| biosystematy | (noun) use of data (e.g. cytogenetic or biochemical) to assess taxonomic relations especially within an evolutionary framework | Synonyms: biosystematics |
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| bisexuality | (noun) sexual activity with both men and women | - |
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| (noun) showing characteristics of both sexes | Synonyms: androgyny, hermaphroditism |
| booty | (noun) goods or money obtained illegally | Synonyms: dirty money, loot, pillage, plunder, prize, swag |
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| bounty | (noun) (literary) generosity evidenced by a willingness to give freely | Synonyms: bounteousness |
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| (noun) the property of copious abundance | Synonyms: amplitude, bountifulness |
| (noun) payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military | Synonyms: premium |
| breakability | (noun) quality of being easily damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: fragility, frangibility, frangibleness |
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| brevity | (noun) the attribute of being brief or fleeting | Synonyms: briefness, transience |
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| (noun) the use of brief expressions | - |
| brutality | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarism, barbarity, savagery |
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| (noun) the trait of extreme cruelty | Synonyms: ferociousness, savagery, viciousness |
| burnability | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: combustibility, combustibleness |
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| butty | (noun) a sandwich | - |
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| calamity | (noun) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune | Synonyms: cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy |
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| calculability | (noun) The quality of being subject to or ascertainable by calculation. | - |
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| callosity | (noun) devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness | Synonyms: callousness, hardness, insensibility, unfeelingness |
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| (noun) an area of skin that is thick or hard from continual pressure or friction (as the sole of the foot) | Synonyms: callus |
| capability | (noun) the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally | Synonyms: capableness |
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| (noun) an aptitude that may be developed | Synonyms: capableness, potentiality |
| (noun) the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment | Synonyms: capacity |
| capacity | (noun) the maximum production possible | - |
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| (noun) a specified function | - |
| (noun) capability to perform or produce | - |
| (noun) tolerance for alcohol | - |
| (noun) the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior | Synonyms: mental ability |
| (noun) an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored | Synonyms: capacitance, electrical capacity |
| (noun) the amount that can be contained | Synonyms: content |
| (noun) (computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that can be stored on a disk drive | - |
| (noun) the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment | Synonyms: capability |
| capillarity | (noun) a phenomenon associated with surface tension and resulting in the elevation or depression of liquids in capillaries | Synonyms: capillary action |
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| captivity | (noun) the state of being a slave | Synonyms: enslavement |
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| (noun) the state of being imprisoned | Synonyms: immurement, imprisonment, incarceration |
| cardinality | (noun) (mathematics) the number of elements in a set or group (considered as a property of that grouping) | - |
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| carnality | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: lasciviousness, lubricity, prurience, pruriency |
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| casualty | (noun) a decrease of military personnel or equipment | - |
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| (noun) an accident that causes someone to die | Synonyms: fatal accident |
| (noun) someone injured or killed in an accident | Synonyms: injured party |
| (noun) someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement | - |
| catholicity | (noun) the quality of being universal; existing everywhere | Synonyms: universality |
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| catty | (noun) any of various units of weight used in southeastern Asia (especially a Chinese measure equal to 500 grams) | Synonyms: cattie |
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| causality | (noun) the relation between causes and effects | - |
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| cavity | (noun) (anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body | Synonyms: bodily cavity, cavum |
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| (noun) a sizeable hole (usually in the ground) | Synonyms: pit |
| (noun) soft decayed area in a tooth; progressive decay can lead to the death of a tooth | Synonyms: caries, dental caries, tooth decay |
| (noun) space that is surrounded by something | Synonyms: enclosed space |
| cecity | (noun) the state of being blind or lacking sight | Synonyms: blindness, sightlessness |
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| celebrity | (noun) a widely known person | Synonyms: famous person |
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| (noun) the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed | Synonyms: fame, renown |
| celerity | (noun) a rate that is rapid | Synonyms: quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness |
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| cellularity | (noun) the state of having cells | - |
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| centrality | (noun) the property of being central | - |
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| certainty | (noun) something that is certain | Synonyms: foregone conclusion, sure thing |
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| (noun) the state of being certain | - |
| champerty | (noun) an unethical agreement between an attorney and client that the attorney would sue and pay the costs of the client's suit in return for a portion of the damages awarded | - |
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| changeability | (noun) the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change | Synonyms: changeableness |
