| bureaucrat | (noun) an official of a bureaucracy | Synonyms: administrative official |
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| bureaucratic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy | - |
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| bureaucratically | (adverb) with respect to bureaucracy | - |
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| (adverb) in a bureaucratic manner | - |
| bureaucratism | (noun) nonelective government officials | Synonyms: bureaucracy |
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| buttercrunch | (noun) lettuce with delicate and relatively crunchy leaves | - |
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| cancroid | (adjective) of or relating to a cancroid | - |
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| (noun) the most common form of skin cancer | Synonyms: squamous cell carcinoma |
| cecropia | (noun) North American silkworm moth; larvae feed on the leaves of forest trees | Synonyms: cecropia moth, Hyalophora cecropia |
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| chancre | (noun) a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis) | - |
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| chancroid | (noun) infectious venereal ulcer | - |
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| chancroidal | (adjective) of or relating to or having chancroids | - |
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| chancrous | (adjective) of or having chancres | - |
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| chloropicrin | (noun) a heavy colorless insoluble liquid compound that causes tears and vomiting; used as a pesticide and as tear gas | Synonyms: nitrochloroform |
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| chylomicron | (noun) a microscopic particle of triglycerides produced in the intestines during digestion; in the bloodstream they release their fatty acids into the blood | - |
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| circumscribe | (verb) restrict or confine within limits | Synonyms: confine to, limit |
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| (verb) draw a line around | - |
| (verb) to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect | - |
| circumscribed | (adjective) subject to limits or subjected to limits | Synonyms: limited |
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| circumscription | (noun) the act of circumscribing | - |
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| cockcrow | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, dawn, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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| coldcream | (noun) a cream used cosmetically (mostly by women) for softening and cleaning the skin | Synonyms: cold cream, face cream, vanishing cream |
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| colicroot | (noun) any of several perennials of the genus Aletris having grasslike leaves and bitter roots reputed to cure colic | Synonyms: colic root, crow corn, star grass, unicorn root |
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| concrete | (adjective) capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary | - |
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| (adjective) formed by the coalescence of particles | - |
| (noun) a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water | - |
| (verb) form into a solid mass; coalesce | - |
| (verb) cover with cement | - |
| concretely | (adverb) in concrete terms | - |
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| concreteness | (noun) the quality of being concrete (not abstract) | - |
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| concretion | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescence, coalescency, coalition, conglutination |
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| (noun) an increase in the density of something | Synonyms: compaction, compression, densification |
| (noun) a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body | Synonyms: calculus |
| (noun) the formation of stonelike objects within a body organ (e.g., the kidneys) | - |
| concretise | (verb) become specific | Synonyms: concretize |
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| concretism | (noun) a representation of an abstract idea in concrete terms | Synonyms: concrete representation |
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| concretistic | (adjective) of or relating to concrete representations of abstractions | - |
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| concretize | (verb) become specific | Synonyms: concretise |
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| (verb) make something concrete | - |
| conscript | (noun) someone who is drafted into military service | Synonyms: draftee, inductee |
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| (verb) enroll into service compulsorily | - |
| conscription | (noun) compulsory military service | Synonyms: draft, muster, selective service |
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| consecrate | (adjective) solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high or sacred purpose | Synonyms: consecrated, dedicated |
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| (verb) render holy by means of religious rites | Synonyms: bless, hallow, sanctify |
| (verb) dedicate to a deity by a vow | Synonyms: vow |
| (verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, dedicate, devote, give |
| (verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: ordain, order, ordinate |
| consecrated | (adjective) solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high or sacred purpose | Synonyms: consecrate, dedicated |
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| (adjective) made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use | Synonyms: sacred, sanctified |
| consecration | (noun) (religion) sanctification of something by setting it apart (usually with religious rites) as dedicated to God | - |
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| (noun) a solemn commitment of your life or your time to some cherished purpose (to a service or a goal) | - |
| corkscrew | (noun) a bottle opener that pulls corks | Synonyms: bottle screw |
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| (verb) move in a spiral or zigzag course | Synonyms: spiral |
| corncrake | (noun) common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields | Synonyms: Crex crex, land rail |
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| corncrib | (noun) a crib for storing and drying ears of corn | - |
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| crab | (noun) a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply | - |
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| (noun) decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers | - |
| (noun) a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body | Synonyms: crab louse, Phthirius pubis, pubic louse |
| (noun) the edible flesh of any of various crabs | Synonyms: crabmeat |
| (noun) a quarrelsome grouch | Synonyms: crabby person |
| (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, gripe, grouse, holler, squawk |
| (verb) fish for crab | - |
| (verb) scurry sideways like a crab | - |
| (verb) direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind | - |
| crabapple | (noun) small sour apple; suitable for preserving | Synonyms: crab apple |
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| (noun) any of numerous wild apple trees usually with small acidic fruit | Synonyms: crab apple, wild apple |
