conveyer | (noun) a moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory) | Synonyms: conveyer belt, conveyor, conveyor belt, transporter |
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(noun) a person who conveys (carries or transmits) | Synonyms: conveyor |
conveying | (noun) act of transferring property title from one person to another | Synonyms: conveyance, conveyance of title, conveyancing |
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conveyor | (noun) a moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory) | Synonyms: conveyer, conveyer belt, conveyor belt, transporter |
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(noun) a person who conveys (carries or transmits) | Synonyms: conveyer |
cookstove | (noun) a stove for cooking (especially a wood- or coal-burning kitchen stove) | - |
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cooperative | (noun) a jointly owned commercial enterprise (usually organized by farmers or consumers) that produces and distributes goods and services and is run for the benefit of its owners | Synonyms: co-op |
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(noun) an association formed and operated for the benefit of those using it | - |
cooperativeness | (noun) the trait of being cooperative | Synonyms: amenability, amenableness |
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copulative | (noun) an equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence | Synonyms: copula, linking verb |
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corrective | (noun) a device for treating injury or disease | Synonyms: restorative |
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correlative | (noun) either of two or more related or complementary variables | Synonyms: correlate |
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corrosive | (noun) a substance having the tendency to cause corrosion (such a strong acids or alkali) | - |
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corvee | (noun) unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes | - |
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corvette | (noun) a highly maneuverable escort warship; smaller than a destroyer | - |
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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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countersubversion | (noun) the aspect of counterintelligence designed to detect and prevent subversive activities | - |
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couverture | (noun) chocolate that contains at least 32 percent cocoa butter | - |
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cove | (noun) a small inlet | - |
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(noun) small or narrow cave in the side of a cliff or mountain | - |
coven | (noun) an assembly of witches; usually 13 witches | - |
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covenant | (noun) a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action | Synonyms: compact, concordat |
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(noun) (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return | - |
cover | (noun) the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it | Synonyms: covering, masking, screening |
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(noun) fire that makes it difficult for the enemy to fire on your own individuals or formations | Synonyms: covering fire |
(noun) a false identity and background (especially one created for an undercover agent) | - |
(noun) a recording of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else | Synonyms: cover song, cover version |
(noun) bedding that keeps a person warm in bed | Synonyms: blanket |
(noun) a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something | Synonyms: concealment, covert, screen |
(noun) covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container) | Synonyms: top |
(noun) the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book | Synonyms: back, binding, book binding |
(noun) a natural object that covers or envelops | Synonyms: covering, natural covering |
(noun) a fixed charge by a restaurant or nightclub over and above the charge for food and drink | Synonyms: cover charge |
coverage | (noun) the extent to which something is covered | - |
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(noun) the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television | Synonyms: reportage, reporting |
(noun) the total amount and type of insurance carried | Synonyms: insurance coverage |
coverall | (noun) a loose-fitting protective garment that is worn over other clothing | - |
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covering | (noun) the act of protecting something by covering it | - |
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(noun) the work of applying something | Synonyms: application, coating |
(noun) the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it | Synonyms: cover, masking, screening |
(noun) an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it) | - |
(noun) a natural object that covers or envelops | Synonyms: cover, natural covering |
coverlet | (noun) a decorative bedspread (usually quilted) | - |
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covert | (noun) a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something | Synonyms: concealment, cover, screen |
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(noun) a flock of coots | - |
covertness | (noun) the state of being covert and hidden | Synonyms: hiddenness |
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covetousness | (noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: avarice, avaritia, greed, rapacity |
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(noun) extreme greed for material wealth | Synonyms: avarice, avariciousness, cupidity |
(noun) an envious eagerness to possess something | - |
covey | (noun) a small flock of grouse or partridge | - |
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(noun) a small collection of people | - |
craven | (noun) an abject coward | Synonyms: poltroon, recreant |
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cravenness | (noun) meanspirited cowardice | - |
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creativeness | (noun) the ability to create | Synonyms: creative thinking, creativity |
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crossover | (noun) a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | Synonyms: crossing, crosswalk |
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(noun) the appropriation of a new style (especially in popular music) by combining elements of different genres in order to appeal to a wider audience | - |
(noun) a voter who is registered as a member of one political party but who votes in the primary of another party | Synonyms: crossover voter |
(noun) the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis | Synonyms: crossing over |
culverin | (noun) a medieval musket | - |
