something that checks the correctness of a previous check | Synonyms: double check |
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| (noun) a check that restrains another check | - |
| counterclaim | (noun) a claim filed in opposition to another claim in a legal action | - |
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| countercoup | (noun) a sudden and decisive overthrow of a government that gained power by a coup d'etat | - |
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| counterculture | (noun) a culture with lifestyles and values opposed to those of the established culture | - |
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| countercurrent | (noun) actions counter to the main group activity | Synonyms: crosscurrent |
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| (noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: crosscurrent, rip, riptide, tide rip |
| 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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| counterespionage | (noun) spying on the spies | - |
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| counterevidence | (noun) (philosophy, law, sciences) Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis. | Synonyms: counter-evidence |
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| counterexample | (noun) refutation by example | - |
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| counterfactuality | (noun) the quality of being contrary to fact | - |
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| counterfeit | (noun) a copy that is represented as the original | Synonyms: forgery |
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| counterfeiter | (noun) someone who makes copies illegally | Synonyms: forger |
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| counterfire | (noun) fire intended to neutralize or destroy enemy weapons | - |
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| counterfoil | (noun) the part of a check that is retained as a record | Synonyms: check stub, stub |
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| counterglow | (noun) a faint spot of light in the night sky that appears directly opposite the position of the sun; a reflection of sunlight by micrometeoric material in space | Synonyms: gegenschein |
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| counterinsurgency | (noun) actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | Synonyms: pacification |
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| counterintelligence | (noun) intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism | - |
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| counterirritant | (noun) a medicine applied locally to produce superficial inflammation in order to reduce deeper inflammation | - |
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| counterman | (noun) a male who attends a counter (as in a diner) | - |
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| countermand | (noun) a contrary command cancelling or reversing a previous command | - |
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| countermarch | (noun) (military) a march in the reverse direction or back along the same route | - |
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| countermeasure | (noun) an action taken to offset another action | - |
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| countermine | (noun) (military) a tunnel dug to defeat similar activities by the enemy | - |
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| countermove | (noun) an attack by a defending force against an attacking enemy force in order to regain lost ground or cut off enemy advance units etc. | Synonyms: counterattack |
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| counteroffensive | (noun) a large scale offensive (more than a counterattack) undertaken by a defending force to seize the initiative from an attacking force | - |
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| counteroffer | (noun) an offer made by someone who has rejected a prior offer | - |
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| counterpane | (noun) decorative cover for a bed | Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedcover, bedspread, spread |
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| counterpart | (noun) a duplicate copy | Synonyms: similitude, twin |
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| (noun) a person or thing having the same function or characteristics as another | Synonyms: opposite number, vis-a-vis |
| counterperson | (noun) someone who attends a counter (as in a diner) | - |
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| counterplan | (noun) a plot intended to subvert another plot | Synonyms: counterplot |
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| counterplay | (noun) (chess) an attack that is intended to counter the opponent's advantage in another part of the board | Synonyms: counterattack |
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| counterplea | (noun) a plaintiff's reply to a defendant's plea | - |
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