| cancellous | (adjective) having an open or latticed or porous structure | Synonyms: cancellate, cancellated |
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| cancer | (noun) any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream | Synonyms: malignant neoplastic disease |
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| cancerous | (adjective) like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or affected with cancer | - |
| cancerweed | (noun) sage of eastern United States | Synonyms: cancer weed, Salvia lyrata |
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| cancroid | (adjective) of or relating to a cancroid | - |
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| (noun) the most common form of skin cancer | Synonyms: squamous cell carcinoma |
| capacitance | (noun) an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge | Synonyms: capacitor, condenser, electrical condenser |
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| (noun) an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored | Synonyms: capacity, electrical capacity |
| carancha | (noun) South American caracara | Synonyms: Polyborus plancus |
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| catananche | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Catananche having long-stalked heads of blue or yellow flowers | - |
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| chance | (adjective) occurring or appearing or singled out by chance | Synonyms: casual |
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| (noun) a risk involving danger | - |
| (noun) a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible | Synonyms: probability |
| (noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another | Synonyms: fortune, hazard, luck |
| (noun) a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances | Synonyms: opportunity |
| (noun) the possibility of future success | Synonyms: prospect |
| (verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with | Synonyms: bump, encounter, find, happen |
| (verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: adventure, gamble, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
| (verb) be the case by chance | - |
| chanceful | (adjective) of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk | Synonyms: chancy, dicey, dodgy |
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| chancel | (noun) area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing | Synonyms: bema, sanctuary |
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| chancellery | (noun) a government building housing the office of a chancellor | - |
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| chancellor | (noun) the person who is head of government (in several countries) | Synonyms: premier, prime minister |
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| (noun) the honorary or titular head of a university | - |
| chancellorship | (noun) the office of chancellor | - |
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| chancery | (noun) an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records | - |
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| (noun) a court with jurisdiction in equity | Synonyms: court of chancery |
| chancre | (noun) a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis) | - |
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| chancroid | (noun) infectious venereal ulcer | - |
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| chancroidal | (adjective) of or relating to or having chancroids | - |
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| chancrous | (adjective) of or having chancres | - |
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| chancy | (adjective) of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk | Synonyms: chanceful, dicey, dodgy |
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| (adjective) subject to accident or chance or change | Synonyms: flukey, fluky, iffy |
| charabanc | (noun) a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | Synonyms: autobus, bus, coach, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle |
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| chiromance | (verb) divine by reading someone's palms | - |
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| chiromancer | (noun) fortuneteller who predicts your future by the lines on your palms | Synonyms: palmist, palmister |
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| chiromancy | (noun) telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand | Synonyms: chirology, palm reading, palmistry |
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| 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 |
| circumstances | (noun) a person's financial situation (good or bad) | - |
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| (noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: destiny, fate, fortune, lot, luck, portion |
| 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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| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| 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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| 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 |
| compliancy | (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: complaisance, compliance, deference, obligingness |
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| 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 |
| conductance | (noun) a material's capacity to conduct electricity; measured as the reciprocal of electrical resistance | - |
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| conformance | (noun) correspondence in form or appearance | Synonyms: conformity |
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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 |
| conservancy | (noun) the official conservation of trees and soil and rivers etc. | - |
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| (noun) a commission with jurisdiction over fisheries and navigation in a port or river | - |
| 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 |
| constancy | (noun) the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation | Synonyms: stability |
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| (noun) faithfulness and dependability in personal attachments (especially sexual fidelity) | - |
| (noun) (psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation | Synonyms: perceptual constancy |
| consultancy | (noun) the practice of giving expert advice within a particular field | - |
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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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| (verb) perform a contradance | Synonyms: contra danse, contredanse, country-dance |
| 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. | - |
| conversance | (noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: acquaintance, conversancy, familiarity |
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| conversancy | (noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: acquaintance, conversance, 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 | - |
| conveyancer | (noun) a lawyer who specializes in the business of conveying properties | - |
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| conveyancing | (noun) act of transferring property title from one person to another | Synonyms: conveyance, conveyance of title, conveying |
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| 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 |
| (verb) consent to, give permission; permit | Synonyms: allow, let, permit |
| 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 |
| (verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counteract, countervail, neutralize |
| (verb) contrast with equal weight or force | Synonyms: oppose |
| (verb) adjust for | Synonyms: compensate, correct, even off, even out, even up, make up |
| counterbalanced | (adjective) brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another | Synonyms: counterpoised |
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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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| cranch | (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: craunch, crunch, grind |
