| abcoulomb | (noun) a unit of electrical charge equal to 10 coulombs | - |
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| accouchement | (noun) the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child | Synonyms: childbearing, childbirth, vaginal birth |
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| accoucheur | (noun) a physician specializing in obstetrics | Synonyms: obstetrician |
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| accoucheuse | (noun) a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies | Synonyms: midwife |
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| account | (noun) the quality of taking advantage | - |
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| (noun) importance or value | - |
| (noun) a record or narrative description of past events | Synonyms: chronicle, history, story |
| (noun) an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered | Synonyms: bill, invoice |
| (noun) a short account of the news | Synonyms: news report, report, story, write up |
| (noun) a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc. | Synonyms: explanation |
| (noun) the act of informing by verbal report | Synonyms: report |
| (noun) grounds | Synonyms: score |
| (noun) a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance | Synonyms: account statement, accounting |
| (noun) a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services | Synonyms: business relationship |
| (verb) furnish a justifying analysis or explanation | Synonyms: answer for |
| (verb) to give an account or representation of in words | Synonyms: describe, report |
| (verb) keep an account of | Synonyms: calculate |
| (verb) be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something | - |
| accountability | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: answerability, answerableness |
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| accountable | (adjective) liable to account for one's actions | Synonyms: answerable |
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| accountancy | (noun) the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business | Synonyms: accounting |
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| accountant | (noun) someone who maintains and audits business accounts | Synonyms: comptroller, controller |
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| accountantship | (noun) the position of accountant | - |
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| accounting | (noun) the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business | Synonyms: accountancy |
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| (noun) a system that provides quantitative information about finances | - |
| (noun) a convincing explanation that reveals basic causes | - |
| (noun) a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance | Synonyms: account, account statement |
| (noun) a bookkeeper's chronological list of related debits and credits of a business; forms part of a ledger of accounts | Synonyms: accounting system, method of accounting |
| accouter | (verb) provide with military equipment | Synonyms: accoutre |
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| accoutered | (adjective) provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose (especially military) | Synonyms: accoutred |
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| accouterment | (noun) clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing | Synonyms: accessory, accoutrement |
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| accoutre | (verb) provide with military equipment | Synonyms: accouter |
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| accoutred | (adjective) provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose (especially military) | Synonyms: accoutered |
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| accoutrement | (noun) clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing | Synonyms: accessory, accouterment |
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| acousma | (noun) illusory auditory perception of strange nonverbal sounds | Synonyms: auditory hallucination |
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| acoustic | (adjective) of or relating to the science of acoustics | Synonyms: acoustical |
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| (noun) a remedy for hearing loss or deafness | - |
| acoustical | (adjective) of or relating to the science of acoustics | Synonyms: acoustic |
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| acoustically | (adverb) with respect to acoustics | - |
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| acoustician | (noun) a physicist who specializes in acoustics | - |
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| acousticophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of sounds including your own voice | Synonyms: phonophobia |
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| acoustics | (noun) the study of the physical properties of sound | - |
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| anasarcous | (adjective) characterized by or affected by dropsy | - |
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| autoicous | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs in separate clusters on the same plant | - |
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| barracouta | (noun) a large marine food fish common on the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa | Synonyms: snoek |
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| caducous | (adjective) shed at an early stage of development | Synonyms: shed |
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| concourse | (noun) a coming together of people | Synonyms: confluence |
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| (noun) a wide hallway in a building where people can walk | - |
| (noun) a large gathering of people | Synonyms: multitude, throng |
| coucal | (noun) Old World ground-living cuckoo having a long dagger-like hind claw | - |
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| couch | (noun) an upholstered seat for more than one person | Synonyms: lounge, sofa |
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| (noun) a narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment | - |
| (noun) a flat coat of paint or varnish used by artists as a primer | - |
| (verb) formulate in a particular style or language | Synonyms: cast, frame, put, redact |
| couchant | (adjective) lying on the stomach with head raised with legs pointed forward | - |
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| couchette | (noun) a compartment on a European passenger train; contains 4 to 6 berths for sleeping | - |
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| (noun) a sleeping berth in a couchette compartment. | - |
| cougar | (noun) large American feline resembling a lion | Synonyms: catamount, Felis concolor, mountain lion, painter, panther, puma |
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| cough | (noun) a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis | Synonyms: coughing |
