| con | (noun) a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property | Synonyms: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, hustle, sting |
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| (noun) an argument opposed to a proposal | - |
| (noun) a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison | Synonyms: convict, inmate, yard bird, yardbird |
| conacaste | (noun) tropical South American tree having a wide-spreading crown of bipinnate leaves and coiled ear-shaped fruits; grown for shade and ornament as well as valuable timber | Synonyms: elephant's ear, Enterolobium cyclocarpa |
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| concatenation | (noun) the act of linking together as in a series or chain | - |
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| (noun) a series of things depending on each other as if linked together | Synonyms: chain |
| (noun) the linking together of a consecutive series of symbols or events or ideas etc | - |
| (noun) the state of being linked together as in a chain; union in a linked series | - |
| concaveness | (noun) the property possessed by a concave shape | Synonyms: concavity |
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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 |
| concealing | (noun) the activity of keeping something secret | Synonyms: concealment, hiding |
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| 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 |
| conceding | (noun) the act of conceding or yielding | Synonyms: concession, yielding |
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| conceit | (noun) the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride | Synonyms: conceitedness, vanity |
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| (noun) a witty or ingenious turn of phrase | - |
| (noun) an artistic device or effect | - |
| (noun) an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things | - |
| (noun) feelings of excessive pride | Synonyms: amour propre, self-love, vanity |
| conceitedness | (noun) the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride | Synonyms: conceit, vanity |
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| conceivability | (noun) the state of being conceivable | Synonyms: conceivableness |
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| conceivableness | (noun) the state of being conceivable | Synonyms: conceivability |
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| conceiver | (noun) someone who creates new things | Synonyms: mastermind, originator |
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| concentrate | (noun) a concentrated example of something | - |
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| (noun) a concentrated form of a foodstuff; the bulk is reduced by removing water | - |
| (noun) the desired mineral that is left after impurities have been removed from mined ore | Synonyms: dressed ore |
| concentration | (noun) strengthening the concentration (as of a solute in a mixture) by removing diluting material | - |
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| (noun) bringing together military forces | - |
| (noun) great and constant diligence and attention | Synonyms: assiduity, assiduousness |
| (noun) the strength of a solution; number of molecules of a substance in a given volume | - |
| (noun) the spatial property of being crowded together | Synonyms: compactness, denseness, density, tightness |
| (noun) complete attention; intense mental effort | Synonyms: absorption, engrossment, immersion |
| (noun) increase in density | - |
| concentricity | (noun) the quality of having the same center (as circles inside one another) | - |
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| concept | (noun) an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances | Synonyms: conception, construct |
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| conception | (noun) the act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon | - |
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| (noun) an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances | Synonyms: concept, construct |
| (noun) the creation of something in the mind | Synonyms: design, excogitation, innovation, invention |
| (noun) the event that occurred at the beginning of something | Synonyms: creation |
| conceptualisation | (noun) inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally | Synonyms: conceptualization, formulation |
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| (noun) an elaborated concept | Synonyms: conceptuality, conceptualization |
| conceptualism | (noun) the doctrine that the application of a general term to various objects indicates the existence of a mental entity that mediates the application | - |
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| conceptuality | (noun) an elaborated concept | Synonyms: conceptualisation, conceptualization |
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| conceptualization | (noun) inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally | Synonyms: conceptualisation, formulation |
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| (noun) an elaborated concept | Synonyms: conceptualisation, conceptuality |
| conceptus | (noun) an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life | Synonyms: embryo, fertilized egg |
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| concern | (noun) something that interests you because it is important or affects you | - |
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| (noun) something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: headache, vexation, worry |
| (noun) a feeling of sympathy for someone or something | - |
| (noun) an anxious feeling | Synonyms: care, fear |
| (noun) a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it | Synonyms: business, business concern, business organisation, business organization |
| concert | (noun) a performance of music by players or singers not involving theatrical staging | - |
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| concertina | (noun) free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds | - |
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| (noun) coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle | - |
| concertinist | (noun) a person who plays the concertina | - |
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| concerto | (noun) a composition for orchestra and a soloist | - |
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| concession | (noun) a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business | Synonyms: grant |
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| (noun) a point conceded or yielded | - |
| (noun) the act of conceding or yielding | Synonyms: conceding, yielding |
| concessionaire | (noun) someone who holds or operates a concession | Synonyms: concessioner |
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| concessioner | (noun) someone who holds or operates a concession | Synonyms: concessionaire |
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| conch | (noun) any of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with large outer lip | - |
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| concha | (noun) (anatomy) a structure that resembles a shell in shape | - |
