centipede | (noun) chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors | - |
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centner | (noun) a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds | Synonyms: cental, cwt, hundredweight, quintal, short hundredweight |
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(noun) in some European countries: a unit of weight equivalent to 50 kilograms | - |
(noun) a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system | Synonyms: doppelzentner, hundredweight, metric hundredweight |
central | (adjective) in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area | - |
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(adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: cardinal, fundamental, key, primal |
(noun) a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication | Synonyms: exchange, telephone exchange |
centralisation | (noun) the act of consolidating power under a central control | Synonyms: centralization |
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(noun) gathering to a center | Synonyms: centralization |
centralise | (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralize, concentrate |
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centralised | (adjective) drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority | Synonyms: centralized |
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centralising | (adjective) tending to draw to a central point | Synonyms: centralizing |
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centralism | (noun) the political policy of concentrating power in a central organization | - |
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centralist | (adjective) advocating centralization | Synonyms: centralistic |
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centralistic | (adjective) advocating centralization | Synonyms: centralist |
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centrality | (noun) the property of being central | - |
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centralization | (noun) the act of consolidating power under a central control | Synonyms: centralisation |
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(noun) gathering to a center | Synonyms: centralisation |
centralize | (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralise, concentrate |
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centralized | (adjective) drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority | Synonyms: centralised |
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centralizing | (adjective) tending to draw to a central point | Synonyms: centralising |
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centrally | (adverb) in or near or toward a center or according to a central role or function | - |
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centrarchid | (noun) small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies, black bass, bluegills, pumpkinseed | Synonyms: sunfish |
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centre | (adjective) of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually | Synonyms: center |
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(noun) a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the jump that starts the game | Synonyms: center |
(noun) (American football) the position of the player on the line of scrimmage who puts the ball in play | Synonyms: center |
(noun) the position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game | Synonyms: center |
(noun) a building dedicated to a particular activity | Synonyms: center |
(noun) the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher | Synonyms: center, center field, centerfield |
(noun) mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace | Synonyms: center, mall, plaza, shopping center, shopping centre, shopping mall |
(noun) a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process | Synonyms: center, nerve center, nerve centre |
(noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
(noun) the object upon which interest and attention focuses | Synonyms: center, center of attention, centre of attention |
(noun) the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering | Synonyms: center |
(noun) politically moderate persons; centrists | Synonyms: center |
(noun) the middle of a military or naval formation | Synonyms: center |
(noun) a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure | Synonyms: center, midpoint |
(noun) an area that is approximately central within some larger region | Synonyms: center, eye, heart, middle |
(noun) a place where some particular activity is concentrated | Synonyms: center |
(noun) (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback | Synonyms: center, snapper |
(noun) (basketball) the person who plays center on a basketball team | Synonyms: center |
(noun) (ice hockey) the person who plays center on a hockey team | Synonyms: center |
(adjective) equally distant from the extremes | Synonyms: center, halfway, middle, midway |
(verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: center, concentrate, focus, pore, rivet |
(verb) move into the center | Synonyms: center |
(verb) center upon | Synonyms: center, center on, concentrate on, focus on, revolve about, revolve around |
centreboard | (noun) a retractable fin keel used on sailboats to prevent drifting to leeward | Synonyms: centerboard, drop keel, sliding keel |
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centred | (adjective) being or placed in the center | Synonyms: centered |
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centrefold | (noun) a magazine center spread; especially a foldout of a large photograph or map or other feature | Synonyms: centerfold |
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centrepiece | (noun) something placed at the center of something else (as on a table) | Synonyms: centerpiece |
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(noun) the central or most important feature | Synonyms: centerpiece |
centrex | (noun) (CENTRal EXchange) a kind of telephone exchange | - |
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centric | (adjective) having or situated at or near a center | Synonyms: centrical |
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centrical | (adjective) having or situated at or near a center | Synonyms: centric |
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centrifugal | (adjective) tending to move away from a center | - |
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(adjective) tending away from centralization, as of authority | - |
(adjective) conveying information to the muscles from the CNS | Synonyms: motor |
centrifugate | (verb) rotate at very high speed in order to separate the liquids from the solids | Synonyms: centrifuge |
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centrifugation | (noun) the process of separating substances of different densities by the use of a centrifuge | - |
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centrifuge | (noun) an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension | Synonyms: extractor, separator |
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(verb) rotate at very high speed in order to separate the liquids from the solids | Synonyms: centrifugate |