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| (verb) exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion | - |
| coughing | (noun) a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis | Synonyms: cough |
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| coulisse | (noun) a timber member grooved to take a sliding panel | - |
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| (noun) a flat situated in the wings | Synonyms: wing flat |
| coulomb | (noun) a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second | Synonyms: ampere-second, C |
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| coulter | (noun) a sharp steel wedge that precedes the plow and cuts vertically through the soil | Synonyms: colter |
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| coumarone | (noun) a colorless oily compound extracted from coal tar and used in manufacturing synthetic resins | Synonyms: benzofuran, cumarone |
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| council | (noun) a meeting of people for consultation | - |
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| (noun) a body serving in an administrative capacity | - |
| (noun) (Christianity) an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine | - |
| councillor | (noun) a member of a council | Synonyms: council member |
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| councillorship | (noun) the position of council member | Synonyms: councilorship |
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| councilman | (noun) a man who is a council member | - |
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| councilorship | (noun) the position of council member | Synonyms: councillorship |
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| councilwoman | (noun) a woman who is a council member | - |
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| counsel | (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counseling, counselling, direction, guidance |
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| (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsellor, counselor-at-law, counselor, pleader |
| (verb) give advice to | Synonyms: advise, rede |
| counseling | (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counsel, counselling, direction, guidance |
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| counselling | (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counsel, counseling, direction, guidance |
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| counsellor | (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsel, counselor-at-law, counselor, pleader |
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| (noun) someone who gives advice about problems | Synonyms: counselor |
| (noun) someone who has supervisory duties at a summer camp | Synonyms: counselor |
| counsellorship | (noun) the position of counselor | Synonyms: counselorship |
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| counselor | (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsel, counsellor, counselor-at-law, pleader |
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| (noun) someone who gives advice about problems | Synonyms: counsellor |
| (noun) someone who has supervisory duties at a summer camp | Synonyms: counsellor |
| counselorship | (noun) the position of counselor | Synonyms: counsellorship |
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| count | (noun) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order | Synonyms: counting, enumeration, numeration, reckoning, tally |
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| (noun) a nobleman (in various countries) having rank equal to a British earl | - |
| (noun) the total number counted | - |
| (verb) include as if by counting | - |
| (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, calculate, depend, look, reckon, rely, swear |
| (verb) take account of | Synonyms: reckon |
| (verb) determine the number or amount of | Synonyms: enumerate, number, numerate |
| (verb) name or recite the numbers in ascending order | - |
| (verb) show consideration for; take into account | Synonyms: consider, weigh |
| (verb) have weight; have import, carry weight | Synonyms: matter, weigh |
| (verb) put into a group | Synonyms: number |
| (verb) have a certain value or carry a certain weight | - |
| countable | (adjective) that can be counted | Synonyms: denumerable, enumerable, numerable |
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| countdown | (noun) counting backward from an arbitrary number to indicate the time remaining before some event (such as launching a space vehicle) | - |
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| countenance | (noun) the appearance conveyed by a person's face | Synonyms: visage |
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| (noun) the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) | Synonyms: kisser, mug, phiz, physiognomy, smiler, visage |
| (noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: endorsement, imprimatur, indorsement, sanction, warrant |
| (verb) consent to, give permission; permit | Synonyms: allow, let, permit |
| counter | (adjective) indicating opposition or resistance | Synonyms: antagonistic |
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| (noun) a return punch (especially by a boxer) | Synonyms: counterpunch, parry |
| (noun) table consisting of a horizontal surface over which business is transacted | - |
| (noun) a calculator that keeps a record of the number of times something happens | Synonyms: tabulator |
| (noun) a piece of leather forming the back of a shoe or boot | Synonyms: heel counter |
| (noun) game equipment (as a piece of wood, plastic, or ivory) used for keeping a count or reserving a space in various card or board games | - |
| (noun) a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers | Synonyms: buffet, sideboard |
| (noun) (computer science) a register whose contents go through a regular series of states (usually states indicating consecutive integers) | - |
| (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: comeback, rejoinder, replication, retort, return, riposte |
| (noun) a person who counts things | - |
| (adverb) in the opposite direction | - |
| (verb) speak in response | - |
| (verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: anticipate, foresee, forestall |
| counteract | (verb) act in opposition to | Synonyms: antagonise, antagonize |
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| (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: countermine, sabotage, subvert, undermine, weaken |
| (verb) oppose or check by a counteraction | Synonyms: countercheck |
| (verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counterbalance, countervail, neutralize |
| counteraction | (noun) action intended to nullify the effects of some previous action | Synonyms: neutralisation, neutralization |
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| counteractive | (adjective) opposing or neutralizing or mitigating an effect by contrary action | - |