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(noun) a heavy cannon with a long barrel used in the 16th and 17th centuries | - |
culvert | (noun) a transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway | - |
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curative | (noun) a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain | Synonyms: cure, remedy, therapeutic |
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cursive | (noun) rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper | Synonyms: cursive script, longhand, running hand |
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curve | (noun) a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter | Synonyms: bender, breaking ball, curve ball |
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(noun) curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.) | Synonyms: bend |
(noun) the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface | Synonyms: curvature |
(noun) a line on a graph representing data | - |
(noun) the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes | Synonyms: curved shape |
curvet | (noun) a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down | Synonyms: vaulting |
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dative | (noun) the category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb | Synonyms: dative case |
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davenport | (noun) a large sofa usually convertible into a bed | - |
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(noun) a small decorative writing desk | - |
deceiver | (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, cheater, slicker, trickster |
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deceptiveness | (noun) the quality of being deceptive | Synonyms: obliquity |
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decisiveness | (noun) the trait of resoluteness as evidenced by firmness of character or purpose | Synonyms: decision |
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(noun) the quality of being final or definitely settled | Synonyms: conclusiveness, finality |
declarative | (noun) a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact | Synonyms: common mood, declarative mood, fact mood, indicative, indicative mood |
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decorativeness | (noun) an appearance that serves to decorate and make something more attractive | - |
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defectiveness | (noun) the state of being defective | Synonyms: faultiness |
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defensive | (noun) an attitude of defensiveness | Synonyms: defensive attitude |
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defensiveness | (noun) excessive sensitivity to criticism | - |
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defervescence | (noun) abatement of a fever as indicated by a reduction in body temperature | - |
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deliverable | (noun) something that can be provided as the product of development | - |
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deliverance | (noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger | Synonyms: delivery, rescue, saving |
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deliverer | (noun) a person who rescues you from harm or danger | Synonyms: rescuer, savior, saviour |
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(noun) a person who gives up or transfers money or goods | - |
(noun) someone employed to make deliveries | Synonyms: delivery boy, deliveryman |
delivery | (noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger | Synonyms: deliverance, rescue, saving |
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(noun) the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another | Synonyms: legal transfer, livery |
(noun) the act of delivering a child | Synonyms: obstetrical delivery |
(noun) the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it | Synonyms: pitch |
(noun) the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail) | Synonyms: bringing |
(noun) your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally | Synonyms: manner of speaking, speech |
(noun) the event of giving birth | - |
deliveryman | (noun) someone employed to make deliveries | Synonyms: deliverer, delivery boy |
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demisemiquaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of a thirty-second of a whole note | Synonyms: thirty-second note |
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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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denivelation | (noun) the difference in level (depth) between two parts of a cave system, usually the highest and lowest known point. | - |
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depressive | (noun) someone suffering psychological depression | - |
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derivative | (noun) the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx | Synonyms: derived function, differential, differential coefficient, first derivative |
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(noun) (linguistics) a word that is derived from another word | - |
(noun) a financial instrument whose value is based on another security | Synonyms: derivative instrument |
(noun) a compound obtained from, or regarded as derived from, another compound | - |
destructiveness | (noun) the quality of causing destruction | - |
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detective | (noun) a police officer who investigates crimes | Synonyms: investigator, police detective, tec |
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(noun) an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public | - |
determinative | (noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinant, determiner, determining factor |
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(noun) one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases | Synonyms: determiner |
developer | (noun) photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for developing film | - |
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(noun) someone who develops real estate (especially someone who prepares a site for residential or commercial use) | - |
developing | (noun) processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible | Synonyms: development |
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development | (noun) act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining | - |
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(noun) the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful | Synonyms: exploitation |
(noun) (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated | - |
(noun) a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation | - |
(noun) a district that has been developed to serve some purpose | - |
(noun) processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible | Synonyms: developing |
(noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
