| commander | (noun) an officer in command of a military unit | Synonyms: commandant, commanding officer |
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| (noun) a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a lieutenant commander and below a captain | - |
| (noun) an officer in the airforce | Synonyms: air force officer |
| (noun) someone in an official position of authority who can command or control others | - |
| commentator | (noun) a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day | Synonyms: reviewer |
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| (noun) an expert who observes and comments on something | Synonyms: observer |
| commissar | (noun) an official of the Communist Party who was assigned to teach party principles to a military unit | Synonyms: political commissar |
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| commissioner | (noun) a government administrator | - |
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| (noun) a member of a commission | - |
| commoner | (noun) a person who holds no title | Synonyms: common man, common person |
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| communicator | (noun) a person who communicates with others | - |
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| commutator | (noun) switch for reversing the direction of an electric current | - |
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| commuter | (noun) a passenger train that is ridden primarily by passengers who travel regularly from one place to another | Synonyms: commuter train |
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| (noun) someone who travels regularly from home in a suburb to work in a city | - |
| compander | (noun) a system for improving the signal-to-noise ratio of a signal at a transmitter or recorder by first compressing the volume range of the signal and then restoring it to its original amplitude level at the receiving or reproducing apparatus. | - |
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| compeer | (noun) a person who is of equal standing with another in a group | Synonyms: equal, match, peer |
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| competitor | (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competition, contender, rival |
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| compiler | (noun) (computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program | Synonyms: compiling program |
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| (noun) a person who compiles information (as for reference purposes) | - |
| complainer | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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| complexifier | (noun) someone makes things complex | - |
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| composer | (noun) someone who composes music, usually as a profession | - |
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| compositor | (noun) one who sets written material into type | Synonyms: setter, typesetter, typographer |
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| compressor | (noun) a mechanical device that compresses gasses | - |
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| (noun) an electronic device that reduces the dynamic range of an audio signal. | - |
| compromiser | (noun) a negotiator willing to compromise | - |
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| comptroller | (noun) someone who maintains and audits business accounts | Synonyms: accountant, controller |
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| computer | (noun) a machine for performing calculations automatically | Synonyms: computing device, computing machine, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system |
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| (noun) an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines) | Synonyms: calculator, estimator, figurer, reckoner |
| conceiver | (noun) someone who creates new things | Synonyms: mastermind, originator |
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| concessioner | (noun) someone who holds or operates a concession | Synonyms: concessionaire |
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| conciliator | (noun) someone who tries to bring peace | Synonyms: make-peace, pacifier, peacemaker, reconciler |
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| condenser | (noun) lens used to concentrate light on an object | Synonyms: optical condenser |
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| (noun) an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge | Synonyms: capacitance, capacitor, electrical condenser |
| (noun) a hollow coil that condenses by abstracting heat | - |
| (noun) an apparatus that converts vapor into liquid | - |
| conditioner | (noun) exercise that conditions the body | - |
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| (noun) a substance used in washing (clothing or hair) to make things softer | - |
| (noun) a trainer of athletes | - |
| condor | (noun) the largest flying birds in the western hemisphere | - |
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| conductor | (noun) a device designed to transmit electricity, heat, etc. | - |
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| (noun) the person who leads a musical group | Synonyms: director, music director |
| (noun) the person who collects fares on a public conveyance | - |
| (noun) a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat | - |
| coneflower | (noun) any of various perennials of the eastern United States having thick rough leaves and long-stalked showy flowers with drooping rays and a conelike center | - |
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| (noun) any of various plants of the genus Rudbeckia cultivated for their large usually yellow daisies with prominent central cones | - |
| (noun) a wildflower of the genus Ratibida | - |
| confectioner | (noun) someone who makes candies and other sweets | Synonyms: candymaker |
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| conferrer | (noun) person who makes a gift of property | Synonyms: bestower, donor, giver, presenter |
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| (noun) someone who converses or confers (as in a conference) | - |
| confessor | (noun) a priest who hears confession and gives absolution | - |
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| (noun) someone who confesses (discloses information damaging to themselves) | - |
| confuter | (noun) a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument | Synonyms: disprover, rebutter, refuter |
