| chordate | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the Chordata | - |
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| (noun) any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column | - |
| chuddar | (noun) a cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women | Synonyms: chadar, chaddar, chador |
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| churidars | (noun) tight trousers worn by people from the Indian subcontinent (typically with a kameez or kurta) | - |
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| cicada | (noun) stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings; male has drum-like organs for producing a high-pitched drone | Synonyms: cicala |
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| clinodactyly | (noun) a congenital defect in which one or more toes or fingers are abnormally positioned | - |
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| cnidarian | (noun) radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms | Synonyms: coelenterate |
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| coda | (noun) the closing section of a musical composition | Synonyms: finale |
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| codefendant | (noun) a defendant who has been joined together with one or more other defendants in a single action | Synonyms: co-defendant |
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| cofferdam | (noun) large watertight chamber used for construction under water | Synonyms: caisson, pneumatic caisson |
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| colloidal | (adjective) of or relating to or having the properties of a colloid | - |
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| colloidally | (adverb) in a colloidal manner | - |
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| commandant | (noun) an officer in command of a military unit | Synonyms: commander, commanding officer |
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| commendable | (adjective) worthy of high praise | Synonyms: applaudable, laudable, praiseworthy |
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| (adverb) in an admirable manner | Synonyms: admirably, laudably, praiseworthily |
| commendation | (noun) an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement | Synonyms: citation |
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| (noun) a message expressing a favorable opinion | Synonyms: approval |
| concordance | (noun) an index of all main words in a book along with their immediate contexts | - |
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| (noun) agreement of opinions | Synonyms: concord, harmony |
| (noun) a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole | Synonyms: concord, harmony |
| concordant | (adjective) being of the same opinion | Synonyms: concurring |
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| (adjective) in keeping | Synonyms: accordant, agreeable, conformable, consonant |
| concordat | (noun) a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action | Synonyms: compact, covenant |
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| confidant | (noun) someone to whom private matters are confided | Synonyms: intimate |
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| confidante | (noun) a female confidant | - |
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| consolidate | (verb) unite into one | - |
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| (verb) bring together into a single whole or system | - |
| (verb) make firm or secure; strengthen | - |
| (verb) make or form into a solid or hardened mass | - |
| (verb) form into a solid mass or whole | - |
| consolidated | (adjective) forming a solid mass | - |
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| (adjective) joined together into a whole | Synonyms: amalgamate, amalgamated, coalesced, fused |
| consolidation | (noun) the act of combining into an integral whole | Synonyms: integration |
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| (noun) combining into a solid mass | - |
| (noun) something that has consolidated into a compact mass | - |
| consolidative | (adjective) tending to consolidate | Synonyms: integrative |
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| (adjective) combining into a single unit | Synonyms: unifying |
| contradance | (noun) a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line | Synonyms: contra danse, contredanse, country-dance, country dancing |
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| (verb) perform a contradance | Synonyms: contra danse, contredanse, country-dance |
| contredanse | (noun) a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line | Synonyms: contra danse, contradance, country-dance, country dancing |
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| (verb) perform a contradance | Synonyms: contra danse, contradance, country-dance |
| cordage | (noun) the ropes in the rigging of a ship | - |
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| (noun) the amount of wood in an area as measured in cords | - |
| cordate | (adjective) (of a leaf) shaped like a heart | Synonyms: cordiform, heart-shaped |
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| corrida | (noun) a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators | Synonyms: bullfight |
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| corrigenda | (noun) a list of printing errors in a book along with their corrections | - |
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| corydalis | (noun) a plant of the genus Corydalis with beautiful compound foliage and spurred tubular flowers | - |
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| cotyloidal | (adjective) of the cup-shaped socket that receives the head of the thigh bone | Synonyms: acetabular, cotyloid |
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| crawdad | (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdaddy, crawfish, crayfish |
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| (noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawfish, crayfish, ecrevisse |
| crawdaddy | (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, crayfish |
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| credal | (adjective) of or relating to a creed | Synonyms: creedal |
