| copperhead | (noun) common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States | Synonyms: Agkistrodon contortrix |
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| (noun) venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia | Synonyms: Denisonia superba |
| copyread | (verb) edit and correct (written or printed material) | Synonyms: copyedit, subedit |
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| copyreader | (noun) an editor who prepares text for publication | Synonyms: copy editor, text editor |
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| cornbread | (noun) bread made primarily of cornmeal | - |
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| cornea | (noun) the transparent dome-shaped anterior portion of the outer covering of the eye; it covers the iris and pupil and is continuous with the sclera | - |
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| corneal | (adjective) of or related to the cornea | - |
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| cornmeal | (noun) coarsely ground corn | Synonyms: Indian meal |
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| corporeal | (adjective) having material or physical form or substance | Synonyms: material |
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| (adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit | Synonyms: bodily, corporal, somatic |
| corporeality | (noun) the quality of being physical; consisting of matter | Synonyms: corporality, materiality, physicalness |
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| cosmea | (noun) any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously colored flowers and pinnate leaves; popular fall-blooming annuals | Synonyms: cosmos |
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| cotoneaster | (noun) any shrub of the genus Cotoneaster: erect or creeping shrubs having richly colored autumn foliage and many small white to pinkish flowers followed by tiny red or black fruits | - |
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| countermeasure | (noun) an action taken to offset another action | - |
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| counterplea | (noun) a plaintiff's reply to a defendant's plea | - |
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| countryseat | (noun) an estate in the country | - |
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| cowpea | (noun) eaten fresh as shell beans or dried | Synonyms: black-eyed pea |
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| (noun) sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure | Synonyms: black-eyed pea, cowpea plant, Vigna sinensis, Vigna unguiculata |
| (noun) fruit or seed of the cowpea plant | Synonyms: black-eyed pea |
| crabmeat | (noun) the edible flesh of any of various crabs | Synonyms: crab |
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| creak | (noun) a squeaking sound | Synonyms: creaking |
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| (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: screak, screech, skreak, squeak, whine |
| creakily | (adverb) in a creaky manner | Synonyms: creakingly, screakily |
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| creaking | (noun) a squeaking sound | Synonyms: creak |
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| creakingly | (adverb) in a creaky manner | Synonyms: creakily, screakily |
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| creaky | (adjective) having a rasping or grating sound | Synonyms: screaky |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to arthritis | Synonyms: arthritic, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy |
| (adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone |
| cream | (noun) toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin | Synonyms: emollient, ointment |
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| (noun) the part of milk containing the butterfat | - |
| (noun) the best people or things in a group | Synonyms: pick |
| (verb) add cream to one's coffee, for example | - |
| (verb) make creamy by beating | - |
| (verb) remove from the surface | Synonyms: cream off, skim, skim off |
| (verb) put on cream, as on one's face or body | - |
| (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, drub, lick, thrash |
| creamcups | (noun) California plant with small pale yellow flowers | Synonyms: Platystemon californicus |
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| creamer | (noun) a small pitcher for serving cream | Synonyms: cream pitcher |
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| creamery | (noun) a workplace where dairy products (butter and cheese etc.) are produced or sold | - |
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| creaminess | (noun) the property of having the thickness of heavy cream | Synonyms: soupiness |
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| creampie | (noun) Ejaculate inside a vagina or anus | - |
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| (verb) The act of ejaculating inside another person | - |
| creamy | (adjective) of the color of cream | - |
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| (adjective) thick like cream | - |
| crease | (noun) a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade | Synonyms: creese, kris |
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| (noun) a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface | Synonyms: crinkle, furrow, line, seam, wrinkle |
| (noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding | Synonyms: bend, crimp, flexure, fold, plication |
| (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crinkle, crumple, rumple, wrinkle |
| (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle |
| (verb) make wrinkled or creased | Synonyms: furrow, wrinkle |
| (verb) scrape gently | Synonyms: graze, rake |
| creaseless | (adjective) used especially of fabrics | Synonyms: uncreased |
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| creaseproof | (adjective) of fabric that does not wrinkle easily | Synonyms: crease-resistant, wrinkle-resistant, wrinkleproof |
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| creashak | (noun) evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn | Synonyms: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, bear's grape, common bearberry, hog cranberry, mealberry, mountain box, red bearberry, sand berry, sandberry, wild cranberry |
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| create | (verb) make or cause to be or to become | Synonyms: make |
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| (verb) pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity | - |
| (verb) bring into existence | - |
| (verb) create or manufacture a man-made product | Synonyms: make, produce |
| (verb) create by artistic means | Synonyms: make |
| (verb) invest with a new title, office, or rank | - |
| creatin | (noun) an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is found in the muscle tissue of vertebrates both in the free form and as phosphocreatine; supplies energy for muscle contraction | Synonyms: creatine |
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| creatine | (noun) an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is found in the muscle tissue of vertebrates both in the free form and as phosphocreatine; supplies energy for muscle contraction | Synonyms: creatin |
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| creation | (noun) the human act of creating | Synonyms: creative activity |
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| (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
| (noun) an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone | - |
| (noun) the event that occurred at the beginning of something | Synonyms: conception |
