| chimneysweeper | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweep, sweep |
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| chimpanzee | (noun) intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests | Synonyms: chimp, Pan troglodytes |
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| chincherinchee | (noun) South African perennial with long-lasting spikes of white blossoms that are shipped in to Europe and America for use as winter cut flowers | Synonyms: Ornithogalum thyrsoides, wonder flower |
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| chivaree | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callathump, callithump, charivari, shivaree |
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| clammyweed | (noun) strong-scented herb common in southern United States covered with intermixed gland and hairs | Synonyms: Polanisia dodecandra, Polanisia graveolens |
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| clearweed | (noun) a plants of the genus Pilea having drooping green flower clusters and smooth translucent stems and leaves | Synonyms: dead nettle, Pilea pumilla, richweed |
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| coatee | (noun) a short close-fitting coat | - |
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| cockateel | (noun) small grey Australian parrot with a yellow crested head | Synonyms: cockatiel, cockatoo parrot, Nymphicus hollandicus |
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| coffee | (noun) a medium brown to dark-brown color | Synonyms: burnt umber, chocolate, deep brown, umber |
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| (noun) a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans | Synonyms: java |
| (noun) a seed of the coffee tree; ground to make coffee | Synonyms: coffee bean, coffee berry |
| (noun) any of several small trees and shrubs native to the tropical Old World yielding coffee beans | Synonyms: coffee tree |
| coffeeberry | (noun) evergreen shrub of western United States bearing small red or black fruits | Synonyms: California buckthorn, California coffee, Rhamnus californicus |
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| coffeecake | (noun) a cake or sweet bread usually served with coffee | Synonyms: coffee cake |
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| coffeehouse | (noun) a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold | Synonyms: cafe, coffee bar, coffee shop |
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| coffeepot | (noun) tall pot in which coffee is brewed | - |
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| cogwheel | (noun) a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion | Synonyms: gear, gear wheel, geared wheel |
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| colleen | (noun) an Irish girl | - |
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| commandeer | (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: highjack, hijack, pirate |
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| committee | (noun) a special group delegated to consider some matter | Synonyms: commission |
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| (noun) a self-constituted organization to promote something | Synonyms: citizens committee |
| committeeman | (noun) a man who is a member of committee | - |
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| committeewoman | (noun) a woman who is a member of a committee | - |
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| compeer | (noun) a person who is of equal standing with another in a group | Synonyms: equal, match, peer |
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| conferee | (noun) a member of a conference | - |
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| (noun) a person on whom something is bestowed | - |
| congee | (noun) formal permission to depart | Synonyms: conge |
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| (noun) an abrupt and unceremonious dismissal | Synonyms: conge |
| (noun) (architecture) a concave molding | Synonyms: conge |
| (noun) a Chinese rice gruel eaten for breakfast | Synonyms: jook |
| (verb) perform a ceremonious bow | Synonyms: conge |
| (verb) depart after obtaining formal permission | - |
| consignee | (noun) the person to whom merchandise is delivered over | - |
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| contestee | (noun) a winner (of a race or an election etc.) whose victory is contested | - |
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| conventioneer | (noun) someone who attends a convention | - |
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| corvee | (noun) unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes | - |
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| cottonseed | (noun) seed of cotton plants; source of cottonseed oil | - |
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| cottonweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Froelichia found in sandy soils and on rocky slopes in warmer regions of America; grown for their spikes of woolly white flowers | - |
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| (noun) an American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts | Synonyms: Anaphalis margaritacea, pearly everlasting |
| crazyweed | (noun) any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock | Synonyms: crazy weed, locoweed |
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| creed | (noun) any system of principles or beliefs | Synonyms: credo |
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| (noun) the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group | Synonyms: church doctrine, gospel, religious doctrine |
| creedal | (adjective) of or relating to a creed | Synonyms: credal |
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| creek | (noun) a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river) | Synonyms: brook |
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| creel | (noun) a wicker basket used by anglers to hold fish | - |
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| creep | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawl, crawling, creeping |
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| (noun) a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot | - |
| (noun) a slow longitudinal movement or deformation | - |
| (noun) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric | Synonyms: spook, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy |
| (verb) move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground | Synonyms: crawl |
| (verb) to go stealthily or furtively | Synonyms: mouse, pussyfoot, sneak |
| (verb) grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface) | - |
| (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, crawl, cringe, fawn, grovel |
| creeper | (noun) any of various small insectivorous birds of the Northern Hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet | Synonyms: tree creeper |
