| calycular | (adjective) relating to or resembling a calyculus | Synonyms: calicular |
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| calyculate | (adjective) having a calyculus | Synonyms: calycled |
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| calyculus | (noun) a small cup-shaped structure (as a taste bud or optic cup or cavity of a coral containing a polyp) | Synonyms: caliculus, calycle |
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| (noun) a group of bracts simulating a calyx as in a carnation or hibiscus | Synonyms: calycle, epicalyx, false calyx |
| calypso | (noun) rare north temperate bog orchid bearing a solitary white to pink flower marked with purple at the tip of an erect reddish stalk above 1 basal leaf | Synonyms: Calypso bulbosa, fairy-slipper |
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| calypter | (noun) scalelike structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly | Synonyms: alula |
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| calyptra | (noun) the hood or cap covering the calyx of certain plants: e.g., the California poppy | - |
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| calyptrate | (adjective) having a calyptra | - |
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| (adjective) having calypters | - |
| calyx | (noun) (botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and supporting the developing bud; usually green | - |
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| canonical | (adjective) of or relating to or required by canon law | Synonyms: canonic |
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| (adjective) appearing in a biblical canon | Synonyms: canonic |
| (adjective) conforming to orthodox or recognized rules | Synonyms: canonic, sanctioned |
| (adjective) reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality | Synonyms: basic, canonic |
| canonically | (adverb) in a canonical manner | - |
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| caracal | (noun) of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia | Synonyms: desert lynx, Lynx caracal |
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| cartographical | (adjective) of or relating to the making of maps or charts | Synonyms: cartographic |
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| casuistical | (adjective) of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems | Synonyms: casuistic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or practicing casuistry | Synonyms: casuistic |
| catachrestical | (adjective) constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis | Synonyms: catachrestic |
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| catalytically | (adverb) by catalytic action; in a catalytic manner | - |
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| catastrophically | (adverb) with unfortunate consequences | - |
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| catcall | (noun) a cry expressing disapproval | - |
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| (verb) utter catcalls at | - |
| catechetical | (adjective) of or relating to or involving catechesis | Synonyms: catechetic |
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| categorical | (adjective) relating to or included in a category or categories | Synonyms: categoric |
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| (adjective) not modified or restricted by reservations | Synonyms: categoric, flat, unconditional |
| categorically | (adverb) in an unqualified manner | Synonyms: flatly, unconditionally |
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| catoptrical | (adjective) of or relating to catoptrics; produced by or based on mirrors | Synonyms: catoptric |
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| caustically | (adverb) in a caustic vitriolic manner | Synonyms: vitriolically |
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| cecal | (adjective) of or like a cecum | Synonyms: caecal |
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| cenobitical | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living | Synonyms: cenobitic, coenobitic, coenobitical |
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| centrical | (adjective) having or situated at or near a center | Synonyms: centric |
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| cervical | (adjective) relating to or associated with the neck | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the cervix of the uterus | - |
| chaotically | (adverb) in a manner suggestive of chaos | - |
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| (adverb) in a wild and confused manner | - |
| characteristically | (adverb) in characteristic manner | - |
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| chemical | (adjective) relating to or used in chemistry | Synonyms: chemic |
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| (adjective) of or made from or using substances produced by or used in reactions involving atomic or molecular changes | - |
| (noun) material produced by or used in a reaction involving changes in atoms or molecules | Synonyms: chemical substance |
| chemically | (adverb) with respect to chemistry | - |
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| (adverb) with chemicals | - |
| chemotherapeutical | (adjective) of or relating to chemotherapy | Synonyms: chemotherapeutic |
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| chimerical | (adjective) being or relating to or like a chimera | Synonyms: chimeral, chimeric |
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| (adjective) produced by a wildly fanciful imagination | - |
| cholecalciferol | (noun) a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets | Synonyms: calciferol, D, ergocalciferol, viosterol, vitamin D |
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| chromatically | (adverb) with respect to color | - |
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| chromatographical | (adjective) of or relating to chromatography | Synonyms: chromatographic |
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| chromatographically | (adverb) by means of a chromatographic process | - |
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| chronically | (adverb) in a slowly developing and long lasting manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a habitual and longstanding manner | Synonyms: inveterate |
| chronological | (adjective) relating to or arranged according to temporal order | - |
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| chronologically | (adverb) with respect to chronology | - |
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| cicala | (noun) stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings; male has drum-like organs for producing a high-pitched drone | Synonyms: cicada |
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| classical | (adjective) of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc. | Synonyms: classic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the languages used by ancient standard authors | - |
| (adjective) well-known and long-established in form or style | Synonyms: classic |
| (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially their art, literature, or culture | Synonyms: Graeco-Roman, Greco-Roman |
| (adjective) of or relating to music in the European tradition, such as symphonies and operas | - |
| (adjective) (physics) relating to or based on concepts that preceded the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics | - |
| (noun) traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste | Synonyms: classical music, serious music |
| classicalism | (noun) a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms | Synonyms: classicism |
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| classically | (adverb) in the manner of Greek and Roman culture | - |
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| clerical | (adjective) of or relating to the clergy | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to clerks | - |
| (adjective) appropriate for or engaged in office work | - |
| clericalism | (noun) a policy of supporting the influence and power of the clergy in secular or political matters | - |
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| clericalist | (noun) one who advocates clericalism | - |
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| clericalization | (noun) The process of increasing the power or influence of a religious hierarchy. | - |
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| climatical | (adjective) of or relating to a climate | Synonyms: climatic |
