| cacodaemon | (noun) an evil spirit | Synonyms: cacodemon |
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| cacodaemonic | (adjective) of or relating to evil spirits | Synonyms: cacodemonic |
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| cacodemon | (noun) an evil spirit | Synonyms: cacodaemon |
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| cacodemonic | (adjective) of or relating to evil spirits | Synonyms: cacodaemonic |
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| cacodyl | (noun) the univalent group derived from arsine | Synonyms: arsenic group, cacodyl group, cacodyl radical |
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| (noun) a poisonous oily liquid with a garlicky odor composed of 2 cacodyl groups; undergoes spontaneous combustion in dry air | Synonyms: tetramethyldiarsine |
| cacodylic | (adjective) of or relating to cacodyl | - |
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| cod | (adjective) payable by the recipient on delivery | Synonyms: collect |
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| (noun) major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters | Synonyms: codfish |
| (noun) lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached | Synonyms: codfish |
| (noun) the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves) | Synonyms: pod, seedcase |
| (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit |
| (verb) fool or hoax | Synonyms: befool, dupe, fool, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in |
| coda | (noun) the closing section of a musical composition | Synonyms: finale |
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| coddle | (verb) cook in nearly boiling water | - |
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| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
| coddler | (noun) someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence | Synonyms: mollycoddler, pamperer, spoiler |
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| code | (noun) a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy | - |
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| (noun) a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones) | Synonyms: codification |
| (noun) (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions | Synonyms: computer code |
| (noun) a series of letters, numbers or symbols assigned to something for the purpose of classification or identification | - |
| (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, cypher, encipher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code |
| (verb) attach a code to | - |
| codefendant | (noun) a defendant who has been joined together with one or more other defendants in a single action | Synonyms: co-defendant |
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| codeine | (noun) derivative of opium; used as an antitussive (to relieve coughing) and an analgesic (to relieve pain) | - |
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| coder | (noun) a person who designs and writes and tests computer programs | Synonyms: computer programmer, programmer, software engineer |
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| codetalker | (noun) a secret agent who was one of the Navajos who devised and used a code based on their native language; the code was unbroken by the Japanese during World War II | Synonyms: windtalker |
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| codex | (noun) an unbound manuscript of some ancient classic (as distinguished from a scroll) | Synonyms: leaf-book |
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| (noun) an official list of chemicals or medicines etc. | - |
| codfish | (noun) major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters | Synonyms: cod |
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| (noun) lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached | Synonyms: cod |
| codger | (noun) used affectionately to refer to an eccentric but amusing old man | Synonyms: old codger |
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| codicil | (noun) a supplement to a will; a testamentary instrument intended to alter an already executed will | - |
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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 |
| codified | (adjective) enacted by a legislative body | Synonyms: statute |
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| codify | (verb) organize into a code or system, such as a body of law | - |
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| coding | (noun) act of writing in code or cipher | Synonyms: cryptography, secret writing, steganography |
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| codling | (noun) young codfish | - |
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| codon | (noun) a specific sequence of three adjacent nucleotides on a strand of DNA or RNA that specifies the genetic code information for synthesizing a particular amino acid | - |
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| codpiece | (noun) (15th-16th century) a flap for the crotch of men's tight-fitting breeches | - |
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| codswallop | (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, folderol, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
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| crocodile | (noun) large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body covered with bony plates; of sluggish tropical waters | - |
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| crocodilian | (noun) extant archosaurian reptile | Synonyms: crocodilian reptile |
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| decode | (verb) convert code into ordinary language | Synonyms: decipher, decrypt |
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| decoder | (noun) a machine that converts a coded text into ordinary language | - |
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| (noun) the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text | Synonyms: decipherer |
| decoding | (noun) the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text | Synonyms: decipherment, decryption |
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| encode | (verb) convert information into code | - |
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| encoding | (noun) the activity of converting data or information into code | Synonyms: encryption |
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| lingcod | (noun) food fish of the northern Pacific related to greenlings | Synonyms: Ophiodon elongatus |
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| (noun) the lean flesh of a fish caught off the Pacific coast of the United States | - |
| microcode | (noun) (computer science) coded instructions that are stored permanently in read-only memory | Synonyms: firmware |
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| mollycoddle | (noun) a pampered darling; an effeminate man | - |
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| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, pamper, spoil |
| mollycoddler | (noun) someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence | Synonyms: coddler, pamperer, spoiler |
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| narcodollar | (noun) money (especially in the form of US dollars) obtained from narcotrafficking. | Synonyms: narco-dollar |
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| ostracod | (noun) tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve shell | Synonyms: mussel shrimp, seed shrimp |
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| ostracoderm | (noun) extinct fish-like jawless vertebrate having a heavily armored body; of the Paleozoic | - |
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| peasecod | (noun) husk of a pea; edible in some garden peas | Synonyms: pea pod |
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| placoderm | (noun) fish-like vertebrate with bony plates on head and upper body; dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian; considered the earliest vertebrate with jaws | - |
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| postcode | (noun) a code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail | Synonyms: postal code, ZIP, ZIP code |
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| recode | (verb) put into a different code; rearrange mentally | - |
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| recoding | (noun) converting from one code to another | - |
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| sarcodine | (noun) protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopods | Synonyms: sarcodinian |
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| sarcodinian | (noun) protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopods | Synonyms: sarcodine |
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| thecodont | (noun) presumably in the common ancestral line to dinosaurs and crocodiles and birds | Synonyms: thecodont reptile |
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