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| (noun) a person who crawls or creeps along the ground | Synonyms: crawler |
| (noun) any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping | - |
| creepiness | (noun) an uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on your skin | - |
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| creeping | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawl, crawling, creep |
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| creeps | (noun) a feeling of fear and revulsion | - |
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| (noun) a disease of cattle and sheep attributed to a dietary deficiency; characterized by anemia and softening of the bones and a slow stiff gait | - |
| creepy | (adjective) causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin | Synonyms: creepy-crawly |
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| (adjective) annoying and unpleasant | - |
| creese | (noun) a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade | Synonyms: crease, kris |
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| crossbreed | (noun) (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species | Synonyms: cross, hybrid |
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| (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, hybridise, hybridize, interbreed |
| crossbreeding | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding |
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| (noun) reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons) | Synonyms: interbreeding, miscegenation |
| 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 |
| dasheen | (noun) tropical starchy tuberous root | Synonyms: cocoyam, edda, taro, taro root |
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| (noun) herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves | Synonyms: Colocasia esculenta, dalo, taro, taro plant |
| (noun) edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants | Synonyms: cocoyam, eddo, taro |
| debauchee | (noun) a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained | Synonyms: libertine, rounder |
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| decree | (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: edict, fiat, order, rescript |
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| (verb) decide with authority | Synonyms: rule |
| (verb) issue a decree | - |
| decreed | (adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: appointed, ordained, prescribed |
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| deed | (noun) something that people do or cause to happen | Synonyms: act, human action, human activity |
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| (noun) a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it | Synonyms: deed of conveyance, title |
| deedbox | (noun) a strongly made box for holding money or valuables; can be locked | Synonyms: strongbox |
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| deeds | (noun) performance of moral or religious acts | Synonyms: works |
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| deem | (verb) keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view | Synonyms: hold, take for, view as |
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| deep | (adjective) having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply | - |
| (adjective) exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy | - |
| (adjective) strong; intense | Synonyms: rich |
| (adjective) very distant in time or space | - |
| (adjective) difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge | Synonyms: abstruse, recondite |
| (adjective) of an obscure nature | Synonyms: cryptic, cryptical, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying |
| (adjective) intense or extreme | - |
| (adjective) large in quantity or size | - |
| (adjective) with head or back bent low | - |
| (adjective) having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range | Synonyms: bass |
| (adjective) marked by depth of thinking | - |
| (adjective) relatively thick from top to bottom | - |
| (adjective) extending relatively far inward | - |
| (adjective) (of darkness) densely dark | Synonyms: thick |
| (noun) a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor | Synonyms: oceanic abyss, trench |
| (noun) literary term for an ocean | - |
| (noun) the central and most intense or profound part | - |
| (adverb) to a great depth; far down or in | Synonyms: deeply |
| (adverb) to an advanced time | Synonyms: late |
| (adverb) to a great distance | - |
| deepen | (verb) become more intense | Synonyms: intensify |
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| (verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: compound, heighten, intensify |
| (verb) become deeper in tone | Synonyms: change |
| (verb) make deeper | - |
| deepening | (adjective) accumulating and becoming more intense | Synonyms: thickening |
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| (noun) a process of becoming deeper and more profound | - |
| deeply | (adverb) to a great depth psychologically or emotionally | Synonyms: intensely, profoundly |
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| (adverb) to a great depth; far down or in | Synonyms: deep |
| deepness | (noun) the quality of being physically deep | Synonyms: profoundness, profundity |
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| (noun) the extent downward or backward or inward | Synonyms: depth |
| (noun) a low pitch that is loud and voluminous | - |
| (noun) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas | Synonyms: astuteness, depth, profoundness, profundity |
| deer | (noun) distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers | Synonyms: cervid |
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| deerberry | (noun) small branching blueberry common in marshy areas of the eastern United States having greenish or yellowish unpalatable berries reputedly eaten by deer | Synonyms: squaw huckleberry, Vaccinium stamineum |
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| deerhound | (noun) very large and tall rough-coated dog bred for hunting deer; known as the royal dog of Scotland | Synonyms: Scottish deerhound |
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| deerskin | (noun) leather from the hide of a deer | - |
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| deerstalker | (noun) a tight-fitting hat with visors front and back; formerly worn by hunters | - |
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| deerstalking | (noun) stalking deer | - |
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| degree | (noun) a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality | Synonyms: grade, level |
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| (noun) the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime) | - |
| (noun) the highest power of a term or variable | - |
