| curettage | (noun) surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette | Synonyms: curettement |
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| curette | (noun) a surgical instrument shaped like a scoop to remove tissue from a bodily cavity | Synonyms: curet |
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| curettement | (noun) surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette | Synonyms: curettage |
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| curfew | (noun) a signal (usually a bell) announcing the start of curfew restrictions | - |
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| (noun) an order that after a specific time certain activities (as being outside on the streets) are prohibited | - |
| (noun) the time that the curfew signal is sounded | - |
| curie | (noun) a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second | Synonyms: Ci |
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| curing | (noun) the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization | Synonyms: hardening, set, solidification, solidifying |
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| curio | (noun) something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting | Synonyms: curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity |
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| curiosa | (noun) books on strange or unusual subjects (especially erotica) | - |
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| curiosity | (noun) something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting | Synonyms: curio, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity |
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| (noun) a state in which you want to learn more about something | Synonyms: wonder |
| curious | (adjective) eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns) | - |
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| (adjective) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected | Synonyms: funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular |
| curiously | (adverb) with curiosity | Synonyms: inquisitively, interrogatively |
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| (adverb) in a manner differing from the usual or expected | Synonyms: inexplicably, oddly, peculiarly |
| curiousness | (noun) the quality of being alien or not native | Synonyms: foreignness, strangeness |
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| (noun) a state of active curiosity | Synonyms: inquisitiveness |
| curium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by bombarding plutonium with helium nuclei | Synonyms: atomic number 96, Cm |
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| curl | (noun) lock of hair in the shape of a spiral or curl | Synonyms: ringlet, whorl |
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| (noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, roll, scroll, whorl |
| (verb) form a curl, curve, or kink | Synonyms: curve, kink |
| (verb) play the Scottish game of curling | - |
| (verb) twist or roll into coils or ringlets | Synonyms: wave |
| (verb) wind around something in coils or loops | Synonyms: coil, loop |
| (verb) shape one's body into a curl | Synonyms: curl up, draw in |
| curled | (adjective) (of hair) making curls or having been made to curl | Synonyms: curling |
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| curler | (noun) a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it | Synonyms: crimper, hair curler, roller |
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| curlew | (noun) large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill | - |
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| curlicue | (noun) a short twisting line | Synonyms: squiggle |
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| (noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, gyre, ringlet, roll, scroll, whorl |
| curliness | (noun) (of hair) a tendency to curl | Synonyms: waviness |
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| curling | (adjective) (of hair) making curls or having been made to curl | Synonyms: curled |
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| (noun) a game played on ice in which heavy stones with handles are slid toward a target | - |
| curly | (adjective) (of hair) having curls or waves | - |
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| curmudgeon | (noun) a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas | - |
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| curmudgeonly | (adjective) brusque and surly and forbidding | Synonyms: crusty, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured |
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| currajong | (noun) widely distributed tree of eastern Australia yielding a tough durable fiber and soft light attractively grained wood; foliage is an important emergency food for cattle | Synonyms: Brachychiton populneus, kurrajong |
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| currant | (noun) any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for jellies and jams | - |
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| (noun) small dried seedless raisin grown in the Mediterranean region and California; used in cooking | - |
| (noun) any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing currants | Synonyms: currant bush |
| currawong | (noun) bluish black fruit-eating bird with a bell-like call | Synonyms: bell magpie |
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| currency | (noun) the property of belonging to the present time | Synonyms: currentness, up-to-dateness |
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| (noun) general acceptance or use | - |
| (noun) the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used | - |
| current | (adjective) occurring in or belonging to the present time | - |
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| (noun) a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes) | Synonyms: stream |
| (noun) dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas | Synonyms: flow, stream |
| (noun) a flow of electricity through a conductor | Synonyms: electric current |
| currently | (adverb) at this time or period; now | Synonyms: presently |
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| currentness | (noun) the property of belonging to the present time | Synonyms: currency, up-to-dateness |
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| curricular | (adjective) of or relating to an academic course of study | - |
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| curriculum | (noun) an integrated course of academic studies | Synonyms: course of study, program, programme, syllabus |
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| currier | (noun) a craftsman who curries leather for use | - |
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| currish | (adjective) base and cowardly | - |
