| circumvention | (noun) the act of evading by going around | - |
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| circumvolute | (verb) wind or turn in volutions, especially in an inward spiral, as of snail | - |
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| circumvolution | (noun) the act of turning or winding or folding around a central axis | - |
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| circumvolve | (verb) cause to turn on an axis or center | Synonyms: rotate |
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| circus | (noun) a performance given by a traveling company of acrobats, clowns, and trained animals | - |
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| (noun) a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment | Synonyms: carnival |
| (noun) an arena consisting of an oval or circular area enclosed by tiers of seats and usually covered by a tent | - |
| (noun) (antiquity) an open-air stadium for chariot races and gladiatorial games | - |
| (noun) a travelling company of entertainers; including trained animals | - |
| cirrocumulus | (noun) a cloud at a high altitude consisting of a series of regularly arranged small clouds resembling ripples | Synonyms: cirrocumulus cloud |
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| clearcutness | (noun) clarity as a consequence of precision | Synonyms: preciseness |
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| coccus | (noun) any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria | Synonyms: cocci |
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| cocuswood | (noun) wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets | Synonyms: cocoswood, granadilla wood |
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| concubinage | (noun) cohabitation without being legally married | - |
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| concubine | (noun) a woman who cohabits with an important man | Synonyms: courtesan, doxy, paramour |
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| concupiscence | (noun) a desire for sexual intimacy | Synonyms: eros, physical attraction, sexual desire |
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| concupiscent | (adjective) vigorously passionate | Synonyms: lustful, lusty |
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| concur | (verb) happen simultaneously | Synonyms: coincide |
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| (verb) be in accord; be in agreement | Synonyms: agree, concord, hold |
| concurrence | (noun) acting together, as agents or circumstances or events | Synonyms: concurrency |
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| (noun) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrence, coincidence, conjunction |
| (noun) agreement of results or opinions | Synonyms: concurrency |
| (noun) a state of cooperation | Synonyms: meeting of minds |
| concurrency | (noun) acting together, as agents or circumstances or events | Synonyms: concurrence |
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| (noun) agreement of results or opinions | Synonyms: concurrence |
| concurrent | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coincidental, coinciding, cooccurring, simultaneous |
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| concurrently | (adverb) overlapping in duration | Synonyms: at the same time |
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| concurring | (adjective) being of the same opinion | Synonyms: concordant |
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| concuss | (verb) injure the brain; sustain a concussion | - |
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| (verb) shake violently | - |
| concussion | (noun) injury to the brain caused by a blow; usually resulting in loss of consciousness | - |
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| (noun) any violent blow | - |
| consecutive | (adjective) successive (without a break) | Synonyms: straight |
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| (adjective) in regular succession without gaps | Synonyms: sequent, sequential, serial, successive |
| (adjective) one after the other | Synonyms: back-to-back |
| (adverb) in a sequential manner | Synonyms: sequentially |
| consecutively | (adverb) in a consecutive manner | - |
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| conspicuous | (adjective) obvious to the eye or mind | - |
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| (adjective) without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious | Synonyms: blatant, blazing |
| conspicuously | (adverb) in a manner tending to attract attention | - |
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| (adverb) in a prominent way | Synonyms: prominently |
| conspicuousness | (noun) high visibility | - |
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| (noun) the state of being conspicuous | - |
| cooccur | (verb) go with, fall together | Synonyms: co-occur, coincide |
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| cooccurring | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coincidental, coinciding, concurrent, simultaneous |
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| corpuscular | (adjective) of or relating to corpuscles | - |
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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 |
| creamcups | (noun) California plant with small pale yellow flowers | Synonyms: Platystemon californicus |
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| crepuscular | (adjective) like twilight; dim | - |
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| crepuscule | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
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| crocus | (noun) any of numerous low-growing plants of the genus Crocus having slender grasslike leaves and white or yellow or purple flowers; native chiefly to the Mediterranean region but widely cultivated | - |
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| crosscurrent | (noun) actions counter to the main group activity | Synonyms: countercurrent |
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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: countercurrent, rip, riptide, tide rip |
| crosscut | (noun) a route shorter than the usual one | Synonyms: cutoff, shortcut |
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| (noun) a diagonal path | - |