| (noun) an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study | Synonyms: academic degree |
| (noun) a measure for arcs and angles | Synonyms: arcdegree |
| (noun) a unit of temperature on a specified scale | - |
| (noun) a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process | Synonyms: level, point, stage |
| deportee | (noun) a person who is expelled from home or country by authority | Synonyms: exile |
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| detainee | (noun) some held in custody | Synonyms: political detainee |
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| devisee | (noun) someone to whom property (especially realty) is devised by will | - |
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| devotee | (noun) an ardent follower and admirer | Synonyms: buff, fan, lover |
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| disagree | (verb) be of different opinions | Synonyms: differ, dissent, take issue |
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| (verb) be different from one another | Synonyms: disaccord, discord |
| disagreeable | (adjective) not to your liking | - |
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| (adjective) unpleasant to interact with | - |
| (adjective) not agreeing with your tastes or expectations | Synonyms: unsympathetic |
| disagreeableness | (noun) an ill-tempered and offensive disposition | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being disagreeable and unpleasant | - |
| disagreeably | (adverb) in a disagreeable manner | - |
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| disagreement | (noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | Synonyms: discrepancy, divergence, variance |
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| (noun) the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing | - |
| (noun) a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: dissension, dissonance |
| discreet | (adjective) marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint | - |
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| (adjective) heedful of potential consequences | Synonyms: circumspect |
| (adjective) unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic | Synonyms: discerning |
| discreetly | (adverb) with discretion; prudently and with wise self-restraint | - |
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| discreetness | (noun) subtly skillful handling of a situation | Synonyms: delicacy, diplomacy, finesse |
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| (noun) knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress | Synonyms: circumspection, discretion, prudence |
| disesteem | (noun) the state in which esteem has been lost | - |
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| (verb) have little or no respect for; hold in contempt | Synonyms: disrespect |
| divorcee | (noun) a divorced woman or a woman who is separated from her husband | Synonyms: grass widow |
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| dominee | (noun) a clergyman; especially a settled minister or parson | Synonyms: domine, dominie, dominus |
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| domineer | (verb) rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner | Synonyms: tyrannise, tyrannize |
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| domineering | (adjective) tending to domineer | - |
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| domineeringly | (adverb) in a domineering manner | - |
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| domineeringness | (noun) the trait of being imperious and overbearing | Synonyms: imperiousness, overbearingness |
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| donee | (noun) the recipient of funds or other benefits | Synonyms: beneficiary |
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| doorkeeper | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorman, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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| (noun) an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber | Synonyms: usher |
| (noun) the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: ostiarius, ostiary |
| dorbeetle | (noun) Old World dung beetle that flies with a droning sound | - |
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| doubletree | (noun) a crossbar on a wagon or carriage to which two whiffletrees are attached in order to harness two horses abreast | - |
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| draftee | (noun) someone who is drafted into military service | Synonyms: conscript, inductee |
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| dragee | (noun) pill that is a sugar-coated medicated candy | - |
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| (noun) sugar-coated nut or fruit piece | - |
| (noun) silvery candy beads used for decorating cakes | - |
| drawee | (noun) the person (or bank) who is expected to pay a check or draft when it is presented for payment | - |
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| dropseed | (noun) a grass of the genus Sporobolus | Synonyms: drop-seed |
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| duckweed | (noun) any small or minute aquatic plant of the family Lemnaceae that float on or near the surface of shallow ponds | - |
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| dudeen | (noun) a clay pipe with a short stem | - |
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| dungaree | (noun) a coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric | Synonyms: denim, jean |
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| dweeb | (noun) an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious | Synonyms: grind, nerd, swot, wonk |
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| dyeweed | (noun) small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental | Synonyms: dyer's-broom, dyer's greenweed, Genista tinctoria, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, woodwaxen |
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| educatee | (noun) a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution | Synonyms: pupil, student |
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| eel | (noun) voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins | - |
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| (noun) the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled | - |
| eelblenny | (noun) eellike fishes found in subarctic coastal waters | - |
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| eelgrass | (noun) submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts | Synonyms: grass wrack, sea wrack, Zostera marina |
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| (noun) submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World and Australia | Synonyms: tape grass, Vallisneria spiralis, wild celery |
| eellike | (adjective) resembling an eel in being long and thin and sinuous | - |
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