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| congenator | (noun) an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus) | Synonyms: congener, congeneric, relative |
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| congener | (noun) a whole (a thing or person) of the same kind or category as another | - |
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| (noun) an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus) | Synonyms: congenator, congeneric, relative |
| (noun) a minor chemical constituent that gives a wine or liquor its distinctive character | - |
| conger | (noun) large dark-colored scaleless marine eel found in temperate and tropical coastal waters; some used for food | Synonyms: conger eel |
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| conifer | (noun) any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones | Synonyms: coniferous tree |
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| conjurer | (noun) a witch doctor who practices conjury | Synonyms: conjure man, conjuror |
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| (noun) someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | Synonyms: conjuror, illusionist, magician, prestidigitator |
| conjuror | (noun) a witch doctor who practices conjury | Synonyms: conjure man, conjurer |
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| (noun) someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | Synonyms: conjurer, illusionist, magician, prestidigitator |
| conker | (noun) the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut | Synonyms: buckeye, horse chestnut |
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| connecter | (noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connection, connective, connector, connexion |
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| connector | (noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connecter, connection, connective, connexion |
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| connoisseur | (noun) an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts | Synonyms: cognoscente |
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| conqueror | (noun) someone who is victorious by force of arms | Synonyms: vanquisher |
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| conquistador | (noun) an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century) | - |
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| conservator | (noun) the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library) | Synonyms: curator |
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| (noun) someone appointed by a court to assume responsibility for the interests of a minor or incompetent person | - |
| consigner | (noun) the person who delivers over or commits merchandise | Synonyms: consignor |
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| consignor | (noun) the person who delivers over or commits merchandise | Synonyms: consigner |
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| conspirator | (noun) a member of a conspiracy | Synonyms: coconspirator, machinator, plotter |
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| constrictor | (noun) any of various large nonvenomous snakes that kill their prey by crushing it in its coils | - |
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| constructor | (noun) someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) | Synonyms: builder |
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| consumer | (noun) a person who uses goods or services | - |
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| container | (noun) any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) | - |
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| contender | (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competition, competitor, rival |
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| contester | (noun) someone who contests an outcome (of a race or an election etc.) | - |
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| contour | (noun) any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline) | Synonyms: configuration, conformation, form, shape |
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| (noun) a feature (or the order or arrangement of features) of anything having a complex structure | - |
| (noun) a line drawn on a map connecting points of equal height | Synonyms: contour line |
| contractor | (noun) a bodily organ that contracts | Synonyms: contractile organ |
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| (noun) someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things | - |
| (noun) (law) a party to a contract | - |
| (noun) the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps | Synonyms: declarer |
| contributor | (noun) someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money | Synonyms: subscriber |
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| (noun) a writer whose work is published in a newspaper or magazine or as part of a book | - |
| contriver | (noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: deviser, planner |
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| controller | (noun) a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine | Synonyms: control |
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| (noun) someone who maintains and audits business accounts | Synonyms: accountant, comptroller |
| (noun) a person who directs and restrains | Synonyms: restrainer |
| convector | (noun) a space heater that transfers heat to the surrounding air by convection | - |
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| convener | (noun) the member of a group whose duty it is to convene meetings | - |
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| conventioneer | (noun) someone who attends a convention | - |
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| converter | (noun) a device for changing one substance or form or state into another | Synonyms: convertor |
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| convertor | (noun) a device for changing one substance or form or state into another | Synonyms: converter |
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| conveyancer | (noun) a lawyer who specializes in the business of conveying properties | - |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| cooker | (noun) a utensil for cooking | - |
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| cooler | (noun) a refrigerator for cooling liquids | Synonyms: ice chest |
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| (noun) a cell for violent prisoners | Synonyms: tank |
| (noun) an iced drink especially white wine and fruit juice | - |
