| concealment | (noun) the activity of keeping something secret | Synonyms: concealing, hiding |
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| (noun) a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something | Synonyms: cover, covert, screen |
| (noun) the condition of being concealed or hidden | Synonyms: privacy, privateness, secrecy |
| concomitant | (noun) an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another | Synonyms: accompaniment, attendant, co-occurrence |
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| condiment | (noun) a preparation (a sauce or relish or spice) to enhance flavor or enjoyment | - |
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| conferment | (noun) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift | Synonyms: bestowal, bestowment, conferral |
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| confidant | (noun) someone to whom private matters are confided | Synonyms: intimate |
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| confinement | (noun) the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them | - |
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| (noun) the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary) | Synonyms: restriction |
| (noun) the state of being confined | - |
| (noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: childbed, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail |
| confluent | (noun) a branch that flows into the main stream | Synonyms: affluent, feeder, tributary |
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| congealment | (noun) the process of congealing; solidification by (or as if by) freezing | Synonyms: congelation |
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| congregant | (noun) a member of a congregation (especially that of a church or synagogue) | - |
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| conodont | (noun) small (2 inches long) extinct eellike fish with a finned tail and a notochord and having cone-shaped teeth containing cellular bone; late Cambrian to late Triassic; possible predecessor of the cyclostomes | - |
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| (noun) the tiny fossil cone-shaped tooth of a primitive vertebrate of order Conodonta | - |
| consent | (noun) permission for something to happen | - |
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| consignment | (noun) the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) | Synonyms: commitment, committal |
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| (noun) the delivery of goods for sale or disposal | - |
| (noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, freight, lading, load, loading, payload, shipment |
| consonant | (noun) a speech sound that is not a vowel | - |
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| (noun) a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken consonant | - |
| constant | (noun) a quantity that does not vary | Synonyms: constant quantity, invariable |
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| (noun) a number representing a quantity assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context | - |
| constituent | (noun) an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system | Synonyms: component, element |
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| (noun) an abstract part of something | Synonyms: component, element, factor, ingredient |
| (noun) (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction | Synonyms: grammatical constituent |
| (noun) a member of a constituency; a citizen who is represented in a government by officials for whom he or she votes | - |
| (noun) something determined in relation to something that includes it | Synonyms: component, component part, part, portion |
| constraint | (noun) the act of constraining; the threat or use of force to control the thoughts or behavior of others | - |
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| (noun) a device that retards something's motion | Synonyms: restraint |
| (noun) the state of being physically constrained | Synonyms: restraint |
| consultant | (noun) an expert who gives advice | Synonyms: adviser, advisor |
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| containment | (noun) the act of containing; keeping something from spreading | - |
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| (noun) (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor | - |
| (noun) a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully | - |
| contaminant | (noun) a substance that contaminates | Synonyms: contamination |
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| content | (noun) something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation | Synonyms: depicted object, subject |
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| (noun) the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned | Synonyms: cognitive content, mental object |
| (noun) content communicating a message; what something is about | Synonyms: message, subject matter, substance |
| (noun) (usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something | Synonyms: contents |
| (noun) the amount that can be contained | Synonyms: capacity |
| (noun) the proportion of a substance that is contained in a mixture or alloy etc. | - |
| (noun) the state of being contented with your situation in life | Synonyms: contentedness |
| contentment | (noun) happiness with one's situation in life | - |
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| contestant | (noun) a person who participates in competitions | - |
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| (noun) a person who dissents from some established policy | Synonyms: dissenter, dissident, objector, protester |
| continent | (noun) one of the large landmasses of the earth | - |
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| contingent | (noun) a temporary military unit | Synonyms: detail |
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| (noun) a gathering of persons representative of some larger group | - |
| continuant | (noun) consonant articulated by constricting (but not closing) the vocal tract | Synonyms: continuant consonant |
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| convalescent | (noun) a person who is recovering from illness | - |
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| convent | (noun) a religious residence especially for nuns | - |
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| (noun) a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together | - |
| coolant | (noun) a fluid agent (gas or liquid) that produces cooling; especially one used to cool a system by transferring heat away from one part to another | - |
