| aftercare | (noun) care and treatment of a convalescent patient | - |
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| calcareous | (adjective) composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk | Synonyms: chalky |
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| care | (noun) activity involved in maintaining something in good working order | Synonyms: maintenance, upkeep |
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| (noun) the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something | Synonyms: aid, attention, tending |
| (noun) attention and management implying responsibility for safety | Synonyms: charge, guardianship, tutelage |
| (noun) judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger | Synonyms: caution, forethought, precaution |
| (noun) a cause for feeling concern | - |
| (noun) an anxious feeling | Synonyms: concern, fear |
| (verb) to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something | Synonyms: like, wish |
| (verb) feel concern or interest | - |
| (verb) be concerned with | Synonyms: worry |
| (verb) be in charge of, act on, or dispose of | Synonyms: deal, handle, manage |
| (verb) provide care for | Synonyms: give care |
| careen | (noun) pitching dangerously to one side | Synonyms: rock, sway, tilt |
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| (verb) move sideways or in an unsteady way | Synonyms: shift, tilt, wobble |
| (verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: keel, lurch, reel, stagger, swag |
| career | (noun) the particular occupation for which you are trained | Synonyms: calling, vocation |
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| (noun) the general progression of your working or professional life | Synonyms: life history |
| (verb) move headlong at high speed | - |
| careerism | (noun) the practice of advancing your career at the expense of your personal integrity | - |
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| careerist | (noun) a professional who is intent on furthering his or her career by any possible means and often at the expense of their own integrity | - |
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| carefree | (adjective) cheerfully irresponsible | Synonyms: devil-may-care, freewheeling, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy |
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| (adjective) free of trouble and worry and care | Synonyms: unworried |
| carefreeness | (noun) the trait of being without worry or responsibility | - |
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| (noun) the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | Synonyms: insouciance, lightheartedness, lightsomeness |
| careful | (adjective) exercising caution or showing care or attention | - |
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| (adjective) cautiously attentive | Synonyms: heedful |
| (adjective) mindful of the future in spending money | Synonyms: thrifty |
| (adjective) full of cares or anxiety | - |
| (adjective) unhurried and with care and dignity | Synonyms: deliberate, measured |
| carefully | (adverb) taking care or paying attention | - |
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| (adverb) as if with kid gloves; with caution or prudence or tact | Synonyms: cautiously, with kid gloves |
| carefulness | (noun) the quality of being careful and painstaking | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being cautious; being attentive to possible danger | Synonyms: caution, cautiousness |
| caregiver | (noun) a person who is responsible for attending to the needs of a child or dependent adult | - |
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| (noun) a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability | Synonyms: health care provider, health professional, PCP, primary care provider |
| careless | (adjective) marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful | - |
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| (adjective) effortless and unstudied | - |
| (adjective) (usually followed by `of') without due thought or consideration | Synonyms: regardless |
| carelessly | (adverb) without caution or prudence | Synonyms: incautiously |
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| (adverb) in a rakish manner | Synonyms: raffishly, rakishly |
| (adverb) without care or concern | Synonyms: heedlessly |
| carelessness | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: neglect, negligence, nonperformance |
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| (noun) the quality of not being careful or taking pains | Synonyms: sloppiness |
| caress | (noun) a gentle affectionate stroking (or something resembling it) | - |
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| (verb) touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner | Synonyms: fondle |
| caressing | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling |
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| caret | (noun) a mark used by an author or editor to indicate where something is to be inserted into a text | - |
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| caretaker | (noun) a custodian who is hired to take care of something (property or a person) | - |
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| (noun) an official who performs the duties of an office temporarily | - |
| careworn | (adjective) showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering | Synonyms: drawn, haggard, raddled, worn |
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| childcare | (noun) a service involving care for other people's children | Synonyms: child care |
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| daycare | (noun) childcare during the day while parents work | Synonyms: day care |
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| haircare | (noun) care for the hair: the activity of washing or cutting or curling or arranging the hair | Synonyms: hair care, hairdressing |
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| healthcare | (noun) the preservation of mental and physical health by preventing or treating illness through services offered by the health profession | Synonyms: health care |
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| overcareful | (adjective) excessively or unduly careful | Synonyms: too-careful |
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| picaresque | (adjective) involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction | - |
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| scare | (noun) a sudden attack of fear | Synonyms: panic attack |
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| (noun) sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events | Synonyms: panic |
| (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: affright, fright, frighten |
| (verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: dash, daunt, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare away, scare off |
| scarecrow | (noun) an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds | Synonyms: bird-scarer, scarer, straw man, strawman |
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| scarecrowish | (adjective) resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged | - |
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| scared | (adjective) made afraid | Synonyms: frightened |
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| scaremonger | (noun) a person who spreads frightening rumors and stirs up trouble | Synonyms: stirrer |
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| scarer | (noun) an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds | Synonyms: bird-scarer, scarecrow, straw man, strawman |
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| skincare | (noun) care for the skin | Synonyms: skin care |
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