| cooper | (noun) a craftsman who makes or repairs wooden barrels or tubs | Synonyms: barrel maker |
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| cooperator | (noun) an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest | Synonyms: collaborator, pardner, partner |
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| coordinator | (noun) someone whose task is to see that work goes harmoniously | Synonyms: co-ordinator |
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| cooter | (noun) large river turtle of the southern United States and northern Mexico | Synonyms: Pseudemys concinna, river cooter |
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| copartner | (noun) a joint partner (as in a business enterprise) | - |
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| copier | (noun) apparatus that makes copies of typed, written or drawn material | Synonyms: duplicator |
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| copolymer | (noun) a polymer consisting of two or more different monomers | - |
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| copper | (noun) any of various small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae having coppery wings | - |
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| (noun) a reddish-brown color resembling the color of polished copper | Synonyms: copper color |
| (noun) uncomplimentary terms for a policeman | Synonyms: bull, cop, fuzz, pig |
| (noun) a copper penny | - |
| (noun) a ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element; occurs in various minerals but is the only metal that occurs abundantly in large masses; used as an electrical and thermal conductor | Synonyms: atomic number 29, Cu |
| copyholder | (noun) mechanical device used in printing; holds the copy for the compositor | - |
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| copyreader | (noun) an editor who prepares text for publication | Synonyms: copy editor, text editor |
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| copywriter | (noun) a person employed to write advertising or publicity copy | - |
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| corer | (noun) a device for removing the core from apples | - |
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| coriander | (noun) parsley-like herb used as seasoning or garnish | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, cilantro |
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| (noun) dried coriander seeds used whole or ground | Synonyms: coriander seed |
| (noun) Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, cilantro, coriander plant, Coriandrum sativum |
| corker | (noun) a machine that is used to put corks in bottles | - |
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| (noun) (dated slang) a remarkable or excellent thing or person | - |
| corner | (noun) the intersection of two streets | Synonyms: street corner, turning point |
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| (noun) (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone | Synonyms: quoin |
| (noun) an interior angle formed by two meeting walls | Synonyms: nook |
| (noun) the point where two lines meet or intersect | - |
| (noun) the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect | - |
| (noun) a place off to the side of an area | - |
| (noun) a remote area | - |
| (noun) a projecting part where two sides or edges meet | - |
| (noun) a small concavity | Synonyms: niche, recess, recession |
| (noun) a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade | - |
| (noun) a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible | Synonyms: box |
| cornflour | (noun) starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener | Synonyms: cornstarch |
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| cornflower | (noun) an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers | Synonyms: bachelor's button, bluebottle, Centaurea cyanus |
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| (noun) plant of southern and southeastern United States grown for its yellow flowers that can be dried | Synonyms: strawflower, Uvularia grandiflora |
| cornhusker | (noun) a worker who husks corn | - |
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| coroner | (noun) a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes | Synonyms: medical examiner |
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| corridor | (noun) an enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it | - |
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| corsair | (noun) a swift pirate ship (often operating with official sanction) | - |
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| (noun) a pirate along the Barbary Coast | Synonyms: Barbary pirate |
| corythosaur | (noun) duck-billed dinosaur with nasal passages that expand into a crest like a hollow helmet | Synonyms: corythosaurus |
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| cosigner | (noun) one of two or more signers of the same document (as a treaty or declaration) | Synonyms: cosignatory |
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| (noun) a signer in addition to the principal signer (to verify the authenticity of the principal signature or to provide surety) | - |
| cosmographer | (noun) a scientist knowledgeable about cosmography | Synonyms: cosmographist |
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| cosplayer | (noun) Someone who wears a costume from a comic book or similar media | - |
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| costermonger | (noun) a hawker of fruit and vegetables from a barrow | Synonyms: barrow-boy, barrow-man |
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| costumer | (noun) someone who designs or supplies costumes (as for a play or masquerade) | Synonyms: costume designer, costumier |
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| costumier | (noun) someone who designs or supplies costumes (as for a play or masquerade) | Synonyms: costume designer, costumer |
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| cotoneaster | (noun) any shrub of the genus Cotoneaster: erect or creeping shrubs having richly colored autumn foliage and many small white to pinkish flowers followed by tiny red or black fruits | - |
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| cottager | (noun) someone who lives in a cottage | Synonyms: cottage dweller |
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| cottar | (noun) fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot to hold two other pieces together | Synonyms: cotter |
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| (noun) a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands | Synonyms: cotter |