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| conchfish | (noun) found in West Indies; lives in mantle cavity of a living conch | Synonyms: Astropogon stellatus |
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| conchoid | (noun) Any of a family of curves defined as the locus of points p, such that each p is on a line that passes through a given fixed point P and intersects a given curve, C, and the distance from p to the point of intersection with C is a specified constant (note that for nontrivial cases two such points p satisfy the criteria, and the resultant curve has two parts). | - |
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| conchologist | (noun) a collector and student of mollusc shells | - |
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| conchology | (noun) the collection and study of mollusc shells | Synonyms: shell collecting |
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| concierge | (noun) a French caretaker of apartments or a hotel; lives on the premises and oversees people entering and leaving and handles mail and acts as janitor or porter | - |
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| conciliation | (noun) the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity | Synonyms: placation, propitiation |
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| (noun) any of various forms of mediation whereby disputes may be settled short of arbitration | - |
| (noun) the state of manifesting goodwill and cooperation after being reconciled | - |
| conciliator | (noun) someone who tries to bring peace | Synonyms: make-peace, pacifier, peacemaker, reconciler |
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| conciseness | (noun) terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words | Synonyms: concision, pithiness, succinctness |
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| concision | (noun) terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words | Synonyms: conciseness, pithiness, succinctness |
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| conclave | (noun) a confidential or secret meeting | - |
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| conclusion | (noun) the act of ending something | Synonyms: ending, termination |
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| (noun) the act of making up your mind about something | Synonyms: decision, determination |
| (noun) a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration | Synonyms: decision, determination |
| (noun) an intuitive assumption | - |
| (noun) the last section of a communication | Synonyms: close, closing, end, ending |
| (noun) the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism) | Synonyms: ratiocination |
| (noun) a final settlement | - |
| (noun) event whose occurrence ends something | Synonyms: ending, finish |
| (noun) the temporal end; the concluding time | Synonyms: close, finale, finis, finish, last, stopping point |
| conclusiveness | (noun) the quality of being final or definitely settled | Synonyms: decisiveness, finality |
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| concoction | (noun) the act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components | Synonyms: confection |
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| (noun) the invention of a scheme or story to suit some purpose | - |
| (noun) an occurrence of an unusual mixture | - |
| (noun) any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients | Synonyms: intermixture, mixture |
| concomitance | (noun) occurrence or existence together or in connection with one another | - |
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| 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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| concord | (noun) agreement of opinions | Synonyms: concordance, harmony |
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| (noun) the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations | Synonyms: agreement |
| (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: concordance, harmony |
| 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 |
| concordat | (noun) a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action | Synonyms: compact, covenant |
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| concourse | (noun) a coming together of people | Synonyms: confluence |
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| (noun) a wide hallway in a building where people can walk | - |
| (noun) a large gathering of people | Synonyms: multitude, throng |
| concrete | (noun) a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water | - |
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| concreteness | (noun) the quality of being concrete (not abstract) | - |
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| concretion | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescence, coalescency, coalition, conglutination |
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| (noun) an increase in the density of something | Synonyms: compaction, compression, densification |
| (noun) a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body | Synonyms: calculus |
| (noun) the formation of stonelike objects within a body organ (e.g., the kidneys) | - |
| concretism | (noun) a representation of an abstract idea in concrete terms | Synonyms: concrete representation |
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| concubinage | (noun) cohabitation without being legally married | - |
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| concubine | (noun) a woman who cohabits with an important man | Synonyms: courtesan, doxy, paramour |
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| 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 |
| concurrency | (noun) acting together, as agents or circumstances or events | Synonyms: concurrence |
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| (noun) agreement of results or opinions | Synonyms: concurrence |
| concussion | (noun) injury to the brain caused by a blow; usually resulting in loss of consciousness | - |
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| (noun) any violent blow | - |
| condemnation | (noun) (law) the act of condemning (as land forfeited for public use) or judging to be unfit for use (as a food product or an unsafe building) | - |
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| (noun) (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed | Synonyms: conviction, judgment of conviction, sentence |
| (noun) an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable | Synonyms: disapprobation |
| (noun) an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group | Synonyms: curse, execration |
| (noun) the condition of being strongly disapproved of | - |
| condensate | (noun) atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold | Synonyms: condensation |
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| (noun) a product of condensation | - |
| condensation | (noun) the act of increasing the density of something | Synonyms: condensing |
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| (noun) (psychoanalysis) an unconscious process whereby two ideas or images combine into a single symbol; especially in dreams | - |
| (noun) a shortened version of a written work | Synonyms: abridgement, abridgment, capsule |