| (noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, existence, macrocosm, universe, world |
| creationism | (noun) the literal belief in the account of Creation given in the Book of Genesis | - |
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| creative | (adjective) having the ability or power to create | Synonyms: originative |
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| (adjective) promoting construction or creation | - |
| creatively | (adverb) in a creative manner | - |
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| creativeness | (noun) the ability to create | Synonyms: creative thinking, creativity |
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| creativity | (noun) the ability to create | Synonyms: creative thinking, creativeness |
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| creator | (noun) a person who grows or makes or invents things | - |
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| creature | (noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | Synonyms: animal, animate being, beast, brute, fauna |
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| (noun) a living being | Synonyms: wight |
| (noun) a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else | Synonyms: puppet, tool |
| crossbeam | (noun) a horizontal beam that extends across something | Synonyms: crosspiece, trave, traverse |
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| crosshead | (noun) metal block that connects to a piston; it slides on parallel guides and moves a connecting rod back and forth | - |
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| (noun) a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text | Synonyms: crossheading |
| crossheading | (noun) a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text | Synonyms: crosshead |
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| crownbeard | (noun) any plant of the genus Verbesina having clustered white or yellow flower heads | Synonyms: crown-beard, crown beard |
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| crustacean | (adjective) of or belonging to the class Crustacea | Synonyms: crustaceous |
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| (noun) any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton | - |
| cudbear | (noun) a purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens | Synonyms: archil, orchil |
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| cuneal | (adjective) shaped like a wedge | Synonyms: cuneiform, wedge-shaped |
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| cuneate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) narrowly triangular, wider at the apex and tapering toward the base | Synonyms: wedge-shaped |
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| cupbearer | (noun) the attendant (usually an officer of a nobleman's household) whose duty is to fill and serve cups of wine | - |
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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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| cutaneal | (adjective) relating to or existing on or affecting the skin | Synonyms: cutaneous, dermal |
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| cyclopean | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the Cyclops | - |
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| cytosmear | (noun) a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope | Synonyms: cytologic smear, smear |
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| danceable | (adjective) suitable for dancing | - |
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| dateable | (adjective) that can be given a date | Synonyms: datable |
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| daybreak | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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| daydream | (noun) absentminded dreaming while awake | Synonyms: air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydreaming, oneirism, reverie, revery |
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| (verb) have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy | Synonyms: dream, stargaze, woolgather |
| (verb) have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake | Synonyms: moon |
| daydreamer | (noun) someone who indulges in idle or absentminded daydreaming | Synonyms: woolgatherer |
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| daydreaming | (noun) absentminded dreaming while awake | Synonyms: air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, oneirism, reverie, revery |
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| deaccession | (verb) sell (art works) from a collection, especially in order to raise money for the purchase of other art works | - |
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| deacon | (noun) a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders | - |
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| (noun) a Protestant layman who assists the minister | Synonyms: Protestant deacon |
| deaconess | (noun) a woman deacon | - |
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| deactivate | (verb) make inactive | Synonyms: inactivate |
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| (verb) remove from active military status or reassign | - |
| deactivation | (noun) the act of deactivating or making ineffective (as a bomb) | Synonyms: defusing |
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| (noun) breaking up a military unit (by transfers or discharges) | Synonyms: inactivation |
| dead | (adjective) no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life | - |
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| (adjective) not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat | - |
| (adjective) the complete stoppage of an action | - |
| (adjective) not surviving in active use | - |
| (adjective) physically inactive | - |
| (adjective) devoid of activity | - |
| (adjective) lacking resilience or bounce | - |
| (adjective) out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown | - |
| (adjective) devoid of physical sensation; numb | Synonyms: deadened |
| (adjective) (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive | Synonyms: numb |
| (adjective) no longer having force or relevance | - |
| (adjective) unerringly accurate | - |
| (adjective) not circulating or flowing | Synonyms: stagnant |
| (adjective) very tired | Synonyms: all in, beat, bushed |
| (adjective) drained of electric charge; discharged | Synonyms: drained |
| (adjective) not yielding a return | Synonyms: idle |
| (adjective) lacking acoustic resonance | - |
| (noun) people who are no longer living | - |
| (noun) a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense | - |
| (adverb) completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: absolutely, perfectly, utterly |
| (adverb) quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation | Synonyms: abruptly, all of a sudden, of a sudden, on the spur of the moment, short, suddenly |
| deadbeat | (noun) someone who fails to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: defaulter |
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| deadbolt | (noun) the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key | Synonyms: bolt |
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| deaden | (verb) become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor | - |
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| (verb) make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation | Synonyms: blunt |
| (verb) lessen the momentum or velocity of | - |
| (verb) make vapid or deprive of spirit | - |
| (verb) convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil | - |
