| corned | (adjective) (used especially of meat) cured in brine | Synonyms: cured |
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| cornel | (noun) a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers | Synonyms: dogwood, dogwood tree |
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| cornelian | (noun) a translucent red or orange variety of chalcedony | Synonyms: carnelian |
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| corneous | (adjective) made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn) | Synonyms: hornlike, horny |
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| corner | (noun) the intersection of two streets | Synonyms: street corner, turning point |
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| (noun) (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone | Synonyms: quoin |
| (noun) an interior angle formed by two meeting walls | Synonyms: nook |
| (noun) the point where two lines meet or intersect | - |
| (noun) the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect | - |
| (noun) a place off to the side of an area | - |
| (noun) a remote area | - |
| (noun) a projecting part where two sides or edges meet | - |
| (noun) a small concavity | Synonyms: niche, recess, recession |
| (noun) a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade | - |
| (noun) a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible | Synonyms: box |
| (verb) turn a corner | - |
| (verb) force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape | Synonyms: tree |
| (verb) gain control over | - |
| cornerback | (noun) a defensive football player stationed outside the linebackers | - |
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| cornered | (adjective) forced to turn and face attackers | Synonyms: at bay, trapped, treed |
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| cornerstone | (noun) a stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls | - |
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| (noun) a stone in the exterior of a large and important building; usually carved with a date and laid with appropriate ceremonies | - |
| (noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, foundation, fundament, groundwork |
| cornet | (noun) a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves | Synonyms: horn, trump, trumpet |
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| cornetfish | (noun) slender tropical fish with a long tubular snout and bony plates instead of scales | - |
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| cornetist | (noun) a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet | Synonyms: trumpeter |
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| corneum | (noun) the outermost layer of the epidermis consisting of dead cells that slough off | Synonyms: horny layer, stratum corneum |
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| cornfield | (noun) a field planted with corn | Synonyms: corn field |
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| cornflour | (noun) starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener | Synonyms: cornstarch |
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| cornflower | (noun) an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers | Synonyms: bachelor's button, bluebottle, Centaurea cyanus |
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| (noun) plant of southern and southeastern United States grown for its yellow flowers that can be dried | Synonyms: strawflower, Uvularia grandiflora |
| cornhusk | (noun) the husk of an ear of corn | - |
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| cornhusker | (noun) a worker who husks corn | - |
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| cornhusking | (noun) the act of removing the husks from ears of corn | - |
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| (noun) a social gathering for the purpose of husking corn | Synonyms: husking bee |
| cornice | (noun) the topmost projecting part of an entablature | - |
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| (noun) a molding at the corner between the ceiling and the top of a wall | - |
| (noun) a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing | Synonyms: pelmet, valance, valance board |
| (verb) furnish with a cornice | - |
| cornmeal | (noun) coarsely ground corn | Synonyms: Indian meal |
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| cornpone | (noun) cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or fried (southern) | Synonyms: pone |
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| cornsilk | (noun) each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn | Synonyms: corn silk |
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| cornsmut | (noun) a smut fungus attacking Indian corn | Synonyms: corn smut |
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| cornstalk | (noun) the stalk of a corn plant | Synonyms: corn stalk |
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| cornstarch | (noun) starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener | Synonyms: cornflour |
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| cornu | (noun) (anatomy) any structure that resembles a horn in shape | - |
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| cornucopia | (noun) the property of being extremely abundant | Synonyms: profuseness, profusion, richness |
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| (noun) a goat's horn filled with grain and flowers and fruit symbolizing prosperity | Synonyms: horn of plenty |
| corny | (adjective) dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality | Synonyms: bromidic, platitudinal, platitudinous |
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| corolla | (noun) (botany) the whorl of petals of a flower that collectively form an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth | - |
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| corollary | (noun) (logic) an inference that follows directly from the proof of another proposition | - |
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| (noun) a practical consequence that follows naturally | - |
| corona | (noun) a long cigar with blunt ends | - |
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| (noun) (anatomy) any structure that resembles a crown in shape | - |
| (noun) the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere; visible as a white halo during a solar eclipse | Synonyms: aureole |
| (noun) an electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere | Synonyms: corona discharge, corposant, electric glow, Saint Elmo's fire, Saint Elmo's light, Saint Ulmo's fire, Saint Ulmo's light, St. Elmo's fire |
| (noun) one or more circles of light seen around a luminous object | - |
| (noun) (botany) the trumpet-shaped or cup-shaped outgrowth of the corolla of a daffodil or narcissus flower | - |
| (noun) a viral disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 that caused a global pandemic in 2020 | Synonyms: 2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease, coronavirus, coronavirus disease 2019, COVID-19, novel coronavirus pneumonia, Wuhan coronavirus, Wuhan flu, Wuhan pneumonia, Wuhan virus |
| coronach | (noun) a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person | Synonyms: dirge, lament, requiem, threnody |
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| coronal | (noun) flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes | Synonyms: chaplet, garland, lei, wreath |