| (noun) the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together | Synonyms: compression, contraction |
| (noun) atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold | Synonyms: condensate |
| (noun) the process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state | - |
| 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 | - |
| condensing | (noun) the act of increasing the density of something | Synonyms: condensation |
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| condescendingness | (noun) affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for differences of position or rank | Synonyms: condescension |
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| condescension | (noun) the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior | Synonyms: disdainfulness, superciliousness |
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| (noun) affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for differences of position or rank | Synonyms: condescendingness |
| (noun) a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient | Synonyms: disdain, patronage |
| condiment | (noun) a preparation (a sauce or relish or spice) to enhance flavor or enjoyment | - |
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| condition | (noun) information that should be kept in mind when making a decision | Synonyms: circumstance, consideration |
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| (noun) the procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition | Synonyms: experimental condition |
| (noun) an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else | Synonyms: precondition, stipulation |
| (noun) (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement | Synonyms: strings, term |
| (noun) a state at a particular time | Synonyms: status |
| (noun) a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing | - |
| (noun) the state of (good) health (especially in the phrases `in condition' or `in shape' or `out of condition' or `out of shape') | Synonyms: shape |
| (noun) an illness, disease, or other medical problem | - |
| conditionality | (noun) the state of being conditional | - |
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| 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 | - |
| conditioning | (noun) a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment | - |
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| conditions | (noun) the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation | Synonyms: atmospheric condition, weather, weather condition |
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| (noun) the set of circumstances that affect someone's welfare | - |
| (noun) the prevailing context that influences the performance or the outcome of a process | - |
| condo | (noun) one of the dwelling units in a condominium | Synonyms: condominium |
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| condolence | (noun) an expression of sympathy with another's grief | Synonyms: commiseration |
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| condom | (noun) contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse | Synonyms: prophylactic, rubber, safe, safety |
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| condominium | (noun) housing consisting of a complex of dwelling units (as an apartment house) in which each unit is individually owned | - |
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| (noun) one of the dwelling units in a condominium | Synonyms: condo |
| condonation | (noun) a pardon by treating the offender as if the offense had not occurred | - |
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| condor | (noun) the largest flying birds in the western hemisphere | - |
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| conduct | (noun) manner of acting or controlling yourself | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, doings |
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| (noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, demeanor, demeanour, deportment |
| conductance | (noun) a material's capacity to conduct electricity; measured as the reciprocal of electrical resistance | - |
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| conducting | (noun) the way of administering a business | - |
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| (noun) the direction of an orchestra or choir | - |
| conduction | (noun) the transmission of heat or electricity or sound | Synonyms: conductivity |
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| conductivity | (noun) the transmission of heat or electricity or sound | Synonyms: conduction |
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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 | - |
| conductress | (noun) a woman conductor | - |
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| conduit | (noun) a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass | - |
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| condyle | (noun) a round bump on a bone where it forms a joint with another bone | - |
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| condylion | (noun) the craniometric point at the tip of the mandibular condyle | - |
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| cone | (noun) any cone-shaped artifact | - |
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| (noun) a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color | Synonyms: cone cell, retinal cone |
| (noun) cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts | Synonyms: strobile, strobilus |
| (noun) a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point | Synonyms: cone shape, conoid |
| 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 | - |
| conenose | (noun) large bloodsucking bug | Synonyms: big bedbug, cone-nosed bug, conenose bug, kissing bug |
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| conessi | (noun) tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea | Synonyms: Holarrhena antidysenterica, Holarrhena pubescens, ivory tree, kurchee, kurchi |
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| coney | (noun) black-spotted usually dusky-colored fish with reddish fins | Synonyms: Epinephelus fulvus |
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| (noun) any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food | Synonyms: cony, rabbit |
| (noun) small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America | Synonyms: cony, mouse hare, pika, rock rabbit |
| (noun) any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes | Synonyms: cony, das, dassie, hyrax |
| confab | (noun) an informal conversation | Synonyms: chat, confabulation, schmoose, schmooze |
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| confabulation | (noun) (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered | - |
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| (noun) an informal conversation | Synonyms: chat, confab, schmoose, schmooze |
| confect | (noun) a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts | Synonyms: candy |
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| confection | (noun) the act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components | Synonyms: concoction |
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| (noun) a food rich in sugar | Synonyms: sweet |