| chemiluminescence | (noun) luminescence resulting from a chemical reaction as the oxidation of luciferin in fireflies | - |
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| chimneypiece | (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: mantel, mantelpiece, mantle, mantlepiece |
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| choice | (noun) the act of choosing or selecting | Synonyms: option, pick, selection |
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| (noun) the person or thing chosen or selected | Synonyms: pick, selection |
| (noun) one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen | Synonyms: alternative, option |
| cicatrice | (noun) a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue | Synonyms: cicatrix, scar |
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| circumference | (noun) the size of something as given by the distance around it | Synonyms: perimeter |
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| (noun) the length of the closed curve of a circle | - |
| (noun) the boundary line encompassing an area or object | Synonyms: circuit |
| circumstance | (noun) information that should be kept in mind when making a decision | Synonyms: condition, consideration |
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| (noun) formal ceremony about important occasions | - |
| (noun) a condition that accompanies or influences some event or activity | - |
| (noun) the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event | Synonyms: context, setting |
| clairvoyance | (noun) apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses | Synonyms: E.S.P., ESP, extrasensory perception, second sight |
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| clarence | (noun) a closed carriage with four wheels and seats for four passengers | - |
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| clearance | (noun) permission to proceed | - |
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| (noun) the distance by which one thing clears another; the space between them | - |
| (noun) vertical space available to allow easy passage under something | Synonyms: headroom, headway |
| coalescence | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination |
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| coalface | (noun) the part of a coal seam that is being cut | - |
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| cockatrice | (noun) monster hatched by a reptile from a cock's egg; able to kill with a glance | - |
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| codpiece | (noun) (15th-16th century) a flap for the crotch of men's tight-fitting breeches | - |
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| coexistence | (noun) existing peacefully together | - |
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| cognisance | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: awareness, cognizance, consciousness, knowingness |
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| cognizance | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: awareness, cognisance, consciousness, knowingness |
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| (noun) range of what one can know or understand | Synonyms: ken |
| (noun) range or scope of what is perceived | - |
| coherence | (noun) logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherency |
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| (noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness |
| coincidence | (noun) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrence, concurrence, conjunction |
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| (noun) the quality of occupying the same position or area in space | - |
| (noun) an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental | Synonyms: happenstance |
| coinsurance | (noun) insurance issued jointly by two or more underwriters | - |
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| comeupance | (noun) an outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved and fitting | Synonyms: comeuppance, just deserts, poetic justice |
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| comeuppance | (noun) an outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved and fitting | Synonyms: comeupance, just deserts, poetic justice |
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| commerce | (noun) transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) | Synonyms: commercialism, mercantilism |
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| (noun) social exchange, especially of opinions, attitudes, etc. | - |
| commonplace | (noun) a trite or obvious remark | Synonyms: banality, bromide, cliche, platitude |
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| competence | (noun) the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually | Synonyms: competency |
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| complacence | (noun) the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself | Synonyms: complacency, self-complacency, self-satisfaction |
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| complaisance | (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: compliance, compliancy, deference, obligingness |
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| compliance | (noun) the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another | Synonyms: submission |
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| (noun) acting according to certain accepted standards | Synonyms: abidance, conformation, conformity |
| (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: complaisance, compliancy, deference, obligingness |
| concomitance | (noun) occurrence or existence together or in connection with one another | - |
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| concordance | (noun) an index of all main words in a book along with their immediate contexts | - |
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| (noun) agreement of opinions | Synonyms: concord, harmony |
| (noun) a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole | Synonyms: concord, harmony |
| concupiscence | (noun) a desire for sexual intimacy | Synonyms: eros, physical attraction, sexual desire |
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| concurrence | (noun) acting together, as agents or circumstances or events | Synonyms: concurrency |
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| (noun) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrence, coincidence, conjunction |
| (noun) agreement of results or opinions | Synonyms: concurrency |
| (noun) a state of cooperation | Synonyms: meeting of minds |
| condolence | (noun) an expression of sympathy with another's grief | Synonyms: commiseration |
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| conductance | (noun) a material's capacity to conduct electricity; measured as the reciprocal of electrical resistance | - |
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| conference | (noun) a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic | Synonyms: group discussion |
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| (noun) a prearranged meeting for consultation or exchange of information or discussion (especially one with a formal agenda) | - |
| (noun) an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members | Synonyms: league |
| confidence | (noun) freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities | Synonyms: assurance, authority, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness |
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| (noun) a secret that is confided or entrusted to another | - |
| (noun) a feeling of trust (in someone or something) | - |
| (noun) a state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable | - |
| (noun) a trustful relationship | Synonyms: trust |
| confluence | (noun) a flowing together | Synonyms: conflux, merging |
