| cacogenesis | (noun) inability to produce hybrids that are both viable and fertile | - |
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| cacogenic | (adjective) pertaining to or causing degeneration in the offspring produced | Synonyms: dysgenic |
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| cacogenics | (noun) the study of the operation of factors causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced | Synonyms: dysgenics |
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| cacography | (noun) poor handwriting | Synonyms: scratch, scrawl, scribble |
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| cog | (noun) tooth on the rim of gear wheel | Synonyms: sprocket |
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| (noun) a subordinate who performs an important but routine function | - |
| (verb) join pieces of wood with cogs | - |
| (verb) roll steel ingots | - |
| cogency | (noun) the quality of being valid and rigorous | Synonyms: rigor, rigour, validity |
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| (noun) persuasive relevance | - |
| cogent | (adjective) powerfully persuasive | Synonyms: telling, weighty |
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| cogged | (adjective) having cogs | - |
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| coggle | (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: dodder, paddle, toddle, totter, waddle |
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| (verb) move unsteadily | Synonyms: wobble |
| cogitable | (adjective) capable of being thought about | Synonyms: ponderable |
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| cogitate | (verb) use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments | Synonyms: cerebrate, think |
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| (verb) consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind | - |
| cogitation | (noun) attentive consideration and meditation | Synonyms: study |
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| (noun) a carefully considered thought about something | - |
| cogitative | (adjective) of or relating to having capacities for cogitation | - |
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| (adjective) given to cogitation | - |
| cognate | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin |
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| (adjective) having the same ancestral language | - |
| (adjective) related in nature | Synonyms: connate |
| (noun) a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language | Synonyms: cognate word |
| (noun) one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another | Synonyms: blood relation, blood relative, sib |
| cognation | (noun) (anthropology) the condition of being related by blood | Synonyms: blood kinship, consanguinity |
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| (noun) line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family | Synonyms: enation, matrilineage |
| cognisable | (adjective) capable of being known | Synonyms: cognizable, cognoscible, knowable |
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| cognisance | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: awareness, cognizance, consciousness, knowingness |
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| cognisant | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: aware, cognizant |
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| cognise | (verb) be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about | Synonyms: cognize, know |
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| cognition | (noun) the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning | Synonyms: knowledge, noesis |
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| cognitive | (adjective) of or being or relating to or involving cognition | - |
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| cognitively | (adverb) with regard to cognition | - |
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| cognizable | (adjective) capable of being known | Synonyms: cognisable, cognoscible, knowable |
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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 | - |
| cognizant | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: aware, cognisant |
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| cognize | (verb) be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about | Synonyms: cognise, know |
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| cognomen | (noun) the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name) | Synonyms: family name, last name, surname |
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| (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, moniker, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet |
| cognoscente | (noun) an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts | Synonyms: connoisseur |
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| cognoscible | (adjective) capable of being known | Synonyms: cognisable, cognizable, knowable |
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| cogwheel | (noun) a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion | Synonyms: gear, gear wheel, geared wheel |
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| derecognise | (verb) cause to be no longer approved or accepted | Synonyms: decertify, derecognize |
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| derecognize | (verb) cause to be no longer approved or accepted | Synonyms: decertify, derecognise |
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| discography | (noun) a descriptive catalog of musical recordings | - |
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| excogitate | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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| (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, devise, forge, formulate, invent |
| excogitation | (noun) thinking something out with care in order to achieve complete understanding of it | - |
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| (noun) the creation of something in the mind | Synonyms: conception, design, innovation, invention |
| excogitative | (adjective) concerned with excogitating or having the power of excogitation | - |
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| excogitator | (noun) a thinker who considers carefully and thoroughly | - |
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| glycogen | (noun) one form in which body fuel is stored; stored primarily in the liver and broken down into glucose when needed by the body | Synonyms: animal starch |
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| glycogenesis | (noun) the conversion of glucose to glycogen when the glucose in the blood exceeds the demand | - |
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| (noun) the formation in animals of glycogen from glucose | - |