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| climatically | (adverb) with respect to climate | - |
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| clinical | (adjective) relating to a clinic or conducted in or as if in a clinic and depending on direct observation of patients | - |
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| (adjective) scientifically detached; unemotional | - |
| clinically | (adverb) in a clinical manner | - |
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| coccal | (adjective) of or pertaining to or resembling a coccus | - |
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| coenobitical | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living | Synonyms: cenobitic, cenobitical, coenobitic |
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| colorimetrical | (adjective) of or relating to colorimetry | Synonyms: colorimetric |
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| comical | (adjective) arousing or provoking laughter | Synonyms: amusing, comic, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible |
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| comicality | (noun) the quality of being comical | - |
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| comically | (adverb) in a comical manner | - |
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| commonsensical | (adjective) exhibiting native good judgment | Synonyms: commonsense, commonsensible |
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| concentrical | (adjective) having a common center | Synonyms: concentric, homocentric |
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| congenerical | (adjective) belonging to the same genus | Synonyms: congeneric, congenerous |
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| conical | (adjective) relating to or resembling a cone | Synonyms: cone-shaped, conelike, conic |
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| conically | (adverb) in a conical manner | - |
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| cortical | (adjective) of or relating to a cortex | - |
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| cortically | (adverb) with respect to the cortex | - |
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| cosmetically | (adverb) for cosmetic purposes to improve appearance | - |
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| cosmogonical | (adjective) pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogenic, cosmogonic, cosmologic, cosmological |
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| cosmological | (adjective) pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogenic, cosmogonic, cosmogonical, cosmologic |
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| (adjective) pertaining to the branch of philosophy dealing with the elements and laws and especially the characteristics of the universe such as space and time and causality | Synonyms: cosmologic |
| coucal | (noun) Old World ground-living cuckoo having a long dagger-like hind claw | - |
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| craniometrical | (adjective) of or relating to craniometry | Synonyms: craniometric |
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| criminological | (adjective) of or relating to or involved in criminology | - |
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| critical | (adjective) marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by careful evaluation and judgment | - |
| (adjective) being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency | - |
| (adjective) at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction | - |
| (adjective) of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism | - |
| (adjective) forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis | Synonyms: decisive |
| (adjective) urgently needed; absolutely necessary | Synonyms: vital |
| 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 | - |
| critically | (adverb) in a critical manner | - |
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| criticalness | (noun) a state of critical urgency | Synonyms: criticality, cruciality |
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| cryptical | (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cabalistic, cryptic, kabbalistic, qabalistic, sibylline |
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| (adjective) of an obscure nature | Synonyms: cryptic, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying |
| cryptically | (adverb) in a cryptic manner | Synonyms: enigmatically, mysteriously |
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| cryptographical | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptanalytic, cryptographic, cryptologic, cryptological |
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| cryptographically | (adverb) in a cryptographic manner | - |
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| cryptological | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptanalytic, cryptographic, cryptographical, cryptologic |
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| cubical | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubelike, cubiform, cuboid, cuboidal |
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| cyclical | (adjective) recurring in cycles | Synonyms: cyclic |
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| cyclonical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a violent tropical storm | Synonyms: cyclonal, cyclonic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a low pressure center | Synonyms: cyclonal, cyclonic |
| cylindrical | (adjective) having the form of a cylinder | Synonyms: cylindric |
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| cylindricality | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional cylinder | Synonyms: cylindricalness |
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| cylindricalness | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional cylinder | Synonyms: cylindricality |
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| cynical | (adjective) believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others | Synonyms: misanthropic, misanthropical |
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| cynically | (adverb) with cynicism; in a cynical manner | - |
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| cytogenetical | (adjective) of or relating to cytogenetics | Synonyms: cytogenetic |
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| cytological | (adjective) of or relating to the science of cytology | Synonyms: cytologic |
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| cytophotometrically | (adverb) by cytophotometric means | - |
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| cytoplasmically | (adverb) by means of cytoplasm | - |
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| decal | (noun) either a design that is fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design which is to be transferred to the surface | Synonyms: decalcomania |
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| decalcification | (noun) loss of calcium from bones or teeth | - |
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| decalcify | (verb) remove calcium or lime from | - |
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| (verb) lose calcium or calcium compounds | - |
| decalcomania | (noun) the art of transferring designs from specially prepared paper to a wood or glass or metal surface | - |
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| (noun) either a design that is fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design which is to be transferred to the surface | Synonyms: decal |
| decalescence | (noun) phenomenon that occurs when a metal is being heated and there is a sudden slowing in the rate of temperature increase; slowing is caused by a change in the internal crystal structure of the metal | - |
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| decalescent | (adjective) absorbing heat without increase in temperature when heated beyond a certain point | - |
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| decaliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters | Synonyms: dal, decalitre, dekaliter, dekalitre, dkl |
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| decalitre | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters | Synonyms: dal, decaliter, dekaliter, dekalitre, dkl |
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| delocalize | (verb) remove from the proper or usual locality | - |
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