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| coronary | (adjective) surrounding like a crown (especially of the blood vessels surrounding the heart) | - |
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| (noun) obstruction of blood flow in a coronary artery by a blood clot (thrombus) | Synonyms: coronary thrombosis |
| coronate | (verb) invest with regal power; enthrone | Synonyms: crown |
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| coronation | (noun) the ceremony of installing a new monarch | Synonyms: enthronement, enthronisation, enthronization, investiture |
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| coronavirus | (noun) a viral disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 that caused a global pandemic in 2020 | Synonyms: 2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease, corona, coronavirus disease 2019, COVID-19, novel coronavirus pneumonia, Wuhan coronavirus, Wuhan flu, Wuhan pneumonia, Wuhan virus |
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| coroner | (noun) a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes | Synonyms: medical examiner |
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| coronet | (noun) margin between the skin of the pastern and the horn of the hoof | - |
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| (noun) a small crown; usually indicates a high rank but below that of sovereign | - |
| coroneted | (adjective) belonging to the peerage | Synonyms: highborn, titled |
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| coronilla | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Coronilla having purple or pink or yellow flowers in long axillary heads or umbels | - |
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| coronion | (noun) the craniometric point at the tip of the coronoid process of the mandible | - |
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| corozo | (noun) any of several tropical American palms bearing corozo nuts | Synonyms: corozo palm |
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| corp | (noun) a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state | Synonyms: corporation |
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| corporal | (adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: bodied, corporate, embodied, incarnate |
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| (adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit | Synonyms: bodily, corporeal, somatic |
| (noun) a noncommissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marines | - |
| corporality | (noun) the quality of being physical; consisting of matter | Synonyms: corporeality, materiality, physicalness |
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| corporate | (adjective) of or belonging to a corporation | - |
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| (adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: bodied, corporal, embodied, incarnate |
| (adjective) done by or characteristic of individuals acting together | Synonyms: collective |
| (adjective) organized and maintained as a legal corporation | Synonyms: incorporated |
| corporation | (noun) slang for a paunch | Synonyms: bay window, pot, potbelly, tummy |
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| (noun) a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state | Synonyms: corp |
| corporatism | (noun) control of a state or organization by large interest groups | - |
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| corporatist | (adjective) of or relating to corporatism | - |
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| (noun) a supporter of corporatism | - |
| corporeal | (adjective) having material or physical form or substance | Synonyms: material |
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| (adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit | Synonyms: bodily, corporal, somatic |
| corporeality | (noun) the quality of being physical; consisting of matter | Synonyms: corporality, materiality, physicalness |
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| corposant | (noun) an electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere | Synonyms: corona, corona discharge, electric glow, Saint Elmo's fire, Saint Elmo's light, Saint Ulmo's fire, Saint Ulmo's light, St. Elmo's fire |
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| corps | (noun) an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support | Synonyms: army corps |
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| (noun) a body of people associated together | - |
| corpse | (noun) the dead body of a human being | Synonyms: cadaver, clay, remains, stiff |
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| corpulence | (noun) the property of excessive fatness | Synonyms: adiposis, overweight, stoutness |
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| corpulency | (noun) more than average fatness | Synonyms: fleshiness, obesity |
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| corpulent | (adjective) excessively fat | Synonyms: obese, rotund, weighty |
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| corpus | (noun) the main part of an organ or other bodily structure | - |
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| (noun) a collection of writings | - |
| (noun) capital as contrasted with the income derived from it | Synonyms: principal, principal sum |
| corpuscle | (noun) either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets | Synonyms: blood cell, blood corpuscle |
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| (noun) (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything | Synonyms: atom, molecule, mote, particle, speck |
| corpuscular | (adjective) of or relating to corpuscles | - |
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| corrade | (verb) wear away | Synonyms: abrade, abrase, rub down, rub off |
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| corral | (noun) a pen for cattle | Synonyms: cattle pen, cow pen |
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| (verb) enclose in a corral | - |
| (verb) arrange wagons so that they form a corral | - |
| (verb) gather and secure | - |
| corrasion | (noun) erosion by friction | Synonyms: abrasion, attrition, detrition |
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| correct | (adjective) free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth | Synonyms: right |
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| (adjective) correct in opinion or judgment | Synonyms: right |
| (adjective) socially right or correct | Synonyms: right |
| (adjective) in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure | Synonyms: right |
| (verb) treat a defect | - |
| (verb) make right or correct | Synonyms: rectify, right |
| (verb) alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard | Synonyms: adjust, set |
| (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chasten, chastise, objurgate |
| (verb) fall in value | Synonyms: decline, slump |
| (verb) punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience | Synonyms: discipline, sort out |
| (verb) make reparations or amends for | Synonyms: compensate, redress, right |
| (verb) adjust for | Synonyms: compensate, counterbalance, even off, even out, even up, make up |
| correctable | (adjective) capable of being corrected by additions | Synonyms: amendable |