| glycogenic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving glycogen | - |
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| incognito | (adjective) with your identity concealed | - |
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| (adverb) without revealing one's identity | - |
| incognizable | (adjective) incapable of being perceived or known | Synonyms: incognoscible |
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| incognizance | (noun) a lack of knowledge or recognition | - |
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| incognizant | (adjective) (often followed by `of') not aware | Synonyms: unaware |
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| incognoscible | (adjective) incapable of being perceived or known | Synonyms: incognizable |
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| lexicographer | (noun) a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language | Synonyms: lexicologist |
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| lexicographic | (adjective) of or relating to lexicography | Synonyms: lexicographical |
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| lexicographical | (adjective) of or relating to lexicography | Synonyms: lexicographic |
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| lexicography | (noun) the act of writing dictionaries | - |
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| oncogene | (noun) a gene that disposes normal cells to change into cancerous tumor cells | Synonyms: transforming gene |
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| pharmacogenetics | (noun) the branch of genetics that studies the genetically determined variations in responses to drugs in humans or laboratory organisms | - |
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| precognition | (noun) knowledge of an event before it occurs | Synonyms: foreknowledge |
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| precognitive | (adjective) foreseeing the future | Synonyms: clairvoyant, second-sighted |
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| recognisable | (adjective) capable of being recognized | Synonyms: placeable, recognizable |
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| recognisance | (noun) (law) a security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited | Synonyms: recognizance |
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| recognise | (verb) perceive to be the same | Synonyms: recognize |
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| (verb) be fully aware or cognizant of | Synonyms: agnise, agnize, realise, realize, recognize |
| (verb) accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority | Synonyms: acknowledge, know, recognize |
| (verb) express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for | Synonyms: acknowledge, recognize |
| (verb) express greetings upon meeting someone | Synonyms: greet, recognize |
| (verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: discern, distinguish, make out, pick out, recognize, spot, tell apart |
| (verb) grant credentials to | Synonyms: accredit, recognize |
| (verb) show approval or appreciation of | Synonyms: recognize |
| recognised | (adjective) generally approved or compelling recognition | Synonyms: accepted, recognized |
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| (adjective) provided with a secure reputation | Synonyms: recognized |
| recognition | (noun) designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body | - |
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| (noun) the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering | Synonyms: identification |
| (noun) an acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid | - |
| (noun) coming to understand something clearly and distinctly | Synonyms: realisation, realization |
| (noun) approval | Synonyms: credit |
| (noun) the explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country | - |
| (noun) (biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape | - |
| (noun) the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged | Synonyms: acknowledgement, acknowledgment |
| recognizable | (adjective) capable of being recognized | Synonyms: placeable, recognisable |
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| (adjective) easily perceived; easy to become aware of | - |
| recognizably | (adverb) to a recognizable degree | - |
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| recognizance | (noun) (law) a security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited | Synonyms: recognisance |
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| recognize | (verb) perceive to be the same | Synonyms: recognise |
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| (verb) be fully aware or cognizant of | Synonyms: agnise, agnize, realise, realize, recognise |
| (verb) accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority | Synonyms: acknowledge, know, recognise |
| (verb) express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for | Synonyms: acknowledge, recognise |
| (verb) express greetings upon meeting someone | Synonyms: greet, recognise |
| (verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: discern, distinguish, make out, pick out, recognise, spot, tell apart |
| (verb) grant credentials to | Synonyms: accredit, recognise |
| (verb) show approval or appreciation of | Synonyms: recognise |
| (verb) exhibit recognition for (an antigen or a substrate) | - |
| recognized | (adjective) generally approved or compelling recognition | Synonyms: accepted, recognised |
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| (adjective) provided with a secure reputation | Synonyms: recognised |
| toxicognath | (noun) either of a pair of poison fangs in the modified front pair of legs of the centipede | - |
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| unrecognisable | (adjective) defying recognition as e.g. because of damage or alteration | Synonyms: unrecognizable |
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| (adverb) beyond recognition; in an unrecognizable manner | Synonyms: unrecognizably |
| unrecognised | (adjective) not recognized | Synonyms: unrecognized |
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| (adjective) not having a secure reputation | Synonyms: unrecognized |
| unrecognizable | (adjective) defying recognition as e.g. because of damage or alteration | Synonyms: unrecognisable |
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| unrecognizably | (adverb) beyond recognition; in an unrecognizable manner | Synonyms: unrecognisable |
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| unrecognized | (adjective) not recognized | Synonyms: unrecognised |
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| (adjective) not having a secure reputation | Synonyms: unrecognised |