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| creedal | (adjective) of or relating to a creed | Synonyms: credal |
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| csardas | (noun) a piece of music composed for the Hungarian Csárdás dance. | Synonyms: czardas |
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| (noun) a piece of music in the rhythm of the Hungarian Csárdás dance. | Synonyms: czardas |
| cuboidal | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubelike, cubical, cubiform, cuboid |
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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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| cycloidal | (adjective) resembling a circle | Synonyms: cycloid |
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| czardas | (noun) a piece of music composed for the Hungarian Csárdás dance. | Synonyms: csardas |
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| (noun) a piece of music in the rhythm of the Hungarian Csárdás dance. | Synonyms: csardas |
| dab | (noun) a light touch or stroke | Synonyms: pat, tap |
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| (noun) a dance move in which the dancer simultaneously drops the head while raising an arm and the elbow in a gesture that has been noted to resemble sneezing | Synonyms: dabbing |
| (noun) a small quantity of something moist or liquid | Synonyms: splash, splatter |
| (verb) to smoke marijuana using butane hash oil | - |
| (verb) hit lightly | Synonyms: pat |
| (verb) apply (usually a liquid) to a surface | Synonyms: swab, swob |
| (verb) to perform a dance move in which the dancer simultaneously drops the head while raising an arm and the elbow in a gesture that has been noted to resemble sneezing | - |
| dabbing | (noun) pressing a marijuana concentrate to a hot surface in order to vaporize it and inhale the concentrate | - |
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| (noun) a dance move in which the dancer simultaneously drops the head while raising an arm and the elbow in a gesture that has been noted to resemble sneezing | Synonyms: dab |
| dabble | (verb) dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid | - |
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| (verb) bob forward and under so as to feed off the bottom of a body of water | - |
| (verb) play in or as if in water, as of small children | Synonyms: paddle, splash around |
| (verb) work with in an amateurish manner | Synonyms: play around, smatter |
| dabbled | (adjective) covered with bright patches (often used in combination) | Synonyms: spattered, splashed, splattered |
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| dabbler | (noun) any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling | Synonyms: dabbling duck |
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| (noun) an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge | Synonyms: dilettante, sciolist |
| dabchick | (noun) small European grebe | Synonyms: little grebe, Podiceps ruficollis |
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| dace | (noun) small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body | Synonyms: Leuciscus leuciscus |
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| dacha | (noun) Russian country house | - |
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| dachshund | (noun) small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into burrows | Synonyms: badger dog, dachsie |
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| dachsie | (noun) small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into burrows | Synonyms: badger dog, dachshund |
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| dacite | (noun) a grey volcanic rock containing plagioclase and quartz and other crystalline minerals | - |
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| dacitic | (adjective) relating to or consisting of dacite | - |
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| dacoit | (noun) a member of an armed gang of robbers | Synonyms: dakoit |
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| dacoity | (noun) robbery by a gang of armed dacoits | Synonyms: dakoity |
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| dacryocyst | (noun) either of the two dilated ends of the lacrimal ducts at the nasal ends of the eyes that fill with tears secreted by the lacrimal glands | Synonyms: lacrimal sac, tear sac |
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| dacryocystitis | (noun) inflammation of the lacrimal sac causing obstruction of the tube draining tears into the nose | - |
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| dacryon | (noun) the craniometric point at the junction of the anterior border of the lacrimal bone with the frontal bone | - |
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| dactyl | (noun) a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates | Synonyms: digit |
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| (noun) a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables | - |
| dactylic | (adjective) of or consisting of dactyls | - |
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| dactylomegaly | (noun) abnormally large fingers or toes | - |
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| dad | (noun) an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk | Synonyms: dada, daddy, pa, papa, pappa, pop |
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| dada | (noun) a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty | Synonyms: dadaism |
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| (noun) an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk | Synonyms: dad, daddy, pa, papa, pappa, pop |
| dadaism | (noun) a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty | Synonyms: dada |
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| daddy | (noun) an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk | Synonyms: dad, dada, pa, papa, pappa, pop |
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| dado | (noun) panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall | Synonyms: wainscot |
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| (noun) a rectangular groove cut into a board so that another piece can fit into it | - |
