bluestone | (noun) bluish-grey sandstone used for paving and building | - |
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campestral | (adjective) of fields or open country | - |
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candlestick | (noun) a holder with sockets for candles | Synonyms: candle holder |
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catachrestic | (adjective) constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis | Synonyms: catachrestical |
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catachrestical | (adjective) constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis | Synonyms: catachrestic |
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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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cestode | (noun) ribbonlike flatworms that are parasitic in the intestines of humans and other vertebrates | Synonyms: tapeworm |
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chest | (noun) box with a lid; used for storage; usually large and sturdy | - |
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(noun) furniture with drawers for keeping clothes | Synonyms: bureau, chest of drawers, dresser |
(noun) the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates | Synonyms: pectus, thorax |
(noun) the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen | Synonyms: breast |
chesterfield | (noun) a fitted overcoat with a velvet collar | - |
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(noun) an overstuffed davenport with upright armrests | - |
chestnut | (adjective) (of hair or feathers) of a golden brown to reddish brown color | - |
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(noun) a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse | - |
(noun) a small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's leg | - |
(noun) the brown color of chestnuts | - |
(noun) edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea | - |
(noun) any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur | Synonyms: chestnut tree |
(noun) wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea | - |
chesty | (adjective) having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride | Synonyms: arrogant, self-important |
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(adjective) marked by a large or well-developed chest | Synonyms: big-chested |
cholestasis | (noun) a condition in which little or no bile is secreted or the flow of bile into the digestive tract is obstructed | Synonyms: acholia |
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cholesterin | (noun) an animal sterol that is normally synthesized by the liver; the most abundant steroid in animal tissues | Synonyms: cholesterol |
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cholesterol | (noun) an animal sterol that is normally synthesized by the liver; the most abundant steroid in animal tissues | Synonyms: cholesterin |
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cholinesterase | (noun) an enzyme that hydrolyses acetylcholine (into choline and acetic acid) | - |
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chrestomathy | (noun) a selection of passages from different authors that is compiled as an aid in learning a language | - |
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chromaesthesia | (noun) a form of synesthesia in which nonvisual stimulation results in the experience of color sensations | Synonyms: chromesthesia |
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chromesthesia | (noun) a form of synesthesia in which nonvisual stimulation results in the experience of color sensations | Synonyms: chromaesthesia |
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clandestine | (adjective) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | Synonyms: cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground |
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clerestory | (noun) part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light | Synonyms: clearstory |
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closest | (adverb) (superlative of `near' or `close') within the shortest distance | Synonyms: nearest, nighest |
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cobblestone | (noun) rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads | Synonyms: cobble, sett |
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(verb) pave with cobblestones | Synonyms: cobble |
comestible | (adjective) suitable for use as food | Synonyms: eatable, edible |
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(noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: eatable, edible, pabulum, victual, victuals |
congest | (verb) become or cause to become obstructed | Synonyms: back up, choke, choke off, clog, clog up, crap up, foul |
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congested | (adjective) overfull as with blood | Synonyms: engorged |
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congestion | (noun) excessive accumulation of blood or other fluid in a body part | - |
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(noun) excessive crowding | Synonyms: over-crowding |
congestive | (adjective) relating to or affected by an abnormal collection of blood or other fluid | - |
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conquest | (noun) success in mastering something difficult | - |
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(noun) the act of conquering | Synonyms: conquering, subjection, subjugation |
(noun) an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone | Synonyms: seduction |
contest | (noun) a struggle between rivals | - |
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(noun) an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants | Synonyms: competition |
(verb) to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation | Synonyms: contend, repugn |
contestable | (adjective) capable of being contested | - |
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contestant | (noun) a person who participates in competitions | - |
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(noun) a person who dissents from some established policy | Synonyms: dissenter, dissident, objector, protester |
contestation | (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, controversy, disceptation, disputation, tilt |