| (verb) cut using a diagonal line | Synonyms: cut across |
| cryptocurrency | (noun) a currency based on the usage of cryptography to secure transactions | - |
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| cub | (noun) the young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or wolf or lion | Synonyms: young carnivore |
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| (noun) a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) | Synonyms: lad, laddie, sonny, sonny boy |
| (noun) an awkward and inexperienced youth | Synonyms: greenhorn, rookie |
| (verb) give birth to cubs | - |
| cubby | (noun) a small secluded room | Synonyms: cubbyhole, snug, snuggery |
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| cubbyhole | (noun) a small compartment | Synonyms: pigeonhole |
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| (noun) a small secluded room | Synonyms: cubby, snug, snuggery |
| cube | (noun) a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube | Synonyms: square block |
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| (noun) any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone | - |
| (noun) the product of three equal terms | Synonyms: third power |
| (noun) a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces | Synonyms: regular hexahedron |
| (noun) a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides | Synonyms: block |
| (verb) raise to the third power | - |
| (verb) cut into cubes | Synonyms: dice |
| cubeb | (noun) a cigarette containing cubeb | Synonyms: cubeb cigarette |
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| (noun) tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits | Synonyms: cubeb vine, Java pepper, Piper cubeba |
| (noun) spicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in cigarettes | - |
| cubelike | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubical, cubiform, cuboid, cuboidal |
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| cubic | (adjective) having the shape of a cube; having three dimensions | Synonyms: three-dimensional |
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| (adjective) involving the cube and no higher power of a quantity or variable | - |
| cubical | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubelike, cubiform, cuboid, cuboidal |
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| cubicity | (noun) the property of resembling a cube | - |
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| cubicle | (noun) small area set off by walls for special use | Synonyms: booth, kiosk, stall |
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| (noun) small individual study area in a library | Synonyms: carrel, carrell, stall |
| (noun) small room in which a monk or nun lives | Synonyms: cell |
| cubiform | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubelike, cubical, cuboid, cuboidal |
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| cubism | (noun) an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes | - |
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| cubist | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of cubism | Synonyms: cubistic |
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| (noun) an artist who adheres to the principles of cubism | - |
| cubistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of cubism | Synonyms: cubist |
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| cubit | (noun) an ancient unit of length based on the length of the forearm | - |
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| cubital | (adjective) of or relating to the elbow | - |
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| cubitiere | (noun) body armor that protects the elbow | - |
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| cubitus | (noun) hinge joint between the forearm and upper arm and the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped | Synonyms: articulatio cubiti, cubital joint, elbow, elbow joint, human elbow |
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| (noun) the arm from the elbow to the fingertips | - |
| cuboid | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubelike, cubical, cubiform, cuboidal |
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| (noun) a rectangular parallelepiped | - |
| cuboidal | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubelike, cubical, cubiform, cuboid |
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| cuckold | (noun) a man whose wife committed adultery | - |
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| (verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: betray, cheat, cheat on, wander |
| cuckolding | (noun) A sexual act where a married person has sex with another person while their spouse watches | - |
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| cuckoldom | (noun) the state of a husband whose wife has committed adultery | - |
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| cuckoldry | (noun) the practice of making cuckolds; sexual conquests of married women | - |
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| cuckoo | (noun) any of numerous European and North American birds having pointed wings and a long tail | - |
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| (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, fathead, goof, goofball, goose, jackass, twat, zany |
| (verb) repeat monotonously, like a cuckoo repeats his call | - |
| cuckooflower | (noun) a bitter cress of Europe and America | Synonyms: Cardamine pratensis, cuckoo flower, lady's smock, meadow cress |
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| cuckoopint | (noun) common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum | Synonyms: Arum maculatum, jack-in-the-pulpit, lords-and-ladies |
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| cucumber | (noun) cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons | Synonyms: cuke |
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| (noun) a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit | Synonyms: cucumber vine, Cucumis sativus |
| cucurbit | (noun) any plant of the family Cucurbitaceae | - |
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| cucurbitaceous | (adjective) of or relating to plants of the family Cucurbitaceae | - |