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| (noun) a coming together of people | Synonyms: concourse |
| (noun) a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers) | Synonyms: meeting |
| conformance | (noun) correspondence in form or appearance | Synonyms: conformity |
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| congruence | (noun) the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate | Synonyms: congruity, congruousness |
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| connivance | (noun) agreement on a secret plot | Synonyms: collusion |
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| (noun) (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing | Synonyms: secret approval, tacit consent |
| conscience | (noun) conformity to one's own sense of right conduct | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of shame when you do something immoral | - |
| (noun) motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions | Synonyms: moral sense, scruples, sense of right and wrong |
| consequence | (noun) having important effects or influence | Synonyms: import, moment |
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| (noun) the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual | Synonyms: aftermath |
| (noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: effect, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot |
| consistence | (noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: body, consistency, substance |
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| (noun) a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts | Synonyms: consistency |
| consonance | (noun) the property of sounding harmonious | Synonyms: harmoniousness |
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| (noun) the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words | Synonyms: consonant rhyme |
| continence | (noun) the exercise of self constraint in sexual matters | Synonyms: continency |
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| (noun) voluntary control over urinary and fecal discharge | - |
| contingence | (noun) a possible event or occurrence or result | Synonyms: contingency, eventuality |
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| continuance | (noun) the act of continuing an activity without interruption | Synonyms: continuation |
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| (noun) the property of enduring or continuing in time | Synonyms: duration |
| (noun) the period of time during which something continues | Synonyms: duration |
| contradance | (noun) a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line | Synonyms: contra danse, contredanse, country-dance, country dancing |
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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. | - |
| convalescence | (noun) gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury | Synonyms: recovery, recuperation |
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| convenience | (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, contrivance, gadget, gismo, gizmo, widget |
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| (noun) a toilet that is available to the public | Synonyms: comfort station, public convenience, public lavatory, public toilet, restroom, toilet facility, wash room |
| (noun) the quality of being useful and convenient | - |
| (noun) the state of being suitable or opportune | - |
| convergence | (noun) the act of converging (coming closer) | Synonyms: convergency, converging |
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| (noun) the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit | Synonyms: convergency |
| (noun) a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena | Synonyms: intersection, overlap |
| (noun) the occurrence of two or more things coming together | - |
| conversance | (noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: acquaintance, conversancy, familiarity |
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| conveyance | (noun) act of transferring property title from one person to another | Synonyms: conveyance of title, conveyancing, conveying |
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| (noun) the act of moving something from one location to another | Synonyms: transfer, transferral, transport, transportation |
| (noun) something that serves as a means of transportation | Synonyms: transport |
| (noun) the transmission of information | Synonyms: impartation, imparting |
| (noun) document effecting a property transfer | - |
| coppice | (noun) a dense growth of bushes | Synonyms: brush, brushwood, copse, thicket |
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| coreference | (noun) the grammatical relation between two words that have a common referent | - |
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| cornice | (noun) the topmost projecting part of an entablature | - |
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| (noun) a molding at the corner between the ceiling and the top of a wall | - |
| (noun) a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing | Synonyms: pelmet, valance, valance board |
| corpulence | (noun) the property of excessive fatness | Synonyms: adiposis, overweight, stoutness |
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| correspondence | (noun) similarity by virtue of corresponding | Synonyms: parallelism |
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| (noun) compatibility of observations | Synonyms: agreement |
| (noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | Synonyms: balance, symmetricalness, symmetry |
| (noun) communication by the exchange of letters | - |
| (noun) the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount | Synonyms: commensurateness, proportionateness |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| counterevidence | (noun) (philosophy, law, sciences) Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis. | Synonyms: counter-evidence |
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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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| 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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| covalence | (noun) valence characterized by the sharing of electrons in a chemical compound; the number of pairs of electrons an atom can share | Synonyms: covalency |
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| covariance | (noun) (statistics) the mean value of the product of the deviations of two variates from their respective means | - |
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| cowardice | (noun) the trait of lacking courage | Synonyms: cowardliness |
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| crapulence | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, drink, drinking, drunkenness |
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| crawlspace | (noun) low space beneath a floor of a building; gives workers access to wiring or plumbing | Synonyms: crawl space |
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| credence | (noun) a kind of sideboard or buffet | Synonyms: credenza |
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| (noun) the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true | Synonyms: acceptance |
| crevice | (noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: cleft, crack, fissure, scissure |
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| (noun) a long narrow depression in a surface | Synonyms: chap, crack, cranny, fissure |
| crosspiece | (noun) a transverse brace | - |
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| (noun) a horizontal beam that extends across something | Synonyms: crossbeam, trave, traverse |
| cyberspace | (noun) a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange | Synonyms: internet, net |