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| (adjective) resembling a cur; snarling and rude | - |
| currishly | (adverb) in a currish manner; meanspiritedly | Synonyms: ignobly |
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| curry | (noun) (East Indian cookery) a pungent dish of vegetables or meats flavored with curry powder and usually eaten with rice | - |
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| (verb) give a neat appearance to | Synonyms: dress, groom |
| (verb) treat by incorporating fat | - |
| (verb) season with a mixture of spices; typical of Indian cooking | - |
| currycomb | (noun) a square comb with rows of small teeth; used to curry horses | - |
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| (verb) clean (a horse) with a currycomb | - |
| curse | (noun) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger | Synonyms: curse word, cuss, expletive, oath, swearing, swearword |
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| (noun) an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group | Synonyms: condemnation, execration |
| (noun) an evil spell | Synonyms: hex, jinx, whammy |
| (noun) a severe affliction | Synonyms: torment |
| (noun) something causing misery or death | Synonyms: bane, nemesis, scourge |
| (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: blaspheme, cuss, imprecate, swear |
| (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, damn, imprecate, maledict |
| (verb) heap obscenities upon | - |
| (verb) exclude from a church or a religious community | Synonyms: excommunicate, unchurch |
| cursed | (adjective) deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier | Synonyms: curst |
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| (adjective) in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell | Synonyms: damned, doomed, unredeemed, unsaved |
| cursedly | (adverb) in a damnable manner | Synonyms: damnably, damned |
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| cursive | (adjective) having successive letters joined together | - |
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| (noun) rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper | Synonyms: cursive script, longhand, running hand |
| cursively | (adverb) in a cursive manner | - |
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| cursor | (noun) (computer science) indicator consisting of a movable spot of light (an icon) on a visual display; moving it allows the user to point to commands or screen positions | Synonyms: pointer |
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| cursorial | (adjective) (of limbs and feet) adapted for running | - |
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| cursorily | (adverb) without taking pains | Synonyms: quickly |
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| cursory | (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: casual, passing, perfunctory, superficial |
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| curst | (adjective) deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier | Synonyms: cursed |
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| curt | (adjective) brief and to the point; effectively cut short | Synonyms: crisp, laconic, terse |
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| (adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusk, brusque, short |
| curtail | (verb) place restrictions on | Synonyms: curb, cut back, restrict |
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| (verb) terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent | Synonyms: clip, cut short |
| curtailment | (noun) the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation | Synonyms: suppression |
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| (noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable | Synonyms: downsizing, retrenchment |
| (noun) the temporal property of being cut short | - |
| curtain | (noun) hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) | Synonyms: drape, drapery, mantle, pall |
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| (noun) any barrier to communication or vision | - |
| (verb) provide with drapery | - |
| curtained | (adjective) furnished or concealed with curtains or draperies | - |
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| curtainless | (adjective) not provided with curtains | Synonyms: uncurtained |
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| curtal | (adjective) (archaic) docked | - |
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| curtilage | (noun) the enclosed land around a house or other building | Synonyms: grounds, yard |
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| curtly | (adverb) in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner | Synonyms: short, shortly |
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| curtness | (noun) an abrupt discourteous manner | Synonyms: abruptness, brusqueness, gruffness, shortness |
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| curtsey | (noun) bending the knees; a gesture of respect made by women | Synonyms: curtsy |
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| (verb) bend the knees in a gesture of respectful greeting | Synonyms: curtsy |
| curtsy | (noun) bending the knees; a gesture of respect made by women | Synonyms: curtsey |
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| (verb) make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect | Synonyms: bob |
| (verb) bend the knees in a gesture of respectful greeting | Synonyms: curtsey |
| curvaceous | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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| curvaceously | (adverb) in a curvaceous way | Synonyms: buxomly |
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| curvaceousness | (noun) the quality of having a well-rounded body | Synonyms: shapeliness, voluptuousness |
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| curvature | (noun) the rate of change (at a point) of the angle between a curve and a tangent to the curve | - |
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| (noun) the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface | Synonyms: curve |
| (noun) (medicine) a curving or bending; often abnormal | - |
| curve | (noun) a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter | Synonyms: bender, breaking ball, curve ball |
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| (noun) curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.) | Synonyms: bend |
| (noun) the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface | Synonyms: curvature |
| (noun) a line on a graph representing data | - |
| (noun) the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes | Synonyms: curved shape |
| (verb) form a curl, curve, or kink | Synonyms: curl, kink |
| (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: cut, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer |
| (verb) form an arch or curve | Synonyms: arc, arch |