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| corespondent | (noun) the codefendant charged with adultery with the estranged spouse in a divorce proceeding | Synonyms: co-respondent |
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| cormorant | (noun) large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish | Synonyms: Phalacrocorax carbo |
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| corposant | (noun) an electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere | Synonyms: corona, corona discharge, electric glow, Saint Elmo's fire, Saint Elmo's light, Saint Ulmo's fire, Saint Ulmo's light, St. Elmo's fire |
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| correspondent | (noun) someone who communicates by means of letters | Synonyms: letter writer |
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| (noun) a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | Synonyms: newswriter |
| cosecant | (noun) ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side of a right-angled triangle | Synonyms: cosec |
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| cotangent | (noun) ratio of the adjacent to the opposite side of a right-angled triangle | Synonyms: cotan |
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| cotenant | (noun) one of two or more tenants holding title to the same property | - |
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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 | - |
| counterargument | (noun) an argument offered in opposition to another argument | - |
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| counterbombardment | (noun) bombardment intended to destroy or neutralize enemy weapons | - |
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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 |
| counterirritant | (noun) a medicine applied locally to produce superficial inflammation in order to reduce deeper inflammation | - |
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| counterpoint | (noun) a musical form involving the simultaneous sound of two or more melodies | - |
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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 | - |
| crescent | (noun) any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters | - |
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| croissant | (noun) very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll | Synonyms: crescent roll |
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| crosscurrent | (noun) actions counter to the main group activity | Synonyms: countercurrent |
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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: countercurrent, rip, riptide, tide rip |
| cuckoopint | (noun) common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum | Synonyms: Arum maculatum, jack-in-the-pulpit, lords-and-ladies |
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| cunt | (noun) obscene terms for female genitals | Synonyms: puss, pussy, slit, snatch, twat |
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| (noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked | Synonyms: bitch |
| curettement | (noun) surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette | Synonyms: curettage |
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| currant | (noun) any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for jellies and jams | - |
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| (noun) small dried seedless raisin grown in the Mediterranean region and California; used in cooking | - |
| (noun) any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing currants | Synonyms: currant bush |
| current | (noun) a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes) | Synonyms: stream |
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| (noun) dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas | Synonyms: flow, stream |
| (noun) a flow of electricity through a conductor | Synonyms: electric current |
| curtailment | (noun) the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation | Synonyms: suppression |
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| (noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable | Synonyms: downsizing, retrenchment |
| (noun) the temporal property of being cut short | - |
| cynodont | (noun) small carnivorous reptiles | - |
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| cyprinodont | (noun) any member of the family Cyprinodontidae | - |
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| dealignment | (noun) a process whereby voters are moved toward nonpartisanship thus weakening the structure of political parties | - |
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| debarment | (noun) the act of prevention by legal means | - |
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| (noun) the state of being debarred (excluded from enjoying certain possessions or rights or practices) | - |
| debasement | (noun) changing to a lower state (a less respected state) | Synonyms: degradation |
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| (noun) being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adulterating | Synonyms: adulteration |
| debridement | (noun) surgical removal of foreign material and dead tissue from a wound in order to prevent infection and promote healing | - |
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| decadent | (noun) a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically) | - |
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| decampment | (noun) breaking camp | - |
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| (noun) the act of running away secretly (as to avoid arrest) | Synonyms: abscondment |
| decedent | (noun) someone who is no longer alive | Synonyms: dead person, dead soul, deceased, deceased person, departed |
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| decipherment | (noun) the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text | Synonyms: decoding, decryption |
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| decoagulant | (noun) medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood | Synonyms: anticoagulant, anticoagulant medication |
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| decongestant | (noun) a drug that decreases pulmonary congestion | - |
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| decrement | (noun) the amount by which something decreases | Synonyms: decrease |
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| (noun) a process of becoming smaller or shorter | Synonyms: decrease |
| defacement | (noun) the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something | Synonyms: disfiguration, disfigurement, mutilation |