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| dace | (noun) small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body | Synonyms: Leuciscus leuciscus |
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| dalliance | (noun) the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working | Synonyms: dawdling, trifling |
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| (noun) playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest | Synonyms: coquetry, flirt, flirtation, flirting, toying |
| dance | (noun) taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music | Synonyms: dancing, saltation, terpsichore |
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| (noun) an artistic form of nonverbal communication | - |
| (noun) a party for social dancing | - |
| (noun) a party of people assembled for dancing | - |
| decadence | (noun) the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities | Synonyms: decadency, degeneracy, degeneration |
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| decalescence | (noun) phenomenon that occurs when a metal is being heated and there is a sudden slowing in the rate of temperature increase; slowing is caused by a change in the internal crystal structure of the metal | - |
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| defence | (noun) (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies | Synonyms: defense, defensive measure |
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| (noun) the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury | Synonyms: defense |
| (noun) a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him | Synonyms: defense, demurrer, denial |
| (noun) protection from harm | Synonyms: defense |
| (noun) a structure used to defend against attack | Synonyms: defense, defensive structure |
| (noun) the justification for some act or belief | Synonyms: defense, vindication |
| (noun) the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions | Synonyms: defense, refutation |
| (noun) the defendant and his legal advisors collectively | Synonyms: defense, defense lawyers, defense team |
| (noun) (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring | Synonyms: defending team, defense |
| (noun) an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack | Synonyms: defence force, defense, defense force |
| (noun) (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires | Synonyms: defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defense mechanism, defense reaction |
| deference | (noun) a courteous expression (by word or deed) of esteem or regard | Synonyms: respect |
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| (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: complaisance, compliance, compliancy, obligingness |
| (noun) courteous regard for people's feelings | Synonyms: respect, respectfulness |
| defervescence | (noun) abatement of a fever as indicated by a reduction in body temperature | - |
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| defiance | (noun) a defiant act | - |
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| (noun) intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude | Synonyms: rebelliousness |
| (noun) a hostile challenge | - |
| dehiscence | (noun) (biology) release of material by splitting open of an organ or tissue; the natural bursting open at maturity of a fruit or other reproductive body to release seeds or spores or the bursting open of a surgically closed wound | - |
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| deliverance | (noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger | Synonyms: delivery, rescue, saving |
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| demiglace | (noun) sauce Espagnole with extra beef stock simmered down and seasoned with dry wine or sherry | Synonyms: demi-glaze |
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| dentifrice | (noun) a substance for cleaning the teeth; applied with a toothbrush | - |
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| dependance | (noun) the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else | Synonyms: dependence, dependency |
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| (noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependence, dependency, habituation |
| dependence | (noun) the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else | Synonyms: dependance, dependency |
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| (noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependance, dependency, habituation |
| despondence | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondency, disconsolateness, heartsickness |
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| detergence | (noun) detergent quality; the quality of having cleansing power | Synonyms: detergency |
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| deterrence | (noun) the act or process of discouraging actions or preventing occurrences by instilling fear or doubt or anxiety | - |
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| (noun) a communication that makes you afraid to try something | Synonyms: determent, intimidation |
| (noun) a negative motivational influence | Synonyms: disincentive |
| detumescence | (noun) diminution of swelling; the subsidence of anything swollen | - |
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| deuce | (noun) one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots | Synonyms: two |
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| (noun) a word used in exclamations of confusion | Synonyms: devil, dickens |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number | Synonyms: 2, II, two |
| (noun) a tie in tennis or table tennis that requires winning two successive points to win the game | - |
| deviance | (noun) deviate behavior | Synonyms: deviation |
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| (noun) a state or condition markedly different from the norm | Synonyms: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration |
| device | (noun) any clever maneuver | Synonyms: gimmick, twist |
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| (noun) an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | - |
| (noun) an emblematic design (especially in heraldry) | - |
| (noun) any ornamental pattern or design (as in embroidery) | - |
| (noun) something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect | - |
| dice | (noun) a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers | Synonyms: die |
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| difference | (noun) the quality of being unlike or dissimilar | - |
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| (noun) a disagreement or argument about something important | Synonyms: conflict, difference of opinion, dispute |
| (noun) a variation that deviates from the standard or norm | Synonyms: departure, deviation, divergence |
| (noun) the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend | Synonyms: remainder |
| (noun) a significant change | - |
| diffidence | (noun) lack of self-confidence | Synonyms: self-distrust, self-doubt |
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| diligence | (noun) a diligent effort | Synonyms: application |
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| (noun) persevering determination to perform a task | Synonyms: industriousness, industry |
| (noun) conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation | - |
| disappearance | (noun) the act of leaving secretly or without explanation | Synonyms: disappearing |
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| (noun) gradually ceasing to be visible | Synonyms: fade |
| (noun) the event of passing out of sight | - |
| (noun) ceasing to exist | - |
| discontinuance | (noun) the act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent) | Synonyms: discontinuation |
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