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| cynancum | (noun) any of various mostly giant tropical lianas of Africa and Madagascar having greenish or purple flowers and long smooth pods; roots formerly used as an emetic | - |
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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 | - |
| (verb) move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance | Synonyms: trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe |
| (verb) move in a graceful and rhythmical way | - |
| (verb) skip, leap, or move up and down or sideways | - |
| danceable | (adjective) suitable for dancing | - |
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| dancer | (noun) a performer who dances professionally | Synonyms: professional dancer, terpsichorean |
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| (noun) a person who participates in a social gathering arranged for dancing (as a ball) | Synonyms: social dancer |
| dancing | (noun) taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music | Synonyms: dance, saltation, terpsichore |
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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 | - |
| deliverance | (noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger | Synonyms: delivery, rescue, saving |
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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 |
| deviance | (noun) deviate behavior | Synonyms: deviation |
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| (noun) a state or condition markedly different from the norm | Synonyms: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration |
| dibranch | (noun) cephalopods having two gills | Synonyms: dibranchiate, dibranchiate mollusk |
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| dibranchiate | (noun) cephalopods having two gills | Synonyms: dibranch, dibranchiate mollusk |
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| 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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| discordance | (noun) strife resulting from a lack of agreement | Synonyms: discord |
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| (noun) a harsh mixture of sounds | Synonyms: discord |
| discountenance | (verb) show disapproval by discouraging | - |
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| (verb) look with disfavor on | - |
| discrepancy | (noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | Synonyms: disagreement, divergence, variance |
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| (noun) an event that departs from expectations | Synonyms: variance, variant |
| disenfranchise | (verb) deprive of voting rights | Synonyms: disfranchise |
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| disenfranchised | (adjective) deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote | Synonyms: disfranchised, voiceless, voteless |
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| disenfranchisement | (noun) the act of withdrawing certification or terminating a franchise | - |
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| disfranchise | (verb) deprive of voting rights | Synonyms: disenfranchise |
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| disfranchised | (adjective) deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote | Synonyms: disenfranchised, voiceless, voteless |
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| disfranchisement | (noun) the discontinuation of a franchise; especially the discontinuation of the right to vote | - |
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| disinheritance | (noun) the act by a donor that terminates the right of a person to inherit | - |
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| dissonance | (noun) disagreeable sounds | - |
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| (noun) the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience | Synonyms: noise, racket |
| (noun) a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: disagreement, dissension |
| distance | (noun) the property created by the space between two objects or points | - |
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| (noun) size of the gap between two places | Synonyms: length |
| (noun) indifference by personal withdrawal | Synonyms: aloofness |
| (noun) a distant region | - |
| (noun) the interval between two times | Synonyms: space |
| (noun) a remote point in time | - |
| (verb) go far ahead of | Synonyms: outdistance, outstrip |
| (verb) keep at a distance | - |
| disturbance | (noun) the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion | - |
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| (noun) a noisy fight | Synonyms: affray, fray, ruffle |
| (noun) activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption | Synonyms: perturbation |
| (noun) electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication | Synonyms: interference, noise |
| (noun) a disorderly outburst or tumult | Synonyms: commotion, disruption, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, kerfuffle, to-do |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness | Synonyms: folie, mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder |
| (noun) an unhappy and worried mental state | Synonyms: perturbation, upset |
| dominance | (noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, authorization, potency, say-so |
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| (noun) superior development of one side of the body | Synonyms: laterality |
| (noun) the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not | - |
| (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control |
| dormancy | (noun) quiet and inactive restfulness | Synonyms: quiescence, quiescency, sleeping |
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| (noun) a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction | Synonyms: quiescence, quiescency |
| durance | (noun) imprisonment (especially for a long time) | - |
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| elasmobranch | (noun) any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales: sharks, rays, skates | Synonyms: selachian |
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| elastance | (noun) The capacity of a dielectric for opposing an electric charge | Synonyms: electrical elastance |
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| elegance | (noun) a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste | - |
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| (noun) a quality of neatness and ingenious simplicity in the solution of a problem (especially in science or mathematics) | - |
| emancipate | (verb) free from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: manumit |
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| (verb) give equal rights to; of women and minorities | Synonyms: liberate |
| emancipated | (adjective) free from traditional social restraints | Synonyms: liberated |
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| emancipation | (noun) freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child | - |
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| emancipationist | (noun) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery | Synonyms: abolitionist |
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| emancipative | (adjective) tending to set free | - |
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| emancipator | (noun) someone who frees others from bondage | Synonyms: manumitter |
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| encumbrance | (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventative, preventive |
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| (noun) an onerous or difficult concern | Synonyms: burden, incumbrance, load, onus |
| (noun) a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage) | Synonyms: incumbrance |
| endurance | (noun) the power to withstand hardship or stress | - |
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| (noun) a state of surviving; remaining alive | Synonyms: survival |
| enfranchise | (verb) grant voting rights | - |
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| (verb) grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: affranchise |