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| counteractively | (adverb) in a counteractive manner | - |
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| counterargument | (noun) an argument offered in opposition to another argument | - |
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| counterattack | (noun) an attack by a defending force against an attacking enemy force in order to regain lost ground or cut off enemy advance units etc. | Synonyms: countermove |
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| (noun) (chess) an attack that is intended to counter the opponent's advantage in another part of the board | Synonyms: counterplay |
| (verb) make a counterattack | Synonyms: counterstrike |
| counterattraction | (noun) a rival attraction | - |
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| counterbalance | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterpoise, counterweight, equaliser, equalizer |
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| (noun) a compensating equivalent | Synonyms: offset |
| (noun) equality of distribution | Synonyms: balance, equilibrium, equipoise |
| (verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counteract, countervail, neutralize |
| (verb) contrast with equal weight or force | Synonyms: oppose |
| (verb) adjust for | Synonyms: compensate, correct, even off, even out, even up, make up |
| counterbalanced | (adjective) brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another | Synonyms: counterpoised |
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| counterblast | (noun) a vigorous and unrestrained response | - |
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| counterblow | (noun) a return blow; a retaliatory blow | - |
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| counterbombardment | (noun) bombardment intended to destroy or neutralize enemy weapons | - |
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| counterbore | (noun) a bit for enlarging the upper part of a hole | Synonyms: countersink, countersink bit |
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| counterchallenge | (verb) challenge in turn | - |
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| counterchange | (verb) cause to change places | Synonyms: interchange, transpose |
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| countercharge | (noun) a retaliatory charge | - |
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| (noun) a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser | - |
| countercheck | (noun) something that checks the correctness of a previous check | Synonyms: double check |
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| (noun) a check that restrains another check | - |
| (verb) check a second time | - |
| (verb) oppose or check by a counteraction | Synonyms: counteract |
| counterclaim | (noun) a claim filed in opposition to another claim in a legal action | - |
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| (verb) set up a claim in opposition to a previous claim | - |
| counterclockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: anticlockwise, contraclockwise |
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| (adverb) in a direction opposite to the direction in which the hands of a clock move | Synonyms: anticlockwise |
| countercoup | (noun) a sudden and decisive overthrow of a government that gained power by a coup d'etat | - |
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| counterculture | (noun) a culture with lifestyles and values opposed to those of the established culture | - |
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| countercurrent | (noun) actions counter to the main group activity | Synonyms: crosscurrent |
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| (noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: crosscurrent, rip, riptide, tide rip |
| counterdemonstration | (noun) a demonstration held in opposition to another demonstration | - |
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| counterdemonstrator | (noun) someone who demonstrates in opposition to another demonstration | - |
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| counterespionage | (noun) spying on the spies | - |
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| counterevidence | (noun) (philosophy, law, sciences) Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis. | Synonyms: counter-evidence |
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| counterexample | (noun) refutation by example | - |
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| counterfactual | (adjective) going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis) | Synonyms: contrary to fact |
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| counterfactuality | (noun) the quality of being contrary to fact | - |
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| counterfeit | (adjective) not genuine; imitating something superior | Synonyms: imitative |
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| (noun) a copy that is represented as the original | Synonyms: forgery |
| (verb) make a copy of with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: fake, forge |
| counterfeiter | (noun) someone who makes copies illegally | Synonyms: forger |
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| counterfire | (noun) fire intended to neutralize or destroy enemy weapons | - |
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| counterfoil | (noun) the part of a check that is retained as a record | Synonyms: check stub, stub |
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| counterglow | (noun) a faint spot of light in the night sky that appears directly opposite the position of the sun; a reflection of sunlight by micrometeoric material in space | Synonyms: gegenschein |
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| counterinsurgency | (noun) actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | Synonyms: pacification |
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| counterinsurgent | (adjective) of or relating or characteristic of actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | - |
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| counterintelligence | (noun) intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism | - |
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| counterintuitive | (adjective) contrary to what common sense would suggest | - |
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| counterintuitively | (adverb) in a counterintuitive manner | - |
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| counterirritant | (noun) a medicine applied locally to produce superficial inflammation in order to reduce deeper inflammation | - |
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| counterman | (noun) a male who attends a counter (as in a diner) | - |
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| countermand | (noun) a contrary command cancelling or reversing a previous command | - |
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| (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |