caramel | (adjective) having the color of caramel; of a moderate yellow-brown | Synonyms: caramel brown |
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(noun) a medium to dark tan color | Synonyms: buff, caramel brown, raw sienna, yellowish brown |
(noun) firm chewy candy made from caramelized sugar and butter and milk | - |
(noun) burnt sugar; used to color and flavor food | Synonyms: caramelized sugar |
caramelise | (verb) convert to caramel | Synonyms: caramelize |
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(verb) be converted into caramel | Synonyms: caramelize |
caramelize | (verb) convert to caramel | Synonyms: caramelise |
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(verb) be converted into caramel | Synonyms: caramelise |
careless | (adjective) marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful | - |
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(adjective) effortless and unstudied | - |
(adjective) (usually followed by `of') without due thought or consideration | Synonyms: regardless |
carelessly | (adverb) without caution or prudence | Synonyms: incautiously |
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(adverb) in a rakish manner | Synonyms: raffishly, rakishly |
(adverb) without care or concern | Synonyms: heedlessly |
carelessness | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: neglect, negligence, nonperformance |
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(noun) the quality of not being careful or taking pains | Synonyms: sloppiness |
carnelian | (noun) a translucent red or orange variety of chalcedony | Synonyms: cornelian |
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carousel | (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carrousel, merry-go-round, roundabout, whirligig |
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(noun) a conveyer belt that carries luggage to be claimed by air travelers | Synonyms: carrousel, luggage carousel, luggage carrousel |
carpel | (noun) a simple pistil or one element of a compound pistil | - |
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carpellary | (adjective) belonging to or forming or containing carpels | - |
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carpellate | (adjective) bearing or consisting of carpels | Synonyms: pistillate |
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carrel | (noun) small individual study area in a library | Synonyms: carrell, cubicle, stall |
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carrell | (noun) small individual study area in a library | Synonyms: carrel, cubicle, stall |
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carrousel | (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carousel, merry-go-round, roundabout, whirligig |
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(noun) a conveyer belt that carries luggage to be claimed by air travelers | Synonyms: carousel, luggage carousel, luggage carrousel |
cartel | (noun) a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service | Synonyms: combine, corporate trust, trust |
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cartelization | (noun) the process of cartelizing, usually occuring in oligopolistic industry. | - |
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cartwheel | (noun) acrobatic revolutions with the body turned sideways and the arms and legs outstretched like the spokes of a wheel | - |
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(noun) a wheel that has wooden spokes and a metal rim | - |
(noun) a dollar made of silver | Synonyms: silver dollar |
(verb) do cartwheels: perform an acrobatic movement using both hands and feet | - |
cascabel | (noun) a bell attached to a sleigh, or to the harness of a horse that is pulling a sleigh | Synonyms: sleigh bell |
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casquetel | (noun) a light open casque without a visor or beaver | Synonyms: casquet |
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casteless | (adjective) not belonging to or having been expelled from a caste and thus having no place or status in society | Synonyms: outcaste |
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castellated | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: battlemented, castled, crenelated, embattled |
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causeless | (adjective) having no cause or apparent cause | Synonyms: fortuitous, uncaused |
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(adjective) having no justifying cause or reason | Synonyms: reasonless |
ceaseless | (adjective) uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing | Synonyms: constant, incessant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremitting |
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ceaselessly | (adverb) with unflagging resolve | Synonyms: continuously, endlessly, incessantly, unceasingly, unendingly |
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ceaselessness | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: continuousness, incessancy, incessantness |
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celandine | (noun) perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers | Synonyms: Chelidonium majus, greater celandine, swallow wort, swallowwort |
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(noun) North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil | Synonyms: Impatiens capensis, jewelweed, lady's earrings, orange balsam, touch-me-not |
celebrant | (noun) an officiating priest celebrating the Eucharist | - |
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(noun) a person who is celebrating | Synonyms: celebrater, celebrator |
celebrate | (verb) have a celebration | Synonyms: fete |
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(verb) behave as expected during of holidays or rites | Synonyms: keep, observe |
(verb) assign great social importance to | Synonyms: lionise, lionize |
celebrated | (adjective) having an illustrious past | Synonyms: historied, storied |
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(adjective) widely known and esteemed | Synonyms: famed, famous, far-famed, illustrious, notable, noted, renowned |
celebrater | (noun) a person who is celebrating | Synonyms: celebrant, celebrator |
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celebration | (noun) any joyous diversion | Synonyms: festivity |
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(noun) the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual | Synonyms: solemnisation, solemnization |
(noun) a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event | Synonyms: jubilation |
celebrator | (noun) a person who is celebrating | Synonyms: celebrant, celebrater |
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celebratory | (adjective) used for celebrating | - |
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celebrity | (noun) a widely known person | Synonyms: famous person |
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(noun) the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed | Synonyms: fame, renown |
celecoxib | (noun) a Cox-2 inhibitor (trade name Celebrex) that relieves pain and inflammation without harming the digestive tract | Synonyms: Celebrex |
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celeriac | (noun) thickened edible aromatic root of a variety of celery plant | Synonyms: celery root |
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(noun) grown for its thickened edible aromatic root | Synonyms: Apium graveolens rapaceum, celery root, knob celery, root celery, turnip-rooted celery |
celerity | (noun) a rate that is rapid | Synonyms: quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness |
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celery | (noun) stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning | - |
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(noun) widely cultivated herb with aromatic leaf stalks that are eaten raw or cooked | Synonyms: Apium graveolens dulce, cultivated celery |
celesta | (noun) a musical instrument consisting of graduated steel plates that are struck by hammers activated by a keyboard | - |
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celestial | (adjective) relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven | Synonyms: heavenly |
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(adjective) of or relating to the sky | Synonyms: heavenly |
(adjective) of heaven or the spirit | Synonyms: ethereal, supernal |
celestite | (noun) a mineral consisting of strontium sulphate | - |
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celiac | (adjective) of or in or belonging to the cavity of the abdomen | Synonyms: coeliac |
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(adjective) belonging to or prescribed for celiac disease | - |
celibacy | (noun) abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) | Synonyms: chastity, sexual abstention |
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(noun) an unmarried status | - |
celibate | (adjective) abstaining from sexual intercourse | Synonyms: continent |
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(noun) an unmarried person who has taken a religious vow of chastity | - |
celiocentesis | (noun) removal of fluid from the abdomen by centesis | - |
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celioma | (noun) an abdominal tumor | - |
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celioscopy | (noun) endoscopic examination of the abdomen through the abdominal wall | - |
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cell | (noun) (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals | - |
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(noun) a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction | Synonyms: electric cell |
(noun) a room where a prisoner is kept | Synonyms: jail cell, prison cell |
(noun) small room in which a monk or nun lives | Synonyms: cubicle |
(noun) any small compartment | - |
(noun) a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver | Synonyms: cellphone, cellular phone, cellular telephone, mobile phone |
(noun) a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement | Synonyms: cadre |
cellar | (noun) the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage | Synonyms: basement |
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(noun) storage space where wines are stored | Synonyms: wine cellar |
(noun) an excavation where root vegetables are stored | Synonyms: root cellar |
cellarage | (noun) a storage area in a cellar | - |
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(noun) a charge for storing goods in a cellar | - |
cellaret | (noun) sideboard with compartments for holding bottles | Synonyms: minibar |
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cellblock | (noun) a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells) | Synonyms: ward |
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cellist | (noun) someone who plays a violoncello | Synonyms: violoncellist |
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cello | (noun) a large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing | Synonyms: violoncello |
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cellophane | (noun) a transparent paperlike product that is impervious to moisture and used to wrap candy or cigarettes etc. | - |
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cellphone | (noun) a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver | Synonyms: cell, cellular phone, cellular telephone, mobile phone |
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cellular | (adjective) characterized by or divided into or containing cells or compartments (the smallest organizational or structural unit of an organism or organization) | - |
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(adjective) relating to cells | - |
cellularity | (noun) the state of having cells | - |
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cellulite | (noun) lumpy deposits of body fat especially on women's thighs etc. | - |
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cellulitis | (noun) an inflammation of body tissue (especially that below the skin) characterized by fever and swelling and redness and pain | - |
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celluloid | (adjective) artificial as if portrayed in a film | Synonyms: synthetic |
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(noun) a medium that disseminates moving pictures | Synonyms: cinema, film |
(noun) highly flammable substance made from cellulose nitrate and camphor; used in e.g. motion-picture and X-ray film; its use has decreased with the development of nonflammable thermoplastics | - |
cellulose | (noun) a polysaccharide that is the chief constituent of all plant tissues and fibers | - |
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cellulosic | (noun) a plastic made from cellulose (or a derivative of cellulose) | - |
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cellulosid | (adjective) of or containing or made from cellulose | - |
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celom | (noun) a cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity | Synonyms: celoma, coelom |
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celoma | (noun) a cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity | Synonyms: celom, coelom |
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celtuce | (noun) leaves having celery-like stems eaten raw or cooked | - |
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(noun) lettuce valued especially for its edible stems | Synonyms: Lactuca sativa asparagina, stem lettuce |
centerfield | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the central third of the outfield | Synonyms: center field |
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(noun) the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher | Synonyms: center, center field, centre |
centerfielder | (noun) the person who plays center field | Synonyms: center fielder |
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cerebellar | (adjective) relating to or associated with the cerebellum | - |
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cerebellum | (noun) a major division of the vertebrate brain; situated above the medulla oblongata and beneath the cerebrum in humans | - |
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chamaeleon | (noun) lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue | Synonyms: chameleon |
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chameleon | (noun) lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue | Synonyms: chamaeleon |
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(noun) a changeable or inconstant person | - |
chancel | (noun) area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing | Synonyms: bema, sanctuary |
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chancellery | (noun) a government building housing the office of a chancellor | - |
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chancellor | (noun) the person who is head of government (in several countries) | Synonyms: premier, prime minister |
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(noun) the honorary or titular head of a university | - |
chancellorship | (noun) the office of chancellor | - |
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chandelier | (noun) branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling | Synonyms: pendant, pendent |
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chandelle | (noun) a flight maneuver consisting of a steep climbing turn executed to gain altitude while changing direction | - |
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(verb) climb suddenly and steeply | - |
changeless | (adjective) not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature | Synonyms: immutable |
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(adjective) unvarying in nature | Synonyms: constant, invariant, unvarying |
(adjective) remaining the same for indefinitely long times | Synonyms: unalterable |
changelessness | (noun) the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged | Synonyms: unchangeability, unchangeableness, unchangingness |
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(noun) the property of remaining unchanged | - |
changeling | (noun) a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy | - |
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(noun) a person of subnormal intelligence | Synonyms: cretin, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, moron, retard |
channel | (noun) a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors | Synonyms: distribution channel |
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(noun) a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through | - |
(noun) a television station and its programs | Synonyms: television channel, TV channel |
(noun) a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance | Synonyms: canal, duct, epithelial duct |
(noun) a path over which electrical signals can pass | Synonyms: transmission channel |
(noun) (often plural) a means of communication or access | Synonyms: communication channel, line |
(noun) a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels | - |
(noun) a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) | Synonyms: groove |
(verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport |
(verb) direct the flow of | - |
(verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: carry, conduct, convey, impart, transmit |
channelisation | (noun) management through specified channels of communication | Synonyms: canalisation, canalization, channelization |
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channelise | (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport |
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(verb) cause to form a channel | Synonyms: channelize |
(verb) make a channel for; provide with a channel | Synonyms: channelize |
(verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
channelization | (noun) management through specified channels of communication | Synonyms: canalisation, canalization, channelisation |
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channelize | (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelise, transfer, transmit, transport |
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(verb) cause to form a channel | Synonyms: channelise |
(verb) make a channel for; provide with a channel | Synonyms: channelise |
(verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
channels | (noun) official routes of communication | - |
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chantarelle | (noun) widely distributed edible mushroom rich yellow in color with a smooth cap and a pleasant apricot aroma | Synonyms: Cantharellus cibarius, chanterelle |
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chanterelle | (noun) widely distributed edible mushroom rich yellow in color with a smooth cap and a pleasant apricot aroma | Synonyms: Cantharellus cibarius, chantarelle |
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chapel | (noun) a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar | Synonyms: chapel service |
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(noun) a place of worship that has its own altar | - |
chapelgoer | (noun) a Protestant in England who is not a member of the Church of England | Synonyms: Nonconformist |
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charnel | (adjective) gruesomely indicative of death or the dead | Synonyms: ghastly, sepulchral |
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(noun) a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited | Synonyms: charnel house |
chastely | (adverb) in a chaste and virtuous manner | Synonyms: virtuously |
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chatelaine | (noun) a chain formerly worn at the waist by women; for carrying a purse or bunch of keys etc. | - |
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(noun) the mistress of a chateau or large country house | - |
chattel | (noun) personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc) | Synonyms: movable, personal chattel |
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cheeselike | (adjective) having the consistency of cheese | - |
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chela | (noun) a Hindu disciple of a swami | - |
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(noun) a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods | Synonyms: claw, nipper, pincer |
chelate | (adjective) having or resembling chelae or claws | - |
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(adjective) relating to or characterized by chelation | Synonyms: chelated |
(noun) a heterocyclic compound having a metal ion attached by coordinate bonds to at least two nonmetal ions | Synonyms: chelate compound |
(verb) form a chelate, in chemistry | - |
chelated | (adjective) relating to or characterized by chelation | Synonyms: chelate |
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