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| chanty | (noun) a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors | Synonyms: chantey, sea chantey, shanty |
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| charity | (noun) an activity or gift that benefits the public at large | - |
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| (noun) a kindly and lenient attitude toward people | Synonyms: brotherly love |
| (noun) a foundation created to promote the public good (not for assistance to any particular individuals) | - |
| (noun) an institution set up to provide help to the needy | - |
| (noun) pinnate-leaved European perennial having bright blue or white flowers | Synonyms: Greek valerian, Jacob's ladder, Polemonium caeruleum, Polemonium van-bruntiae, Polymonium caeruleum van-bruntiae |
| chastity | (noun) abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) | Synonyms: celibacy, sexual abstention |
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| (noun) morality with respect to sexual relations | Synonyms: sexual morality, virtue |
| chlorinity | (noun) a measure of the quantity of chlorine or other halides in water (especially seawater) | - |
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| chromaticity | (noun) the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength | Synonyms: hue |
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| circularity | (noun) the roundness of a 2-dimensional figure | Synonyms: disk shape |
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| city | (noun) people living in a large densely populated municipality | Synonyms: metropolis |
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| (noun) a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts | Synonyms: metropolis, urban center |
| (noun) an incorporated administrative district established by state charter | - |
| civility | (noun) the act of showing regard for others | Synonyms: politeness |
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| (noun) formal or perfunctory politeness | - |
| clarity | (noun) the quality of clear water | Synonyms: clearness, uncloudedness |
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| (noun) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression | Synonyms: clearness, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity |
| collectibility | (noun) The quality of being subject to payment or likely to be paid. | - |
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| combustibility | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: burnability, combustibleness |
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| comicality | (noun) the quality of being comical | - |
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| comity | (noun) a state or atmosphere of harmony or mutual civility and respect | - |
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| commodity | (noun) a raw material that is sold in large quantities, usually to other businesses for manufacturing or production purposes | Synonyms: good, trade good |
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| commonality | (noun) sharing of common attributes | Synonyms: commonness |
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| (noun) a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank | Synonyms: commonalty, commons |
| commonalty | (noun) a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank | Synonyms: commonality, commons |
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| community | (noun) a group of people living in a particular local area | - |
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| (noun) (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other | Synonyms: biotic community |
| (noun) a group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession, or other particular characteristic in common | - |
| (noun) a group of nations having common interests | - |
| (noun) a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences | Synonyms: residential area, residential district |
| (noun) common ownership | - |
| (noun) agreement as to goals | Synonyms: community of interests |
| commutability | (noun) the quality of being commutable | Synonyms: transmutability |
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| (noun) exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable | Synonyms: replaceability, substitutability |
| companionability | (noun) suitability to be a companion | Synonyms: companionableness |
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| comparability | (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: compare, comparison, equivalence |
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| compatibility | (noun) capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of sympathetic understanding | - |
| complementarity | (noun) a relation between two opposite states or principles that together exhaust the possibilities | - |
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| (noun) the interrelation of reciprocity whereby one thing supplements or depends on the other | - |
| complexity | (noun) the quality of being intricate and compounded | Synonyms: complexness |
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| complicity | (noun) guilt as an accomplice in a crime or offense | - |
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| comprehensibility | (noun) the quality of comprehensible language or thought | Synonyms: understandability |
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| compressibility | (noun) the property of being able to occupy less space | Synonyms: sponginess, squeezability |
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| compulsivity | (noun) the trait of acting compulsively | Synonyms: compulsiveness |
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| concavity | (noun) the property possessed by a concave shape | Synonyms: concaveness |
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| (noun) a shape that curves or bends inward | Synonyms: concave shape, incurvation, incurvature |
| conceivability | (noun) the state of being conceivable | Synonyms: conceivableness |
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| concentricity | (noun) the quality of having the same center (as circles inside one another) | - |
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| conceptuality | (noun) an elaborated concept | Synonyms: conceptualisation, conceptualization |
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| conditionality | (noun) the state of being conditional | - |
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| conductivity | (noun) the transmission of heat or electricity or sound | Synonyms: conduction |
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| confidentiality | (noun) discretion in keeping secret information | - |
