| catholicise | (verb) cause to adopt Catholicism | Synonyms: catholicize, latinise, latinize |
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| catholicity | (noun) the quality of being universal; existing everywhere | Synonyms: universality |
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| catholicize | (verb) cause to adopt Catholicism | Synonyms: catholicise, latinise, latinize |
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| catholicon | (noun) hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists | Synonyms: cure-all, nostrum, panacea |
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| cathouse | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bagnio, bawdyhouse, bordello, brothel, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse |
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| cation | (noun) a positively charged ion | - |
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| cationic | (adjective) of or relating to cations | - |
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| catkin | (noun) a cylindrical spikelike inflorescence | Synonyms: ament |
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| catkinate | (adjective) resembling a catkin | - |
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| catling | (noun) a long double-edged knife used for amputations | - |
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| catmint | (noun) hairy aromatic perennial herb having whorls of small white purple-spotted flowers in a terminal spike; used in the past as a domestic remedy; strongly attractive to cats | Synonyms: catnip, Nepeta cataria |
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| catnap | (noun) sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed) | Synonyms: forty winks, light sleep, nap, short sleep, snooze |
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| (verb) take a siesta | Synonyms: catch a wink, nap |
| catnip | (noun) hairy aromatic perennial herb having whorls of small white purple-spotted flowers in a terminal spike; used in the past as a domestic remedy; strongly attractive to cats | Synonyms: catmint, Nepeta cataria |
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| catoptric | (adjective) of or relating to catoptrics; produced by or based on mirrors | Synonyms: catoptrical |
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| catoptrical | (adjective) of or relating to catoptrics; produced by or based on mirrors | Synonyms: catoptric |
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| catoptrics | (noun) branch of optics dealing with formation of images by mirrors | - |
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| catostomid | (noun) a cypriniform fish of the family Catostomidae | - |
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| catsup | (noun) thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes | Synonyms: cetchup, ketchup, tomato ketchup |
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| cattail | (noun) tall erect herbs with sword-shaped leaves; cosmopolitan in fresh and salt marshes | - |
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| cattalo | (noun) hardy breed of cattle resulting from crossing domestic cattle with the American buffalo; yields leaner beef than conventional breeds | Synonyms: beefalo |
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| cattie | (noun) any of various units of weight used in southeastern Asia (especially a Chinese measure equal to 500 grams) | Synonyms: catty |
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| cattiness | (noun) malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | Synonyms: bitchiness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness |
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| cattish | (adjective) marked by or arising from malice | Synonyms: bitchy, catty |
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| cattle | (noun) domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age | Synonyms: Bos taurus, cows, kine, oxen |
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| cattleman | (noun) a man who raises (or tends) cattle | Synonyms: beef man, cow man |
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| (noun) a male hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowboy, cowman |
| cattleship | (noun) a cargo ship for the transport of livestock | Synonyms: cattle boat |
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| cattleya | (noun) any orchid of the genus Cattleya characterized by a three-lobed lip enclosing the column; among the most popular and most extravagantly beautiful orchids known | - |
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| catty | (adjective) marked by or arising from malice | Synonyms: bitchy, cattish |
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| (noun) any of various units of weight used in southeastern Asia (especially a Chinese measure equal to 500 grams) | Synonyms: cattie |
| catwalk | (noun) narrow pathway high in the air (as above a stage or between parts of a building or along a bridge) | - |
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| (noun) narrow platform extending out into an auditorium | - |
| certificate | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certification, credential, credentials |
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| (noun) a formal declaration that documents a fact of relevance to finance and investment; the holder has a right to receive interest or dividends | Synonyms: security |
| (verb) authorize by certificate | - |
| (verb) present someone with a certificate | - |
| certificated | (adjective) furnished with or authorized by a certificate: | - |
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| certification | (noun) the act of certifying or bestowing a franchise on | Synonyms: enfranchisement |
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| (noun) validating the authenticity of something or someone | Synonyms: authentication |
| (noun) confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence | Synonyms: corroboration, documentation |
| (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, credential, credentials |
| certificatory | (adjective) serving to certify or endorse authoritatively | - |
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| cicatrice | (noun) a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue | Synonyms: cicatrix, scar |
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| cicatrise | (verb) form a scar, after an injury | Synonyms: cicatrize |
