| 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 |
| courage | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: braveness, bravery, courageousness |
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| courageous | (adjective) possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching | Synonyms: brave |
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| courageously | (adverb) in a courageous manner | Synonyms: bravely |
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| courageousness | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: braveness, bravery, courage |
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| courante | (noun) a court dance of the 16th century; consisted of short advances and retreats | - |
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| courbaril | (noun) West Indian locust tree having pinnate leaves and panicles of large white or purplish flowers; yields very hard tough wood | Synonyms: Hymenaea courbaril |
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| courgette | (noun) small cucumber-shaped vegetable marrow; typically dark green | Synonyms: zucchini |
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| (noun) marrow squash plant whose fruit are eaten when small | Synonyms: zucchini |
| courier | (noun) a person who carries a message | Synonyms: messenger |
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| courlan | (noun) wading bird of South America and Central America | Synonyms: Aramus guarauna |
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| course | (noun) a mode of action | Synonyms: course of action |
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| (noun) education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings | Synonyms: class, course of instruction, course of study |
| (noun) facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport | - |
| (noun) (construction) a layer of masonry | Synonyms: row |
| (noun) part of a meal served at one time | - |
| (noun) a connected series of events or actions or developments | Synonyms: line |
| (noun) a body of students who are taught together | Synonyms: class, form, grade |
| (noun) general line of orientation | Synonyms: trend |
| (noun) a line or route along which something travels or moves | Synonyms: path, track |
| (adverb) as might be expected | Synonyms: naturally, of course |
| (verb) hunt with hounds | - |
| (verb) move along, of liquids | Synonyms: feed, flow, run |
| (verb) move swiftly through or over | - |
| courser | (noun) swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles | - |
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| (noun) formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle | Synonyms: charger |
| (noun) a dog trained for coursing | - |
| (noun) a huntsman who hunts small animals with fast dogs that use sight rather than scent to follow their prey | - |
| coursework | (noun) work assigned to and done by a student during a course of study; usually it is evaluated as part of the student's grade in the course | - |
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| coursing | (noun) hunting with dogs (usually greyhounds) that are trained to chase game (such as hares) by sight instead of by scent | - |
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| court | (noun) respectful deference | Synonyms: homage |
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| (noun) an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings | Synonyms: courtyard |
| (noun) a specially marked horizontal area within which a game is played | - |
| (noun) a room in which a law court sits | Synonyms: courtroom |
| (noun) a hotel for motorists; provides direct access from rooms to parking area | Synonyms: motor hotel, motor inn, motor lodge, tourist court |
| (noun) the residence of a sovereign or nobleman | - |
| (noun) an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business | Synonyms: judicature, tribunal |
| (noun) the sovereign and his advisers who are the governing power of a state | Synonyms: royal court |
| (noun) the family and retinue of a sovereign or prince | Synonyms: royal court |
| (verb) make amorous advances towards | Synonyms: romance, solicit, woo |
| (verb) seek someone's favor | Synonyms: woo |
| (verb) engage in social activities leading to marriage | - |
| courteous | (adjective) characterized by courtesy and gracious good manners | - |
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| (adjective) exhibiting courtesy and politeness | Synonyms: gracious, nice |
| courteously | (adverb) in a polite manner | Synonyms: politely |
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| courtesan | (noun) a woman who cohabits with an important man | Synonyms: concubine, doxy, paramour |
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| courtesy | (noun) a courteous or respectful or considerate act | - |
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| (noun) a courteous manner | Synonyms: good manners |
| (noun) a courteous or respectful or considerate remark | - |
| courthouse | (noun) a building that houses judicial courts | - |
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| (noun) a government building that houses the offices of a county government | - |
| courtier | (noun) an attendant at the court of a sovereign | - |
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| courting | (noun) a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage) | Synonyms: courtship, suit, wooing |
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| courtliness | (noun) elegance suggestive of a royal court | - |
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| courtly | (adjective) refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court | Synonyms: formal, stately |
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| courtroom | (noun) a room in which a law court sits | Synonyms: court |
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| courtship | (noun) a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage) | Synonyms: courting, suit, wooing |
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| courtyard | (noun) an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings | Synonyms: court |
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| discourage | (verb) try to prevent; show opposition to | Synonyms: deter |
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| (verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: admonish, monish, warn |
| (verb) deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged | - |
| discouraged | (adjective) lacking in resolution | - |
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| (adjective) made less hopeful or enthusiastic | Synonyms: demoralised, demoralized, disheartened |