| (noun) the section of a pedestal between the base and the surbase | - |
| (verb) cut a dado into or fit into a dado | - |
| (verb) provide with a dado | - |
| daedal | (adjective) complex and ingenious in design or function | - |
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| daemon | (noun) an evil supernatural being | Synonyms: daimon, demon, devil, fiend |
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| (noun) a person who is part mortal and part god | Synonyms: demigod |
| daffodil | (noun) any of numerous varieties of Narcissus plants having showy often yellow flowers with a trumpet-shaped central crown | Synonyms: Narcissus pseudonarcissus |
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| daft | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| daftly | (adverb) in a mildly insane manner | Synonyms: balmily, dottily, nuttily, wackily |
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| daftness | (noun) informal terms for insanity | Synonyms: craziness, flakiness |
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| dag | (noun) a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing | Synonyms: jag |
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| (noun) 10 grams | Synonyms: decagram, dekagram, dkg |
| dagame | (noun) source of a tough elastic wood | Synonyms: Calycophyllum candidissimum, lemonwood tree |
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| dagga | (noun) relatively nontoxic South African herb smoked like tobacco | Synonyms: Cape dagga, Leonotis leonurus, red dagga, wilde dagga |
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| dagger | (noun) a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing | Synonyms: sticker |
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| (noun) a character used in printing to indicate a second cross reference or footnote when the asterisk has already been used | Synonyms: obelisk |
| daggerboard | (noun) a removable centerboard on a small sailboat that can be lowered into the water to serve as a keel | - |
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| dago | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent | Synonyms: ginzo, greaseball, Guinea, wop |
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| daguerreotype | (noun) a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor | - |
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| dah | (noun) the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code | Synonyms: dash |
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| dahl | (noun) small highly nutritious seed of the tropical pigeon-pea plant | Synonyms: cajan pea, pigeon pea |
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| (noun) tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropics | Synonyms: cajan pea, Cajanus cajan, catjang pea, dhal, pigeon-pea plant, pigeon pea, red gram |
| dahlia | (noun) any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower heads; native to the mountains of Mexico and Central America and Colombia | Synonyms: Dahlia pinnata |
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| daikon | (noun) radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked | Synonyms: Japanese radish, radish, Raphanus sativus longipinnatus |
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| daily | (adjective) appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions | Synonyms: casual, everyday |
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| (adjective) of or belonging to or occurring every day | Synonyms: day-after-day, day-by-day, day-to-day |
| (noun) a newspaper that is published every day | - |
| (adverb) every day; without missing a day | - |
| (adverb) gradually and progressively | Synonyms: day by day |
| daimon | (noun) an evil supernatural being | Synonyms: daemon, demon, devil, fiend |
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| daintily | (adverb) in a dainty and fastidious manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a manner suggestive of delicate beauty or grace | - |
| daintiness | (noun) the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance | Synonyms: delicacy, fineness |
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| dainty | (adjective) delicately beautiful | Synonyms: exquisite |
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| (adjective) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted | Synonyms: nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish |
| (adjective) especially pleasing to the taste | - |
| (noun) something considered choice to eat | Synonyms: delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat |
| daiquiri | (noun) a cocktail made with rum and lime or lemon juice | Synonyms: rum cocktail |
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| dairy | (noun) a farm where dairy products are produced | Synonyms: dairy farm |
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| dairying | (noun) the business of a dairy | Synonyms: dairy farming |
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| dairymaid | (noun) a woman who works in a dairy | Synonyms: milkmaid |
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| dairyman | (noun) the owner or manager of a dairy | Synonyms: dairy farmer |
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| (noun) a man who works in a dairy | - |
| dais | (noun) a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it | Synonyms: ambo, podium, pulpit, rostrum, soapbox, stump |
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| daishiki | (noun) a loose and brightly colored African shirt | Synonyms: dashiki |
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| daisy | (noun) any of numerous composite plants having flower heads with well-developed ray flowers usually arranged in a single whorl | - |
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| daisybush | (noun) any of various mostly Australian attractively shaped shrubs of the genus Olearia grown for their handsome and sometimes fragrant evergreen foliage and profusion of daisy flowers with white or purple or blue rays | Synonyms: daisy-bush, daisy bush |
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| daisylike | (adjective) resembling a daisy | - |
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