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| cud | (noun) a wad of something chewable as tobacco | Synonyms: chaw, chew, plug, quid, wad |
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| (noun) food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again | Synonyms: rechewed food |
| cudbear | (noun) a purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens | Synonyms: archil, orchil |
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| cuddle | (noun) a close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace | Synonyms: nestle, snuggle |
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| (verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | Synonyms: draw close, nest, nestle, nuzzle, snuggle |
| (verb) hold (a person or thing) close, as for affection, comfort, or warmth | - |
| cuddlesome | (adjective) inviting cuddling or hugging | Synonyms: cuddly |
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| cuddling | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling |
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| cuddly | (adjective) inviting cuddling or hugging | Synonyms: cuddlesome |
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| cuddy | (noun) the galley or pantry of a small ship | - |
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| cudgel | (noun) a club that is used as a weapon | - |
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| (verb) strike with a cudgel | Synonyms: fustigate |
| cudweed | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Gnaphalium having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color | - |
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| (noun) any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads | Synonyms: cotton rose, filago |
| (noun) perennial cottony-white herb of southwestern United States | Synonyms: Artemisia gnaphalodes, Artemisia ludoviciana, prairie sage, western mugwort, white sage |
| cue | (noun) sports implement consisting of a tapering rod used to strike a cue ball in pool or billiards | Synonyms: cue stick, pool cue, pool stick |
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| (noun) a stimulus that provides information about what to do | Synonyms: discriminative stimulus |
| (noun) an actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech | - |
| (noun) evidence that helps to solve a problem | Synonyms: clew, clue |
| (verb) assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned | Synonyms: prompt, remind |
| cuff | (noun) the lap consisting of a turned-back hem encircling the end of the sleeve or leg | Synonyms: turnup |
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| (noun) shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs | Synonyms: handcuff, handlock, manacle |
| (verb) hit with the hand | Synonyms: whomp |
| (verb) confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs | Synonyms: handcuff, manacle |
| (verb) to get involved in a relationship with another person | - |
| cufflink | (noun) jewelry consisting of one of a pair of linked buttons used to fasten the cuffs of a shirt | - |
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| cuirass | (noun) medieval body armor that covers the chest and back | - |
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| cuirassier | (noun) a cavalryman equipped with a cuirass | - |
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| cuisine | (noun) the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared | Synonyms: culinary art |
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| cuisse | (noun) armor plate that protects the thigh | - |
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| cuke | (noun) cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons | Synonyms: cucumber |
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| cul | (noun) a passage with access only at one end | Synonyms: cul de sac, dead end |
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| culdoscope | (noun) a specialized endoscope for visually examining a woman's pelvic organs | - |
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| culdoscopy | (noun) endoscopic examination of a woman's pelvic organs by the insertion of a culdoscope through the vagina | - |
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| culinary | (adjective) of or relating to or used in cooking | - |
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| cull | (noun) the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality | Synonyms: reject |
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| (verb) look for and gather | Synonyms: pick, pluck |
| (verb) remove something that has been rejected | - |
| cullender | (noun) bowl-shaped strainer; used to wash or drain foods | Synonyms: colander |
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| cullis | (noun) a gutter in a roof | - |
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| culm | (noun) stem of plants of the Gramineae | - |
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| culminate | (verb) end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage | Synonyms: climax |
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| (verb) rise to, or form, a summit | - |
| (verb) bring to a head or to the highest point | - |
| (verb) reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body | - |
| (verb) reach the highest or most decisive point | - |
| culmination | (noun) a concluding action | Synonyms: closing, completion, mop up, windup |
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| (noun) the decisive moment in a novel or play | Synonyms: climax |
| (noun) (astronomy) a heavenly body's highest celestial point above an observer's horizon | - |
| (noun) a final climactic stage | Synonyms: apogee |
| culotte | (noun) a divided skirt | - |
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| culpability | (noun) a state of guilt | Synonyms: blameworthiness, culpableness |
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| culpable | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blamable, blameable, blameful, blameworthy, censurable |
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| culpableness | (noun) a state of guilt | Synonyms: blameworthiness, culpability |
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| culpably | (adverb) in a manner or to a degree deserving blame or censure | Synonyms: reprehensibly |
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