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| cicatrix | (noun) a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue | Synonyms: cicatrice, scar |
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| cicatrize | (verb) form a scar, after an injury | Synonyms: cicatrise |
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| clarification | (noun) the act of removing solid particles from a liquid | Synonyms: clearing |
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| (noun) an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding | Synonyms: elucidation, illumination |
| classification | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization |
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| (noun) restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people | - |
| (noun) the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories | Synonyms: categorisation, categorization, sorting |
| (noun) a group of people or things arranged by class or category | Synonyms: categorisation, categorization |
| classificatory | (adjective) relating to or involving classification | - |
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| claudication | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: gameness, gimp, gimpiness, lameness, limping |
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| codification | (noun) the act of codifying; arranging in a systematic order | - |
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| (noun) a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones) | Synonyms: code |
| coeducate | (verb) educate persons of both sexes together | Synonyms: co-educate |
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| coeducation | (noun) education of men and women in the same institutions | - |
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| coeducational | (adjective) attended by members of both sexes | Synonyms: co-ed |
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| collocate | (verb) group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side | Synonyms: chunk, lump |
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| (verb) have a strong tendency to occur side by side | - |
| collocation | (noun) the act of positioning close together (or side by side) | Synonyms: apposition, juxtaposition |
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| (noun) a grouping of words in a sentence | - |
| communicate | (verb) transmit thoughts or feelings | Synonyms: intercommunicate |
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| (verb) transmit information | Synonyms: pass, pass along, pass on, put across |
| (verb) be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas | - |
| (verb) receive Communion, in the Catholic church | Synonyms: commune |
| (verb) administer Communion; in church | - |
| (verb) join or connect | - |
| (verb) transfer to another | Synonyms: convey, transmit |
| communicating | (noun) the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information | Synonyms: communication |
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| communication | (noun) something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups | - |
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| (noun) the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information | Synonyms: communicating |
| (noun) a connection allowing access between persons or places | - |
| communicational | (adjective) used in communication | - |
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| communications | (noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmitting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.) | Synonyms: communication theory |
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| communicative | (adjective) able or tending to communicate | Synonyms: communicatory |
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| (adjective) of or relating to communication | - |
| communicativeness | (noun) the trait of being communicative | - |
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| communicator | (noun) a person who communicates with others | - |
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| communicatory | (adjective) able or tending to communicate | Synonyms: communicative |
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| complicate | (verb) make more complicated | Synonyms: perplex |
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| (verb) make more complex, intricate, or richer | Synonyms: elaborate, rarify, refine |
| complicated | (adjective) difficult to analyze or understand | Synonyms: complex |
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| complicatedness | (noun) puzzling complexity | Synonyms: complication, knottiness, tortuousness |
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| complication | (noun) the act or process of complicating | - |
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| (noun) puzzling complexity | Synonyms: complicatedness, knottiness, tortuousness |
| (noun) a development that complicates a situation | Synonyms: ramification |
| (noun) a situation or condition that is complex or confused | - |
| (noun) any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of (or because of) another disease | - |
| concatenate | (verb) add by linking or joining so as to form a chain or series | - |
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| (verb) combine two strings to form a single one | - |
| 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 | - |
| confiscate | (adjective) surrendered as a penalty | Synonyms: forfeit, forfeited |
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| (verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, impound, seize, sequester |
| confiscation | (noun) seizure by the government | Synonyms: arrogation |
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| contraindicate | (verb) make a treatment inadvisable | - |
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| contraindication | (noun) (medicine) a reason that makes it inadvisable to prescribe a particular drug or employ a particular procedure or treatment | - |
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| convocation | (noun) the act of convoking | Synonyms: calling together |
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| (noun) a group gathered in response to a summons | - |
| copycat | (noun) someone who copies the words or behavior of another | Synonyms: ape, aper, emulator, imitator |
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| coruscate | (verb) be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity | Synonyms: scintillate, sparkle |