| (verb) bend or cause to bend | Synonyms: crook |
| (verb) extend in curves and turns | Synonyms: twist, wind |
| curved | (adjective) having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend | Synonyms: curving |
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| curvet | (noun) a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down | Synonyms: vaulting |
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| (verb) perform a leap where both hind legs come off the ground, of a horse | - |
| curvey | (adjective) having curves | Synonyms: curvy |
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| curvilineal | (adjective) characterized by or following a curved line | Synonyms: curvilinear |
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| curvilinear | (adjective) characterized by or following a curved line | Synonyms: curvilineal |
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| curving | (adjective) having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend | Synonyms: curved |
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| curvy | (adjective) having curves | Synonyms: curvey |
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| (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
| cuscus | (noun) woolly-haired monkey-like arboreal marsupial of New Guinea and northern Australia | - |
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| cushat | (noun) Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck | Synonyms: Columba palumbus, ringdove, wood pigeon |
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| cushaw | (noun) globose or ovoid squash with striped grey and green warty rind | - |
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| (noun) plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds | Synonyms: Cucurbita argyrosperma, Cucurbita mixta |
| cushion | (noun) a soft bag filled with air or a mass of padding such as feathers or foam rubber etc. | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses | Synonyms: shock, shock absorber |
| (noun) the layer of air that supports a hovercraft or similar vehicle | - |
| (verb) protect from impact | Synonyms: buffer, soften |
| cushioned | (adjective) softened by the addition of cushions or padding | Synonyms: cushiony, padded |
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| cushioning | (noun) artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort | Synonyms: padding |
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| cushiony | (adjective) softened by the addition of cushions or padding | Synonyms: cushioned, padded |
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| cushy | (adjective) not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship | Synonyms: easygoing, soft |
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| cusk | (noun) large edible marine fish of northern coastal waters; related to cod | Synonyms: Brosme brosme, torsk |
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| (noun) elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth | Synonyms: burbot, eelpout, ling, Lota lota |
| (noun) the lean flesh of a cod-like fish of North Atlantic waters | - |
| cusp | (noun) point formed by two intersecting arcs (as from the intrados of a Gothic arch) | - |
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| (noun) small elevation on the grinding surface of a tooth | - |
| (noun) a thin triangular flap of a heart valve | Synonyms: leaflet |
| cuspate | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspated, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidated |
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| cuspated | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidated |
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| cusped | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidated |
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| cuspid | (noun) one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars | Synonyms: canine, canine tooth, dogtooth, eye tooth, eyetooth |
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| cuspidal | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated |
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| cuspidate | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidated |
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| cuspidated | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidate |
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| cuspidation | (noun) a decoration using cusps | - |
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| cuspidor | (noun) a receptacle for spit (usually in a public place) | Synonyms: spittoon |
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| cuss | (noun) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger | Synonyms: curse, curse word, expletive, oath, swearing, swearword |
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| (noun) a persistently annoying person | Synonyms: blighter, gadfly, pest, pesterer |
| (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: blighter, bloke, chap, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad |
| (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: blaspheme, curse, imprecate, swear |
| cussed | (adjective) stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing | Synonyms: obdurate, obstinate, unrepentant |
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| cussedly | (adverb) in a stubborn unregenerate manner | Synonyms: mulishly, obdurately, obstinately, pig-headedly, stubbornly |
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| cussedness | (noun) meanspirited disagreeable contrariness | Synonyms: orneriness |
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| custard | (noun) sweetened mixture of milk and eggs baked or boiled or frozen | - |
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| custodial | (adjective) providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding | Synonyms: tutelar, tutelary |
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| custodian | (noun) one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals | Synonyms: keeper, steward |
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| custodianship | (noun) the position of custodian | - |
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| custody | (noun) holding by the police | - |
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| (noun) (with `in') guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child | Synonyms: hands |
| (noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time) | Synonyms: detainment, detention, hold |
| custom | (adjective) made according to the specifications of an individual | Synonyms: custom-made |
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| (noun) accepted or habitual practice | Synonyms: usage, usance |
| (noun) habitual patronage | - |
| (noun) a specific practice of long standing | Synonyms: tradition |
| (noun) money collected under a tariff | Synonyms: customs, customs duty, impost |