| (verb) make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible | Synonyms: damp, dampen |
| (verb) cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients | Synonyms: girdle |
| deadened | (adjective) made or become less intense | - |
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| (adjective) devoid of physical sensation; numb | Synonyms: dead |
| deadening | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
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| (noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: constipation, impairment, stultification |
| deadeye | (noun) (nautical) a round hardwood disk with holes and a grooved perimeter used to tighten a shroud | - |
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| (noun) a dead shot | - |
| deadhead | (noun) a train or bus or taxi traveling empty | - |
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| (noun) a nonenterprising person who is not paying his way | - |
| deadlift | (noun) a weight training exercise in which a loaded barbell is lifted off the ground to the hips, then lowered back to the ground | - |
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| deadlight | (noun) a strong shutter over a ship's porthole that is closed in stormy weather | - |
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| deadline | (noun) the point in time at which something must be completed | - |
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| deadliness | (noun) the quality of being deadly | Synonyms: lethality |
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| deadlock | (noun) a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible | Synonyms: dead end, impasse, stalemate, standstill |
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| deadlocked | (adjective) at a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions | Synonyms: stalemated |
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| deadly | (adjective) exceedingly harmful | Synonyms: baneful, pernicious, pestilent |
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| (adjective) extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom | Synonyms: venomous, virulent |
| (adjective) involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death | Synonyms: mortal |
| (adjective) (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect | - |
| (adjective) causing or capable of causing death | Synonyms: deathly, mortal |
| (adjective) of an instrument of certain death | Synonyms: lethal |
| (adverb) (used as intensives) excessively | Synonyms: deucedly, devilishly, insanely, madly |
| (adverb) as if dead | Synonyms: lifelessly |
| deadness | (noun) the inanimate property of something that has died | - |
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| (noun) the physical property of something that has lost its elasticity | - |
| (noun) the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events | Synonyms: unresponsiveness |
| deadpan | (adjective) deliberately impassive in manner | Synonyms: expressionless, impassive, poker-faced, unexpressive |
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| (adverb) without betraying any feeling | - |
| deadwood | (noun) someone or something that is unwanted and unneeded | Synonyms: fifth wheel |
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| (noun) a branch or a part of a tree that is dead | - |
| deaerate | (verb) remove air or gas from | Synonyms: de-aerate |
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| deaf | (adjective) lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing wholly or in part | - |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed | Synonyms: indifferent |
| (noun) people who have severe hearing impairments | - |
| (verb) make or render deaf | Synonyms: deafen |
| deafen | (verb) make soundproof | - |
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| (verb) make or render deaf | Synonyms: deaf |
| (verb) be unbearably loud | - |
| deafened | (adjective) caused to hear poorly or not at all | - |
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| deafening | (adjective) loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss | Synonyms: earsplitting, thunderous, thundery |
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| deafness | (noun) partial or complete loss of hearing | Synonyms: hearing loss |
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| deal | (noun) the act of distributing playing cards | - |
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| (noun) the act of apportioning or distributing something | - |
| (noun) a particular instance of buying or selling | Synonyms: business deal, trade |
| (noun) an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each | Synonyms: bargain |
| (noun) the type of treatment received (especially as the result of an agreement) | - |
| (noun) the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time | Synonyms: hand |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (noun) a plank of softwood (fir or pine board) | - |
| (noun) wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir) | Synonyms: softwood |
| (verb) take into consideration for exemplifying purposes | Synonyms: consider, look at, take |
| (verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: address, cover, handle, plow, treat |
| (verb) do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood | Synonyms: sell, trade |
| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) distribute cards to the players in a game | - |
| (verb) give (a specific card) to a player | - |
| (verb) give out as one's portion or share | Synonyms: apportion, divvy up, portion out, share |
| (verb) sell (especially of illegal material) | - |
| (verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: contend, cope, get by, grapple, make do, make out, manage |
| (verb) direct the course of; manage or control | Synonyms: carry on, conduct |
| (verb) behave in a certain way towards others | - |
| (verb) take action with respect to (someone or something) | - |
| (verb) be in charge of, act on, or dispose of | Synonyms: care, handle, manage |
| dealer | (noun) a firm engaged in trading | - |
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| (noun) a seller of illicit goods | - |
| (noun) the person who distributes the playing cards in a card game | - |
| (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: bargainer, monger, trader |
| (noun) the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account | Synonyms: principal |
| dealership | (noun) a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area | Synonyms: franchise |
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| dealfish | (noun) deep-sea ribbonfish | Synonyms: Trachipterus arcticus |
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| dealignment | (noun) a process whereby voters are moved toward nonpartisanship thus weakening the structure of political parties | - |
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| dealing | (noun) method or manner of conduct in relation to others | - |
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| (noun) the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities) | Synonyms: dealings, transaction |
| dealings | (noun) the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities) | Synonyms: dealing, transaction |
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| (noun) social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') | Synonyms: traffic |
| (noun) mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups | Synonyms: relations |
| deaminate | (verb) remove the amino radical (usually by hydrolysis) from an amino compound; to perform deamination | Synonyms: deaminize |
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