| (noun) any of numerous varieties of crab apples cultivated for their small acidic (usually bright red) fruit used for preserves or as ornamentals for their blossoms | Synonyms: crab apple, cultivated crab apple |
| crabbed | (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
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| crabbedness | (noun) a disposition to be ill-tempered | Synonyms: crabbiness, crossness |
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| crabbiness | (noun) a disposition to be ill-tempered | Synonyms: crabbedness, crossness |
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| crabby | (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabbed, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
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| crabgrass | (noun) grasses with creeping stems that root freely; a pest in lawns | Synonyms: crab grass, finger grass |
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| crabmeat | (noun) the edible flesh of any of various crabs | Synonyms: crab |
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| crabs | (noun) infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice | Synonyms: pediculosis pubis |
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| crabwise | (adjective) (of movement) at an angle | Synonyms: sideways |
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| crack | (adjective) of the highest quality | Synonyms: A-one, ace, first-rate, super, tiptop, top-notch, topnotch, tops |
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| (noun) the act of cracking something | Synonyms: cracking, fracture |
| (noun) a usually brief attempt | Synonyms: fling, go, offer, pass, whirl |
| (noun) a narrow opening | Synonyms: gap |
| (noun) a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive | Synonyms: crack cocaine, tornado |
| (noun) a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts | - |
| (noun) witty remark | Synonyms: quip, sally, wisecrack |
| (noun) a sudden sharp noise | Synonyms: cracking, snap |
| (noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure |
| (noun) a long narrow depression in a surface | Synonyms: chap, cranny, crevice, fissure |
| (noun) a chance to do something | Synonyms: shot |
| (verb) break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension | Synonyms: snap |
| (verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only | Synonyms: break, check |
| (verb) break partially but keep its integrity | - |
| (verb) cause to become cracked | - |
| (verb) reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking | - |
| (verb) break into simpler molecules by means of heat | - |
| (verb) pass through (a barrier) | Synonyms: break through |
| (verb) tell spontaneously | - |
| (verb) hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise | - |
| (verb) suffer a nervous breakdown | Synonyms: break up, collapse, crack up, crock up |
| (verb) make a sharp sound | Synonyms: snap |
| (verb) make a very sharp explosive sound | - |
| (verb) gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions | - |
| crackbrained | (adjective) insanely irresponsible | Synonyms: idiotic |
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| crackdown | (noun) severely repressive actions | - |
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| cracked | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| (adjective) of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide | Synonyms: alligatored |
| (adjective) used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure | Synonyms: chapped, roughened |
| cracker | (noun) a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends | Synonyms: cracker bonbon, snapper |
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| (noun) firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing | Synonyms: banger, firecracker |
| (noun) a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet | - |
| (noun) a poor White person in the southern United States | Synonyms: redneck |
| (noun) a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things | - |
| crackerberry | (noun) creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska | Synonyms: bunchberry, Cornus canadensis, dwarf cornel, pudding berry |
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| crackerjack | (noun) something excellent of its kind | Synonyms: jimdandy, jimhickey |
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| (noun) someone excellent of their kind | Synonyms: jimdandy, jimhickey |
| crackers | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| cracking | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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| (noun) the act of cracking something | Synonyms: crack, fracture |
| (noun) a sudden sharp noise | Synonyms: crack, snap |
| (noun) the process whereby heavy molecules of naphtha or petroleum are broken down into hydrocarbons of lower molecular weight (especially in the oil-refining process) | - |
| crackle | (adjective) having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware | - |
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| (noun) glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface | Synonyms: crackle china, crackleware |
| (noun) the sharp sound of snapping noises | Synonyms: crackling, crepitation |
| (verb) to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks | - |
| (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crunch, scranch, scraunch |
| (verb) make a crackling sound | Synonyms: crepitate |
| crackleware | (noun) glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface | Synonyms: crackle, crackle china |
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| crackling | (noun) the sharp sound of snapping noises | Synonyms: crackle, crepitation |
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| (noun) the residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered | Synonyms: greaves |
| cracklings | (noun) the crisp residue left after lard has been rendered | - |
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| crackpot | (noun) a whimsically eccentric person | Synonyms: crank, fruitcake, nut, nut case, screwball |
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| cracksman | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: safebreaker, safecracker |
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| cradle | (noun) a baby bed with sides and rockers | - |
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| (noun) a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold | Synonyms: rocker |
| (noun) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence | Synonyms: birthplace, place of origin, provenance, provenience |
| (noun) birth of a person | - |
| (verb) run with the stick | - |
| (verb) hold gently and carefully | - |
| (verb) wash in a cradle | - |
| (verb) cut grain with a cradle scythe | - |
| (verb) hold or place in or as if in a cradle | - |
| (verb) bring up from infancy | - |
| cradlesong | (noun) the act of singing a quiet song to lull a child to sleep | Synonyms: lullaby |
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| (noun) a quiet song intended to lull a child to sleep | Synonyms: berceuse, lullaby |
| craft | (noun) the skilled practice of a practical occupation | Synonyms: trade |
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| (noun) a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space | - |
| (noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | Synonyms: craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness |
| (noun) skill in an occupation or trade | Synonyms: craftsmanship, workmanship |
| (noun) people who perform a particular kind of skilled work | Synonyms: trade |
| (verb) make by hand and with much skill | - |