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contested | (adjective) disputed or made the object of contention or competition | - |
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contestee | (noun) a winner (of a race or an election etc.) whose victory is contested | - |
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contester | (noun) someone who contests an outcome (of a race or an election etc.) | - |
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copestone | (noun) a stone that forms the top of wall or building | Synonyms: capstone, coping stone, stretcher |
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(noun) a final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination | Synonyms: capstone, finishing touch |
corbiestep | (noun) (architecture) a step on the top of a gable wall | Synonyms: corbel step, corbie-step, crow step |
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crest | (noun) a showy growth of e.g. feathers or skin on the head of a bird or other animal | - |
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(noun) (heraldry) in medieval times, an emblem used to decorate a helmet | - |
(noun) the center of a cambered road | Synonyms: crown |
(noun) the top line of a hill, mountain, or wave | - |
(noun) the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill) | Synonyms: crown, peak, summit, tip, top |
(verb) reach a high point | - |
(verb) lie at the top of | Synonyms: cap |
crested | (adjective) (of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume | Synonyms: plumed |
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(adjective) (of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination | Synonyms: topknotted, tufted |
(adjective) bearing an heraldic device | - |
crestfallen | (adjective) brought low in spirit | Synonyms: chapfallen, chopfallen, deflated |
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cryaesthesia | (noun) hypersensitivity to cold | Synonyms: cryesthesia |
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cryesthesia | (noun) hypersensitivity to cold | Synonyms: cryaesthesia |
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cryoanaesthesia | (noun) insensibility resulting from cold | Synonyms: cryoanesthesia |
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cryoanesthesia | (noun) insensibility resulting from cold | Synonyms: cryoanaesthesia |
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dearest | (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
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decongestant | (noun) a drug that decreases pulmonary congestion | - |
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defenestrate | (verb) throw through or out of the window | - |
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defenestration | (noun) the act of throwing someone or something out of a window | - |
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deforest | (verb) remove the trees from | Synonyms: disafforest, disforest |
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deforestation | (noun) the removal of trees | Synonyms: disforestation |
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(noun) the state of being clear of trees | - |
derestrict | (verb) make free from restrictions | - |
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destabilisation | (noun) the action of destabilizing; making something less stable (especially of a government or country or economy) | Synonyms: destabilization |
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destabilise | (verb) make unstable | Synonyms: destabilize |
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(verb) become unstable | Synonyms: destabilize |
destabilization | (noun) the action of destabilizing; making something less stable (especially of a government or country or economy) | Synonyms: destabilisation |
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(noun) an event that causes a loss of equilibrium (as of a ship or aircraft) | - |
destabilize | (verb) make unstable | Synonyms: destabilise |
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(verb) become unstable | Synonyms: destabilise |
destain | (verb) remove stain from (a laboratory specimen) to enhance contrast | - |
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destalinisation | (noun) social process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor | Synonyms: de-Stalinisation, de-Stalinization, destalinization |
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destalinise | (verb) counteract the effects and policies of Stalinism | Synonyms: destalinize |
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destalinization | (noun) social process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor | Synonyms: de-Stalinisation, de-Stalinization, destalinisation |
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destalinize | (verb) counteract the effects and policies of Stalinism | Synonyms: destalinise |
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destination | (noun) the ultimate goal for which something is done | Synonyms: terminus |
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(noun) written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location | Synonyms: address, name and address |
(noun) the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey) | Synonyms: finish, goal |
destine | (verb) design or destine | Synonyms: designate, intend, specify |
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(verb) decree or designate beforehand | Synonyms: designate, doom, fate |
destined | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') governed by fate | Synonyms: bound |
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(adjective) headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students' | Synonyms: bound |
destiny | (noun) an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future | Synonyms: fate |
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(noun) the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events | Synonyms: fate |
(noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, fate, fortune, lot, luck, portion |
destitute | (adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: barren, devoid, free, innocent |
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(adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken |
destitution | (noun) a state without friends or money or prospects | - |