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| (verb) reflect brightly | Synonyms: scintillate, sparkle |
| coruscation | (noun) a sudden or striking display of brilliance | - |
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| (noun) the occurrence of a small flash or spark | Synonyms: glitter, sparkle |
| cowcatcher | (noun) an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track | Synonyms: buffer, fender, pilot |
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| decalcification | (noun) loss of calcium from bones or teeth | - |
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| decathlon | (noun) an athletic contest consisting of ten different events | - |
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| declassification | (noun) reduction or removal by the government of restrictions on a classified document or weapon | - |
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| decorticate | (verb) remove the cortex of (an organ) | - |
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| (verb) remove the outer layer of | - |
| decortication | (noun) removal of the outer covering of an organ or part | - |
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| dedicate | (verb) set apart to sacred uses with solemn rites, of a church | - |
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| (verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, consecrate, devote, give |
| (verb) inscribe or address by way of compliment | - |
| (verb) open to public use, as of a highway, park, or building | - |
| dedicated | (adjective) devoted to a cause or ideal or purpose | - |
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| (adjective) solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high or sacred purpose | Synonyms: consecrate, consecrated |
| dedication | (noun) the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action | Synonyms: allegiance, commitment, loyalty |
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| (noun) complete and wholehearted fidelity | - |
| (noun) a short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something | Synonyms: inscription |
| (noun) a message that makes a pledge | Synonyms: commitment |
| (noun) a ceremony in which something (as a building) is dedicated to some goal or purpose | - |
| defalcate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: embezzle, malversate, misappropriate, peculate |
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| defalcation | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation |
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| (noun) the sum of money that is misappropriated | - |
| defalcator | (noun) someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use | Synonyms: embezzler, peculator |
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| defecate | (verb) have a bowel movement | Synonyms: ca-ca, crap, make, shit, stool, take a crap, take a shit |
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| defecation | (noun) the elimination of fecal waste through the anus | Synonyms: laxation, shitting |
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| defecator | (noun) (obsolete) that which cleanses or purifies; especially, an apparatus for removing the feculencies of juices and syrups. | - |
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| (noun) a person who defecates | Synonyms: shitter, voider |
| deification | (noun) the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god) | Synonyms: apotheosis, exaltation |
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| (noun) an embodiment of the qualities of a god | - |
| (noun) the condition of being treated like a god | - |
| delicate | (adjective) exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury | - |
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| (adjective) easily broken or damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: fragile, frail |
| (adjective) difficult to handle; requiring great tact | Synonyms: ticklish, touchy |
| (adjective) developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety | Synonyms: finespun |
| (adjective) of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely | - |
| (adjective) marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique | - |
| (adjective) easily hurt | Synonyms: soft |
| delicately | (adverb) in a delicate manner | Synonyms: exquisitely, fine, finely |
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| delicatessen | (noun) a shop selling ready-to-eat food products | Synonyms: deli, food shop |
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| (noun) ready-to-eat food products | Synonyms: delicatessen food |
| demarcate | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimit, delimitate |
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| (verb) separate clearly, as if by boundaries | - |
| demarcation | (noun) a conceptual separation or distinction | Synonyms: contrast, dividing line, line |
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| (noun) the boundary of a specific area | Synonyms: demarcation line, limit |
| denazification | (noun) social process of removing Nazis from official positions and giving up any allegiance to Nazism | Synonyms: de-Nazification |
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| densification | (noun) an increase in the density of something | Synonyms: compaction, compression, concretion |
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| deossification | (noun) the loss of the mineral content of bone tissue | - |
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| deprecate | (verb) belittle | Synonyms: depreciate, vilipend |
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| (verb) express strong disapproval of; deplore | - |
| deprecating | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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| deprecatio | (noun) a praying against evil, against others, or oneself; a prayer for the removal of some evil. | - |
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| deprecation | (noun) the act of expressing disapproval (especially of yourself) | Synonyms: denigration |
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| (noun) a prayer to avert or remove some evil or disaster | - |
| deprecative | (adjective) given to expressing disapproval | - |
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| (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
| deprecatively | (adverb) in a deprecative manner | - |
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