| crafter | (noun) a creator of great skill in the manual arts | Synonyms: craftsman |
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| craftily | (adverb) in an subtle, cunning manner | Synonyms: artfully, cunningly, foxily, knavishly, slyly, trickily |
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| craftiness | (noun) the quality of being crafty | Synonyms: guile |
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| (noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | Synonyms: craft, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness |
| craftsman | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artificer, artisan, journeyman |
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| (noun) a creator of great skill in the manual arts | Synonyms: crafter |
| (noun) a professional whose work is consistently of high quality | - |
| craftsmanship | (noun) skill in an occupation or trade | Synonyms: craft, workmanship |
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| crafty | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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| crag | (noun) a steep rugged rock or cliff | - |
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| cragfast | (adjective) stranded on or as if on a crag | - |
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| cragged | (adjective) having hills and crags | Synonyms: craggy, hilly, mountainous |
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| craggy | (adjective) having hills and crags | Synonyms: cragged, hilly, mountainous |
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| cragsman | (noun) a climber of vertical rock faces | Synonyms: rock climber |
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| crake | (noun) any of several short-billed Old World rails | - |
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| cram | (verb) prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam | - |
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| (verb) study intensively, as before an exam | Synonyms: bone, bone up, drum, get up, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up |
| (verb) crowd or pack to capacity | Synonyms: chock up, jam, jampack, ram, wad |
| (verb) put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled | - |
| crammer | (noun) a textbook designed for cramming | - |
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| (noun) a special school where students are crammed | - |
| (noun) a student who crams | - |
| (noun) a teacher who is paid to cram students for examinations | - |
| cramp | (noun) a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together | Synonyms: cramp iron |
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| (noun) a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued | - |
| (noun) a painful and involuntary muscular contraction | Synonyms: muscle spasm, spasm |
| (verb) suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle | - |
| (verb) affect with or as if with a cramp | - |
| (verb) prevent the progress or free movement of | Synonyms: halter, hamper, strangle |
| (verb) secure with a cramp | - |
| crampbark | (noun) deciduous thicket-forming Old World shrub with clusters of white flowers and small bright red berries | Synonyms: cranberry tree, European cranberry bush, European cranberrybush, guelder rose, Viburnum opulus |
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| cramped | (adjective) constricted in size | - |
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| crampfish | (noun) any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges | Synonyms: electric ray, numbfish, torpedo |
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| crampon | (noun) an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing | Synonyms: climber, climbing iron, crampoon |
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| (noun) a hinged pair of curved iron bars; used to raise heavy objects | Synonyms: crampoon |
| crampoon | (noun) an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing | Synonyms: climber, climbing iron, crampon |
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| (noun) a hinged pair of curved iron bars; used to raise heavy objects | Synonyms: crampon |
| cran | (noun) a capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring | - |
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| cranberry | (noun) very tart red berry used for sauce or juice | - |
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| (noun) any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries | - |
| cranch | (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: craunch, crunch, grind |
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| crane | (noun) large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world | - |
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| (noun) lifts and moves heavy objects; lifting tackle is suspended from a pivoted boom that rotates around a vertical axis | - |
| (verb) stretch (the neck) so as to see better | Synonyms: stretch out |
| cranesbill | (noun) any of numerous geraniums of the genus Geranium | Synonyms: crane's bill |
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| cranial | (adjective) of or relating to the cranium which encloses the brain | - |
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| craniate | (noun) animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium | Synonyms: vertebrate |
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| craniologist | (noun) someone who claims to be able to read your character from the shape of your skull | Synonyms: phrenologist |
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| craniology | (noun) the scientific study of the skulls of various human races | - |
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| craniometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring skull sizes | - |
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| craniometric | (adjective) of or relating to craniometry | Synonyms: craniometrical |
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| craniometrical | (adjective) of or relating to craniometry | Synonyms: craniometric |
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| craniometry | (noun) the branch of physical anthropology dealing with the study and measurement of dry skulls after removal of its soft parts | - |
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| craniotomy | (noun) a surgical opening through the skull | - |
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| cranium | (noun) the part of the skull that encloses the brain | Synonyms: braincase, brainpan |
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| crank | (adjective) (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail | Synonyms: cranky, tender, tippy |
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| (noun) a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle | Synonyms: starter |
| (noun) an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant | Synonyms: chalk, chicken feed, deoxyephedrine, glass, ice, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, shabu, trash |
| (noun) a bad-tempered person | Synonyms: churl, crosspatch, grouch, grump |
| (noun) a whimsically eccentric person | Synonyms: crackpot, fruitcake, nut, nut case, screwball |
| (verb) rotate with a crank | Synonyms: crank up |
| (verb) bend into the shape of a crank | - |
| (verb) fasten with a crank | - |
| (verb) start by cranking | Synonyms: crank up |
| (verb) travel along a zigzag path | Synonyms: zigzag |
| crankcase | (noun) housing for a crankshaft | - |
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