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| (noun) the state of being secret | - |
| conformity | (noun) acting according to certain accepted standards | Synonyms: abidance, compliance, conformation |
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| (noun) hardened conventionality | Synonyms: ossification |
| (noun) correspondence in form or appearance | Synonyms: conformance |
| (noun) orthodoxy in thoughts and belief | Synonyms: conformism |
| (noun) concurrence of opinion | Synonyms: accord, accordance |
| congeniality | (noun) a congenial disposition | - |
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| (noun) compatibility between persons | Synonyms: congenialness |
| congruity | (noun) the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate | Synonyms: congruence, congruousness |
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| connectivity | (noun) the property of being connected or the degree to which something has connections | - |
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| consanguinity | (noun) (anthropology) the condition of being related by blood | Synonyms: blood kinship, cognation |
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| contemporaneity | (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneousness, modernism, modernity, modernness |
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| (noun) the quality of belonging to the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporaneousness |
| contemptibility | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, despicability, despicableness, sordidness |
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| contiguity | (noun) the attribute of being so near as to be touching | Synonyms: adjacency, contiguousness |
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| continuity | (noun) the property of a continuous and connected period of time | Synonyms: persistence |
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| (noun) a detailed script used in making a film in order to avoid discontinuities from shot to shot | - |
| (noun) uninterrupted connection or union | - |
| contractility | (noun) the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting, especially by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter | - |
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| contrariety | (noun) the relation between contraries | - |
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| conventionality | (noun) orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional | Synonyms: convention, conventionalism |
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| (noun) unoriginality as a result of being too conventional | - |
| (noun) conformity with conventional thought and behavior | - |
| convertibility | (noun) the quality of being exchangeable (especially the ability to convert a currency into gold or other currencies without restriction) | - |
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| convexity | (noun) the property possessed by a convex shape | Synonyms: convexness |
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| (noun) a shape that curves or bulges outward | Synonyms: convex shape |
| conviviality | (noun) a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity | Synonyms: jollification, merrymaking |
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| (noun) a jovial nature | Synonyms: joviality |
| cordiality | (noun) a cordial disposition | Synonyms: amity |
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| corporality | (noun) the quality of being physical; consisting of matter | Synonyms: corporeality, materiality, physicalness |
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| corporeality | (noun) the quality of being physical; consisting of matter | Synonyms: corporality, materiality, physicalness |
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| correlativity | (noun) a reciprocal relation between two or more things | Synonyms: correlation |
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| corruptibility | (noun) the capability of being corrupted | - |
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| cosmopolitanity | (noun) a state or quality of being cosmopolitan | - |
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| counterfactuality | (noun) the quality of being contrary to fact | - |
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| county | (noun) (United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government | - |
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| (noun) (United States) the largest administrative district within a state | - |
| creativity | (noun) the ability to create | Synonyms: creative thinking, creativeness |
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| credibility | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: believability, credibleness |
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| credulity | (noun) tendency to believe readily | - |
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| criminality | (noun) the state of being a criminal | Synonyms: criminalism, criminalness |
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| criticality | (noun) a state of critical urgency | Synonyms: criticalness, cruciality |
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| (noun) a critical state; especially the point at which a nuclear reaction is self-sustaining | - |
| cruciality | (noun) a state of critical urgency | Synonyms: criticality, criticalness |
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| crudity | (noun) an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement | Synonyms: crudeness, gaucheness |
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| (noun) a wild or unrefined state | Synonyms: crudeness, primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness |
| cruelty | (noun) a cruel act; a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering | Synonyms: inhuman treatment |
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| (noun) the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance | Synonyms: cruelness, harshness |
| (noun) feelings of extreme heartlessness | Synonyms: mercilessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness |
| crystallinity | (noun) (chemistry) The degree of structural order in a solid. | - |
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| cubicity | (noun) the property of resembling a cube | - |
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| culpability | (noun) a state of guilt | Synonyms: blameworthiness, culpableness |
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| cupidity | (noun) extreme greed for material wealth | Synonyms: avarice, avariciousness, covetousness |
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