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| defendant | (noun) a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused | Synonyms: suspect |
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| deferment | (noun) act of putting off to a future time | Synonyms: deferral, postponement |
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| defilement | (noun) the state of being polluted | Synonyms: befoulment, pollution |
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| defoliant | (noun) a chemical that is sprayed on plants and causes their leaves to fall off | - |
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| defrayment | (noun) the act of paying money | Synonyms: defrayal, payment |
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| delinquent | (noun) a young offender | Synonyms: juvenile delinquent |
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| demulcent | (noun) a medication (in the form of an oil or salve etc.) that soothes inflamed or injured skin | - |
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| denaturant | (noun) any substance that serves as a denaturing agent | - |
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| denouement | (noun) the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work | - |
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| (noun) the outcome of a complex sequence of events | - |
| denouncement | (noun) a public act of denouncing | Synonyms: denunciation |
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| dent | (noun) an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) | Synonyms: ding, gouge, nick |
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| (noun) an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening) | - |
| (noun) a depression scratched or carved into a surface | Synonyms: incision, prick, scratch, slit |
| deodorant | (noun) a toiletry applied to the skin in order to mask unpleasant odors | Synonyms: deodourant |
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| deodourant | (noun) a toiletry applied to the skin in order to mask unpleasant odors | Synonyms: deodorant |
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| department | (noun) a specialized sphere of knowledge | - |
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| (noun) a specialized division of a large organization | Synonyms: section |
| (noun) the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France) | - |
| dependant | (noun) a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support) | Synonyms: dependent |
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| dependent | (noun) a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support) | Synonyms: dependant |
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| deployment | (noun) the distribution of forces in preparation for battle or work | - |
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| deponent | (noun) a person who testifies or gives a deposition | Synonyms: deposer, testifier |
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| deportment | (noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanor, demeanour |
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| depressant | (noun) a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person | Synonyms: downer, sedative, sedative drug |
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| derailment | (noun) an accident in which a train runs off its track | - |
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| derangement | (noun) the act of disturbing the mind or body | Synonyms: overthrow, upset |
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| (noun) a state of mental disturbance and disorientation | Synonyms: mental unsoundness, unbalance |
| descant | (noun) a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody | Synonyms: discant |
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| descendant | (noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
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| descendent | (noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendant |
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| descent | (noun) the act of changing your location in a downward direction | - |
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| (noun) properties attributable to your ancestry | Synonyms: extraction, origin |
| (noun) a movement downward | - |
| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
| (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, downslope, fall |
| (noun) the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors | Synonyms: filiation, line of descent, lineage |
| desiccant | (noun) a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture) | Synonyms: drier, drying agent, siccative |
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| despoilment | (noun) the act of stripping and taking by force | Synonyms: despoilation, despoliation, spoil, spoilation, spoliation |
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| detachment | (noun) the act of releasing from an attachment or connection | Synonyms: disengagement |
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| (noun) coming apart | Synonyms: breakup, separation |
| (noun) avoiding emotional involvement | Synonyms: withdrawal |
| (noun) a small unit of troops of special composition | - |
| (noun) the state of being isolated or detached | Synonyms: insularism, insularity, insulation |
| detainment | (noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time) | Synonyms: custody, detention, hold |
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| detent | (noun) a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward | Synonyms: click, dog, pawl |
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| detergent | (noun) a cleansing agent that differs from soap but can also emulsify oils and hold dirt in suspension | - |
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| (noun) a surface-active chemical widely used in industry and laundering | - |
| determent | (noun) a communication that makes you afraid to try something | Synonyms: deterrence, intimidation |
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| determinant | (noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinative, determiner, determining factor |
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| (noun) a square matrix used to solve simultaneous equations | - |
| (noun) the site on the surface of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself | Synonyms: antigenic determinant, epitope |
| deterrent | (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
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