centring | (noun) (American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back | Synonyms: centering, snap |
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(noun) the concentration of attention or energy on something | Synonyms: centering, direction, focal point, focus, focusing, focussing |
centriole | (noun) one of a pair of small cylindrical cell organelles near the nucleus in animal cells; composed of nine triplet microtubules and form the asters during mitosis | - |
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centripetal | (adjective) tending to move toward a center | - |
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(adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system | Synonyms: receptive, sensory |
(adjective) tending to unify | Synonyms: unifying |
centrism | (noun) a political philosophy of avoiding the extremes of left and right by taking a moderate position or course of action | Synonyms: moderatism |
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centrist | (adjective) supporting or pursuing a course of action that is neither liberal nor conservative | Synonyms: middle-of-the-road |
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(noun) a person who takes a position in the political center | Synonyms: middle of the roader, moderate, moderationist |
centroid | (noun) the center of mass of an object of uniform density | - |
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centroidal | (adjective) of or relating to (especially passing through) a centroid | - |
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centromere | (noun) a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape | Synonyms: kinetochore |
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centromeric | (adjective) pertaining to the dense specialized portion of a chromosome to which the spindle attaches during mitosis | - |
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centrosome | (noun) small region of cytoplasm adjacent to the nucleus; contains the centrioles and serves to organize the microtubules | Synonyms: central body |
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centrosomic | (adjective) of or relating to a centrosome | - |
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centrosymmetric | (adjective) having a symmetrical arrangement of radiating parts about a central point | Synonyms: radially symmetrical |
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centrum | (noun) the main body of a vertebra | - |
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centurion | (noun) (ancient Rome) the leader of 100 soldiers | - |
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century | (noun) ten 10s | Synonyms: 100, C, hundred, one C |
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(noun) a period of 100 years | - |
cerement | (noun) burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped | Synonyms: pall, shroud, winding-clothes, winding-sheet |
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chastisement | (noun) verbal punishment | Synonyms: castigation |
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(noun) a rebuke for making a mistake | Synonyms: chastening, correction |
chemiluminescent | (adjective) relating to the phenomenon of chemiluminescence | - |
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circumferent | (adjective) closely encircling | Synonyms: encompassing, surrounding |
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circumferential | (adjective) lying around or just outside the edges or outskirts | - |
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circumvent | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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(verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach |
(verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, besiege, hem in, surround |
circumvention | (noun) the act of evading by going around | - |
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clement | (adjective) (used of persons or behavior) inclined to show mercy | - |
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(adjective) (of weather or climate) physically mild | - |
clementine | (noun) a mandarin orange of a deep reddish orange color and few seeds | - |
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(noun) a variety of mandarin orange that is grown around the Mediterranean and in South Africa | Synonyms: clementine tree |
client | (noun) (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network | Synonyms: guest, node |
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(noun) a person who seeks the advice of a lawyer | - |
(noun) someone who pays for goods or services | Synonyms: customer |
clientage | (noun) relation of a client to a patron | - |
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clientele | (noun) customers collectively | Synonyms: business, patronage |
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coalescent | (adjective) growing together, fusing | Synonyms: coalescing |
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coefficient | (noun) a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic | - |
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coelenterate | (noun) radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms | Synonyms: cnidarian |
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coelenteron | (noun) the saclike body cavity of a coelenterate | - |
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coexistent | (adjective) existing at the same time | Synonyms: coexisting |
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cogent | (adjective) powerfully persuasive | Synonyms: telling, weighty |
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cognoscente | (noun) an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts | Synonyms: connoisseur |
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coherent | (adjective) marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: consistent, logical, ordered |
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(adjective) (physics) of waves having a constant phase relation | - |
(adjective) sticking together | Synonyms: tenacious |
(adjective) capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner | Synonyms: logical, lucid |
coherently | (adverb) in a coherent manner | - |
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coincident | (adjective) matching point for point | - |
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(adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincidental, coinciding, concurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous |
coincidental | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coinciding, concurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous |
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coincidentally | (adverb) happening at the same time | Synonyms: coincidently |
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coincidently | (adverb) happening at the same time | Synonyms: coincidentally |
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comburent | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburant, combustive |
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commandment | (noun) a doctrine that is taught | Synonyms: precept, teaching |
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(noun) something that is commanded | - |
commencement | (noun) the act of starting something | Synonyms: beginning, start |
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(noun) an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred | Synonyms: commencement ceremony, commencement exercise, graduation, graduation exercise |
(noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
comment | (noun) a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information | Synonyms: input, remark |
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(noun) a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material | Synonyms: commentary |
(noun) a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people | Synonyms: gossip, scuttlebutt |
(verb) make or write a comment on | Synonyms: notice, point out, remark |
(verb) provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases | Synonyms: annotate, gloss |
(verb) explain or interpret something | - |
commentary | (noun) a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material | Synonyms: comment |
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commentate | (verb) serve as a commentator, as in sportscasting | - |
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(verb) make a commentary on | - |
commentator | (noun) a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day | Synonyms: reviewer |
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(noun) an expert who observes and comments on something | Synonyms: observer |
commitment | (noun) the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action | Synonyms: allegiance, dedication, loyalty |
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(noun) the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) | Synonyms: committal, consignment |
(noun) an engagement by contract involving financial obligation | - |
(noun) the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose | Synonyms: committedness |
(noun) a message that makes a pledge | Synonyms: dedication |
compartment | (noun) a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area | - |
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(noun) a space into which an area is subdivided | - |
compartmental | (adjective) divided up into compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmentalised, compartmentalized |
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compartmentalisation | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalization |
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(noun) a mild state of dissociation | Synonyms: compartmentalization |
compartmentalise | (verb) separate into isolated compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmentalize, cut up |
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compartmentalised | (adjective) divided up into compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmental, compartmentalized |
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compartmentalization | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation |
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(noun) a mild state of dissociation | Synonyms: compartmentalisation |
compartmentalize | (verb) separate into isolated compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmentalise, cut up |
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compartmentalized | (adjective) divided up into compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmental, compartmentalised |
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compartmented | (adjective) divided up or separated into compartments or isolated units | - |
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competent | (adjective) properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient | - |
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(adjective) legally qualified or sufficient | - |
(adjective) adequate, but not outstanding or exceptional | - |
competently | (adverb) with competence; in a competent capable manner | Synonyms: ably, aptly, capably |
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complacent | (adjective) contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions | Synonyms: self-complacent, self-satisfied |
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complacently | (adverb) in a self-satisfied manner | - |
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complement | (noun) something added to complete or embellish or make perfect | Synonyms: accompaniment |
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(noun) either of two parts that mutually complete each other | - |
(noun) a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction | - |
(noun) number needed to make up a whole force | Synonyms: full complement |
(noun) a complete number or quantity | - |
(noun) one of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response | - |
(verb) make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to | - |
complemental | (adjective) acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole) | Synonyms: complementary, completing |
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complementarity | (noun) a relation between two opposite states or principles that together exhaust the possibilities | - |
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(noun) the interrelation of reciprocity whereby one thing supplements or depends on the other | - |
complementary | (adjective) acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole) | Synonyms: complemental, completing |
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(adjective) of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other | - |
(noun) either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments) | Synonyms: complementary color |
complementation | (noun) (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts | Synonyms: complementary distribution |
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(noun) the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate | - |
compliment | (noun) a remark (or act) expressing praise and admiration | - |
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(verb) say something to someone that expresses praise | Synonyms: congratulate |
(verb) express respect or esteem for | - |
complimentariness | (noun) The state or quality of being in the nature of an expression of praise, congratulation, encouragement, or respect. | - |
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complimentary | (adjective) conveying or resembling a compliment | - |
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(adjective) costing nothing | Synonyms: costless, free, gratis, gratuitous |
compliments | (noun) (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare | Synonyms: regard, wish |
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component | (noun) an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system | Synonyms: constituent, element |
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(noun) an abstract part of something | Synonyms: constituent, element, factor, ingredient |
(noun) something determined in relation to something that includes it | Synonyms: component part, constituent, part, portion |