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| (adjective) capable of being returned to the original condition; not necessarily permanent | - |
| corrected | (adjective) having something undesirable neutralized | - |
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| correction | (noun) the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right | Synonyms: rectification |
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| (noun) treatment of a specific defect | - |
| (noun) the act of disciplining | Synonyms: discipline |
| (noun) a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases | - |
| (noun) a rebuke for making a mistake | Synonyms: chastening, chastisement |
| (noun) something substituted for an error | - |
| (noun) a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure | Synonyms: fudge factor |
| correctional | (adjective) concerned with or providing correction | - |
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| corrections | (noun) the social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole | - |
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| (noun) the department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders | Synonyms: department of corrections |
| correctitude | (noun) correct or appropriate behavior | Synonyms: properness, propriety |
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| corrective | (adjective) tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition | - |
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| (adjective) designed to promote discipline | Synonyms: disciplinal, disciplinary |
| (noun) a device for treating injury or disease | Synonyms: restorative |
| correctly | (adverb) in an accurate manner | Synonyms: aright, right |
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| correctness | (noun) conformity to fact or truth | Synonyms: rightness |
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| (noun) the quality of conformity to social expectations | - |
| correlate | (adjective) mutually related | Synonyms: correlated, correlative |
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| (noun) either of two or more related or complementary variables | Synonyms: correlative |
| (verb) bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation | - |
| (verb) to bear a reciprocal or mutual relation | - |
| correlated | (adjective) mutually related | Synonyms: correlate, correlative |
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| correlation | (noun) a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; it can vary from -1 (perfect negative correlation) through 0 (no correlation) to +1 (perfect positive correlation) | Synonyms: coefficient of correlation, correlation coefficient |
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| (noun) a statistical relation between two or more variables such that systematic changes in the value of one variable are accompanied by systematic changes in the other | Synonyms: correlational statistics |
| (noun) a reciprocal relation between two or more things | Synonyms: correlativity |
| correlational | (adjective) relating to or employing correlation | - |
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| correlative | (adjective) expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation | - |
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| (adjective) mutually related | Synonyms: correlate, correlated |
| (noun) either of two or more related or complementary variables | Synonyms: correlate |
| correlativity | (noun) a reciprocal relation between two or more things | Synonyms: correlation |
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| correspond | (verb) exchange messages | - |
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| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, check, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally |
| (verb) take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to | Synonyms: represent, stand for |
| (verb) be equivalent or parallel, in mathematics | Synonyms: equate |
| correspondence | (noun) similarity by virtue of corresponding | Synonyms: parallelism |
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| (noun) compatibility of observations | Synonyms: agreement |
| (noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | Synonyms: balance, symmetricalness, symmetry |
| (noun) communication by the exchange of letters | - |
| (noun) the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount | Synonyms: commensurateness, proportionateness |
| correspondent | (adjective) similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar | Synonyms: analogous |
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| (noun) someone who communicates by means of letters | Synonyms: letter writer |
| (noun) a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | Synonyms: newswriter |
| corresponding | (adjective) accompanying | - |
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| (adjective) conforming in every respect | Synonyms: comparable, like |
| (adjective) similar especially in position or purpose | - |
| correspondingly | (adverb) in a corresponding manner | - |
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| corrida | (noun) a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators | Synonyms: bullfight |
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| corridor | (noun) an enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it | - |
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| corrie | (noun) a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake | Synonyms: cirque, cwm |
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| corrigenda | (noun) a list of printing errors in a book along with their corrections | - |
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| corrigendum | (noun) a printer's error; to be corrected | - |
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| corrigible | (adjective) capable of being corrected or set right | - |
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| corroborant | (adjective) used of a medicine that is strengthening | - |
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| corroborate | (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, confirm, substantiate, support, sustain |
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| (verb) give evidence for | Synonyms: validate |
| (verb) support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm | Synonyms: bear out, support, underpin |
| corroboration | (noun) confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence | Synonyms: certification, documentation |
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| corroborative | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| corroboratory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| corrode | (verb) become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid | Synonyms: rust |
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| (verb) cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid | Synonyms: eat, rust |
| corroded | (adjective) eaten away as by acid or oxidation | - |
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| corroding | (noun) erosion by chemical action | Synonyms: corrosion, erosion |
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| corrosion | (noun) erosion by chemical action | Synonyms: corroding, erosion |
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| (noun) a state of deterioration in metals caused by oxidation or chemical action | - |