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destress | (verb) reduce the emphasis | Synonyms: de-emphasise, de-emphasize |
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destroy | (verb) defeat soundly and humiliatingly | Synonyms: demolish |
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(verb) destroy completely; damage irreparably | Synonyms: ruin |
(verb) put (an animal) to death | Synonyms: put down |
(verb) do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of | Synonyms: destruct |
destroyable | (adjective) capable of being destroyed | - |
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destroyed | (adjective) spoiled or ruined or demolished | - |
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(adjective) destroyed physically or morally | Synonyms: ruined |
destroyer | (noun) a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship | Synonyms: guided missile destroyer |
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(noun) a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to | Synonyms: ruiner, undoer, uprooter, waster |
destruct | (verb) do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of | Synonyms: destroy |
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(verb) destroy (one's own missile or rocket) | - |
destructibility | (noun) vulnerability to destruction | - |
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destructible | (adjective) easily destroyed | - |
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destruction | (noun) the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists | Synonyms: devastation |
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(noun) an event that completely destroys something | Synonyms: demolition, wipeout |
(noun) a final state | Synonyms: death, end |
destructive | (adjective) causing destruction or much damage | - |
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destructively | (adverb) in a destructive manner | - |
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destructiveness | (noun) the quality of causing destruction | - |
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detest | (verb) dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards | Synonyms: hate |
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detestable | (adjective) unequivocally detestable | Synonyms: abominable, execrable, odious |
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(adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: abhorrent, obscene, repugnant, repulsive |
detestably | (adverb) in an offensive and hateful manner | Synonyms: abominably, odiously, repulsively |
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detestation | (noun) hate coupled with disgust | Synonyms: abhorrence, abomination, execration, loathing, odium |
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detested | (adjective) treated with dislike or contempt | Synonyms: despised, hated, scorned |
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diestock | (noun) a device that holds the dies that cut external threads on metal cylinders | - |
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diestrous | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrual, dioestrous, dioestrual |
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diestrual | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrous, dioestrous, dioestrual |
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diestrum | (noun) (of animals having several estrous cycles in one breeding season) a state or interval of sexual inactivity or quiescence between periods of activity | Synonyms: diestrus |
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diestrus | (noun) (of animals having several estrous cycles in one breeding season) a state or interval of sexual inactivity or quiescence between periods of activity | Synonyms: diestrum |
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diethylstilbesterol | (noun) synthetic nonsteroid with the properties of estrogen; formerly used to treat menstrual problems but was found to be associated with vaginal cancers in the daughters of women so treated during pregnancy | Synonyms: DES, stilbesterol |
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diethylstilbestrol | (noun) a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry | Synonyms: DES, diethylstilboestrol, stilbestrol, stilboestrol |
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diethylstilboestrol | (noun) a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry | Synonyms: DES, diethylstilbestrol, stilbestrol, stilboestrol |
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digest | (noun) something that is compiled (as into a single book or file) | Synonyms: compilation |
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(noun) a periodical that summarizes the news | - |
(verb) make more concise | Synonyms: concentrate, condense |
(verb) systematize, as by classifying and summarizing | - |
(verb) become assimilated into the body | - |
(verb) soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture | - |
(verb) soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture | - |
(verb) arrange and integrate in the mind | - |
(verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
(verb) convert food into absorbable substances | - |
digester | (noun) autoclave consisting of a vessel in which plant or animal materials are digested | - |
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digestibility | (noun) the property of being easy to digest | Synonyms: digestibleness |
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digestible | (adjective) capable of being converted into assimilable condition in the alimentary canal | - |
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digestibleness | (noun) the property of being easy to digest | Synonyms: digestibility |
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digestion | (noun) learning and coming to understand ideas and information | - |
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(noun) the organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the body | - |
(noun) the process of decomposing organic matter (as in sewage) by bacteria or by chemical action or heat | - |
digestive | (adjective) relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion | - |
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(noun) any substance that promotes digestion | - |