(noun) a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage) | Synonyms: evolution |
(noun) a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess) | - |
devolvement | (noun) the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government) | Synonyms: devolution |
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digestive | (noun) any substance that promotes digestion | - |
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digressiveness | (noun) The characteristic quality of poetry that is marked by departure from the subject, course, or idea at hand; or by an exploration of a different or unrelated concern. | - |
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diminutive | (noun) a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness | - |
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diminutiveness | (noun) the property of being very small in size | Synonyms: minuteness, petiteness, tininess, weeness |
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directive | (noun) a pronouncement encouraging or banning some activity | - |
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directiveness | (noun) the quality of being directive | Synonyms: directivity |
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discoverer | (noun) someone who is the first to observe something | Synonyms: finder, spotter |
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(noun) someone who is the first to think of or make something | Synonyms: artificer, inventor |
discovery | (noun) the act of discovering something | Synonyms: find, uncovering |
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(noun) a productive insight | Synonyms: breakthrough, find |
(noun) something that is discovered | - |
(noun) (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case | - |
discursiveness | (noun) the quality of being discursive | - |
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disincentive | (noun) a negative motivational influence | Synonyms: deterrence |
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disinvestment | (noun) the withdrawal of capital from a country or corporation | - |
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disprover | (noun) a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument | Synonyms: confuter, rebutter, refuter |
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dissolve | (noun) (film) a gradual transition from one scene to the next; the next scene is gradually superimposed as the former scene fades out | - |
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dissolvent | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent, solvent |
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dissolver | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolvent, dissolving agent, resolvent, solvent |
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distinctiveness | (noun) utter dissimilarity | Synonyms: disparateness |
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(noun) a distinguishing trait | Synonyms: peculiarity, speciality, specialness, specialty |
dive | (noun) a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft | Synonyms: nose dive, nosedive |
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(noun) a headlong plunge into water | Synonyms: diving |
(noun) a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall | Synonyms: honkytonk |
diver | (noun) large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the Northern Hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes | Synonyms: loon |
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(noun) someone who dives (into water) | Synonyms: plunger |
(noun) someone who works underwater | Synonyms: frogman, underwater diver |
divergence | (noun) the act of moving away in different direction from a common point | Synonyms: divergency |
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(noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | Synonyms: disagreement, discrepancy, variance |
(noun) an infinite series that has no limit | Synonyms: divergency |
(noun) a variation that deviates from the standard or norm | Synonyms: departure, deviation, difference |
divergency | (noun) the act of moving away in different direction from a common point | Synonyms: divergence |
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(noun) an infinite series that has no limit | Synonyms: divergence |
diverseness | (noun) noticeable heterogeneity | Synonyms: diversity, multifariousness, variety |
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diversification | (noun) the act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered) | Synonyms: variegation |
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(noun) the condition of being varied | - |
diversion | (noun) an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates | Synonyms: recreation |
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(noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, deviation, digression, divagation |
(noun) an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack | Synonyms: diversionary attack |
diversionist | (noun) someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks | Synonyms: saboteur, wrecker |
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diversity | (noun) the condition or result of being changeable | - |
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(noun) noticeable heterogeneity | Synonyms: diverseness, multifariousness, variety |
diverticulitis | (noun) inflammation of a diverticulum in the digestive tract (especially the colon); characterized by painful abdominal cramping and fever and constipation | - |
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diverticulosis | (noun) presence of multiple diverticula in the walls of the colon | - |
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diverticulum | (noun) a herniation through the muscular wall of a tubular organ (especially the colon) | - |
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divertimento | (noun) a musical composition in several movements; has no fixed form | Synonyms: serenade |
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divestiture | (noun) the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division | - |
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(noun) an order to an offending party to rid itself of property; it has the purpose of depriving the defendant of the gains of wrongful behavior | - |
dove | (noun) any of numerous small pigeons | - |
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(noun) an emblem of peace | - |
(noun) flesh of a pigeon suitable for roasting or braising; flesh of a dove (young squab) may be broiled | Synonyms: squab |
(noun) someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations | Synonyms: peacenik |
dovecote | (noun) a birdhouse for pigeons | Synonyms: columbarium, columbary |
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dovekie | (noun) small short-billed auk abundant in Arctic regions | Synonyms: little auk, Plautus alle |
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