| discouragement | (noun) the act of discouraging | - |
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| (noun) the expression of opposition and disapproval | - |
| (noun) the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles | Synonyms: disheartenment, dismay |
| discouraging | (adjective) depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action | - |
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| (adjective) expressing disapproval in order to dissuade | - |
| discouragingly | (adverb) in a discouraging manner | - |
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| discourse | (noun) an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic | Synonyms: discussion, treatment |
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| (noun) extended verbal expression in speech or writing | - |
| (noun) an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) | Synonyms: preaching, sermon |
| (verb) talk at length and formally about a topic | Synonyms: dissertate, hold forth |
| (verb) carry on a conversation | Synonyms: converse |
| (verb) to consider or examine in speech or writing | Synonyms: discuss, talk about |
| discourteous | (adjective) showing no courtesy; rude | - |
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| (adjective) lacking social graces | Synonyms: ungracious |
| discourteously | (adverb) in an impolite manner | Synonyms: impolitely, rudely |
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| discourtesy | (noun) a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others | Synonyms: offence, offense, offensive activity |
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| (noun) a manner that is rude and insulting | Synonyms: rudeness |
| (noun) an expression of lack of respect | Synonyms: disrespect |
| encourage | (verb) spur on | - |
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| (verb) inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to | - |
| (verb) contribute to the progress or growth of | Synonyms: advance, boost, further, promote |
| encouraged | (adjective) inspired with confidence | Synonyms: bucked up |
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| encouragement | (noun) the act of giving hope or support to someone | Synonyms: boost |
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| (noun) the expression of approval and support | - |
| (noun) the feeling of being encouraged | - |
| encouraging | (adjective) giving courage or confidence or hope | - |
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| (adjective) furnishing support and encouragement | Synonyms: supporting |
| encouragingly | (adverb) in an encouraging manner | - |
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| forecourt | (noun) the outer or front court of a building or of a group of buildings | - |
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| intercourse | (noun) sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur | Synonyms: carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, copulation, relation, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation |
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| (noun) communication between individuals | Synonyms: social intercourse |
| lawcourt | (noun) a tribunal that is presided over by a magistrate or by one or more judges who administer justice according to the laws | Synonyms: court of justice, court of law, law court |
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| outercourse | (noun) sexual stimulation without vaginal penetration | - |
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| racecourse | (noun) a course over which races are run | Synonyms: racetrack, raceway, track |
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| rancour | (noun) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will | Synonyms: bitterness, gall, rancor, resentment |
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| recourse | (noun) act of turning to for assistance | Synonyms: refuge, resort |
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| (noun) something or someone turned to for assistance or security | Synonyms: refuge, resort |
| scour | (noun) a place that is scoured (especially by running water) | - |
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| (verb) rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid | Synonyms: flush, purge |
| (verb) rub hard or scrub | Synonyms: abrade |
| (verb) clean with hard rubbing | Synonyms: scrub |
| (verb) examine minutely | - |
| scoured | (adjective) worn away as by water or ice or wind | Synonyms: eroded |
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| scourer | (noun) someone who cleanses by scouring | - |
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| (noun) someone who travels widely and energetically | - |
| scourge | (noun) a whip used to inflict punishment | Synonyms: flagellum |
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| (noun) a person who inspires fear or dread | Synonyms: terror, threat |
| (noun) something causing misery or death | Synonyms: bane, curse, nemesis |
| (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, ravage, waste |
| (verb) whip | Synonyms: flagellate |
| (verb) punish severely; excoriate | - |
| scourger | (noun) a torturer who flogs or scourges (especially an official whose duty is to whip offenders) | Synonyms: flogger |
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| scouring | (noun) the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water | Synonyms: scrub, scrubbing |
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| (noun) moving over territory to search for something | - |
| scours | (noun) diarrhea in livestock | - |
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| succour | (noun) assistance in time of difficulty | Synonyms: ministration, relief, succor |
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| (verb) help in a difficult situation | Synonyms: succor |
| succourer | (noun) someone who gives help in times of need or distress or difficulty | Synonyms: succorer |
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| undiscouraged | (adjective) not deterred | Synonyms: undeterred |
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| unencouraging | (adjective) not encouraging | - |
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| watercourse | (noun) a conduit through which water flows | Synonyms: waterway |
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| (noun) a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth | Synonyms: stream |
| (noun) natural or artificial channel through which water flows | - |